Events help us celebrate local food producers, fund local efforts to improve food availability for all, and sponsor delegates to Slow Food Nations and to Terra Madre Salone del Gusto, a biannual international conference in Italy dedicated to food and gastronomy. If you're interested in being a delegate, contact a Slow Food board member to get involved with fundraising! (Click here for past events.)
Dinner at Colvin Ranch Aug 12 | 4:00 to dusk | $75 for Slow Food members, $85 for all others | Buy tickets here!
MENU Appetizers: Fresh chips of many colors - purple, red, blue, yellow, white Beet hummus - roasted red and golden Cucumber, yogurt, dill dip - house cultured & tangy Farmstead crudités - the best of our local farms, fresh picked Bread Peddler baguettes Southwestern spicy shredded beef tongue
Soup: Vern's Cold Tomato Soup, Chef Treacy's original family recipe. Fine brunoise (really small cubes) of vegetables with tomatoes, herbs, and spice
Salad: Charred Steak bites with Humble Stump Farm's fresh-harvested greens, house-pickled variety of onions, Chioggia beets, cucumbers, and carrots
Mains: Homemade pappardelle ragu alla Bolognese. Fresh pasta, summer squash ribbons, and thick tomato, beef, pork, and vegetable sauce with braised leeks and fennel bulbs Slow-cooked, wine-braised beef, root vegetables and mushrooms over polenta, paired with honey and fennel-seed carrots
Dessert: Bread Peddler puff pastry seasonal fruit tart, crafted just for our event, served with Tunawerth cream
Join us for a day up north!
Explore the history of Northwest cuisine and food landmarks in Seattle with Slow Food Greater Olympia.
On Saturday, September 2 we’ll start at Seattle’s MOHAI museum to see Edible City: A Delicious Journey, during one of its final weekends. Curated by two-time James Beard award winner Rebekah Denn, the exhibition explores food traditions in the area and “serves up the story of how people eat in Seattle, and how urban palates have developed over the years.”
Following our time at the museum, we’ll eat together and close out the day with a visit to Melrose Market. Let’s explore, play together and celebrate food!
This is a pay-your-own-way event. MOHAI tickets are $19.95 for adults. Contact Jenni at jleighcrain@gmail.com with questions or to sign up!
Olympia Farmers Market Food Demonstrations Join the crew on selected market days. Each demonstration is led by a chef from our Slow Food membership with help from a Slow Food Board member. Please be a helping hand to hand out food tastes, recipes, event information and gather additional produce for the chef's use if needed. Come at 11 am and stay until 2 pm or as long as you can. Sign up here for summer and fall dates.
Summer/Fall date will be: Sunday August 13 - What to do with CSA abundance (cooking from a typical CSA box) Sat Sept 23 Harvest Celebration – Preserving the Harvest Sat October 28 Halloween - Eat your pumpkins! Sun Nov 19 – Storing winter veggies Sat Dec 23 - Winter vegetable soups
