Eat Real Festival

Just got through SF Chefs 2010 and then the SF Street Food Fest. Are you ready for another glorious food event?

This weekend, August 27 – 29, will be the Eat Real Festival held in Oakland’s Jack London Square. The goal of Eat Real is to “support a regional food system by bringing farmers, food producers and eaters together”, quoted from their website. Eat Real Festival is a combination of local food, music, crafts, and film.

Events will happen concurrently on 4 stages. See schedule for details.

Here’s a sneak peek at some of the events happening onstage:

Saturday

• Homemade Kombucha w/ Dara Marin of Sage Table
• Japanese Whetstone Sharpening w/ Josh Donald from Bernal Cutlery
• Home Roasted Coffee w/ James Freeman of Blue Bottle Coffee
• The Art + Science of Home Brewing w/ Regan Long & Sarah Fenson of Local Brewing Co.
• Conquering the Crepe w/ Chef Robert Dorsey III of the Blue Oak Cafe
• Make Your Own Tamales
  w/ La Borinqueña Mexi-catessen

Sunday

• Chinese Noodle Pulling w/Chef Gordon of Ark Restaurant
• Kimchi w/ Delilah Snell of Backyard in a Jar
• Acid Cheesemaking w/ Mateo Rutherford of Green Faerie Farm
• Ultra Small-Batch Raspberry Jam w/ Dafna Kory of INNA Jams
• Makin’ Bacon w/ Chris Arentz of Avedano’s

Highlights of this year’s Eat Real Festival include:

• 80 of the Bay Area’s most delicious street food trucks and carts once again featuring select sustainable and local ingredients;
• Fermentation tasting stations featuring handcrafted beer, wine, kombucha and assorted iced teas and lemonades;
• Collaborations featuring Bay Area food craft producers;
• Urban Homesteading Zone highlighting a do-it-yourself lifestyle including canning and preserving, cheesemaking, animal husbandry, vertical gardening and more;
• An entertainment stage filled with music, pizza tossing, noodle pulling and the Flying Knives butchery contest;
• Literary festival with Bay Area writers taking to the stage to tell stories of food, from things eaten off the street to a food poetry slam;
• Outdoor short film festival;
• Fundraising Dinner for community partners. Tickets to go on sale in July.
• Eat Real’s community partners include La Cocina, the Community Alliance with Family Farmers and People’s Grocery.

For more info: http://eatrealfest.com/

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