Friday: Friday was the big VIP event for the Taste Pavilion. Slow Food Nation is split up into many different pavilions at Fort Mason and the Civic Center but one big attraction to Slow Food is, well, the taste, so Taste Pavilion is popular and sold out.
It turned out that some of the other ice cream and gelato producers didn’t show, so we ended up being the only producer to talk about our product - it was fun seeing some old friends from Whole Foods Market as well as finding out about small and local producers just like ourselves but in orchards, farmers’ markets, spirits, and the Slow Food “conviviums”. Nicolle, Trevor and I sampled our pistachio gelato, which was really a great example of gelato as slow food - over sixteen hours the day before we had been milling the roast pistachios grown from a local third generation family farm, churning gelato and freezing the gelato for Slow Food Nation.

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