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last updated 7/30 - complete update to be posted shortly!| 5/1/10-12/5/10 Outstanding in the Field North American Tour Click the link for dates, details, tix. Location: Varies Cost: Varies per event; click link for details |
| 7/1/10-7/31/10 Special Events at Omnivore's Books on Food Check their site for the ever-growing calendar! Location: Omnivore's Books on Food, 3885a Cesar Chavez Street City: SF Cost: Free |
| 7/1/10-7/31/10 Special Events at 18 Reasons 18 reasons is non-profit community space focused on engaging our community with the people who feed us. A proud member of the Bi-Rite Family of Businesses. Location: 18 Reasons, 593 Guerrero St./18th City: SF Cost: Varies |
| Saturdays, 7/3/10-7/31/10 10:30am Meet the Producer & Seasonal cooking demonstration at the Ferry Plaza Farmers Market Meet local producers (10:30) and enjoy a cooking demonstration by local chefs and cookbook authors using ingredients purchased that morning at the Ferry Plaza Farmers Market (11am). Click the link to find out whose up this week! Upcoming special Saturdays: Oct 25 Harvest Festival, Nov 22 Holiday Pie Party. Location: CUESA's teaching kitchen, outside under the arcades north of the Ferry Building's clock tower. City: SF Cost: Free |
| Fri, 7/30/10 6:00pm-8:30pm Burgers and Beer: cooking class An intimate interactive class with tastes. Join us as we cook off grass fed beef burgers, a chipotle and jalapeno studded turkey burger, a thai-influenced "piggy" burger with ginger and soy topped with a cilantro lime mayonnaise, and bison blue cheese burgers. WOW – now that's a burgerpalooza! Location: Cavallo Point - the Lodge at the Golden Gate City: Sausalito Cost: $85 per person, plus tax |
| Fri, 7/30/10 6:30pm A Night to Benefit Just Food Listen to NY Times bestselling cookbook author Mollie Katzen and award winning AshokaYouth Venture participant, James Berk. Participate in our Silent Auction. Eat local, sustainable and organic plates preparedby talented local chefs and Enjoy our open bar! Join Ashoka Youth Venture and the Earth Island Institute's New Leaders Initiative as we raise awareness and funds for Just Food, a program supporting BayArea youth in creating food justice-themed social ventures. Please Click the Link Below to Register! Thank you for your support of JUST FOOD! General admission tickets are $85. All proceeds benefit the JUST FOOD program. Location: Numi Tea, 2230 Livingston Street City: Oakland Cost: $85 |
| Sat, 7/31/10 1:00pm-4:00pm Ode to Pig The pig beat goes on this weekend at The Pasta Shop's third annual Hog Heaven event (free). Expect plenty of pork tastings, along with demonstrations from Café Rouge's lead butcher, bacon guru Ari Weinzweig, and Bay Area treasure Victoria Wise. Location: Pasta Shop, 4th St City: Berkeley Cost: Free |
| Tue, 8/3/10 6:00pm-9:00pm Wine & Dinner Fundraiser for upcoming PBS show: Food Forward A special night of food, wine and inspiration at San Francisco's new Radius restaurant is just a week away and there's still time to save your seat at the table. We, the co-creators of the Food Forward documentary TV series, are holding a one-of-a kind fundraising dinner Aug. 3. KQED has agreed to present our show to a national PBS audience upon successful completion of our pilot episode. We’d love to have your support to help us get there. Chef Kelly Hughett is preparing a delicious menu of local foods that celebrate the flavors of late summer. The evening will also include wine pairings and gift bottles from premier local wineries that practice sustainable, organic or biodynamic winemaking including Burrell School Vineyards and Winery, Poetic Cellars, Sky Saddle Winery, Bonterra Vineyards, Robert Sinskey Vineyards, Thomas Fogarty Winery, and Loma Prieta Winery. Attendees will also receive an organic cotton Food Forward grocery bag loaded with hand-selected, premium products from local purveyors including Swanton Berrry Farm, Katz and Company, Point Reyes Cheese Co., Route 1 Farms, Miette and other delicious products. In addition to a night of great food and wine, this dinner will include a screening of the new Food Forward trailer in HD. Guests will also have the opportunity to hear from some of the stars of our show and words of inspiration from environmental attorney Nicolette Hahn Niman, author of Righteous Porkchop and co-owner of BN Ranch in Bolinas, a farm she runs with husband and sustainable meat pioneer Bill Niman. Can’t make the dinner? You can still contribute today by donating securely via Pal Pal: http://foodforward.tv/donate.aspx. Location: Radius Restaurant, 1123 Folsom (btw. 7th & 8th) City: SF Cost: $250/person |
| Tue, 8/3/10 7:00pm Slow Food Convival Table at Contigo Dine with Slow Food San Francisco and meet the owners of Contigo for a taste of the rustic dishes of Barcelona. Hear about their home-cooked dishes and their mission for environmental sustainability, all while enjoying an optional wine pairi Location: Contigo, 1320 Castro Street (at 24th) City: SF Cost: $57 |
