Slow Food members and friends are invited to our 2019 Annual Meeting and Potluck on Sunday, November 3rd at the Montlake Community Center. This year our featured guest speaker is local fisherman and Slow Food leader Kevin Scribner.
4:00 - POTLUCK BEGINS
Before the meeting, we will sit down together for a potluck. November is Thank a Farmer Month so we are encouraging everyone to bring a dish featuring local produce and ingredients. Consider bringing a tag with a short description or story about your meal.
Slow Food Seattle is serving up three products from the Slow Food Ark of Taste. Our green-thumbed Presidium Coordinator Gerry Warren is not only preparing the Makah Ozette potatoes, but he also grew them especially for the occasion. Gerry will also bring meatballs made from locally grown Navajo-Churro sheep. Plus, our Advisory Council’s Chef Varin Keokitvon is serving Kaipen, a crispy Lao River Weed he discovered in Laos this summer.
To reduce our carbon footprint, please bring your own non-disposable plates, cups, utensils and napkins. Our goal this year is to reduce waste at our gatherings and we truly appreciate your support!
* Farmers markets open in November: Ballard, Capitol Hill, Pike Place, University District, Vashon Island, and West Seattle.
* Farmers Markets open until a week or so before our event: Burien, Federal Way, Kent East Hill, and Redmond.
5:30 - "DEEP PLEASURE FROM SEAFOOD WITH DIGNITY" PRESENTED BY KEVIN SCRIBNER
We are so pleased to announce Kevin Scribner as our featured speaker. Kevin is a Slow Food Snailblazer, a leader of the national Slow Fish USA movement and serves on the Slow Food USA Policy Steering Committee and the Slow Food Equity, Inclusion and Justice (EIJ) Working Group. He has extensive experience in natural resource planning and management, community cultural development, alternative food systems, ecological restoration and commercial fishing. Kevin commercially fished in the Pacific Northwest and Bristol Bay, Alaska from 1976 to 1996, and is developing Forever Wild Seafood, a e-commerce seafood business, and its companion nonprofit, the Forever Wild Fund.
Kevin also serves on the Policy Council of the Marine Fish Conservation Network, and works with Salmon-Safe: a third-party certifier of fish-supporting land management practices. Kevin represents Salmon-Safe on the Columbia Basin Partnership Task Force, serving alongside representatives from many Pacific Northwest Tribes. Kevin calls Walla Walla, Washington and Portland, Oregon home.
We’ll talk about:
best practices in thinking about the ethics of seafood today, both locally and globally,
ways to make more ethical seafood decisions as a consumer, and
how to get involved with advocacy.