Ikura Workshop with Riley Starks
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by Slow Food Seattle
1y ago
  Join Slow Food Seattle once again to make ikura, Japanese salmon caviar, with local fisherman Riley Starks. Riley will show us how to harvest, cure and smoke roe from his last run of freshly caught Lummi Island chum salmon. Event Photos by Kim Abrams-Marshall RILEY STARKS Riley is a champion of the farm-to-table movement, and has incorporated sustainable fishing and organic farming into his work for decades. He has been a sustainable reefnet fisherman for 45 years, owns and operates a small B&B on Nettles Farm and helped start Willows Inn Restaurant and Lummi I ..read more
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Makah Ozette Seed Potatoes Available for Spring 2022
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by Slow Food Seattle
1y ago
  Update: We are sold out of Makah Ozette seed potatoes for the 2022 season. If you would like to be added to the 2023 request list, please email us at info@slowfoodseattle.org. We are pleased to announce we have 300 pounds of certified organic Makah Ozette seed potato now available for purchase. All proceeds from the sale will help fund the continued cultivation of the seed and our annual seed donations to local Indigenous community gardens and food sovereignty programs. This year, we are also asking for donations to keep the program growing and give a little extra to our seed farme ..read more
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Cooking with Children Builds Communication, Connection, and Creativity
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by Slow Food Seattle
1y ago
  Why Children Should Cook, Part Three by Heide Horeth, author of 4 Ways to Yummy Children’s Vegetable Cookbook, a guide to help the entire family cook, eat, and love real food together. Cooking together allows families to communicate, connect, and create while sharing nourishment. Working together also helps to land dinner on the table more quickly, and in today's fast-paced world, getting some extra help is a good thing. Working and cooking together and being attentive and focused introduces mindfulness. We all can slow down and be grateful for the bounty of wholesome slow food on our t ..read more
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Cooking with Children Builds Important Life Skills
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by Slow Food Seattle
1y ago
  Why Children Should Cook, Part Two by Heide Horeth, author of 4 Ways to Yummy Children’s Vegetable Cookbook, a guide to help the entire family cook, eat, and love real food together. Kids need to play to learn and grow. A full and harmonious life creates a balance between work, play, others, and self. Maria Montessori observed that “children enjoyed play based in reality, and were happier when invited to play with real materials that produced real results.” I wholeheartedly agree. Having responsibilities in the family (chores) invites a child to be part of the family and helps to ..read more
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Why Children Should Cook
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by Slow Food Seattle
1y ago
  Part One by Heide Horeth, author of 4 Ways to Yummy Children’s Vegetable Cookbook, a guide to help the entire family cook, eat, and love real food together. Children who learn to cook, eat more vegetables and make better, life-long food choices. If the world is a child’s treasure room of dreams, then good health is key to opening the doors wide! Let’s move in the right direction The trend towards weight gain and obesity has been non-discriminatory and continuous to increase; in fact, here in the U.S. it has more than doubled since 1980. At this rate, it is predicted that by 2030, ou ..read more
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Slow Food Seattle + Pride of Bristol Bay Sockeye Salmon
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by Slow Food Seattle
1y ago
  We are partnering with Pride of Bristol Bay to offer our community a unique opportunity to purchase delicious, wild and sustainably-caught Alaskan sockeye salmon. Pride of Bristol Bay is a small, fisherman-owned business that provides premium quality, vacuum-sealed, flash frozen cuts of salmon in 20-pound cases. Each case is marked with name of the Bristol Bay fishing district in which they were harvested, providing you an unprecedented level of traceability. When you purchase directly from the fishery through Slow Food Seattle, you’ll receive a special Buyers Club discount and a por ..read more
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Limited Supply of Makah Ozette Potatoes Available for Spring 2021
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by Slow Food Seattle
1y ago
  Last month, we learned all 2,000 pounds of our Makah Ozette seed potato crop for this year’s distribution was destroyed by grasshoppers. Although we were not able to secure additional certified seed potatoes, we, and a group of local farmers, purchased a limited supply of organic Makah Ozette potatoes that can be replanted this year. Although the method of planting a potato and seed potato is the same, the results and risks differ slightly, and it’s important to understand those differences before placing your order. What are seed potatoes? Seed potatoes look like, well, potatoes! Th ..read more
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2021 Makah Ozette Potato Seed Crop Lost to Grasshoppers
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by Slow Food Seattle
1y ago
  View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize We regret to announce our crop of Makah Ozette potato seed for the spring 2021 distribution was lost to grasshoppers. Although this second, consecutive setback is trying, it’s a temporarily interruption in our mission to improve the availability of seed for Makah Ozette enthusiasts, our community and school gardens.  We acknowledge the agricultural challenges our farmers face every day due to climate change, and we are grateful to our Presidium grower, John Hoggan of Grand Teton Organic Farm, for his unwavering commitment to sustainable ..read more
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Quillisascut Farm's Creative Pivot
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by Slow Food Seattle
1y ago
Slow Food Seattle Advisory Council member Chef Kären Jurgensen spends her summers teaching farm-to-table cooking to culinary professionals, students and food lovers. The venue: Quillisascut Farm and School of the Domestic Arts nestled in rural, northeastern Washington near the Columbia River. Every summer, the farm’s owners Rick and Lora Lea Misterly welcome 60-120 students for week-long sessions to immerse themselves in the full cycles of farm life that bring food to the table. This year, things were different. To protect our communities during the Covid-19 pandemic, all workshops were ca ..read more
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Meet the SFS 2021 Board Candidates
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by Slow Food Seattle
1y ago
    The nominating committee of the Slow Food Seattle Board of Directors has selected four candidates for board positions. Nominees are usually confirmed by members attending the Annual Meeting, but due to the pandemic, this year’s meeting has been postponed and we are calling on members to cast their votes of approval by December 10th in the form below. The applicants submitted online questionnaires which were evaluated by the committee, and the potential candidates were interviewed via Zoom. Part of the criteria for selecting the candidates include those who would bring balance, e ..read more
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