sarahmroos/FlickrLast year's Slow Food Nation eat-in at Dolores Park is serving as a national model.Remember Slow Food Nation, the sprawling food fest that gripped San Francisco over Labor Day weekend last year? Organizers had pledged it would be an annual event, with the likelihood that this year's fest would again take place in S.F.
This morning, Brooklyn-based Slow Food USA announced a change in plans that appeared to acknowledge lessons learned from last year's event. Instead of the confab
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First Foodie: Is Michelle Obama a stealth locavore? Grist's Tom Laskawy ponders the possibility. According to the Washington Post, FLOTUS's commitment to denying Big Ag goes a bit beyond scratching out a few rows of heirloom radishes on the South Lawn. She's sending signals that she may be willing to drive the agenda of the good food movement in schools, a focus (starting this fall) of Slow Food USA. Writes Laskawy: Just as health care reform
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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 going through. The president of the city's Slow Food chapter is throwing a Labor Day potluck for 500 outdoors in Civic Center, noon to 3 p.m. But a little more than three weeks out, Guthmiller seems comp
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 expected for a communal meal in the permaculture demo garden at 18th St. and Rhode Island, Monday, September 7, 10 a.m.-4 p.m.
"Be prepared to sit in a garden, bring your own plate and silverware, b
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 to its Time for Lunch campaign to pressure Congress to enact reforms to national school lunch programs. Organizers had been hoping for as many as 700 in Civic Center.
Guthmiller reckoned that 80 to 85
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 author plans to be present at the book signing and Slow dinner at Chez Panisse Café (1517 Shattuck at Walnut), the only one in the Bay Area. Look for a menu inspired by the book.
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