Upcoming Events

Upcoming Events from Rachael Edinger:

• November 9th - 11:00 to 1:30 Slow Food O'ahu is hosting a Japanese teahouse cuisine event at the Natsunoya Teahouse. Nanette and Larry Geller, SFO members who lived in Japan and visited a variety of teahouses, will share their knowledge of this fascinating cuisine. If so inspired, bring a Japanese pupu or beverage to share!
  Cost: $25 members, $30 nonmembers. Send checks to Mae Isonaga, at 46-270 Nahewai St. Kaneohe 96744 (Make checks out to Mae Isonaga) Natsunoya Teahouse is in Alewa Heights, 1935 Makanani Drive. Ph: 595-4488
  If you have questions, please email Mae directly.
• November 17th from 5-7pm - coffee cupping conducted by Shawn Steiman, a recent PhD graduate from UH's College of Tropical Ag. The cost is $15 per person for members, $20 for nonmembers.We are limited to about ten people. More details will follow in early November.
• December 6 - we will once again conduct the Culinary Swapmeet at the Church of the Crossroads. Karen Miyano and I will be scheduling pickups at KCC and Kailua Farmers Markets for those of you who have culinary donations to make. Now's a good time to clean out your kitchen cupboards--we're looking for cookbooks, utensils, linens, juicers, pots and pans, extra mugs and glasses.

Slow Food Nation Coverage

In the Honolulu Weekly:

Digesting Slow Food Nation
Declaration for healthy food and agriculture

Fish Auction

Our president Laurie reports:
"We had a fish auction visit with Brooks Takenaka at United Fishery Agency on September 27th at 6am. Brooks went over local fishing practices and talk about the state of sustainable fishing in Hawaii."

Testing the fat...

our other fish auction guide, Dr. John Kaneko

Opah or moonfish's beautiful patterns.

One of our guides, Brooks of United Fishery.

Yellow Fin Tuna

Mahi

the SF tour group

Auction whiteboard notes on poundage

Ahi

Read A visit to Honolulu’s Fish Auction by Debbie Drickersen Cortez

Photos from Slow Food Nation

Slow Food Oahu member Martha Cheng sent a link to some photos she took at Slow Food Nation, click through to see them.

Heritage Foods: Turkey

On May 19th 2008, Slow Food O'ahu had an event, working with Heritage Foods USA, to showcase rare breeds of turkey, pork, and lamb. Chefs Glenn Chu of Indigo, Savas of the Olive Tree, and Ed Kenney of Town and Downtown prepared these unusual breeds for a tasting at Downtown restaurant.

Saving endangered species by eating them: Strange as it may sound, we can save endangered livestock varieties by putting them back on the menu. As with so much of the food available to us, our choices are increasingly restricted to a handful of genetic varieties because of industrial farming practices. Where there were once dozens of varieties (if not hundreds, in the case of potatoes) of corn, potatoes, turkeys and pork, there are now just a handful of types in our markets... Slow Food USA saw an opportunity and told the story of these heritage birds and the farmers that grew them. For the first time in years, these varieties of turkeys were marketed and made available throughout the country. Now enough people are buying and eating these birds (instead of the ubiquitous Butterball) so that farmers are able to make a living.