A Celebration of All Things "Dill"licious! Slow Food Sacamnto’s Friends at Oak park Farmers market are hosting a Celebration for Food Literacy Center.

Admission Options:

$50 Tasting Passport: Includes entry + access to a curated tasting experience featuring 5 pickle-inspired bites from local chefs and 1 pickle-themed drink.
Vote for the best:

• Best pickled veggie

• Best tasting dish at the event

• Best cocktail or mocktail

• Most creative dish using pickled veggies

Free Entry: Join the fun and purchase tasting tickets on site! $5 per ticket = 1 bite

What’s in Store:

• A wide range of pickle-themed dishes from talented local chefs

• Vote on your favorite Pickle!

• Beer garden with Pickle-infused beverages and cocktails (yes, even dill martinis!)

• Live demos on the science of fermentation and the art of pickling

• Discover pickling traditions from around the globe

• Fun, quirky, and dill-lightful activities for all ages

Local chenin blanc at Tower Theatre! Slow Food Sacramento is overjoyed to be a party of The Sacramento French Film Festival 2025. We are thankful that Tower Theatre will be offering Sacramento’s own Haarmeyer Wine Cellars Clarksburg chenin blanc at the snack bar! So load up on pop corn and a glass or two of Haarmeyer chenin blanc and take a seat and enjoy the films. See you on Saturday, June 21 st to watch LES BARBARES, and come early and enjoy a glass (or two) of Haarmeyer chenin blanc with your popcorn. SEE YOU AT THE MOVIES!

World Disco Soup Day is a global event created by Slow Food Youth Network to shine a spotlight on food waste prevention. The Oak Park Farmers Market will be joining hundreds of events around the world on April 26 to make our Rainbow Soup recipe, which illustrates how easy it is to prevent food waste when we get creative in the kitchen. Free samples will be served! We’re partnering with Food Literacy Center, Oak Park Farmers Market and Root 64. 

We’ll celebrate and educate by cooking dishes with foods like potato skins and beet greens that we normally toss aside. The farmers market will be outfitted with signage educating customers about how to eat “fruit to root,” like making carrot top pesto, or using beet greens in pizza. We’ll also dance!

Every year, the world produces 2.24 billion pounds of waste. If we piled it all together, it would be taller than Mount Everest. Every year, year after year.

15% of the world’s food is lost once harvested and it never reaches the shops. Another 17% of food is wasted at retail and consumer level. (data: FAO) Reducing food waste means redistributing our resources to be able to feed the entire world population – we already produce enough food for 10 billion people!

Food loss and waste also account for 8-10% of global greenhouse gas emissions! This means addressing food waste also means reducing carbon emissions and their dramatic consequences on our planet’s rising temperature.

How did it start?

Disco Soup started 9 years ago in Berlin, Germany, as Schnippeldisko, a ‘protest soup’, against food waste that fed 8000 people.

From then on, they started to spread across the world as a fun, meaningful way to bring this crisis into focus. Many different editions have taken place. Each Disco Soup event was individually run, relying on local volunteers to organize every detail, until in 2016, the Slow Food Youth Network Brazil organized a national Disco Soup Day. So, why not do the same internationally?

Plant Sale at Canon East Sac

Head to Canon East Sac and buy plants being offered by Kyle Hagerty - Urban Farmstead. @urbanfarmstead .Proceeds to benefit Slow Food Sacramento!

Professional cooks and allies are welcomed. Come meet up and help us set up shop, plan some meet ups around the culinary professional’s schedule, and be a part of Slow Food Sacramento’s vision for Good, Clean, and Fair Food for All. Our Sacramento chapter is in a diverse and growing urban space. Cooks are a big part of our story.

LOCATION TBD

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An all hands meet up. Meet members, hear some updates, share some thoughts. Bring friends. There will be iced tea and aqua frescas for all. Other beverages will be available at the bar.

Meet and greet! Please bring friends and fellow Slow Foodies. Spread the word- Slow Food Sacramento is back in action!

Board members will have chance to share some of the vision for the chapter for 2025, including the calendar for Slow Food Sacramento’s local events, and some updates on Slow Food International’s Terra Madre of the Americas.

Support Sacramento’s Food literacy program. Buy a table at this year’s You Sheng Dinner. Food Literacy’s mission is to inspire kids to eat their vegetables. BOOK A TABLE for Thursday 6th here.

Who’s really behind America’s appetite for foods from around the globe? This group biography from an electric new voice in food writing honors seven extraordinary women, all immigrants, who left an indelible mark on the way Americans eat today. Taste Makers stretches from World War II to the present, with absorbing and deeply researched portraits of figures including Mexican-born Elena Zelayeta, a blind chef; Marcella Hazan, the deity of Italian cuisine; and Norma Shirley, a champion of Jamaican dishes.

