Ever tried making your own pasta? Homemade pasta is simple and delicious, requiring only a handful of ingredients to get phenomenal results. People have made pasta at home for centuries, let’s recapture and relearn this simple skill so we can pass it on.
In this very hands-on workshop, we will learn how to make pasta from scratch.  We will make flat-sheet pasta step by step: making the dough, kneading, rolling it out, cutting, and finally cooking it.  Then, do a tasting to discover how the ingredients as well as the rolling …

Another great Slow Drink workshop! The Home Coffee Roasting Workshop was a terrific success, thanks to all at Local 123 and participants. Get ready for the next Home Coffee Roasting Workshop Monday Feb. 21. Tickets are on sale now!

Home Coffee Roasting Workshop Monday Jan. 17 at Local 123, Berkeley

The final frontier in coffee
Slow Drink presents “A Home Coffee Roasting Class”
Learn home roasting of green coffee beans at Local 123, the hippest new coffee house in Berkeley.
Join Local 123 barista and home-roaster, Tim VanDragt, for a how-to workshop on roasting …

Nikki Henderson from Food First on Vimeo.
Nikki Henderson of People’s Grocery in Oakland, CA speaking to an overflow audience on Friday, November 12, 2010 at the University of California, Berkeley.
You can view and  listen to the presentations of panelists, Nikki Henderson, Raj Patel and Nora McKeon at http://www.vimeo.com/foodfirst/videos
The event was co-sponsored by Food First, the Center for the Study of the Americas, the Laboratory for Agroecology UCB and Pesticide Aaction Network of North America
Panelists:
Raj Patel, Food First Policy Fellow, is researcher, activist and author of Stuffed and Starved, Food Rebellions, and The Value of Nothing
Nora McKeon is the author of The United …

The Slow Drink Tiki Celebration event Sunday, November 7 with Forbidden Island in Alameda was a smashing success!
Thanks to everyone who participated, and thanks to the Tiki Gods and Goddesses at Forbidden Island for sharing their passion for Tiki and for their hospitality. We’ll definitely do another one soon. Be sure to bookmark this website and sign-up for our mailing list to get announcements from the Slow Drink program and Slow Food East Bay.

Dig In!
Join Us In The Garden
On September 25th
For A Volunteer Work Day
Slow Food chapters across the nation are joining together for
a national service day on September 25th.
Here in the East Bay, we are working with the Ecology Center to bring volunteers to six nearby community and school gardens. Come along with some of your neighbors and build a fence or a chicken coop, paint a shed, plant some seedlings, clear some weeds and harvest. At the end of the work day, we will gather to share a drink …