Events
Exploring Your Coffee Palate with Lyons Pride Coffee
Coffee tasting and identification of flavors and attributes of 2-3 coffees roasted by Lyons Pride Coffee.
Soup's On! 2024
Soup’s On is a friendly soup competition hosted by Slow Food North Louisiana.
Fete on the Farm 2023
Slow Food North Louisiana’s annual farm dinner fundraiser at Mahaffey Farmhouse
Heirloom Beans & Greens Supper
A Slow Food supper celebrating biodiversity in the form of heirloom beans & greens
Vegan Cooking Demo with Libby Smith
Slow Food member and phenom vegan chef Libby Smith will be teaching a vegan cooking demo featuring three seasonal dishes on August 10 from 6:30-8:30. The event is at Accents Personal Chef Service, 729 Jordan St, Shreveport.
Ticket includes the demonstration and small plate of each dish. Non-alcoholic beverages will be available. You may BYO beer and wine. You must be 21 to consume alcohol at the event.
Tickets are $25 General Admission, $20 current Slow Food members (discount code emailed to address on file). Ticket sales are in advance only and end August 8; there will be no sales at the door.
It's a Big Night for Dinner and a Movie
Slow Food North Louisiana is partnering with the Robinson Film Center this summer on a Food for Thought dinner and a movie series. Our July film is Big Night, an excellent film with a stellar cast that will make your mouth water. Doors open at 5:45, dinner is served at 6, and the film will start after dinner. A summary of the plot:
“New Jersey, 1950s. Two brothers run an Italian restaurant. Business is not going well as a rival Italian restaurant is out-competing them. In a final effort to save the restaurant, the brothers plan to put on an evening of incredible food. Romance/Comedy, 1996, 109 min., R.”
Tickets include dinner and the movie and are $30. There will be a cash bar available. The Robinson Film Center is located at 617 Texas St, Shreveport, 318.459.4122.
Soup's On!
Soup’s On is a friendly soup competition hosted by Slow Food North Louisiana.
Fete on the Farm
**TICKET SALES HAVE ENDED FOR THIS EVENT**
Fete on the Farm 2022 will be Sunday, October 30 from 5-8 pm in the serene setting of Mahaffey Farms original Farmhouse in Princeton, LA (five miles east of Louisiana Downs), now a charming Bed & Breakfast. Fete on the Farm is an annual fundraiser to support the programs of Slow Food North Louisiana. Our mission is to celebrate foodways in our region that are good, clean and fair.
Chef Gabriel Balderas, owner of El Cabo Verde and Zuzul Coastal Cuisine in Shreveport, Slow Food North Louisiana Board member and Slow Food International Chefs Alliance member, is creating a team of chefs that are local and from afar to prepare a delicious dinner featuring local and sustainable foods. Joining Chef Balderas will be:
Amarys Koenig Herndon and Jordan Herndon, chef-owners of Palm&Pine, a New Orleans restaurant featuring the cuisines and culinary traditions of “the South and south of that” (Louisiana, the southern states, the Caribbean, Mexico, and Central America).
Niema Longstratt, chef/owner of RNL's Cookery Corner, a food trailer based in Shreveport where West African, Caribbean and American cuisine fuse.
Roger Peterson, chef at Zuzul Coastal Cuisine. Roger was born into a family with generations of tradition in growing and preparing fresh and delicious food, and works with his family farm, Learning Legacies in Blanchard, LA. He helped open three locations of the award-winning City Pork Restaurant Group in Baton Rouge. He has wide experience with charcuterie, and is currently exploring the health and culinary benefits of fermentation.
More details to come on what to expect for our menu, but the chefs are committed to using as many products as they can from the Slow Food Ark of Taste, a catalog of vegetables, fruits and animal breeds at risk of extinction because of industrial food production.
Tickets can be purchased below. Included with your meal are non-alcoholic and adult beverage choices (must be 21 to consume alcohol at this event) and live music provided by Shreveport-based duo Big Wheels.
General Admission: $125
Slow Food Member: $105 (discount code sent to email on file)
Big thanks to our Fete Sponsors!
