Applications Now Accepted for the Los Angeles County Master Food Preservers Spring 2012 Class
Los Angeles has seen a surge of interest in food preservation techniques, from pickling and canning to liqueur making, fermentation, and cheesemaking. Thanks in large part to the leadership of Ernest Miller, chef of The Farmer’s Kitchen in Hollywood, the program has quickly become one of the most sought-after educational opportunities in southern California. Applications [...]
School Garden Plugmob Alert
Irrepressible school garden advocate Mud Baron has announced the first plugmob of 2012. Representatives of school gardens can benefit from Mud’s work at the San Pedro Science Center and his network of donors and take away seeds and seedlings to get a garden started or to supplement plantings that are already underway. Details noted below. [...]
Chasen Kuyo 2011
A perennial favorite among Slow Food members and friends is the annual Chasen Kuyo (Tea Ceremony Celebration) of the Zenshuji Soto Buddhist Temple. Many thanks to Lauren Deutsch for alerting us to each year’s details, including those for this year’s event: When: Sunday, November 6, 2011, 11:00am – 3:00pm Where: Zenshuji Soto Mission, 123 S. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Good Food Festival Film Series August Event: Queen of the Sun
The third event in this summer’s Good Food Festival Film Series will feature Queen of the Sun, a documentary directed by Taggart Siegel that explores the phenomenon known as “colony collapse disorder” from the perspectives of biodynamic beekeepers, farmers, entomologists, and advocates for more sustainable agriculture. Among the notable contributors to the film are Michael [...]
Special Offer for Slow Food members…
Interested in attending this Sunday’s pig roast at Craft LA in Century City? Event organizers have graciously agreed to extend a substantial discount to Slow Food members: Simply use the discount code GFFCSF when ordering tickets on Eventbrite and a 50% discount will be applied to your tickets. For more information, see our original post [...]
Call for volunteers: Good Food Festival and Conference Summer Events
Volunteers are needed to help with a variety of tasks at several pre-Festival events this summer. If you’re interested and available in volunteering your time at one of the events below, please contact Kelsey Youngman by email to kelsey.youngman [at] gmail [dot] com for further details. August 2, 2011 September 8, 2001: Conversation and cocktails [...]
Sunday Afternoon Pig Roast: Good Food Pre-Festival Event
Update: Special Pricing for Slow Food members: Event organizers have graciously extended a discount to Slow Food members for this weekend’s event. Enter the discount code GFFCSF when selecting your tickets on Eventbrite and a 50% discount will be applied! In addition to the Good Food Film Series, the organizing committee of the Good Food [...]
Good Food Festival Film Series: July Event
The second event in this summer’s Good Food Festival Film Series will explore the issue of food waste through two films that are lively and thoughtful and take viewers from dumpsters in Los Angeles to the fields of rural France. Starting the evening will be a screening of DIVE! (55 minutes), which explores the staggering [...]
Save the date for the next event in our film series!
The next event in the Good Food Festival & Conference film series will held Wednesday, July 13, 2011 at the Aero Theatre in Santa Monica. We’re bringing together two food-focused documentaries–a classic film and a provocative new one–and will again offer a local perspective through a panel discussion. More details coming soon!
“We work like dogs, but we eat like kings.”
That subject line sums up the theme of yesterday evening’s event at the Aero Theatre, the first in the Good Food Festival & Conference Film Series that Slow Food Los Angeles is pleased to be coordinating with the Santa Monica Farmers’ Market, FamilyFarmed.org, and the American Cinematheque. Thank you to everyone who joined us for [...]
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