Slow Food International

Related Search

News Home The Snitch Blog Ask a Mexican Archives Search SF Weekly Flipbook Weekly Newsletter Get Mobile

Calendar Home Top Picks Submit an Event Events Newsletter Get Mobile Entertainment Ads

Music Home All Shook Down Blog Concert Calendar Bars and Clubs Bouncer Submit an Event Music Newsletter Get Mobile Music Ads

Restaurants Home SFoodie Find a Restaurant Menus Happy Hours Deals Dining Newsletter Get Mobile Restaurant Ads

Arts Home The Exhibitionist Blog Theater Arts Newsletter Get Mobile Entertainment Ads

Film Home Showtimes Film Poll 2011 Film Festivals Film Newsletter Get Mobile Free Stuff

Best Of Home 2011 2010 2009 2008 Best Of Newsletter Get Mobile Best Of Ads

Promotions Home Promotional Events Street Team Free Stuff Promotions Newsletter Get Mobile Deals

Post an Ad Jobs Real Estate Advertiser Index Deals Deals Newsletter Alternative Healing

MMJ Home MMJ News Dispensary Guide MMJ Newsletter

Blogs
April 24, 2012
This Weekend, Enjoy a Slow Beer at Golden Gate Park
It looks like we're due for another sunny weekend, a perfect time to slooooow down a bit and spend an afternoon in Golden Gate Park. And while you're there, be sure to stop and smell the beer.On Saturday, the SF Brewer's Guild collaborates with Slow Food San Francisco to bring you a Slow Beer celebr ... More >>
Blogs
January 23, 2012
Golden Glass: Slow Food, Wine, and Free Tickets on Us
Hey, want to go to Slow Food's Golden Glass event? SFoodie has two tickets to award to the person who writes the best one-line description of a wine, real or imagined, in the comments section below. If you like Italian wines, you'll like the Golden Glass wine and food event, and we may even be ... More >>
Blogs
December 16, 2011
Slow Food's $5 Challenge Made Alice Waters Cry
People are apparently quitting Slow Food USA over this.On Chow.com this week, former SFoodie editor John Birdsall came out with a shocker of a story. Slow Food USA is losing members, upsetting core supporters, and laying off staff, Birdsall reports. Why? Because it's changing its focus to address ... More >>
Blogs
December 15, 2011
Why Is McDonald's Claiming to be Farm Fresh?
With all the shit-talking city supervisors have done about McDonald's and it's calorie-laden Happy Meal, just wait till they get a glimpse of the fast-food chain's latest marketing ploy -- a video touting its farm-to-table ethics! Yeah, this is a video Supervisor Eric Mar would digest:
Blogs
December 2, 2011
This Saturday: Slow Food Crab Feed
What: 5th Annual Slow Crabs Dinner Where: Women's Building When: Saturday, Dec. 3, 6 p.m. Cost: $60 Slow Food members, $65 general admission The rundown: Roll in the start of Dungeness Crabs eating season with the folks at Slow Food San Francisco. The feed will be cooked by California Culina ... More >>
Blogs
September 9, 2011
Slow Food Finally Addresses Elitism Charges With $5 Challenge
SFoodie was an enthusiastic member of Slow Food -- the Italy-based international organization dedicated to traditional foods and, well, everything that is the antithesis of Mickey D's -- for a couple of years back in the 1990s, before we grew tired of the San Francisco convivium's $80 prix-fixe d ... More >>
Blogs
March 22, 2011
Queen of the Sun: Stinging Bee Documentary Comes to the Roxie
Queen of the Sun Filmmaker Screenings Where: Roxie Theater, 3117 16th St. (at Valencia), 863-1087 When: Fri., Mar. 25, 7 and 9 p.m. The rundown: On the screen, bees used to be only slightly less menacing than Chucky. Nowadays ― as colony collapse has gone from something thick-lensed culture ... More >>
Blogs
February 9, 2011
The Ferry Building is for (Bargain) Lovers
bluemini/FlickrFood From the Heart Where: Ferry Building Marketplace, 1 Ferry Building (at Embarcadero) When: Fri., Feb. 11, 5-8 p.m./ Sat., Feb. 12, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Cost: Free entry, $2-$4 for wine and hors d'oeuvres The rundown: Eating at the Ferry Building is always a treat, but no one ... More >>
Blogs
January 12, 2011
Sustainable Artisans to Shine at Good Food Awards
