Slow Food Nation '08

Fort Mason Center | Included with Taste Pavilions Ticket: $45 – 65 | Saturday, August 30; 11am – 3pm; 5pm – 9pm | Sunday, August 31; 11am – 3pm; 5pm – 9pm

The Pickles & Chutney Pavilion offered tastes of handcrafted fruit and vegetable pickles, chutneys and lacto-fermented foods made by a variety of American producers, noted chefs and cookbook authors. Pickles have historically served to preserve bounties of fresh produce as a safeguard against less-plentiful futures. Every culture worldwide eats pickles: sauerkraut, kim chee, umeboshi, pickled cucumbers, peaches, figs and fish are delicious examples. The rich, diverse tradition of pickling by vinegar or lacto-fermentation is a global legacy to celebrate and renew.

Featured picklers:

•    ADAMAH, Falls Village, CT
•    Alexander Valley Gourmet, Healdsburg, CA
•    Ayako Iino, Berkeley, CA
•    Aziza, San Francisco, CA
•    Bar Jules, San Francisco, CA
•    Bellwether Farms, Sonoma, CA
•    Beth’s Farm Kitchen, Stuyvesant Falls, NY
•    Blackberry Farm, Walland, TN
•    Charlene Cannard, Cannard Farm, Sonoma, CA
•    Colonel Bill Newsom’s Kentucky Aged Hams, Princeton, KY
•    Cultured, Berkeley, CA
•    Dae Won Foods, Carson, CA
•    Donald Link, Herbsaint, New Orleans, LA
•    Emily Su, Chez Panisse, Berkeley, CA
•    Estrellita’s Snacks, San Francisco, CA
•    Farmer’s Daughter Brand, Carrboro, NC
•    Frank Stitt, Birmingham, AL
•    Happy Girl Kitchen, Aromas, CA
•    Hawthorne Valley Farm, Ghent, NY
•    Hill Country Homestyle, Fredericksburg, TX
•    Jenny Raven, Oliveto Café, Oakland, CA
•    Jenny-Jack Sun Farm, Pine Mountain, GA
•    Kazuko Yamazaki, Orland, CA
•    Koda Farms, South Dos Palos, CA
•    Lotus Foods, El Cerrito, CA
•    Loulou’s Garden, Escalon, CA
•    Love Family Farms, Captain Cook, HI
•    Lowcountry Produce, Lobeco, SC
•    Marcia’s Chutney, Warwick, RI
•    McClure’s Pickles, Brooklyn/Detroit, NY/MI
•    Michelle Fuerst, Sacramento, CA
•    Moonbrine, Brookline, MA
•    Mrs. Sassards, Mount Pleasant, SC
•    Niloufer Ichaporia King, Parsi cookbook author/expert, San Francisco, CA
•    Papa Pat’s, Mineral Point, WI
•    Pickle Plan Booze McTickles, Seattle, WA
•    Picklopolis, Portland, OR
•    Real Pickles, Montague, MA
•    Restaurant Eugene (Lynton Hopkins), Atlanta, GA
•    Rick’s Picks, New York, NY
•    Samin Nosrat, Eccolo, Berkeley, CA
•    Scott Peacock, Watershed, Decatur, GA
•    Sensuous Farms, Sebastopol, CA
•    Shuckman’s, Louisville, KY
•    Three Stone Hearth, Berkeley, CA
•    Tina Wallis, San Jose, CA
•    White Cow Dairy, East Otto, NY
•    Zuni Café, San Franicso, CA,