Slow Food USA, Slow Food Phoenix, and Local First Arizona’s Good Food Finder are proud to partner and screen two brief documentaries and a panel discussion, focusing on addressing inequities and reclaiming food freedom in Arizona and beyond.

The Good Food films — “Food as Medicine” and “Addressing Inequity In Arizona’s Local Food System” — provide a snapshot into the food justice movement that is not only happening in Arizona but across the country. Meet the next generation of farmers, healers, and ranchers who have entered the space to create a more localized food system that provides healthy, fresh, culturally appropriate food to their communities and are fighting to eliminate decades of food injustice.

Following the two fifteen-minute screenings, there will be a discussion with film producers and those featured in each documentary.

Speakers include:

• Gabriel Cruz Luna is a fourth-generation farmer at Cruz Farm. He shares his journey and experience of farming in Arizona and how the landscape has changed over the years. 

• The Stewart family of Southwest BlackRanchers is in its second year as a new farm. Learn about their challenges and successes as they strive to make a difference in their community by bringing much-needed diversity into the farming and ranching industry.

• Chef Maria Parra Cano of Sana Sana Foods talks about food that can be naturally found in our neighborhoods and in the desert that possesses medicinal and healing qualities, which can heal us from ailments caused by the conventional diet. 

• Twila Cassadore, a food educator from the San Carlos Apache Nation, shares the healing journey of foraging and finding food in the wild.

This Slow Food Live event is produced by Slow Food USA and Good Food Finder, a project of Local First AZ. Generous support of this program comes from The Global Futures Lab: Food Sovereignty and Global Syndemic Project and the Environmental Humanities Initiative, based at Arizona State University

** Ofreceremos interpretación en español en la sala Zoom para este evento. Spanish language interpretation will be offered for this event in the Zoom room. **

Join award-winning pastry chef Tracy Dempsey and Slow Food Phoenix for a hands-on baking class just in time for Valentine’s Day.

Purchase a ticket on Eventbrite: www.eventbrite.com/e/valentines-day-baking-class-with-chef-tracy-dempsey-tickets-90246278047

About this Event

In this class, students will work with award-winning pastry chef Tracy Dempsey of Tracy Dempsey Originals in Tempe prepare three desserts:

• Chocolate rose petal truffles

• Raspberry red velvet and chocolate heart of caramel cupcakes

• Decorated sugar cookies

Whether you decide to share with your handmade dessert loved ones or to keep them to yourself is entirely up to you!

We will taste our wares alongside a glass of bubbly, which is included in the ticket price.

Class is limited to 15 students.