seedlingprojects/FlickrEntry in the poster contest for Seedling Projects' Good Food Month.In August last year, Seedling Projects (it helped organize Slow Food Nation in 2008 and the S.F. Street Food Festival in 2010) announced an awards contest to recognize the top responsible artisan produce ... More >>
Blogs
January 3, 2011
Cooking with Italian Grandmothers Potluck
Slow Food Potluck with Jessica Theroux Where: JAX Vineyards SF Loft, 334 Brannan (at Stanford) When: Sun., Jan. 16, 5-8 p.m. Cost: $15 plus a dish to share; includes olive oil tasting and one glass of wine with dinner The rundown: Cook like the nonna you always wanted to have for this pot ... More >>
Blogs
November 10, 2010
Slow Crab Festival Teams Up with S.F. Brewers Guild
being1628/FlickrMerry Dungeness.Northern California's Dungeness crab sport-fishing season opened last weekend. The commercial season launches next week, an occasion as momentous for San Franciscans as the first drift of cherry blossoms from the trees at Tokyo's Ueno Park. That means it's not ... More >>
Blogs
October 22, 2010
Best Practices for Being Authentically Slow Food
But is it local?Important: Slow food doesn't mean eating Snooki (or anyone else who is "slow" mentally). Besides, that shit is definitely NOT organic. Slow Food is an eating movement that counteracts fast food and fast life, and connects us with the Earth and its Magical Bounty. Basic ... More >>
Blogs
October 22, 2010
Dolores, Lamb Dumplings, and Fries On a Sandwich: This Week in Food Bloggery
Lou BustamanteFrom Giordano's, with love.Five highlights from the blog this week: 1. The Blue Bottle Dolores Park cart drama has ended with BB pulling out of the park and canceling its lease. John Birdsall's post-mortem post is a lovely elegy for a scene that could have been. 2. Catch up, foodist ... More >>
Blogs
October 18, 2010
Butchery Fundraiser in Vacaville: Half a Steer Feeds a Lot of People
On October 30, an impressive roster of artisan butchers and chefs is convening at Vacaville's Soul Food Farm for a butchery demo and dinner. Inspired by farm founder Alexis Koefoed, the event will be a fundraiser for the newly created U.S. Butchers Guild and a handful of small, local farms. The ... More >>
Blogs
October 6, 2010
Can Tech Tools Help Us Eat Better? Find Out at Free Ferry Building Event
Wikia and Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales is at the helm of an all-day free food and tech event at the Ferry Building this Sunday. It'll seek to ask whether things like food blogs, websites, and smartphone apps can influence healthy food choices, with a panel discussion that includes Chow's Jan ... More >>
Dining
September 8, 2010
Fresh Eats: The State of S.F.’s Street Food
Wikia and Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales is at the helm of an all-day free food and tech event at the Ferry Building this Sunday. It'll seek to ask whether things like food blogs, websites, and smartphone apps can influence healthy food choices, with a panel discussion that includes Chow's Jan ... More >>
Blogs
September 8, 2010
Slow Jams Arrives at Bi-Rite Today
Philip ClarkA business cultivated in less than a year thanks to the SF Underground Market, various street-food parties, and most recently, the incubator kitchen at La Cocina, Slow Jams is celebrating its first retail customer today. Bi-Rite Market is now stocked with Slow Jams' local and org ... More >>
Dining
August 11, 2010
Fresh Eats: Saving the Gravenstein, enjoying the Wayfare's Hangtown Fry
Philip ClarkA business cultivated in less than a year thanks to the SF Underground Market, various street-food parties, and most recently, the incubator kitchen at La Cocina, Slow Jams is celebrating its first retail customer today. Bi-Rite Market is now stocked with Slow Jams' local and org ... More >>
Blogs
August 11, 2010
We Evolved to Eat Processed Food. No, Really
mooshee85/FlickrOur favorite morsel from the Web. Historian Rachel Laudan has a prescription for eating better: Demand more industrial foods. Laudan's essay "In Praise of Fast Food" (it originally appeared under a different title in The Gastronomica Reader) feels as provocative in the Utne ... More >>
