Happy Earth Day! Saturday was the big day for Earth Day festivals, beach clean-ups, and other community events. It was also the annual Goat Festival at the SF Ferry Building Farmers’ Market, and I admit: I was sorely tempted to go pet baby goats and consume their parents. Well, probably not literally their parents, but mature goats […]
Oakland’s Eat Real Fest 2014
Are you hungry? Good. Grab a friend and go down to Oakland’s Jack London Square for this weekend’s Eat Real Festival. 70+ local foodmakers are serving up small plates of delicious, regionally sourced, and sustainably produced food. There’s music, live demos, tastings, a kid’s zone, and more: the producers describe the festival as a combination of “a state […]
Hacking the Future of Food
You can say this for food hackathons: participants are fed extremely well. Last spring’s Hack//Meat featured an incredible spread of sustainably raised carnivore food, including a whole roast pig. This weekend, I attended The Future of Food Hackathon and Forum in San Francisco, where edibles included Nutella-filled jelly doughnuts, soul food reworked for a wide variety […]
