Slow Food Los Angeles

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

Edible Education: Marion Nestle on Food Politics

The third session of UC Berkeley’s Edible Education class featured Marion Nestle, whose contributions to our understanding of food politics and nutrition are significant and extraordinarily helpful. Dr. Nestle regularly blogs at foodpolitics.com and is an active member of the food community on Twitter where she writes @marionnestle. Once again, we offer our thanks to [...]

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Family Supper at Good Girl Dinette

The Young Folks Urban Farmers extend an invitation to Slow Food Los Angeles members and friends to attend their upcoming event, “Family Supper: A Celebration of Good Food and Community” at Good Girl Dinette in Highland Park. This celebration of friends, family, community, and local food will benefit the Young Folks’ pilot project at the [...]

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Edible Education: Peter Sellars on Food as Culture

Students and guests at the second session of UC Berkeley’s Edible Education class were treated to a provocative and timely lecture by Peter Sellars, whose passion for social justice and the role of art in opening eyes and minds is well known to fans of his theatrical work and his lectures as part of UCLA’s [...]

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Good Food Film Series September Event: The Harvest/La Cosecha

In some countries, children pick crops for 14 hours a day. The United States is one of those countries. The fourth event in this summer’s Good Food film series, part of the opening day of the Good Food Festival & Conference, will feature The Harvest/La Cosecha, a documentary directed by U. Roberto Romano that provides [...]

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At the Market: Kicking Off the 30th Anniversary Celebration of the Santa Monica Farmers’ Market

Join Amelia Saltsman, author of The Santa Monica Farmers’ Market Cookbook, and friends as they kick off the Good Food Festival and Conference with a day of cooking demos, tastes, and conversation at the Santa Monica Farmers’ Market. Special guest Suzanne Goin will open the day’s festivities, and she and Amelia will also sign their [...]

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