Shop at Sacramento Natural Foods COOP and Round Up for Slow Food Sacramento
Restaurants and Diners take part in Slow Food USA’s Joyful Dinner Series to bring the mission of Slow Food to tables across the country.
“Joyful Dinner” Collab with Root 64 and Sac City Brews
Stay tuned for updates on The Sacramento French Film Festival
Tour Corti Brothers with Darrell. Corti Brothers - More than just a grocery store.
Slow Food Sacramento is going big at ARTMIX BEER GARDEN this year.
The sixteenth edition of Terra Madre Salone del Gusto will take place in some of Turin’s most iconic and beautiful locations in the center of Turin (Italy)……..
From Pasture to Paella at PT Ranch - Ranch tour, Lunch, and benefit for Slow Food Sacramento
All hands meet up!
10th World Disco Soup Day in Coming.
Canon East Sac is hosting Kyle Hagerty of @urbanfarmstead and his plant sale and garden party at Canon East Sac. Kyle is selling starts of organic and GMO free Row 7 Seed Company starts. Proceeds benefit Slow Food Sacramento.
Join Slow Food Sacramento in celebrating good, clean, and fair food for all and support COMMUNITY FOOD CONNECTIONS.
The Community Food Connections project is a food-security partnership between Alchemist CDC and the Sacramento City Unified School District (SCUSD) that bridges gaps in the food system to get groceries into the hands of some of the most food-insecure households of Sacramento school children.
How to participate:
-bring a share plate for the Terra Madre family meal gathering
-bring boxed and canned food donations for Community Food Connections Food Drive
Drink Bike Dog Beer!
Get it on the Calendar and bring friends
Cereal, granola, oatmeal
Shelf stable milk
Granola bars
Fruit snacks: fruit cups, fruit sauces, fruit bars, fruit juices
Puddings
Crackers (for dipping)
Pasta/noodles
Ramen
Canned soups, meals and meats
Cookies
Trail mix
Tour of Colwell Thundering Herd Mandarin Ranch
Slow Food Sacramento is headed to Lodi! Join us on a tour of Corto Olive Oil mill. Master Miller David Garci-Aguirre will show us around the plant and explain the process of making olive oil here in The Great Central Valley. Enjoy an oil tasting.
Slow Food Sacramento is headed to Lodi! Join us on a tour of Corto Olive Oil mill. Master Miller David Garci-Aguirre will show us around the plant and explain the process of making olive oil here in The Great Central Valley. Enjoy an oil tasting.
Sacramento will be the home of Terra Madre Americas. As the local chapter, Slow Food Sacramento couldn’t be more excited.
Terra Madre Americas, the American iteration of the world-renowned Terra Madre Salone del Gusto, is making its debut in Sacramento, California. This first-of-its-kind event will bring together some of the best producers, chefs, vintners, and artisans from across the Americas to celebrate the Slow Food movement in California’s capital.
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Volunteer shirt pickup!
Ages 18+
FREE for members, FREE with admission for nonmembers
Members enjoy discounts on lectures, concerts, classes, and more. Discounts are applied once you click the Check Out button in your shopping cart.
Delight in a behind-the-scenes look at local food and visual arts cultures as Slow Food Sacramento, artist Adan Romo, Magpie restaurant founder Ed Roehr, and other culinary professionals sit down with the Crocker’s Education Manager, Houghton Kinsman, to discuss the overlaps and tangents between the culinary arts, visual arts, and Slow Food movement. Discover how these conversations contribute to creative and cultural placemaking in Sacramento and learn more about the upcoming Farm to Fork at Terra Madre Americas food festival.
Adan Romo, art educator and public works artist, and The Crocker team have brought Some Slow Food vibe and values to the interactive, family style activities at The Crocker.
Ages 5+
FREE for all visitors
Members enjoy discounts on all studio classes. Discounts are applied once you click the Check Out button in your shopping cart.
Discover the Art Cart, an in-gallery interactive experience that offers creative activities and gallery games to enhance understanding of and engagement with art on view.
Theme: Slow Food Sacramento Art Cart
Location: Friedman Court
Slow Food Sacramento is crashing ArtMix at The Crocker !
Three Sisters Gardens is bringing some veggies for the food trucks, including Chavious Pop-Up. New Helvetia Brewing will be around with their HMBY Project beer in cans, and Oak Park Brewery is rolling out another Sorghum beer just for the occasion.
6 – 9 PM
Ages 18+
FREE for members, $25 nonmembers
Members enjoy discounts on lectures, concerts, classes, and more. Discounts are applied once you click the Check Out button in your shopping cart.
