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Give STL Day is a 24-hour, online giving event organized by the St. Louis Community Foundation to grow philanthropy in the St. Louis metropolitan area. You can give to your favorite local charities, win prizes and help your favorite charities win too! The minimum donation is $10 and the maximum is $100,000. Prize money will be made available to amplify charitable donations. The goal is to inspire the community to come together for 24 hours […]

Thursday, May 11th is GiveSTL Day! Busy Thursdays? Pre-schedule yours!

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2017EarthDay
Join Slow Food St. Louis and 10,000 others at the St. Louis Earth Day Festival. This year the event spans the entire weekend, April 22-23rd. Plan your visit in advance so you won’t miss your favorite performers, exhibitors, speakers, or classes! If you want to learn something new, update yourself on ecological issues, get your hands dirty, ask questions, or be creative, there’s something for you at Earth Day – and for your kids, and your […]

Make plans for the Earth Day Festival in Forest Park! ...

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Convivial Pursuit with Slow Food St. Louis Greg Kiger: A Cancer Survivor’s Guide to Eating Tuesday, April 11th @7 p.m. Rooster on South Grand 3150 S. Grand, St. Louis, MO Just south of Arsenal   Join Slow Food St. Louis at our inaugural 2017 monthly Convivium gathering at Rooster restaurant on South Grand. This month’s program, “A Cancer Survivor’s Guide to Eating” features Greg Kiger, a film-maker, documentarian, food revolutionary, and cancer survivor. His mission […]

‘Greg Kiger: A Cancer Survivor’s Guide to Eating’ Launches 2017 ...

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Grain Summit
Slow Food St. Louis joins Food Works and Regenerate Illinois and other sponsors to present the Illinois Missouri Farmer Brewer Baker & Distiller Summit, Tuesday, February 7th in Alton, IL at the Old Bakery Beer Company. Register Today! Illinois-Missouri Farmer Brewer Baker Summit Tuesday, February 7, 2017 8:30 AM – 3:30 PM Old Bakery Beer Company 400 Landmarks Blvd, Alton, IL 62006 On Tuesday February 7th farmers, brewers, distillers, and bakers from two states will […]

Farmer Brewer Baker Summit

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Jerky
Get your tickets now and learn to make mild, spicy, and beer beef jerky with Rob Abell and Cindy Higgerson at Larder and Cupboard, Maplewood’s gourmet local food store. Monday, Dec. 19th, 7 p.m. 7310 Manchester Rd., Maplewood, MO 63143 Tickets are here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/learn-to-make-jerky-a-slow-taste-event-tickets-29791547320?aff=efbevent

Learn to Make Jerky!

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Companion's Bavarian Pretzels
Tasting Pretzels & Wild Edibles Mustard Proper attire required Tuesday, September 13th, 6 pm Companion Bakery Campus Classroom 2331 Schuetz Rd., St. Louis, MO 63146 $20 non-member; $15 for members Join Slow Food St. Louis and Larder & Cupboard at Companion’s new, state of the art baking facility for a glimpse of how they accomplish an artisanal product using modern technology. Owner Josh Allen will lead guests on a tour of the production facility where guests will get […]

Slow Taste Sept. 13th: Companion Bakery Tour High Tech Meets Tradition

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EatingAlabamaFilm
Join Slow Food St. Louis & Chipotle Mexican Grill for the film, “Eating Alabama”, which explores how difficult it is today to eat how our grandparents did. While in search of a simpler life, a young couple returns home to Alabama where they set out to eat the way their grandparents did – locally and seasonally. But as they navigate the agro-industrial gastronomical complex, they soon realize that nearly everything about the food system has changed […]

SloWednesday: Sept. 14th – Goin’ South

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SloWednesday Fed Up Poster
Rolling Stone calls Fed Up, “a movie that matters”. It is a documentary indictment of the modern American diet. Executive producer and narrator Katie Couric joins Laurie David (An Inconvenient Truth), Regina Scully (The Invisible War) and Stephanie Soechtig (Tapped) to reveal how the U.S. government subsidizes a food system that has given us unprecedented levels of diabetes and obesity. The film shows how the food system, with support from your tax dollars, is structurally […]

SloWednesday: Fed Up

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