Blogs
August 3, 2010
Slow Food's Gravenstein Apple Promotion: Make a Pie, Save a Tree
To the people who know them, Gravenstein apples are pie apples. One of the first varieties to appear in the markets in late summer, they have a bright acidity and a gorgeous aroma that survives even after the apples have been baked or simmered for hours. There are currently 900 acres of Gravenst ... More >>
Blogs
May 11, 2010
Winemakers Pouring Into S.F. Next Month for Golden Glass
Slow Food San FranciscoThe yearly Slow Food fundraiser attracts a crush of international winemakers.Clear your calendar, Slow Food-slash-wine geeks: the Golden Glass is due next month. This is the seventh year for the swirl of sustainable grapes and noshes, the primary fundraiser for Slow Foo ... More >>
Blogs
April 16, 2010
Can Technology Help Get Everybody Off the Corporate Food Grid?
Frog DesignTech-driven urban ag systems could bring Slow Food within reach of everyone in a city.It's the sort of question guaranteed to surface at every Slow Food showdown, dinner discussion series, and urban farming tutorial in town: How can we make local food accessible, affordable, and ap ... More >>
Blogs
April 5, 2010
Slow Food S.F. Kicks Off Ingredient Series with Chile Tasting
chasingbirds/FlickrMasochistic chile-heads take note: On April 13, Slow Food San Francisco is kicking off a new series called ― rather unimaginatively ― Pantry Item Tastings. In this inaugural installment, the "item" at issue is the hot pepper. If you drown eggs in half-cups of Inner Beau ... More >>
Blogs
February 4, 2010
Tonight: Sustainability and Slow Seafood at Hayes Street Grill
kewlio/FlickrSlow Food San Francisco's Convivial Table ― called the Dinner Club back in the day ― gathers tonight at Hayes Street Grill. Expect a healthy serving of foodie chatter along with local, sustainable seafood. Tonight's event has proved so popular, organizers moved it to a larger ... More >>
Blogs
January 5, 2010
This Weekend: Slow Food Potluck in Berkeley
slowfoodusa.orgSlow Food Berkeley has planned its New Year's Potluck for this Saturday, Jan. 9, noon to 3 p.m. in the auditorium of Berkeley Adult School (1701 San Pablo at Francisco). RSVP your attendance, group size, and dish you will bring to events@slowfoodberkeley.com. While it is a free eve ... More >>
Blogs
December 29, 2009
2009 Alt Foodie Trend No. 4: Major DIY-ness
Now till Dec. 31, SFoodie is counting down the city's top alternative food and restaurant trends of 2009 ― the ones you won't be reading about in the Chron. See also: No. 5: Profit Margins Crashed; No. 6: Beer Busted Out; No. 7: Twitter Ruled; No. 8: Sportin' Wood; No. 9: Street-Food Busts; No. 1 ... More >>
Blogs
December 8, 2009
Forget Christmas: Have You Started Your Terra Madre Shopping Yet?
Just when you thought December was full up with holidays, turns out Thursday is Terra Madre Day. Say what? The Slow Food commemoration is dedicated to worldwide celebrations that, in the words of Slow Food itself, "raise awareness of the importance of 'eating locally.'" Full explanation here. ... More >>
Blogs
December 3, 2009
Weekend Planner: Slow Food SF's Annual Crab and Oyster Fest Hits This Saturday
Saturday marks Slow Food San Francisco's third annual Slow Crab and Oyster Festival, 6-9 p.m. at Potrero Hill Neighborhood House (953 De Haro at Southern Heights). Live acoustic blues? Check. Fine wines and craft beers? Check. Local Dungeness and oysters? Double check. Tickets are $65 general ... More >>
Blogs
November 30, 2009
S.F. Library Hosts Slow Food Discussion, Followed by Slow Party at 18 Reasons
slowfood sf/FlickrSlow Food San Francisco's Labor Day Eat-In at Civic Center.Personalities on what organizers are calling both sides of Slow Food will participate in a panel tomorrow night at the S.F. Public Library's Koret Auditorium (100 Larkin at Grove). We can't guarantee sparks, but the ... More >>
Blogs
November 30, 2009
NY Times Report on Soul Food Farm Confirms That Food, Politics Are Inseparable Here