| Sat, 8/7/10 5:30pm 2010 Food for Thought Author Series featuring Alice Waters in Conversation with Davia Nelson A lively conversation between two luminaries of the food world. Author of In the Green Kitchen: Techniques to Learn by Heart, Alice Waters has been a champion of the sustainable, local cooking movement for decades. Davia Nelson is an award winning NPR producer of The Kitchen Sisters and author of Hidden Kitchens, Stories, Recipes and More. Together they will describe and demonstrate how to improvise in "the green kitchen". Location: Toby' Feed Barn, 11250 Highway One City: Point Reyes Station Cost: $99 |
| Sun, 8/8/10 5:30pm Dinner: Women Changing the Way We Eat Please join us for an evening at Flea Street Cafe with Temra Costa author of Farmer Jane: Women Changing the Way We Eat and Dru Rivers Full Belly Farm . . . woven with conversation about women and food . . . soulful readings from Temra's remarkable new book . . . passionate and delicious 5 course Full Belly Farm dinner (using as many Full Belly Farm ingredients as we can get our hands on!) Signed copies of "Farmer Jane" will be available for purchase. Reservations 650.854.1226 Location: Flea Street Cafe City: Menlo Park Cost: $85, $30 additional optional wine pairing; tax and service not included |
| 8/9/10-8/14/10 Mon-Sat SF Chefs 2010 San Francisco is and always will be a major influencer for food and wine trends, food politics and the sustainability movement. SFChefs 2010 presented by Visa Signature®, is a food and wine event celebrating the unique flavor, diversity and bounty of Northern California. The main tasting tent will be in Union Square, where chefs, wine makers and distillers will offer an exploration of taste featuring local products. Classes and seminars will offer interactive opportunities for the public to participate with local farmers, ranchers, chefs, winemakers, distillers, media, luminaries, authors, vintners, mixologists and culinary experts in an entertaining forum. Location: Union Square and the Westin St. Francis Hotel City: SF |
| Sat, 8/14/10 11:00am-3:00pm 2nd Saturday Farm Fest at Capay Organic Farm Come visit the farm, take a trailer ride, meet the farmers that grow your veggies and harvest STRAWBERRIES & SWEET PEA FLOWERS. Enjoy numerous kid-friendly activities, learn about farming and listen to live music in the farmhouse garden. Bring a picnic and plan on staying into the afternoon. The Bennys will be playing live in the garden from 12pm-2pm. Visit the band's MySpace page at: http://www.myspace.com/thebennys No RSVP necessary. This is a free event. Call our office at 800-796-6009 for more information. Location: Capay Organic Farm, 23800 State Highway 16 City: Capay Valley, Yolo County Cost: Free |
| Sun, 8/15/10 10:00am-4:30pm BAY AREA GREEN TOURS: SUNDAY Farm to Fork Tour Farm to Fork tours are engaging educational tours open to the public that highlight local farmers and ranchers and show sustainability in action. Join us on our next FARM to FORK TOUR on August 15th at 10:00 am. Meet us for brunch at Gather Restaurant (www.gatherrestaurant.com), one of the best organic restaurants in Berkeley. Then discover where the food on your fork is grown and raised. Pick fruit straight off the trees at Frog Hollow farm, learn about local food sources and the nitty-gritty of how sustainable farmers care for the earth while bringing delicious food to your table. Shake hands with the people that make it happen! The tour departs AND concludes at Gather Restaurant, next to the Brower Center, at the corner of Oxford St. and Allston Way in Berkeley. Register early to reserve your seat, this is a popular tour. Location: Gather, 2200 Oxford - where tour starts & ends City: Berkeley Cost: $85 |
| Sun, 8/15/10 6:00am Tour d'Organics The Tour d'Organics is unlike other organized rides in that all the food we offer is all organic, fresh, locally sourced, and vegan. The Tour d'Organics was created to offer an educational experience of fueling your athletic pursuits in a way that is healthy for you, the animals, and the planet. City: Sebastopol Cost: $50-110 |
| Mon, 8/16/10 5:30pm reception; 6:00pm program Discussion: Women Changing the Way We Eat: Why Mom was always right about healthy eating Temra Costa, Author, Farmer Jane: Women Changing the Way We Eat, Nina Simons, Co-founder and Co-CEO, Bioneers, Collective Heritage Institution, Jesse Ziff Cool, Restaurateur; Cookbook Author, Simply Organic, Kira Gould, Co-author, Women in Green; Director of Communication, William McDonough & Partners - Moderator. Women (including First Lady Michelle Obama) are using their unique leadership skills to play a critical role in the sustainable food movement. Come learn how women are working diligently and effectively to change the way Americans eat and farm. From bringing organic fruits and veggies into schools to ensuring that farm workers are treated fairly to pioneering new methods of sustainable farming, women are fighting to ensure that we and the planet thrive well into the future. Location: SF Commonwealth Club, 2nd/Market City: SF Cost: MEMBERS FREE, $20 non-members, $7 students (with valid ID) |
