Slow Food Los Angeles

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

Event Announcement: Got Soup?

Chicken Soup with Kreplach…
Split Pea with Home Cured Bacon…
French Onion with Short Ribs…
Chilled Pea Veloute with Sheep’s Milk Ricotta and Mint…
Aunt Mary’s Pasta Fazool…
Join other Slow Food members and friends as we swap stories and soup. Bring a favorite or try something new–just tell us how it connects to Slow Food. Do you buy special [...]

Event Announcement: Ojai Music Festival and Slow Food Luncheon

Celebrate the sounds and bounty of Ojai! Our friends in the Slow Food Ojai/Ventura convivium have asked us to share news of a June event in Ojai:
Immerse yourself in adventurous music and mouthwatering food at the 62nd Ojai Music Festival on Sunday, June 8, 2008.
First, experience a world-class concert featuring groundbreaking percussion works by Gyorgy [...]

Tomatomania! Time Draws Near

Tomatomania!TM, the country’s largest tomato seedling sale, will be celebrating its 18th year with several events in southern California starting in late March.
More information about Tomatomania’s offerings and schedule are available on the Tomatomania web site. As in the past, locations will include the Tapia Brothers Farm Stand, San Diego, Beverly Hills, and Arcadia:
March 29-30, [...]

Orange County Event Announcement: Sake Tasting at Slow Fish

Our colleagues in the Slow Food Orange County convivium have asked us to share news of an event this coming Sunday:
Slow Food Orange County invites you to a sake tasting at Slow Fish.
Sake has a tradition that is as broad and intricate as wine. Our menu was designed with contemporary Korean cuisine to showcase the [...]

“The Migrant Project” at the Museum of Tolerance

Author and photographer Rick Nahmias has alerted us that the traveling exhibit for his work, “The Migrant Project: California Farm Workers,” is now at the Museum of Tolerance and will be displayed until April 25. As Rick describes it:
“The Migrant Project” merges art, humanities and education, and uses the California farm worker experience as a [...]

King Corn Screening and Discussion

Members and friends of Slow Food and readers of Michael Pollan’s recent works have had their eyes opened to the staggeringly large role of corn in our economy. Recent estimates from 2007 suggest that in the United States alone, 92.9 million acres of farmland are planted with corn, most of which is used in sweeteners, [...]

2008 Slow Food Events

Friday, August 29, through Monday, September 1, will be Slow Food Nation weekend in San Francisco. Plans are developing for the event, which will bring together farmers, food artisans, consumers, commentators, and others for a weekend focused on good, clean, and fair food and food production. As described in the San Francisco Chronicle:
Two venues – [...]

Event Announcement: Celebrate the Bounty of the Churchill-Brenneis Orchard

Steve Fields and Sims Brannon, co-leaders of Slow Food Ojai/Ventura, have shared news of an upcoming event with us. Last year’s tour of the Churchill-Brenneis orchards and its companion citrus lunch was a tremendous success, so we’re pleased to alert Slow Food Los Angeles members and friends to another event that will showcase some of [...]