Slow Food Sacramento and the WomenUp Network present:

Extending the Table: A conversation with local women leaders in the food industry

Hosted by Uptown Studios

Join WomenUp Network and Slow Food Sacramento for an evening with local women leaders in the farm-to-fork movement. Hear these inspiring women speak on the exciting developments in the local food scene, and how women can create collaborations and support systems.

Welcome:

• Charmaine Magale, co-owner, Legado Spirits

• Judith Yisrael, co-founder and educator, Yisrael Family Urban Farm

• Gerine Williams, community impact specialist, Neighborworks/Oak Park Farmers Market

• Jodie Chavious, chef and Slow Food Sacramento board member

• Rachel Wallace, chef de cuisine, Echo & Rig

Enjoy small bites, KC Kombucha, wine from Goldline brands and other food options available for purchase.

Slow Food Sacramento is a local chapter of the international Slow Food nonprofit organization that advocates for good, clean, and fair food for all. Our volunteer-run chapter hosts a wide range of educational and convivial events throughout the year to champion the producers and creators of some of the region’s outstanding foods, farms, and restaurants.

Join us as we share stories, build connections, and uplift our local Sacramento community.

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Join us for our annual celebration of Terra Madre Day!

Location TBD.

Terra Madre Day is a major Slow Food event, celebrating local food on a global scale. Every December 10th, thousands of people around the world organize parties and gatherings to celebrate good, clean and fair food: good quality and flavorsome; clean for our bodies, animals, and the planet; fair for producers and consumers alike. Terra Madre Day brings together all who share the vision of a food system that supports local economies, that respects the environment, biodiversity, taste, and tradition. A better alternative is possible!

Please bring a potluck dish to share.

Free with registration, register here!

As August heats up, stay cool with Slow Food Sacramento. Enjoy seasonal food and drinks and all things in between as we celebrate the "Snail-ness" of locally sourced and shared foods at this popular annual event.

Come to the table and build community. Eat good, clean and fair food. That's the Slow Food way. Join us.

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Join us for our summer Community Gathering! We’ll share a potluck dinner and hear the latest news from board members and friends who attended Slow Food Nations in Denver!

Please bring a dish to share.

This event is free, but registration is appreciated. Please let us know you’re coming here.

Sake tastes like. . .  You serve it hot or cold?  It's wine or maybe beer?  Why is it cloudy, shouldn't it be clear?  Bubbles, in sake????  If you don't know this class is for you!  

Join Slow Food Sacramento as we welcome our newest SOA restaurant, Binchoyaki, and learn about sake - from how it's made, to how to serve it, to what it pairs with.  And why you should be drinking (more) sake.

We will sample several types of sake and enjoy some nibbles.  Learn how to make sake part of your summer fun!

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Join Slow Food Sacramento in welcoming Craig and the team at Haarmeyer Wine Cellars as one of our newest Snail of Approval businesses! And just in time Spring where better to sample his Chenin Blancs or Zinfandels than the patio at another popular SOA Masullo Pizza.

If you don't know about Chenin Blanc you are missing out! It will be your go-to wine as the evenings get warm and you need a light, refreshing beverage!

Wine tasting and light snacks included.

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Join us for our next book club meeting to discuss the book Hippie Food: How Back to the Landers and Revolutionaries Changed the Way We Eat by Jonathan Kauffman. Please bring a dish to share for dinner.  To find out more information, please contact Kathleen Albani at katonthyme@gmail.com. 

Hippie Food: How Back to the Landers and Revolutionaries Changed the Way We Eat by Jonathan Kauffman: Traces the origins of once unconventional foods and the diverse fringe movements, charismatic gurus, and counterculture elements that brought them to the mainstream. Food writer Jonathan Kauffman (San Francisco Chronicle) goes back to the 1960s and 1970s to tell the story of how a coterie of unusual men and women embraced an alternative lifestyle that would ultimately change how modern Americans eat. From the mystical rock-and-roll cult known as the Source Family and its legendary vegetarian restaurant in Hollywood to the Diggers’ brown bread in the Summer of Love to the rise of the co-op and the origins of the organic food craze, Kauffman reveals how today’s whole-foods staples—including sprouts, tofu, yogurt, brown rice, and whole-grain bread—were introduced and eventually became part of our diets.

Slow Food Community Gathering and Memorial Tree Planting for Our Friend, Coral Henning

Gather with us to celebrate slow food, and to plant a fruit tree in honor of Coral Henning. Coral was a longtime Slow Food Sacramento board member and devoted advocate for good, clean and fair food.

This event is a potluck, please bring a dish to share! We will provide drinks.

This event is free. Please register here.

