Another great event. Slow Food Berkeley and Finlandia Vodka brought famed Finnish/American Chef Sara La Fountain to the table for a culinary experience focused on sustainability and the principles of Slow Food. The Cooking with Finlandia Vodka events were held from 7 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. on Monday, July 19 at Fairmont San Francisco, located at 950 Mason Street. 100 percent of ticket sales will be donated directly to the Slow Food Berkeley.
Guests experienced four dishes created by Chef La Fountain made with local ingredients as well as a dash …

Another great workshop! Thanks to all our guests.
Last June, a couple dozen of us gathered for a grandfather workshop led by Arrigo Benedetti, who demonstrated how people from his home region of Emilia-Romagna use green walnuts to make a liqueur known as nocino (the name comes from noce, the Italian word for walnut). Arrigo is back to reprise his demonstration on two separate occasions, this time with some examples of nocino made commercially in Italy, as well as the homemade version he made last year.
This year’s nocino workshops will …

A beautiful day of picking and picnicking! Thanks to all pickers, grinners and picnickers.
On Saturday June 26th we headed south to Swanton Berry Farm for our first U-Pick & Picnic of the summer. An olallieberry is a 20th-century cross between the loganberry and the youngberry (each of which is itself a cross between a blackberry and another berry).
The Olallieberry season is very short, and Swanton is the only certified organic farm that hosts olallieberry U-Picks. They will also have plenty of strawberries for you to pick. …