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	Upcoming Events Recent Events Calendar Regional Groups Calendar Archive About SIGS	AUGUST Other Events of Interest to SFPFS Members Aug 19 - Sept 6 Food Writing for Food Lovers, a 5-week class in Berkeley The Writing Salon August 19 - September 16, 2008 (Five Tuesdays) 7 - 9:30 p.m. 2121 Bonar St., Studio D, 2nd floor Berkeley, CA $185 members/ $215 non-members If you've thought about food writing but are not sure where to start, this class covers freelance writing for newspapers and magazines, recipe writing, cookbooks, and blogs. You get a little taste of everything. Contact Dianne Jacob for more information. (510) 923-1770 or dj@diannej.com. 28 Please save the date of Thursday August 28th for a Slow Food Festival Kick Off with Stone Brewing. This year’s Labor Day Weekend with be packed with events celebrating the Slow Food Movement with a two day tasting event at Fort Mason and several presentations and special dinners all over the city. The menu and details for our Kick Off Event will follow shortly. www.beer-chef.com SEPTEMBER SFPFS Events 3 Book Club SIG next meeting Wednesday, Sept 3, 6:45 pm Burlingame, CA We will discuss two books: Shark's Fin and Sichuan Pepper: A Sweet-Sour Memoir of Eating in China by Fuchsia Dunlop and The Last Chinese Chef by Nicole Mones. To join or for additional details, please contact Christina Mueller Welter at muellercme@yahoo.com. 8 Save the Date! The Ups and Downs of Celebrity Chef America A panel discussion moderated by Clark Wolf Confirmed speakers to date: Joey Altman, Zoi Antonitsis, Tyler Florence and Jonathan Gold Monday, September 8, 2008 Miss Pearl’s Jam House, One Broadway Next to The Waterfront Hotel Jack London Square, Oakland Panel begins at 6:30 pm Once it was a blue collar job; today it has become a glamorous profession. From hard-working unsung cooks to celebrity chefs, TV Food shows and Las Vegas mega-restaurants have helped transform the restaurant kitchen and how we perceive chefs and cooking professionals—for better or worse. Join nationally known restaurant consultant Clark Wolf as he examines the pros and cons of celebrity chef-dom with a top-notch panel of celebrity chefs, a young chef facing choices and leading critical voices. Panelists confirmed to date include Joey Altman, Tyler Florence, Top Cheftestant Zoi Antonitsis and Pulitzer Prize-winning food writer Jonathan Gold of the LA Weekly. More details to come. Other Events of Interest to SFPFS Members 2 Long-time SFPFS member Jeannette Ferrary will teach Food for Thought: A Writing Workshop five Tuesday evenings, beginning Sept. 2, at UC Berkeley extension in San Francisco. This course covers: restaurant reviewing, magazine and newspaper articles, recipes, publicity, book proposals, cookbooks, food history, research and memoir. Readings include culinary writers from M.F.K. Fisher and Ruth Reichl to Michael Pollan. Discussions include query letters, book proposals, literary agents, publishers, food organizations, and traditional and online media. Assignments based on real food-writing situations provide practice in research, writing, and exploring opportunities for publication in various media. Participants receive personalized, detailed feedback on each assignment and are encouraged to develop a personal voice in relating food to their life experiences. Jeannette is the author of Out of the Kitchen: Adventures of a Food Writer, M. F. K. Fisher and Me, and six cookbooks. Enrollment is limited. For specifics or to enroll: http://www.unex.berkeley.edu/cat/course1091.html 28 Fundraiser for SFPFS Member, Patricia Rain We invite you to join us in supporting Patricia Rain, the Vanilla Queen, in a fundraiser to help offset medical bills from her fight with cancer. Sunday. September 28th at Noon - 4 PM Seymore Marine Discovery Center at Long Marine Lab Westside of Santa Cruz See the facility at: http://www2.ucsc.edu/seymourcenter/ It is not only a beautiful location but we are supporting another great cause by renting their wonderful facility from them! We are still going to offer a chef's tasting featuring recipes using Patricia's vanilla! Patricia is doing so well she will be doing a presentation on her adventures with the vanilla farmers. And there will be live music! Please check out the link above for a map and more about the center. Thank you all so much for your interest in helping Patricia and for your contributions to the event!!! RSVP or send along donations to: Stephany Buswell 232 Walk Circle Santa Cruz CA 95060 Please make checks payable to the United Way of Santa Cruz. We hope to see you at the event! The Help Save the Queen organizers, Stephany, Kathy, Andrea, Ann Marie, and Garrick For questions, contact Stephany at: stephany@cruzio.com PS if you are planning on participating please contact Stephany for more details... thanks! More about the Vanilla Queen at: www.vanilla.com OCTOBER Other Events of Interest to SFPFS Members 6-10 Gourmet Continental Chocolates Course SFPFS Chef’s Table sponsor, Guittard Chocolate, and Richardson Researches, Inc. will be offering a class on Gourmet Continental Chocolates at the San Francisco Baking Institute’s South San Francisco campus from October 6 through October 10, 2008. Extensive emphasis on hands-on techniques of making gourmet-type confections, including chocolate handling and tempering. The course curriculum and details can be found at www.richres.com.	Member News Photos/Video of SFPFS Member Chef Agustin Gaytan's cooking class View the movie here Katrina-Damaged Museum Needs Cookbooks! Liz Williams, president of the Southern Food & Beverage Museum, is sending out an SOS to Bay Area home cooks, bakers and culinary professionals. She estimates that the museum lost over half of its cookbook collection to the floodwaters of Hurricane Katrina. An eternal optimist, Liz is working hard to transform tragedy into opportunity by taking on the ambitious project of rebuilding the museum's library to be the world's most complete repository of books, booklets, manuscripts, and documents about Southern food and drink. In order to accomplish this, Liz needs cookbooks -- and lots of them! The museum is not only seeking culinary books about the American South, but also volumes from areas that have influenced Southern foodways. This means all new and used food-themed books, in all conditions (food-spattered and beat-up is just fine), dealing with cuisines from all over the world. Liz emphasizes that they're seeking everything from professionally written cookbooks and culinary histories to community cookbooks and pamphlets. In Liz's own words: "We're truly looking for one of everything!" (The museum will find good homes for any duplicates.) The address for (fully tax-deductible) donations is: Southern Food & Beverage Museum attn. Liz Williams 1 Poydras Street, #169 New Orleans, Louisiana 70130 For more info about the museum or this project, please visit southernfood.org (click on "collections," then "library") or email liz@southernfood.org. If you do send a book donation, Liz asks that you please make sure to include your name and address so the museum can acknowledge your generosity.


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