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thomas — Sun, 12 Sep 2010 20:16:33 +0000

	September 2010
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Hello from Slow Food Santa Cruz!

This is the first of our new monthly email newsletter to the Slow Food Santa Cruz community. We call it Snail Mail and hope you find it useful. Please tell us what you think of it, what topics you would like covered, or how it can better serve you.

News

Join us tomorrow night, September 9 @ 5:30pm at Vino Cruz for our monthly Summer Slow Down event. Details below.
Erin Justus, Slow Food Santa Cruz board member and owner of Companion Bakers, will be attending Terra Madre! Look forward to a future event where she tells us about her experience!
The SFSC Board has almost finished the new bylaws. Look forward to hearing more about them next month!
Have you seen Slow Food Santa Cruz on Facebook ? See what others are saying and join the conversation!

Calendar

September 9:
- Summer Slow Down at Vino Cruz
  When: Thursday, September 9th, 5:30-7:00 pm
  Where: Vinocruz, 725 Front St. #101, Santa Cruz, CA (right behind Lulu’s at the Octagon)
  Cost: $5.00 tasting fee for the flight, waived with a purchase of a Vine Hill or La Honda wine
  RSVP: This event is open to the general public, please RVSP by clicking “Attending” on the Facebook event page. No Facebook? No worries, come anyway! For more info, please email us.
  
  Can’t tell a Chardonnay from a Cabernet? Or maybe you want to debate the merits of fining and filtering? Drop in to Vinocruz on September 9th at 5:30 pm to sample some wines from local wineries Vine Hill and La Honda with your fellow Slow Foodies and learn more about wine and the Slow Food movement!
September 18:
- Seasonal Griller’s DelightWhen: Saturday, September 18th, 9am to 1pm, grilling starts around 10am
  Where: Corner of Western Dr. & Mission Blvd, Santa Cruz
  Cost: FREE!
  
  Join Slow Foodies when the Santa Cruz Farmers’ Market hosts a sampling event to showcase seasonal fruits and vegetables for their patrons. The focus of this very popular event is to highlight seasonal fare and to introduce market shoppers to new foods and preparation methods; new this season the Market will collaborate with local vintners and breweries to offer complimentary beer and wine pairings. Guests are treated to samples of grilled fruits, vegetables, meats and simple tapas-styled appetizers throughout the market as they shop and enjoy live music. This event is free, and seating is available.
September 25:
- Dig In! The Slow Food National Day of Action
  Who: You and your clean-beach loving friends
  When: Saturday, Sept. 25, 9am-noon
  Where: Black’s Beach – check-in will be at the end of 14th Ave. near the beach entrance
  RSVP: You can pre-register for this cleanup site on the Save Our Shores website
  
  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 global event, and Santa Cruz has a long history of playing an important role in keeping our coast clean. Last year over 4,000 volunteers pulled nearly 15,000 lbs. of trash and recycle off our beaches! Stay tuned for details about a guest speaker at this site, and plan to join us for a post-clean-up BBQ at the Capitola and Santa Cruz Whole Foods locations.
October 7
- Slow Food Santa Cruz Board Meeting
  When: First Thursday of each month, 6:30pm. Location varies
October 21-25
- Terra Madre and Salone del Gusto take place in Turin, Italy.
November 7:
- Follow the Snail Trail Through the WestEnd – A Fundraiser for Slow Food Santa Cruz
  When: Sunday, November 7, 12:30-4:00pm
  Where: In and around the Swift Street Courtyard, 402 Ingalls St. Santa Cruz, CA 95060Join Slow Food Santa Cruz on a tour of the wonderful wineries and eateries that are part of the up and coming “WestEnd” neighborhood, which includes the Swift Street Courtyard. The focus of this tour will be local, heirloom apples; edibles and libations at the stops on the tour will feature this tasty fruit. Stops will include Kelly’s Bakery, New Leaf Market, Santa Cruz Mountain Brewery, and additional Surf City Vintners. The event will culminate at Bonny Doon Vineyards/Cellar Door Café. More details to come in early October, stay tuned to our Facebook page and website for more details about this exciting event!

Slow Food Santa Cruz is a registered chapter of Slow Food USA, a non-profit 501 3(c) organization that aims to link the pleasure of food with a commitment to community and the environment.

