27th Annual Los Angeles Mycological Society Wild Mushroom Fair
The Los Angeles Mycological Society has alerted us that this year’s Mushroom Fair will be held on February 13, 2011, at Ayres Hall at the Los Angeles County Arboretum and Botanic Garden at 301 North Baldwin Avenue in Arcadia. This is a free event (with purchase of an admission to the Arboretum) and is a [...]
“Stopping Bullets With Jobs”: Father Greg Boyle in conversation with Tavis Smiley
Homeboy Industries and the Homegirl Cafe have been contributors to Slow Food projects, most recently the Time for Lunch campaign to raise awareness about the Child Nutrition Act and need to improve the national school lunch program. Staff and volunteers from Homegirl were hugely helpful at several of our local eat-ins, and the Homeboy and [...]
Urban Homesteading in 2011
To start off 2011, the Santa Monica Farmers’ Market quarterly panel will address a topic of great interest to many Slow Food Los Angeles members and friends: urban homesteading. Urban dwellers are going beyond gardens and edible landscaping to produce even more of what they eat. Hear how urban gardeners and farmers on the edge [...]
In the Spirit of Thanksgiving
Shouldn’t everyone have access to fresh, healthy, and affordable food? That’s the question posed by Roots of Change this holiday season. And one way Roots of Change is working to ensure that all Californians enjoy nutritious food is through the California Farmers’ Market Consortium’s Fresh Fund. Contributions to the Fund go directly into the hands [...]
Continuing the Unprocessed Challenge
At the end of September we shared news of Andrew Wilder’s Unprocessed Challenge. Since then, 415 joined Andrew in swearing off (or significantly reducing) their consumption of highly processed foods. Rather than seeing this as a month of deprivation, many of us saw it as a challenge to expand our food choices, to try new [...]
Caltech Olive Harvest Festival
The California Institute of Technology is hosting its third campus-wide olive harvest festival this Friday, November 5, 2010, from 8:00am until 3:00pm. Volunteers are invited to help harvest olives from trees throughout the Pasadena campus, to share a harvest lunch, and to attend tastings and demonstrations in the afternoon. Olive oil resulting from the harvest [...]
Nourish: Food + Community
With public interest in food issues at an all-time high, Nourish: Food + Community invites families to consider the vital question: “What’s the story of my food?” Nourish is a multi-year media and education initiative with the goal of opening a broad and meaningful public conversation about our food system that encourages citizen engagement, particularly [...]
Mark Bittman and The Food Matters Cookbook
Mark Bittman, known to New York Times readers as The Minimalist, has turned his attention in recent years to the question of how to reduce one’s carbon footprint and waistline without sacrificing taste and pleasure. It can be done! A supporter of good, clean, and fair food, Bittman has been a consistent source of reliable [...]
Celebrating L.A.’s Finest Local Handmade Artisanal Edibles: Artisanal LA
October is another busy month for food-focused events here in Los Angeles, and we’re intrigued by a new quarterly event: Artisanal LA. When: Saturday and Sunday, October 23 and 24, 2010 from 11:00am until 6:00pm Where: The Cooper Design Space Penthouse, 860 South Los Angeles Street, Los Angeles 90014 Cost: $15 per person (cash) at [...]
Announcing the First Annual Couscous Festival
Chef Farid Zadi, a founder of the recently established Ecole de Cuisine Pasadena, has extended an invitation to Slow Food Los Angeles members and friends to attend the First Annual Couscous Festival at the school’s headquarters in Pasadena. If you’re a fan of North African cuisine, an admirer of tagines, or someone who is curious [...]
“Good Food For All”: A Taste of the Los Angeles Foodshed
The Los Angeles Food Policy Task Force was convened last fall and has prepared a report with recommendations for how we can increase access to healthy, affordable, fairly and sustainably produced foods and strengthen our connection to the regional food economy. The resulting report is The Good Food for All Agenda. Roots of Change will [...]
The Food Rendezvous
August is a busy month for food-focused events in southern California, and this year a new event is coming to the Los Angeles community: The Food Rendezvous. Offering a monthly marketplace for makers of artisanal and handcrafted foods, the initial Food Rendezvous event will include a range of cooking demonstrations, a cookbook swap, the opportunity [...]
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