Break free at ArtMix, the Crocker’s fun-filled evening extravaganza bursting with live performances, DJed music, festive food and drinks, art activities, and so much more! Expect the unexpected at this Museum-wide party, with new, imaginative themes each month. There is one thing you can always count on: ArtMix puts the "art" in "party"!
Come for the lagers and the autumn leaves! This Oktoberfest-inspired evening features a lively lineup of brews and beats. Sip your way through a local biergarten, get down and dirty with painting, enjoy a Fauxcent tour of the boozy works in the Crocker’s collection, and dance it out to live music.
Event Lineup:
Sip your way through a local lineup of beers and ciders
Get down and dirty with live-model painting by Patris
Craft your own koozie couture with The Reclaimist
Join the fauxcent drag tour with A La Mode—spot the boozy art!
Raise a glass and a mic with live karaoke by Johnny Favorites
Brew up some belly laughs with comedy from New Helvetia, Oak Park Brewing, and Nitty’s Cider—hosted by Ben Rice, Russell Cummings, Kelly Evans, Marcus Howard, and Ruby Setnik
Dance it out with DJ Hey Zeus Get Loose, Be Brave Bold Robot, and IDEATEAM
Camellia Coffee Roasters is hosting Battle of the Brews on R Street. Battle of the Brews pits teams of bar tenders and baristas in a competition of coffee cocktails. Proceeds benefit Slow Food Sacramento.
An all hands meet up. Meet members, hear some updates, share some thoughts. Bring friends. Drinks and tacos will be available by Empress !!!!
Meet and greet! Please bring friends and fellow Slow Foodies. Spread the word- Slow Food Sacramento is in action.
Members will have chance to share some of the vision for the chapter moving forward, including the calendar for Slow Food Sacramento’s local events, and some updates on Slow Food International’s Terra Madre of the Americas. People interested in volunteering will be able to sign up.
Slow Food Sacramento is headed out to find out farms
It is through our senses that we experience the world around us. Sacramento has long been known for growing some of the finest tomatoes in the world. Just like any fine ingredient, there exists a wide array of flavors, especially when compared side by side.
At find out farms’ Tomato Tastings, you’ll get an opportunity to use your sense of taste as a way of knowing. Attendees will be served three platings of fresh, locally grown tomato tastings from talented local farmers. Alongside these different varieties of tomato samples, you will be provided a framework for noting the range of flavors.
We are excited to start the evening off with small bites from Chef Jenn Millsap at Shef Madres Catering Company and Chef Galice Ryan at Historic Star Lounge. This program is proudly brought to you with collaboration from Sacramento Slow Foods, Root64, and Moonbelly Bakery to bring you this evening of experiential learning about taste and flavor. Tickets are $55.20
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.
$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
Slow Food Sacramento is headed to Lodi! Join us on a tour of Corto Olive Oil mill. Master Miller David Garci-Aguirre will show us around the plant and explain the process of making olive oil here in The Great Central Valley. Enjoy an oil tasting.
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!
Tour Corti Brothers with Darrell. This is going to be cool.
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.
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?
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
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.
When her estranged mother dies, Stella is left with an unusual a one-way plane ticket and a note reading Go to Paris . But Stella is hardly cut out for adventure; a childhood trauma has kept her confined to the strict routines of her comfort zone. When her boss encourages her to take time off, Stella resigns herself to honoring her mother’s last wishes.
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.
Nguon’s irrepressible spirit and determination come through in this lyrical and inspirational memoir that includes more than twenty family recipes for dishes like chicken lime soup, green papaya pickles, and pâté de foie, as well as Khmer curries, stir-fries, and handmade bánh canh noodles. Through it all, recreating the dishes from her childhood becomes an act of resistance, of reclaiming her place in the world, of upholding the values the Khmer Rouge sought to destroy, and of honoring the memory of her beloved mother, whose “slow noodles” approach to healing and to cooking prioritized time and care over expediency.
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.
One More Croissant for the Road sees ‘the nation’s taster in chief’ Felicity Cloake embark on the trip of a lifetime, cycling 3,500km across France in search of the definitive versions of classic French dishes. Felicity has long established herself as an absolute authority on everything that is important about food. This lively and charming account of her search for the ultimate Quiche Lorraine, la meilleure Tarte Tatin and a Cassoulet par excellence culminates in a triumphant two-wheeled tour of Paris’ boulangeries in pursuit of France’s finest croissant. Accompanied by charming line illustrations, each chapter concludes with Felicity putting this newfound knowledge to good use in a new ‘perfect’ recipe for each dish, the conclusion of her rigorous and thorough investigative work on behalf of all our taste buds.
Join us for our book club meeting to discuss the book Buttermilk Graffiti: A Chef’s Journey to Discover America’s New Melting-Pot Cuisine by Edward Lee.
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.