| Sat, 8/21/10 11:00am-7:00pm SF Street Food Festival The San Francisco Street Food Festival is an event hosted by La Cocina that advocates for the creation of policies that support the formalization of mobile food vending in San Francisco. Last year’s Street Food Festival in 2009 was focused on what could be possible for mobile food vendors in San Francisco. This year’s Street Food Festival in 2010 is focused on and advocates what should be possible and will highlight the people who make such wonderful food, who deliver it to you, and who nourish the connections throughout the community. Location: Folsom/25th City: SF Cost: Free to attend |
| Sat, 8/21/10 2:00pm Pie Ranch Workday and Barn Dance Every third Saturday of the month Pie Ranch hosts its barn dance and community potluck. For those of you who don't know, Co-founder Jered Lawson helped launch Buy Fresh Buy Local way back when in 2002 and now serves on the campaign's Steering Committee. Today he carries on his love for local food and farming by digging in at his farm, shaped like a pie and is co-owned by Jered, his wife Nancy and Karen Heisler. Karen runs Mission Pie in the city and is out on the farm whenever she can be. This farm-to-city connection is educating children about farming and is a premier model in the Bay Area. Location: Pie Ranch, 2080 Cabrillo Hwy. City: Pescadero Cost: Free |
| 8/22/10 9:30am-2:30pm Conserves: a hands-on class with June Taylor An intimate, one day, hands-on class that concentrates on the principles and processes of making conserves and the experiential nature of preserving fruit. The class will include a tasting and evaluation of a variety a variety of seasonal fruits, including heirloom varieties, as well as a comparative tasting of international, commercial, and local artisan preserves. Students will take home a jar of the conserve they make in class. June Taylor products are offered at 10% off on the day of the class. Light refreshments, including June Taylor products, will be served. Location: Still Room, 2207 4th Street City: Berkeley Cost: $195 |
| Tue-Sun, 8/24/10-8/29/10 The Monterey Aquarium Presents the BLUE Ocean Film Festival Because Great Films Can Change the World A six-day celebration of artistic and scientific excellence, BLUE brings together the world's greatest collection of ocean films, esteemed filmmakers and marine experts. BLUE moves to its new home of Monterey this year, with the Aquarium as its Presenting Sponsor. The festival will feature more than 60 award-winning ocean films, photography, workshops and exhibits. Highlights include a special screening of Disneynature's new film "OCEANS." Festivities will include VIP parties, formal dinners with live entertainment and a special centennial birthday tribute to famed ocean explorer Jacques Cousteau. City: Monterey Cost: $45-5000 |
| Sat, 8/28/10 11:30am-3:00pm SPUR Young Urbanists: Urban farming 101 Interested in starting your own slow food movement in your back yard? Join Antonio Roman-Alcala of Alemany Farms to learn how. The workshop will start promptly at 11:30 a.m. with an opportunity to practice your new skills as a volunteer at Alemany Farms from 1–3 p.m. This event is generously sponsored by the Koret Foundation. Location: SPUR, 654 Mission Street City: SF Cost: Free for SPUR members, $20 non-members. |
| Sat, 8/28/10 12:00pm-4:00pm Eat Real Bike Tour Join our tour for two-wheeled foodies! Begin and end at the Eat Real Festival at Jack London Square. We'll peddle along Oakland's waterfront and meet local culinary artisans, learn their specialties and taste their creations. Join us as we meet local purveyors of sustainable chocolate, tea, beer and wine. Members of East Bay Bike Coalition or Walk Oakland Bike Oakland receive $10 off cost. Bike rentals available from Bay Area Bikes. Location: Jack London Square City: Oakland Cost: $40 early registration includes tastings |
| Tue, 8/31/10 5:30pm reception; 6:00pm program Screening: Symphony of the Soil - Get the dirt on this precious resource Deborah Koons Garcia, Filmmaker, Lily Films, Mill Valley. Filmed on four continents, Symphony of the Soil is a multi-part documentary film series that examines soil in all of its complexity. By gaining an understanding of the mutuality between soil, water, the atmosphere, plants and animals, we can come to appreciate the complex nature of this precious resource. Come enjoy a special work-in-progress screening of select clips from the film series. Location: SF Commonwealth Club, 2nd/Market City: SF Cost: $8 members, $20 non-members, $7 students (with valid ID) |