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Date: Thursday Dec 10th
Time: 5:30 - 8:00pm
Location: Alta Vina, 420 3rd Street, Oakland
Details: Full potluck guidelines can be found here.
December brings Terra Madre Day and we aim to honor it! Please join us on Thursday December 10th for a potluck and programming meant to deepen our understanding of and connection to the global Slow Food movement.
Slow Food at its heart is an anarchist movement, begun with the pelting of a McDonald’s construction site with tomatoes and a community pasta dinner in the streets and now spread organically around the globe, with volunteer-led chapters in over 110 countries. Each chapter is given free rein to take the Slow Food mission of a food system that is Good, Clean and Fair for All and interpret it through the lens of the place and communities that they are a part of. Whether we’re talking about Slow Fish organizing in Ghana, using Ark of Taste designation to save the Chinantla Vanilla in Oaxaca Mexico, Slow Food Youth Network’s international Disco Soup Day or Slow Food Nordic’s annual Slow Food Festival, Slow Food values are being practiced around the world.
So let’s take an evening to dive deeper into what this means for us, the East Bay chapter of this vast network. We’ll be joined by local chefs, producers and students who have attended the biennial Terra Madre gathering in Torino Italy, studied at the University of Gastronomic Sciences or worked with the international Slow Food movement, so they can share what it is about Slow Food that draws them in, what it’s like to be in the middle of it all in Italy and what they brought back with them to their work here on the ground.
For your potluck contribution, in honor of the international melding of the biennial Terra Madre event, bring a dish that combines cultures - think kimchi tacos, masala spaghetti, matcha tiramisu, or create a California spin on a dish you ate on your last trip!
Please invite friends who may have never heard of Slow Food before, we'd love to meet them!
Confirmations will be sent out three days before the gathering and more details about location and dish preparations will be included.
