Our fellow Slow Food member Joe Doyle from Slow Food Ireland — County Clare, is in Memphis where he was the Irish Grand Marshall of the 35th annual St. Patrick’s parade on Beale Street.
Unfortunately, we were in New Orleans this weekend and were unable to join the festivities. Joe is busy while he is in [...]

Today is the most specialest, wonderfulest, happiest day in the whole wide world. You see, this day is the anniversary of that fabulous day just a very few short years ago that the world was blessed with the gift of Papa Squirrel!!!!
Come out and join us tonight at 6:30 to celebrate Papa Squirrel’s birthday at [...]

Slow Food Memphis held our quarterly meeting and tasting event this past Monday at Cafe Eclectic.
Lee and Juanita Jones and Paul Williams from Jones Orchard spoke about the orchard and orchard business and about all of the work that goes into producing their wonderful small batch jams, jellies and preserves.
Lee taught us what a truly [...]

Juanita Jones from Jones Orchard will speak at 6:30 p.m. on Monday, June 2, at Cafe Eclectic. Mrs. Jones will talk about the differences between different types of preserves and about how she uses produce from the orchard in many of their products.
Someone from the orchard will also be there to discuss the produce grown [...]

Come out and meet the Squirrels! We’ll be at the first Slow Food Memphis event of the year. Here are the details.
A Slow Brewed MeetingFeaturing an Ugly Mug Coffee Tasting & DiscussionFREE
Saturday, March 1, 10am-12noon at Wild Oats Market 5022 Poplar Ave, Memphis 38117
Learn about the art of coffee roasting, brewing and tasting from the [...]

(If you are reading this on an RSS feed, click through to see the slideshow.)On the chef-to-table connection:
Farmers need to become gastronomes. Gastronomes need to become farmers. Then we can elevate both our tables.
On owning a restaurant:
My father was so helpful with the restaurant. I didn’t know anything about business. I didn’t care anything about [...]

We were fortunate enough to be able to attend Slow Food Memphis’s first major dinner event, a dinner at Hunt-Phelan focusing on the “lesser” cuts of beef. Michael Lenagar of Neola Farms provided the beef. Chef Stephen Hassinger turned the beef into superb dishes.
Before I list the menu, I want to say a word about [...]

I have to start his post by admitting that our kitchen is still about half plywood and studs. This is also the time of year that I get my annual bonus. In the two years that we have lived in our house, my bonus has helped us take nice leaps toward our vision of the [...]

Our neighbor convivium, Slow Food Nashville, will host a dinner on Tuesday, June 26, at 6:30 p.m. at Marché Artisan Foods. The al fresco seafood boil costs $25 per person, not including tax and tip. Unfortunately this is a bit too far away to go to from Memphis on a Tuesday night, but if you’re [...]

Yesterday, Mama Squirrel and I went to Magevney House to work at the Slow Food Memphis table. Manning a table is a simple proposition. You stand behind a table that is draped with an eye-catching banner, and you smile, hand out literature, and answer the occasional question. When the table is for Slow Food Memphis, [...]