Slow Food Nation Report

Of course, as soon as we got to the local organic products area, we saw that (even at noon on Saturday), 3,000 people had decided to join us.

The selection was amazing, though.  In addition to expected items like strawberries, squash, melons and peppers, there were also more interesting things like raw milk, ghee (yummy, yummy ghee), goat dulche de leche, and Meyer lemonade.  With free samples of everything!  We got strawberries & blackberries ($6), white wine vinegar ($10), a steel water bottle ($13), meyer lemonade ($1.50), 2lbs of peppers & squash ($9), "live" saurkraut ($7), Happy Girl pickles ($6), mini-musketeer melons ($2), corn ($2 for 4) and heirloom apples (free!).  We also learned that the raw milk vendor sells to Haight Street Market.  Home-made ricotta, here I come!

At the center of the plaza is the "victory garden" of veggies & fruits planted in July.  These will be donated to the SF Food Bank, but in the meantime, don't they look pretty?

After walking around for a couple hours, you'll be hungry.   So go to prepared food row, where a bunch of high-end SF restaurants and food purveyors will sell you a large variety of really high-class prepared foods, from lemongrass pork noodles to spinach-goat cheese tamales.  Unexpectedly for a San Francisco festival, the Slow Food organizers actually thought about seating ... there were several giant benches as well as many hay bales.

Kris got Scott Peacock's Southern Ham Biscuits.  Even I had to admit that they were pretty good.

If they run out of food, you can always enjoy some compost.

So, come enjoy some slow food.  Just be ready ... it's not only slow to grow, it comes with loooooong lines.