Slow Food Los Angeles

supporting good, clean, and fair food production and consumption in Los Angeles

Raise Funds for Hurricane Victims with Slow Food Ojai

Our friends in the Ojai convivium have alerted us to an upcoming event that will benefit victims of the recent hurricane season:
In response to the devastating destruction of those communities in the paths of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, Rotary Club of Ojai-West Foundation, Inc., Slow Food Ojai, and the Rotary/Interact Club of Nordhoff High School [...]

Turkey Update from Heritage Foods

Heritage Foods USA has sent us an update regarding this year’s Turkey Project:
The final days of the Turkey Project are upon us. While individually our Thanksgiving birds will have lost that skip in their step, collectively as a species the Bourbon Red and American Bronze are thriving. Over 10,000 previously endangered turkeys were raised this [...]

More on Hoshigaki from the Sacramento Bee

For those of you who attended the hoshigaki event, who love persimmons, or who were at least intrigued by the process of preserving these fruits, an article in yesterday’s Sacramento Bee spotlights Otow Orchards in Granite Bay and their efforts to maintain this tradition. (Free registration required, or click here for a .pdf.)

Helping Others on Thanksgiving

Food on Foot has sent us the following urgent request for assistance with their Thanksgiving Day plans:
We need volunteers for our BIG Thanksgiving Day feeding on Thursday November 24th from 2:30pm until 4:30pm at our regular Hollywood location. We will distribute food and back packs to all of the homeless and poor and there will [...]

Event Announcement: Tour the Galleano Winery

Come to connect to old Southern California.
The Cucamonga Valley once had more vineyards than anywhere else in the US. This was coupled with a booming wine industry. This was the largest and most famous wine region in California. The first wine grapes were planted in the 1880s by Italian immigrants. Even up to the 1950s [...]