Slow Food Los Angeles

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

Event Announcement: Perfect Peach Pie

Learn to make perfect peach pie with a pure peach flavor and a buttery, flakey crust. Organic ingredients from the Hollywood Farmers’ Market will be used. This event raises funds to send our convivium’s delegate, Grady Atkins, to Terra Madre 2006. All funds raised will go directly towards delegate travel expenses.
The class will include preparation [...]

Celebrate the 15th Anniversary of the Hollywood Farmers’ Market

The Hollywood Farmers’ Market will celebrate its fifteenth anniversary on June 25, 2006 during the normal market hours (8:00am-1:00pm). The public is invited to take part in the free activities including an Iron Chef Market Challenge, Carrot Cake Contest, and children’s art activities. A raffle will also be held to benefit The Farmer’s Kitchen, [...]

Event Announcement: Pizza! Pizza!

Learn to make crisp, thin-crusted pizza in your home oven at this special class. Organic ingredients from the Hollywood Farmers’ Market will be used. This event raises funds to send our convivium’s delegate, Grady Atkins, to Terra Madre 2006. All funds raised will go directly towards delegate travel expenses.
Five types of pizza will be prepared:
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Event Announcement: Weekend at Windrose Farm

Come join us for our first farm tour of the year and experience a magical summer evening at Windrose Farm in Paso Robles:
When: Saturday and Sunday, August 12 and 13, 2006
Where: Windrose Farm in Paso Robles (more details below)
Cost: $75 for Slow Food members, $90 for non members. Cost includes Saturday dinner, wine, farm tour, [...]

A Farmers’ Market Returns to Westwood

We’ve just been alerted that the Westwood farmers’ market will open on Thursday, July 6, at the Veterans Administration (VA) off Sepulveda (just north of Wilshire), west on Constitution. The Westwood Village farmers’ market closed two months ago, and this new market will feature many of the same farmers.
Summer hours will be from 1:00pm to [...]

Chinese Food Festival

The third annual Chinese Food Festival will be held this weekend:
When: Saturday, June 24, 2006, from noon until 8:00pm, and Sunday, June 25, 2006, from 10:30am until 6:00pm
Where: Los Angeles Chinatown, at the corner of College & Broadway (across from the Chinatown Metro Gold Line Station)
Cost: General admission: $10; seniors (60+): $8; youths (6-12): $6; [...]

Taste of the Nation: Los Angeles

This year’s Los Angeles component of Share Our Strength’s “Taste of the Nation” will be held at Media Park in Culver City on Sunday, June 25. This is the 19th year for this series of benefits, and the Los Angeles event is always a great way to usher in the summer (and benefit a great [...]

Lavender-themed dinner in Ventura

In honor of Ojai’s Lavender festival this month, The Side Car Restaurant in Ventura will be holding a special dinner on Wednesday, June 21, 2006 at 6:30pm. The dinner will feature lavender from Karen and Bill Evenden of New Oak Ranch in Upper Ojai.
The dinner will feature a five course tasting menu which will [...]

Chocolate and Coffee

UPDATE: See revised dates, below.
This June, two of Berkeley, California’s finest food purveyors, Scharffen Berger Chocolate Maker, producer of artisan dark chocolates, and Peet’s Coffee & Tea, the grandfather of specialty coffee, will host chocolate and coffee pairings at Peet’s in La Jolla and Los Angeles. The event will feature four of Peet’s coffee [...]

South Central Farm Eviction

Sadly, it appears that the two sides in the dispute over the future of the South Central community garden have not been able to come to an agreement that would allow the farm to remain intact.
The local ABC affiliate web site has preliminary details regarding the eviction, which began this morning.
The South Central Farm site [...]

Save the Date!

Patrick Martins and the Heritage Foods USA crew are embarking on a 40-day, cross-country road trip for a documentary production, media blitz, and public relations extravaganza. Many of their stops and activities are sponsored and hosted by local Slow food convivia.
The Los Angeles convivium is pleased that they will be stopping here for one day [...]