Slow Food Nation will hit San Francisco this weekend. The City's already fluttering with SFN posters, and the Victory Garden, planted on the land outside City Hall, looks very handsome indeed. To prepare for the jamboree, I thought I'd go back to Carlo Petrini's book of the same name, and to Geoff Andrews' new book, The Slow Food Story. Together, these writers offer a corrective to the hoity toity food culture that has become synonymous with the organization. Although it’s often forgotten, Slow Food’s roots are radical. ... read more »

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Posted on 28 August, 2008 - 20:50

Named after the founder of the Mondragón cooperative movement, José María Arizmendiarrieta, the Arizmendi Bakery Cooperative has the best damn bread, and most comradely workforce, in the East Bay.

Visit if you can. Details at http://www.arizmendibakery.org

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Posted on 9 December, 2006 - 20:44

The Eat Local Challenge is a

group blog written by authors who are interested in the benefits of eating food grown and produced in their local foodshed.

Spanning the United States, the group is committed to challenging themselves to eat mainly local food during a specific period of time during 2006.

The online home for some of the San Francisco Bay Area participants is Locavores.

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Posted on 28 November, 2006 - 22:38

Yelp can be a great resource for finding your way around local places to eat and find ingredients. For the Bay Area, try this link.

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Posted on 28 November, 2006 - 22:34

Marco Flavio Marinucci has started a fantastic local cooking group, Cook Here and Now, which meets every couple of months in the San Francisco Bay Area to eat seasonal (and always delicious) food. More at
http://www.cookhereandnow.com/

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Posted on 28 November, 2006 - 22:11

CUESA runs the Ferry Building Farmers Market and has details about individual producers, and a handy guide to what's in season in Northern California. Learn more at
http://www.cuesa.org/index.php

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Posted on 28 November, 2006 - 22:06

The Marin County Farmers Market Association

operates seven markets in the Bay area, four in Marin County (Sunday and Thursday Civic Center, Novato and Fairfax) and three in Alameda County (Grand Lake-Oakland, Fremont and Hayward). Five of our markets operate year-round (Sunday and Thursday Civic Center, Grand Lake-Oakland, Fremont and Hayward) and two of our markets operate seasonally (Novato and Fairfax).

Find out opening times and more by clicking on their link.
http://www.marincountyfarmersmarkets.org/

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Posted on 28 November, 2006 - 22:03