Join us for our book club meeting to discuss the book Save Me the Plums: My Gourmet Memoir by Ruth Reichl. Please bring a dish to share for dinner.  To find out more information, please contact Kathleen Albani at katonthyme@gmail.com. 

When Condé Nast offered Ruth Reichl the top position at America’s oldest epicurean magazine, she declined. She was a writer, not a manager, and had no inclination to be anyone’s boss. Yet Reichl had been reading Gourmet since she was eight; it had inspired her career. How could she say no?

This is the story of a former Berkeley hippie entering the corporate world and worrying about losing her soul. It is the story of the moment restaurants became an important part of popular culture, a time when the rise of the farm-to-table movement changed, forever, the way we eat. Readers will meet legendary chefs like David Chang and Eric Ripert, idiosyncratic writers like David Foster Wallace, and a colorful group of editors and art directors who, under Reichl’s leadership, transformed stately Gourmet into a cutting-edge publication. This was the golden age of print media—the last spendthrift gasp before the Internet turned the magazine world upside down.

Join us for our book club meeting to discuss the book The Language of Baklava by Diana Abu-Jaber. Please bring a dish to share for dinner.  To find out more information, please contact Kathleen Albani at katonthyme@gmail.com. 

Diana Abu-Jaber’s vibrant, humorous memoir weaves together stories of being raised by a food-obsessed Jordanian father with tales of Lake Ontario shish kabob cookouts and goat stew feasts under Bedouin tents in the desert. These sensuously evoked repasts, complete with recipes, in turn illuminate the two cultures of Diana's childhood?American and Jordanian?while helping to paint a loving and complex portrait of her impractical, displaced immigrant father who, like many an immigrant before him, cooked to remember the place he came from and to pass that connection on to his children. The Language of Baklava irresistably invites us to sit down at the table with Diana’s family, sharing unforgettable meals that turn out to be as much about grace, difference, faith, love as they are about food.

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!

Join us for our quarterly gathering as we share a potluck dinner and listen to Jim Adams speak about his research into Gold Rush seeds: varieties of vegetables and fruits grown by Sacramento pioneers, early seed companies, and food entrepreneurs of the Gold Rush era.

Snail of Approval Chili Smith Beans, of Carmichael, will be on hand sharing their scrumptious chili!

Please bring a potluck dish to share.

This is a free event but registration is appreciated. 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.

Join us for our next book club meeting to discuss the book The Cooking Gene: A Journey Through African American Culinary History in the Old South by Michael Twitty. Please bring a dish to share for dinner.  To find out more information, please contact Kathleen Albani at katonthyme@gmail.com. 

The Cooking Gene: A Journey Through African American Culinary History in the Old South by Michael Twitty: Culinary historian, Twitty, offers a fresh perspective on one of our most divisive cultural issue, race, in this memoir of Southern cuisine and food culture that traces his ancestry—both black and white—through food, from Africa to America and slavery to freedom, Southern food is integral to the American culinary tradition. Twitty takes readers to the white-hot center of the fight over the origin of Southern cuisine, tracing the roots of his own family and the charged politics surrounding the origins of soul food, barbecue, and all Southern cuisine.

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 us for our next book club meeting to discuss the book Bruno, Chief of Police by Martin Walker. Please bring a dish to share for dinner.  To find out more information, please contact Kathleen Albani at katonthyme@gmail.com. 

Bruno, Chief of Police by Martin Walker: A Recipe for Success: Take a rural commune in the heart of the Dordogne and a one-man police department by the name of Bruno.• Add a brutal murder with the hallmarks of a racial crime against immigrant workers from North Africa.• Season with clues that point to unsettled feuds from the Nazi legacy of the Second World War.• Serve with Gallic charm in all good bookshops as the first book in a brilliant crime fiction series.Set in the street markets, cobbled squares, vineyards and farmland of the Dordogne area of France.

Bruno, Chief of Police features Captain Bruno Courrèges, a man as charming and eccentric as he is wise. A formidable investigator, Bruno must rise to the challenge when the head of an Algerian family is murdered and the peace of Bruno’s beloved village of St. Denis is shattered. Racism is the obvious conclusion, and the son of a local doctor who is caught playing sex games surrounded by Nazi paraphernalia is the immediate suspect. But Bruno knows his people well and sees a more complex explanation lurking in the memories and unsettled feuds of the German occupation.This addictively readable novel, filled with the sights and sounds—and politics—of the French countryside, launches a stunning new crime fiction series.

Join us for our next book club meeting to discuss the book Cake: a Slice of History by Alysa Levene. Please bring a dish to share for dinner.  To find out more information, please contact Kathleen Albani at katonthyme@gmail.com. 

Cake: a Slice of History by Alysa Levene: Alysa Levene looks at cakes both ancient and modern, from the Fruit Cake, to the Pound Cake, from the ubiquitous birthday cake to the Angel Food Cake, all the way up to competitive baking shows on television and our modern obsession with macaroons and cupcakes. Along the way, she shows how cakes are so much more than just a delicious sugar hit, and reflects on how and why cakes became the food to eat in times of celebration. Cake reflects cultural differences, whether it is the changing role of women in the home, the expansion of global trade, and even advances in technology.

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.

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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.

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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. 

The breweries are locked in for Snail of Approval Track 7's 3rd Annual Invitational + Competition on Sunday, May 20! A few more have joined the amazing line-up for this year’s bash, and they have almost 40 of the top breweries in the Western United States facing off with their very best IPAs and Specialty IPAs.

IPA enthusiasts, mark your calendars: this is an event to not be missed. Many of the breweries will be bringing specialty beers not regularly on the market to share.

Must be 21+ to attend with valid ID. No dogs please.

Slow Food is sponsoring this event.

Join us for the May meeting of the Slow Food Book Club.  Please bring a dish to share for dinner. We will be discussing the book Jambusters by Julie Summers. I hope you can join us! To find out more information, please contact Kathy Albani at kathy@slowfoodsacramento.com. 

Join us for a morning of planting at Fruitridge Collaborative with Yisrael Family Farm and Sol Collective. Adults will learn the basics of seed starting and children will have garden-related activities. Our Chef's Collaborative and older children will work together to create a delicious lunch.

Join Slow Food Sacramento and Sacramento State's One World Initiative--Community for a friendly gathering and casual discussion of our common ground, led by UC Davis soil scientist, Jessica Chiartis. 

Enjoy the evening in the Community Garden at Capitol Public Radio with drinks and pizza provided by The Sacramento Chef's Alliance.

Free of charge with RSVP.

There are lots of Barbara Lynch recipes online and the library has her cookbook. Readers will bring dishes for a potluck dinner and our host will provide beverages.

Join our book club mailing list for more information. To be added, message Kathleen@slowfoodsacramento.com