Location:

Yisrael Family Farm Garden at Fruitridge Community Collaborative
4505 Roosevelt Ave, Sacramento CA 95820

Join Slow Food Sacramento board members and members for Terra Madre Day! Terra Madre Day is an international hoilday where Slow Food chapters around the world come together to share a meal and celebrate food traditions and agirucltural diversity. Come to the table and bring your favorite traditional dish.

Join us for our next book club meeting to discuss the book The Food Explorer: The Adventures of the Globe-Trotting Botanist Who Transformed What America Eats by Daniel Stone. Please bring a dish to share for dinner.  To find out more information, please contact Kathleen Albani at katonthyme@gmail.com. 

The Food Explorer: The Adventures of the Globe-Trotting Botanist Who Transformed What America Eats by Daniel Stone: The true adventures of David Fairchild, a late-nineteenth-century food explorer who traveled the globe and introduced diverse crops like avocados, mangoes, seedless grapes–and thousands more–to the American plate.

A street food inspired mini festival benefiting Slow Food Sacramento.

Join Slow Food Sacramento and Canon for an afternoon food festival featuring the slow side of street food with Ark of Taste ingredients, live music, kids area, craft cocktails and informative lectures and demos.

EARLY BIRD DEAL: Buy your tickets in advance and you'll receive one extra food ticket AND be entered to win a $100 gift card to Canon. Need not be present to win.

• Music, lectures, and festival are all free to attend

• Your $40 all access ticket includes street food from six five restaurants ($30 for students)

• $10 kids tickets includes build-your-own bite kids station and vegetable tasting

• No-host bar featuring Urban Roots Brewing, Berryessa Brewing Brewing Co, Track 7 Brewing, Ark of Taste Chenin Blanc from Haarmeyer Wine Cellars, craft cocktails and more.

Participating Restaurants:
Canon East Sacramento, Nixtaco Mexican Kitchen, Pizza Supreme Being, VEG/Thai Basil, Binchoyaki Izakaya Dining, Savory Cafe

Guest Lectures and Demos:
12:30 pm - Niche Bread Co.
1:00 pm - Grabishfarm
1:30 pm - Naturally Ella
2:00 pm - V. Miller Meats

Live Entertainment:
3:00 pm - Pressure Lounge

Slow Food means Good, Clean, Fair Food for ALL!

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Join Slow Food Sacramento for a friendly gathering where Slow Food Sacramento scholarship recipients share their recent experiences at Slow Food Nations and Terre Madre.

Enjoy the evening in the Community Room at Arden Dimick Library with drinks and nibbles provided.

Free of charge with RSVP

Come to the table for an intimate evening celebrating our season in food. Chef Brenda Ruiz will serve a multi-course meal built on the Sacramento region's authentic fall food products--fish, field and fowl. Of course, we'll also share plenty of Slow Food-approved wine and beer to wash it down.

Named a Slow Food USA 2018 Snailblazer for her work in Policy Advocacy, Chef Ruiz has worked in some of Sacramento's top restaurants--The Waterboy, Freeport Bakery, The Kitchen, and Biba Ristorante. Highly regarded among her peers for her skill and work ethic, she's known for combining her love of the culinary arts with her passion for supporting the work of charitable organizations. Ms. Ruiz serves on the Executive Advisory Committee of Slow Food Sacramento, as Director of the School Garden Coalition and Chair of Youth and School Projects.

Buy your $125 tickets through Eventbrite

Join local butcher Eric Miller as he demonstrates how to break down a mulefoot hog.  Mulefoots are a heritage breed of hogs, with the distinction of having an uncloven hoof, similar to that of a mule.  It is believed that they were brought to the Gulf Coast by the Spanish in the 1500s.  They are considered a critically endangered breed.

Local breeder Amy Grabish of Grabishfarm will be on hand to talk about raising Mulefoots.

V Miller Meats focuses on whole animal butchery and narrowing the gap between consumers and their food source.  Pork cuts will be available for purchase at the end of class!  

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Digest art and food at a snail's pace at the Crocker Museum. Begin with an in-depth look at select works of art in the museum’s permanent collection, exploring each piece through close examination and discussion. Then sit for a family-style, farm-to-fork meal prepared by Chef Matt Woolston of Supper Club, recipient of Slow Food Sacramento’s Snail of Approval award. Chat about our region's good, clean and fair food with honored guest, Ed Roehr, Slow Food Sacramento board member, chef/owner of Magpie Cafe, and one of five lead chefs of the 2018 Tower Bridge Dinner. With-wine option includes two pairings. Space is limited. Purchase tickets through the Crocker Museum, lead host of this event.

Purchase your ticket here. 

Join us for our next book club meeting to discuss the book Chasing the Harvest: Migrant Workers in California Agricultur by Gabriel Thompson. Please bring a dish to share for dinner.  To find out more information, please contact Kathy Albani at kathy@slowfoodsacramento.com.