Slow Food Night at Zuzul, featuring the Espelette Pepper
Zuzul Coastal Cuisine will host Slow Food North Louisiana for dinner service September 13. Slow Food USA and its local chapters are a driving force for food justice at the local, national and international level. We believe in uniting the joy of food with the pursuit of justice. We are committed to transforming the world to guarantee good, clean and fair food for all. Zuzul Coastal Cuisine is committed to the Slow Food mission.
That evening, Chef-Owner Gabriel Balderas and Chef Roger Peterson will create a dish featuring the espelette pepper, listed on the Slow Food Ark of Taste, a registry of nearly extinct foods that are being identified and celebrated to save them.
Chef Peterson’s family farm, Learning Legacies, will be supplying the pepper, which grows well in our area.
Let’s regenerate and heal our food systems together. Become a member of Slow Food USA. Local members will be on hand at Zuzul Coastal Cuisine on September 13 to share information about local programming and details on how to become a member. Or you can join today at Slow Food USA (select North Louisiana as your chapter).
Slow Food Night at El Cabo Verde
El Cabo Verde will host Slow Food North Louisiana for dinner service September 7. Slow Food USA and its local chapters are a driving force for food justice at the local, national and international level. We believe in uniting the joy of food with the pursuit of justice. We are committed to transforming the world to guarantee good, clean and fair food for all. El Cabo Verde is committed to the Slow Food mission.
Let’s regenerate and heal our food systems together. Become a member of Slow Food USA. Local members will be on hand at El Cabo Verde on September 7 to share information about local programming and details on how to become a member. Or you can join today at Slow Food USA (select North Louisiana as your chapter).
Vegan Cooking Class with Libby
Renowned Shreveport vegan chef Libby Smith will teach us how to prepare a variety of vegan and gluten free dishes that can be made vegetarian with the addition of cheese or non-meat protein.
Only 20 tickets available, so purchase yours now. No sales at the door..
Cooking Demo at Shreveport Farmers Market
Slow Food Board member Damian Stringer will lead a cooking demo at 11:00 am at the Shreveport Farmers Market, using delicious produce from the market vendors.
The Shreveport Farmers’ Market is every Saturday from June 4 through August 27, 7:30 am to 12:30 pm, at Festival Plaza in downtown Shreveport, 101 Crockett Street.
Fresh produce, local meats, prepared foods, coffee, artisans, live music and more!
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Nourishing Farms Tour
Slow Food North Louisiana invites you to a tour of Nourishing Farms, the homestead farm of Chef Gabriel Balderas of Zuzul Coastal Cuisine and El Cabo Verde and a Slow Food North La Board member.
Join us on May 1 to learn about the farm, what they are growing, how they are growing it, and what they plan to do with the bounty.
This event is free to attend, but registration is requested. Register here: https://forms.gle/aGSbpSzVp5x6ANA1A
Tour Details:
When: May 1, 2-3 pm
Where: Nourishing Farms, 9759 Crow Rd, Shreveport (about 5 minutes from El Cabo Verde). Click here for Google Maps directions
What else: dress for a farm tour (flat shoes) and consider a hat and sun screen depending on weather.
In case of rain, we will reschedule.
Slow Food Crawfish Boil
We are excited to announce the Slow Food Crawfish Boil is BACK! We believe crawfish is the ultimate way to geaux slow in Louisiana, and we are thrilled to bring this annual event back to our community. Gathering around a table to share food is the essence of what Slow Food is about: connecting us to our terroir, connecting us to each other.
What: Delicious boiled crawfish with all the usual fixins and some surprises, local craft beer from long-time sponsors Great Raft Brewing, non-alcoholic beverages. Must be 21 years of age to consume alcohol at this event.
Tickets: $30 current Slow Food members (discount code sent to email on file), $35 general admission. Advance ticket purchase only; no day of event sales (in order to ensure paid ticket holders get to eat their fill). Deadline to purchase tickets is Friday, April1 (no fooling!).
Questions? contact us at slowfoodnla@gmail.com or 318.464.7683