Event Announcement: 2nd Annual Recipe Exchange and Cookie Swap

Pull up a chair, pour yourself a cup of tea, help yourself to some delicious cookies, and chat with other Slow Food members. Please join us at our second annual recipe exchange and cookie swap. Slow Food members and friends are invited to share the history and origin of their favorite cookie or pastry recipe and discuss its meaning to you, your family, and your community.

Please bring one dozen cookies to sample and swap with the others who attend and a copy of the recipe, if you would like to share it. The recipes will be compiled and a web-based cookbook will be created. Well-behaved children accompanied by an adult are welcome. Coffee and tea will be served.

When: Sunday, January 13, 2008 at 2:00pm

Where: Private home (West Hollywood), address will be provided with receipt of donation
Cost: Adults: $5 for Slow Food members and $10 for nonmembers; children may attend free. This event is limited to twenty-five people. Please RSVP with number of guests to judibikel [at] aol [dot] com, and purchase your tickets via Brown Paper Tickets.

Paid reservations are not refundable.

We hope you'll join us for what promises to be a delightful--and delicious--afternoon. If you can’t attend the event but would like to share your story and recipe, please send it to judibikel [at] aol [dot] com.

Taste the Benefits of Direct Trade Coffee at Intelligentsia

In the spirit of Slow Food's manifesto of "good, clean, fair" we pass along information about an event at Intelligentsia Coffee in Los Angeles:

Intelligentsia Coffee's Tres Santos, Colombia is created by assembling individual lots from many small-holder farmers. Since 2004, Intelligentsia has shaped the selection process into a competition of sorts where each farmers' coffee was tasted separately and graded individually. The result for farmers is that the prices they pay are tied directly to quality and the result for Intelligentsia's customers is a spectacular cup of coffee.

Intelligentsia has invited Slow Food members and friends to join them in celebrating the hard work and accomplishment of two award-winning farmers. Jair Garcia (First Place) and Javier Ladino (Second Place) will be visiting the Los Angeles coffeebar to taste the fruits of their labor and discuss coffee farming and working with Intelligentsia Coffee's Direct Trade program.

The event will include samples of the Tres Santos, Colombia brewed on the Clover Machine and presentations from Geoff Watts and KC O'Keefe (Intelligentsia Coffee Buyers) and Jair Garcia and Javier Ladino (Colombian coffee farmers and winners of Intelligentsia's Tres Santos competition). Wine and hors d'oeuvres will also be provided.

When: Monday, December 10, 2007, at 7:00pm
Where: Intelligentsia's Silver Lake Coffeebar, 3922 Sunset Boulevard, Los Angeles
Cost: Free; no reservations required.

For more information about Intelligentsia's direct trade program, visit their website.