Slow Food Ventura County

All I Want is More Beautiful w/Vartan Abgaryan: Benefit Dinner
2018-04-22 17:00 - 20:30 UTC | Daily Dose Cafe, 1820 Industrial St #260, Los Angeles, CA, 90021
Slow Food Ventura County presents:
Dinner with Chef Vartan Abgaryan of 71Above at The Daily Dose in the Arts District
An Event to Benefit The LA Kitchen and Upper Ojai Relief
Vartan will create an exclusive four-course menu in the spirit of his celebrated restaurant 71Above.
Wines provided by Duclot La Vinicole.
Spirits by Blinking Owl.
Menu details to be announced.
Sunday, April 22, 5:00-8:30 pm. Limited to 80 tickets.
$75 Dinner
$175 Dinner and limited edition print
The generous donation by artist Eric Junker of 100 signed limited edition prints of ‘All I Want is More Beautiful #2’ are available for $100. With dinner or separately here.
Proceeds from the sale of Eric’s art will directly benefit two organizations that have been intimately connected by the recent Thomas Fires: LA Kitchen and Upper Ojai Relief. $5K will be donated by Slow Food Ventura County to each organization.
5:00 pm Cocktails & Appetizers
6:20 pm Announcements
6:40 pm Dinner Course
7:30 pm Dessert/Coffee
The Thomas Fire
When the Thomas Fire ignighted in Santa Paula on December 4, Upper Ojai was directly in the path of the driven blaze. The immediate aftermath sparked the community effort that became Upper Ojai Relief. Led by residents Trevor Quirk and Justin Homze, they’ve raised nearly $100K and contributed directly to those most in need in Upper Ojai. Much remains to be done.
Mobilization by Ventura County’s Emergency Management Team helped to immediately facilitate relief shelters across Ventura County. Fresh food contributions arriving at these locations must come from licensed, commercial kitchens. LA Kitchen immediately responded and began the daily shuttling of hundreds – and then thousands of fresh meal contributions to Ventura county for what would turn out to be nearly a month. When Jose Andres set up his World Kitchen in Ventura, the majority of fresh foods originated from LA Kitchen.
Both organizations exemplify the spirit of giving that best represents our species. It is an honor to support their work.
The Daily Dose
Daily Dose owner Sarkis Vartanian has opened his heart, space and community to Slow Food Ventura County to help bring this benefit event to life. SFVC is grateful for such amazing support and generosity.

Slow Food Ventura County Fall Harvest Dinner
2017-11-12 16:00 - 19:30 | CA
Please join Slow Food Ventura County for our Fall Harvest Dinner on Sunday, November 12th, 4:00-7:30 pm in Thousand Oaks.
Chef Janet Crandall will lead this event featuring the region’s freshest, local, fall ingredients. As always we offer extensive vegetarian and vegan dishes to accompany our locally sourced meat courses.
Unique to this event is that SFVC has raised the goats and turkeys featured on the menu with the help of our Ventura County-based farming partners.
We’re raffling off three heritage breed Standard Bronze turkeys, raised by members of the Santa Rosa Valley 4H Club. These turkeys will be ready in time for Thanksgiving dinner.
Only 50 tickets are available. Ticket price $75
Tickets and details available on Eventbrite here.

Eat Less Water Book Release Party at Leashless Brewing
2017-11-01 18:00 - 20:00 | Leashless Brewing, 585 E. Thompson Blvd., Ventura, CA, 93001, United States
Join in celebrating the National Book Release of Eat Less Water: The Solution to Water Shortages is in our Kitchen by local author Florencia Ramirez, at Leashless Brewing in Ventura on Wednesday, November 1.

As a dedicated researcher and activist Ramirez created a compelling and informative read regarding the water use of our most commonly consumed foods. Here are some water footprint totals to chew on:
One head of lettuce= 10 gallons of water
One bottle of beer = 28 gallons of water
One pound of butter = 3,602 gallons of fresh water
The book has garnered national and regional attention, with upcoming radio interviews to air on KCRW (November 4), Entertainment Weekly, American Public Media, among several others. Eat Less Water, published by Red Hen Press, is a timely call-to-action, an inventive cookbook and a significant piece of investigative journalism. I’ve read an advance copy of the book and highly recommend it for your library. (Charles Barth/SFVC)
The Farm and Flame food truck will offer sustainable, menu options incorporating many local ingredients the night of the event (food truck will arrive at the brewery at 4:00). In addition to their delicious menu, two special items will be offered, Taza Mexican Chocolate Cookies and Spent Grain Sliders, both recipes featured in Eat Less Water. The organic spent grain is provided by Leashless Brewing.
The event is free and open to the public.
Do you have an upcoming event you’d like us to post? Please email event details to venturacountyca@slowfoodusa.org.

Taste of Local Festival-Field to Fork Event
2017-09-24 13:00 - 17:00 | CA

Santa Barbara Fermentation Festival
2017-09-10 11:00 - 17:00 | http://goletahistory.org, 304 N Carneros Road, Goleta, 93117, United States

Ocean Friendly Gardens Tour
2017-05-07 14:00 - 18:00 | Eichler Homes Neighborhood 494 Camino Manzanas Thousand Oaks, CA 91360, 494 Camino Manzanas, Thousand Oaks, CA, 91360, United States
Slow Food Ventura County is teaming up with Surfrider’s Ocean Friendly Garden’s project for an afternoon of delicious locally produced food and drink along with a walking tour of OFG certified properties located in the historic Eichler home tract in Thousand Oaks, CA. See Eventbrite link for tickets and more details.
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/surfriders-ocean-friendly-gardens-tour-and-fundraiser-tickets-32480336561?aff=efbeventtix
