This Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, we hope that you’ll join us in the audience for the Portland premiere of Ingredients, a new film about our current food system, and how we can get back to its healthier, tastier roots. It’s a very Portland story that not only chronicles the nationwide issues affecting the way we [...]

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Slow Food Portland continues its artistic exploration of food with WORD, a special exhibit/collaboration with the Interstate Firehouse Cultural Center and the upcoming Wordstock literary convention. Wordstock is the largest gathering of writers and readers in the Pacific Northwest and this year the festival opens the book on food writing. To get you in the [...]

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Bar Tender | San Antonio, TX | 1-Person Household | Goes to sleep at 8AM and wakes up at 4PM daily. | 2008
This Wednesday, join Slow Food Portland and Ampersand Vintage Gallery for the first of our upcoming food-and-art events. Photographer Mark Menjivar has traveled across America, taking pictures of the insides of people’s [...]

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Local Slow Food Portland Chapter Member Cristin Couzens recently discovered the Jimmy Nardello Pepper from Slow Food USA’s Ark of Taste. In this guest post, she recounts her chile history, along with the chile’s own story. For more of her vegetable musings, you can visit her blog: theweeklyveggie.com

The first time I ate a fajita was [...]

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By SF Portland Steering Committee Member, Ricky Haas
It never rained on Labor Day, but it never got too hot either; the sun seemed to be playing hide-and-go-seek all day. All in all, I think, we had a nice late-Summer afternoon. As Portlanders, we seem to be extremely sensitive to the vicissitudes of weather, which may [...]

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