Slow Down Summer Series Event at Verve: A Success

thomas — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 22:02:55 +0000

Our July 31 event at Verve Coffee Roasting kicked-off Slow Food Santa Cruz’s Slow Down Summer Series, casual gatherings open to the public to meet, talk about food-related issues in our community and learn something new. A great time was had by all!

Slow Foodies Talking About Coffee and Community Organizing

Verve Coffee Roasters graciously hosted a top-notch Slow Food event! Attendees enjoyed a complimentary cupping (tasting) of unique, personally sourced, fair-trade beans from around the world as they were treated to a mini-workshop on all things coffee.

Cupping Lessons - What to Look for in an Cup of Excellence

The depth and breadth of the workshop was truly amazing! We had an opportunity to get an up-close and personal tour of the roastery next door to the café, where Verve’s artisanal coffee roasters sample and fine-tune each small batch to create their signature roasts and blends.

Colby Talks About the Subtlies of Taste While Jarrod Pours Samples

Colby, the mastermind of the roastery and Verve co-owner, Jared, recently ranked the #2 barista in the nation, and Ian, a barista who offers weekly tasting flights on Fridays, shared their collective knowledge, experience, and passion to elevate coffee brewing to an art.

From the economics and politics of growing, buying and consuming coffee, to the various methods of brewing, and the subtleties of flavor based on terrior, the Verve team enlightened coffee geeks and neophytes alike. They educated us about how we, as coffee drinkers, can each do our part to drink responsibly while subscribing to the ethos of good, clean and fair food–and drink.

Now for the Quiz..Who wants to win a Kazoo

If you missed out on our special event, stay tuned; Verve will be expanding and has plans to offer classes and workshops in the building now occupied by the roastery.

Movie Meet-Up: King Corn

admin — Sat, 07 Aug 2010 02:38:35 +0000

Join Slow Food Santa Cruz for a FREE viewing of King Corn on Tuesday, August 10, 2010 at 7:00 pm! Bring a picnic dinner (including beverages, plates, and utensils), a blanket to sit on (or a short chair), and an appetite for watching an entertaining film about how industrial corn has become the foundation of our food system. Chat with Slow Foodies and learn more about the movement!
Open to the general public, please RSVP by clicking “Attending” on the Facebook event page.
Tuesday, August 10, 2010

7:00 pm – BYO Picnic Dinner

Location – Little City Mercantile, 1010 Fair, Suite I, Santa Cruz, CA (next to Studio 831 gym)

Celebrate Your Mother – Cooking Class with Grandmother Diane

admin — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 03:40:10 +0000

SOLD OUT
Saturday, May 8

This class will be the first in a series devoted to the culinary and historical legacy of our grandparents. Slow Food Santa Cruz’s vision with these informal classes is to connect with our elders by remembering, recording, and passing on their skills of cooking and preserving.

Grandmother Diane, along with her daughter Chef Heidi Schlecht and her granddaughter Shani, invite you to their Santa Cruz Mountains home on a 7 acre vineyard to cook together and enjoy a spring meal in celebration of our mothers, grandmothers, and our common mother: Mother Earth.

Weather permitting, we will walk their garden to harvest a few nibbles and then come together in Diane’s kitchen to prepare a spring meal. Rebecca King, from Garden Variety Cheese, will also be present. She’s providing her sustainable raised lamb and sheep’s milk cheeses. Diane’s garden and organic produce from the farmer’s market will fill in the rest of our cooking ingredients. Diane will do her magic with teaching us how she cooks lamb, Heidi will make sure we get our vegetables, and Shani will remind us all how important dessert is. After our cooking class we’ll taste our food while we sip the family’s 2007 harvest Pinot Noir. Bring your stories about your Mother and Grandmothers to share as we break bread together.

Chef Heidi Schlect is the co-owner of Feel Good Foods Catering and co-founder of the River Cafe & Cheese Shop. Diane is a California native with a lifelong passion for good food. After spending many years in the food business, Diane devotes several hours each day to cooking and gardening. Shani is eleven and has inherited her love for the being in the kitchen from her grandmother and mother. Life has come full circle, as Heidi spent many years working for her mom and now Diane works cooking for Heidi.

~A list of what to bring will be included when your reservation is received. Directions will be emailed the week of May 3rd.~

Wild Edibles Walk

allison — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 05:52:51 +0000

Slow Food Santa Cruz presents

Wild Edibles Walk

with Darren Huckle L.Ac.

