From Kitchen to Community at Sonoma International Film Festival, Sunday, March 24

These images are from the short documentary From Kitchen to Community, showing at the Sonoma International Film Festival on March 24, 2024. At center is Romney Steele of a favorite Oakland  seafood spot, The Cook and Her Farmer. Photos courtesy of the Sonoma International Film Festival

More than 100 new films are on view at the 27^th annual Sonoma International Film Festival, including the short documentary From Kitchen to Community about local restaurant owners. We were excited to hear about the film from Romney Steele, the cook at Oakland’s the Cook and Her Farmer, one of the restaurants in the film. A showing of the sequel to the Oscar-nominated documentary Food, Inc., featuring investigative authors Michael Pollan and Eric Schlosser will also be shown. At a community reception following the two films, restaurants including the Cook and Her Farmer will share small bites in support of the festival’s Food Insecurity Awareness Initiative. Funds from that initiative are donated to The Redwood Empire Food Bank and the California Restaurant Foundation-Restaurants Care.

Read our Winter 2020 story about Steven Day, co-owner of The Cook and Her Farmer.

Sonoma International Film Festival
Monday March 18–Sunday March 24
Screening of From Kitchen to Community
and Food, Inc. 2 on Sunday, March 24 at 1:30pm

Andrews Hall at Sonoma Community Center
276 East Napa St, Sonoma
Tickets can be purchased here.