Slow Food Nation
Slow Food Nation comes to San Francisco, Saturday, Aug. 30 and Sunday, Aug. 31, for its grand celebration of food in America, being held this year in the Festival Pavilion of Fort Mason Center. Tickets to the Taste Pavilions are on sale now at slowfoodnation.org.
Slow Food Nation will bring together thousands to experience a range of activities highlighting the connection between plate and planet and the diversity of regional foods in America.
At a Green Kitchen, presented by Anolon, chefs from around the world will demonstrate the preparation of simple, artful, sustainable food for the daily dinner table using basic tools and simple fresh ingredients. Sample menus of the Green Kitchen include watermelon granita, tomato and tofu salad, white soda bread and raspberry jam, sweet coconut-ginger creamed corn and a seafood rice cazuela.
Saturday sessions at the Taste Pavilions include:
Clodagh McKenna, BBC Host and Irish author, 11 a.m.
David Chang, Momofuku, NY, 11:45 a.m.
Darina Allen, Ballymaloe Cookery School, Ireland, 12:30 p.m.
Rick Bayless, Frontera Grill, Chicago, 1:15 p.m.
Charlie Trotter, Charlie Trotter's, Chicago, 2 p.m.
Poppy Tooker, Market Umbrella.org, NOLA, 5 p.m.
Deborah Madison, author, 5:45 p.m.
Scott Peacock, Watershed, Atlanta, 6:30 p.m.
Joyce Goldstein, author, 7:15 p.m
Niloufer King, author, 8 p.m.
Sunday sessions of the Taste Pavilions include:
Traci des Jardins, Jardiniere, 11 a.m.
Joan Nathan, author, 11:45 a.m.
Claire Ptak, Violet, UK, 12:30 p.m.
Oliver Rowe, Konstam, UK, 1:15 p.m.
Gilbert Pilgram, Zuni Café, 2 p.m.
Corey Lee and Peter Jacobson, French Laundry, 5 p.m.
Anna Lappe & Bryant Terry, authors, 5:45 p..m
Cal Peternell, Chez Panisse, 6:30 p.m.
Amaryll Schwertner, Boulette’s Larder, 7:15 p.m.
David Tanis, Chez Panisse, 8 p.m.
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