Buy Tickets Here!
http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/105893

Join us for a two-hour exploration of edible wild plants guided by local herbal medicine expert, Darren Huckle. After the walk, we will eat together and discuss more uses of the plants we’ve discovered.

April 18, 2010

Walk: 10am – Noon

Picnic: Noon – 1pm

Location: Felton (location details will be emailed to participants after registration is complete)

$12 Members/$15 Non-members

Only 15 spaces are available!!

Reservations accepted until Saturday, April 17th (or until event sells out!)

Contact Allison Clark with any questions at allison@slowfoodsantacruz.com

Bring:

A picnic lunch for yourself and a beverage to share

Reusable plates, cups, and utensils

Good hiking shoes

Sunscreen

Hat

Layered clothing

Camera and Notepad

Garden Clippers and a Basket for collecting

An open and Inquisitive Mind!

Sorry, No Dogs

We hope to see you there!!

Diet for a Hot Planet

allison — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 09:11:25 +0000

Join CASFS for an exciting event with Anna Lappe!

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Spring Forward a Huge Success!

admin — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 16:25:53 +0000

Over 50 people expressed their support for the slow food movement in Santa Cruz this Sunday, at our Spring Forward event. The food was delicious, the wine and conversation flowing. Attendees had a chance to vote on projects they would like to see SFSC focus on this year. These included Slow Food in Schools, a SFSC directory and a Book/Film Club. Check out the fun below:

Cari and Sarah greeted guests as they arrived. Everyone received stickers to place by the projects they were most interested in.

Over 50 people came and enjoyed slow food, and conversations about food, farmers, food policy and upcoming events.

Erin loading pizzas

Sliders, a non-vegetarian option enjoyed by most

Enjoying the sunshine! Check out the wine bar

Spring Forward This Sunday

thomas — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 07:16:48 +0000

A reminder that this Sunday, March 21 from 2-4pm is our Spring Forward with Slow Food Santa Cruz Open House. Come meet the new Slow Food Santa Cruz Board Members, learn about the events we have planned and tell us what you want to see and do! You can get your discounted tickets online through March 19 or pay full price at the door the day of the event.

Spring Forward with SFSC Flyer

Spring Forward Flyer

thomas — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 06:47:34 +0000

We want to share our flyer with you for our upcoming Open House on March 21! Please pass it along to any friends who may be interested!

Spring Forward with SFSC Flyer

Spring Forward with Slow Food Santa Cruz

thomas — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 03:36:15 +0000

Dear friends of Slow Food Santa Cruz,

The Santa Cruz Slow Food chapter is making positive changes! With a brand new board, we are entering 2010 with energy and enthusiasm. We are fortunate to have an excellent team with great experience and dynamic backgrounds. Slow Food Santa Cruz is excited about connecting with local farmers, chefs, teachers, students and community members to celebrate our wonderful bounty of food and culture!

Whether you are a new member to Slow Food or a long time supporter, 2010 will be a promising year filled with new ways to become involved in our local chapter here in Santa Cruz County. As a board we are working to turn ideas into action! Our goal is to help our community link the pleasures of food with a commitment to “Good, Clean, and Fair” food!

To start we have created a 2010 calendar of events that we are proud to sponsor. Please visit our website: SlowFoodSantaCruz.com for our full 2010 calendar.

Coming up: March 21st Please join us for our Spring Forward event as we celebrate the new face of Slow Food Santa Cruz. This is your opportunity to meet our new board, check out upcoming projects and share your ideas about what you would like to see happen in the coming year. Of course there will be tasty snacks and beverages. Tickets are $5 for members, $8 for non-members in advance or $8 and $10 respectively at the door.

Please participate in the Member Survey. We value your feedback and need your help in determining what type of events to plan and where to focus our energy this year. Thanks for your input!

Slow Food Santa Cruz is shifting towards advocacy and education and of course there will still be plenty opportunity for taste exploration. Please consider renewing your membership today and help us become a delicious, dynamic and relevant voice in our community!

Slowly and sincerely the new board,

Erin Justus
Kathryn Lukas
Jody Biergiel
Carolyn Smith
Allison Clark
Camille Nava
Donna Rose Gardener
Sarah Reed
Thomas Howard