sarahsuannecox/FlickrSign from a Cane Rosso benefit in October.A brief profile in yesterday's New York Times Magazine shone a warm national light on Soul Food Farms. Tenders of chickens expect a wolf or two to show up at some point along the way, but arson is another matter entirely. When nea ... More >>
Blogs
November 27, 2009
Makin' Bacon 2 Might Just Cure Your Post-Turkey Malaise
Teach a man to make bacon, and he'll eat for a lifetime.It's hard going back to class -- particularly a cooking class -- after a holiday spent planning, cooking, and devouring a meal, then reclining on a comfortable couch to recover from it. All the same, after over a week of rabbit-food reh ... More >>
Calendar
November 25, 2009
Don’t Be Crabby
Teach a man to make bacon, and he'll eat for a lifetime.It's hard going back to class -- particularly a cooking class -- after a holiday spent planning, cooking, and devouring a meal, then reclining on a comfortable couch to recover from it. All the same, after over a week of rabbit-food reh ... More >>
Blogs
November 16, 2009
Wednesday's Tuscan Dinner at Chez Panisse One of 33 Celebrating Slow Food Book
Welcome BooksAlice is all over it, big time.Zagat Guides and Slow Food have organized 33 nationwide dinners -- collectively called A Slow Taste of Tuscany -- happening Wednesday to celebrate the publication of Slow: Life in a Tuscan Town (Welcome Books, $50) by Douglas Gayeton. The Petaluma a ... More >>
Blogs
November 9, 2009
Steep Yourself in Culture at La Cocina's Pickle-Making Class This Wednesday
stumptownpanda/FlickrDills at the pickle pavilion from last year's Slow Food Nation festival.Want to learn to make your own foodie host or hostess gift, while keeping a steady stash for your own cupboard? The history, science, and health of lacto-fermented foods ranging from sauerkraut to chu ... More >>
Blogs
September 14, 2009
Across the Country, Over the River, and Through the Woods for Some Painfully Slow Food
Raphael Brion/EatMeDaily.comLocal food shows up in big portions. Stuff from far away, not so much.Unless you're going to New York this weekend, you won't actually see this. All the same, it looks like something you'd enjoy. As part of Pioneers of Change, this month's festival of Dutch desig ... More >>
Blogs
September 10, 2009
Doggy Bag: Today's Odds and Ends
A choice morsel from the food blogs (and beyond). Loaves and feta: On SFGate, Leah Garchik recalls Monday's Civic Center Eat-In, Slow Food San Francisco's 400-strong Labor Day potluck. Garchik reports on the offerings at her table: orzo, white bean salad, green beans in tomato sauce, Vietnam ... More >>
Blogs
September 8, 2009
Slow Food Potluck Draws Hundreds to Civic Center on Labor Day
mental.masala/FlickrThe Civic Center event was one of several in the city.Slow Food San Francisco president Dava Guthmiller estimated about 400 people showed up at a potluck in Civic Center yesterday. The event was one of more than 300 Labor Day Eat-Ins organized by Slow Food USA, a kickoff t ... More >>
Calendar
September 2, 2009
Feed the World
mental.masala/FlickrThe Civic Center event was one of several in the city.Slow Food San Francisco president Dava Guthmiller estimated about 400 people showed up at a potluck in Civic Center yesterday. The event was one of more than 300 Labor Day Eat-Ins organized by Slow Food USA, a kickoff t ... More >>
Blogs
August 27, 2009
Don't Kill Us for Saying, But Now's the Time to Order Your Thanksgiving Turkey
Cobalt123/FlickrGruesome thought, isn't it?It's that delicious moment when San Francisco summer starts for real. Who can think about Thanksgiving, with its scramble for pies, its making-nice-with-your-brother-the-Christian, its turkey, for chrissake. But this is the very moment to start thin ... More >>
Blogs
August 18, 2009
Doggy Bag: Today's Odds and Ends
Canny: At Civil Eats, Anya Fernald opens up about Yes We Can, the series of communal preserve-a-thons at La Cocina. Fernald, director of last year's Slow Food Nation events and organizing force behind the upcoming Eat Real Festival in O-Town, is, ahem, canny about organizing around food. Who ... More >>
Blogs
August 17, 2009
Slow Food's Potrero Hill Potluck a Crunchy Alternative to Civic Center
