Shanta Nimbark Sacharoff, author of Cooking Together: A Vegetarian Co-op Cookbook, talks about the importance of sharing food and food preparation to build our community. Discussion will be followed by a cooking demonstration of refrigerator pickles made with crunchy vegetables. Each registered participant will take home a jar of pickles.
Shanta Nimbark Sacharoff grew up in Gujarat, India and came to the United States in 1964 to attend college in New York. Sacharoff moved to San Francisco in 1973, where she became active in the Food Conspiracy, an organization of food buying clubs. Later she became a founding member of The San Francisco Bay Area’s Peoples Food System, a grassroots movement of a fair food distribution that created several food distributing venues and community store fronts. She is a retired co-owner of Other Avenues, a worker-owned food cooperative in San Francisco’s Sunset District. She writes articles about food, nutrition and cooking for India Currents and other publications. Sacharoff also teaches vegetarian cooking classes.
Space limited. Reservations required: (415) 355-5615
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