Join the Slow Food Santa Cruz Board!
Do you love the food of Santa Cruz County? Do you want more people to know about and celebrate our heritage foods? Do you want to increase access to good, clean, fair food for our community? Join the Slow Food Santa Cruz Chapter Board! This year’s Board laid the ground work for the next group to hit the ground running. With a sharp website, official bylaws, a snazzy market banner, and a buzz in the community, the next Board can dedicate their time to showing Santa Cruz what Slow Food brings to the table! Learn more and apply...
Read MoreCalabaza en Tacha
Recipe courtesy of Betsy McNair, My Mexico Tours Calabaza en Tacha 1 4 – 5 lbs Pumpkin 8 Cinnamon sticks 4 cups water 2 lbs Piloncillo (Mexican unrefined brown sugar, often in cone form. Available in all our latino markets.) Cut the pumpkin into wedges. Remove seeds and strings. With a sharp knife cut some slashes into the pulp so the syrup can get in. You can get creative here if you like. Put the sugar in a pan with the cinnamon and water. Bring to a boil and stir until the piloncillo has dissolved. (I added the peel of a clemetine because I had it, but you could also use orange peel...
Read MoreDía de Los Muertos Workshop 10/17
Sunday October 17, 2010 1 pm- 3 pm Caffe Tazzina 1121 Soquel Ave, Santa Cruz, CA 95062 ADVANCE TICKETS AVAILABLE THROUGH SATURDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 16TH AND CAN BE MADE AT Brown Paper Tickets Price: $12.00. Minimum age 13 years old. Guests under 18 yrs old must be accompanied with an adult. Please join Slow Food Santa Cruz as we celebrate the lively tradition of Día de los Muertos. We are offering an afternoon workshop illuminating this important Mexican celebration, honored yearly in our Central Coast communities. Participants will decorate their own sugar skull, learn to make papel...
Read MoreRecord-Breaking Turn Out to Clean Up Beach!
Over 40 people arrived early on a beautiful Saturday morning to clean up Black’s Beach. The day included a talk from Lisa from the National Marine Sanctuary about the connection between clean beaches, clean fisheries and clean food.
Read MoreSlow Food Santa Cruz In Sentinel!
Thanks to The Butcher, The Baker and the Wedding Cake Maker for a mention of Slow Food Santa Cruz in today’s Santa Cruz Sentinel article!
Read MoreDig In Beach Cleanup! 9/25!
On Saturday, September 25, Slow Food chapters around the country will come together to promote good, clean, and fair food in their towns.On the same day, coastal communities around the world will head to the shores for International Coastal Cleanup Day. You can participate in both by attending one event! Join us for the cleanup at Black’s Beach on September 25 to protect your local fisheries! Slow Food Santa Cruz and Santa Cruz NEXT are partnering with Save Our Shores to protect one of Santa Cruz’s greatest sources of local food and local beauty – the ocean. This is a...
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