Common Vision/FlickrA community planting at the permaculture garden on Potrero.Okay, so maybe you're thinking Slow Food's big Labor Day potluck in Civic Center sounds too urban. Well, a small-scale, altogether crunchier Eat-In is going down the same day on Petrero Hill. Up to 70 attendees are ... More >>
Blogs
August 13, 2009
Slow Food S.F. Gearing Up for Sprawling Labor Day Potluck in Civic Center
sarahmroos/Flickr The Civic Center Eat-In harks back to last year's communal potluck in Dolores Park. Organizing a potluck can be headache-y -- you've got to do a lot of e-mailing to avoid ending up with a table crammed with hummus and Toll House. Imagine, then, what Dava Guthmiller is goi ... More >>
Blogs
August 11, 2009
Bored? Learn How to Butcher a Goat or Ferment Stuff
Claudine/FlickrCutting up a critter may not be as hard as you think.Urban Kitchen SF has more workshops for DIYers with a Slow Food bent looking to try butchery, jam-making, or the increasingly on-fire kombucha. The classes are popular, so sign up ASAP to save a spot. Sliding scale pricing is ... More >>
Blogs
August 10, 2009
Are the Mission's New Street-Food Carts the True Heirs of Slow Food?
J. Birdsall A serving from Adobo Hobo: Accessible and easy to like.It was a few minutes before 7:30 last Friday night, at an undisclosed location in the Mission. The patch of grass before us would soon coalesce into a de facto market of underground street food: Magic Curry, Adobo Hobo, Gobba ... More >>
Blogs
August 5, 2009
Documentary Tracks the Birth of the Modern Home-Grown Chicken Movement
Mad City Chickens Mmm, chicken-y.The folks at Slow Food on Film continue to spread the local-farm-to-table word with a screening this weekend of the fascinating documentary Mad City Chickens at the Delancey Street Theater (600 Embarcadero at Brannan). The film tells the story of the so-called ... More >>
Blogs
August 3, 2009
Learn to Make Bacon, Granny Style, at Slow Food Workshop
phil.lees/FlickrReally, are you in touch with meat?A four-hour Slow Food bacon- and sausage-making workshop is happening this Saturday, August 8, from 1 to 5 p.m., in a private home in San Francisco. For twenty bucks and a bottle of vino (for sharing), the secrets of swine can be all yours at ... More >>
Film
April 1, 2009
Arthouse movie listings for April 1-7, 2009
phil.lees/FlickrReally, are you in touch with meat?A four-hour Slow Food bacon- and sausage-making workshop is happening this Saturday, August 8, from 1 to 5 p.m., in a private home in San Francisco. For twenty bucks and a bottle of vino (for sharing), the secrets of swine can be all yours at ... More >>
Blogs
October 29, 2008
Slow Food Nation Presents Civil Eats
phil.lees/FlickrReally, are you in touch with meat?A four-hour Slow Food bacon- and sausage-making workshop is happening this Saturday, August 8, from 1 to 5 p.m., in a private home in San Francisco. For twenty bucks and a bottle of vino (for sharing), the secrets of swine can be all yours at ... More >>
Calendar
August 27, 2008
Slow Ride
phil.lees/FlickrReally, are you in touch with meat?A four-hour Slow Food bacon- and sausage-making workshop is happening this Saturday, August 8, from 1 to 5 p.m., in a private home in San Francisco. For twenty bucks and a bottle of vino (for sharing), the secrets of swine can be all yours at ... More >>
Calendar
July 23, 2008
Cool Clear Waters
phil.lees/FlickrReally, are you in touch with meat?A four-hour Slow Food bacon- and sausage-making workshop is happening this Saturday, August 8, from 1 to 5 p.m., in a private home in San Francisco. For twenty bucks and a bottle of vino (for sharing), the secrets of swine can be all yours at ... More >>
More >>

Browse Voice Nation

Blogs

Blogs

Blogs

Blogs

Blogs

Blogs

Blogs

Blogs

Blogs

Blogs

Blogs

Blogs

Blogs

Blogs

Blogs

Dining

Blogs

Dining

Blogs

Blogs

Blogs

Blogs

Blogs

Blogs

Blogs

Blogs

Blogs

Blogs

Blogs

Blogs

Blogs

Calendar

Blogs

Blogs

Blogs

Blogs

Blogs

Calendar

Blogs

Blogs

Blogs

Blogs

Blogs

Blogs

Blogs

Blogs

Film

Blogs

Calendar

Calendar

Most Popular Stories

for free stuff, news info & more!

Now Click This