Imagine lively people-scaled  communities dotting the San Francisco Bay Area - places co-created by their residents for raising kids, for  retirement, for growing food or simply  living well by sharing more. The Bay Area already has  ecovillages, and cohousing neighborhoods, resident-owned housing cooperatives, and group  houses -- real world places where we can live more sustainably through a more cooperative  way of life. You can have both privacy and community when you know your neighbors on …

The purpose of the group is to bring together parents and families (including babies/toddlers and/or kids) from all over the world and the US who have settled down in the Bay Area and are going through an early parenting experience.  We'd like to explore the Bay Area, and to share and learn from each others’ cultures! We enjoy nature, urban activities, and international food. We would like to share activities and food/recipes with other parents and their families and work towards building an int …

This meetup is for people who like to cook, eat, share food and conversation. If you love cooking and sharing with others, this is for you! Everyone brings a home-cooked dish or a beverage to share.    

Now that the myths about ethanol, (food v fuel, more energy in than out, polluting, bhah blah blah...), have been soundly refuted, let's have a serious discussion about getting off of oil. You can fuel your car on CO2-sequestering, jobs-producing, war-free, ethanol TODAY! There are pumps in your area. 'Alcohol Can Be a Gas' will be our guide book for this serious revolution. alcoholcanbeagas dot com. This meetup is for those interested in environmentalism, green issues, conservation, alternative …

Our mission is to provide fun and memorable culinary experiences by creating deliciously fun cooking classes. We will create a theme menu and you will help prepare the meals. This will be a great opportunity to meet new people and expand your repertoire. We will meet at a home in San Francisco, have a drink and hors d'œuvre before diving in to cooking and preparing the meal. Some of the more time consuming dishes will be prepared 40-60% ahead of time. Ingredients and equipments are provided and …

This group was started to combine two passions. The love of cooking at home and meeting new people. In hopes of bringing the two together, these Meet n Eat get togethers are held in an intimate San Francisco apartment. If you are a food enthusiast with an additional taste for meeting new people and want to embrace the joy that comes from doing both.

Share the pleasures of food, wine, and friends! Events will be mostly around SF,  These events will include wine sailings, local wine tastings, winery release parties, private tastings, wine blending/pairing classes, cooking lessons, music festivals, and travelling! Imagine going to the France to go wine tasting and being able to tour the wineries and even help crush the grapes in the French tradition! Closer to home, we can always schedule shorter trips up or down the coast to the wealth of win …

A friendly and inviting group of neighborhood locals looking to expand their culinary skills, learn about unique cultural dishes, enjoy good food and wine, and get to know more people living both in SOMA and throughout the city. The SF Social-Cooking series is a casual and cozy workshop that will feature a guest chef from local restaurants spanning a wide array of ethnic cuisines, unique wines or exotic desserts, all in support of local businesses. The environment is casual and will foll …

Meet other local Malaysian, Singaporean and Indonesian and others in the Bay area! We can reminisce about food, home, politics, discover places in the bay area, find great places to eat, network. Or you can learn more about the diverse cultures and delicious variety of food! Come meet up with us!

Many groups are already devoted to general dining. This is not one of them. The purpose of this group is to explore the very best food experiences to be had in the Bay Area. Events may include the yearly truffle dinner at Oliveto, sampling the divine pesto at Farina, lining up in the cold for pizza at Una Pizza Napoletana, or going on a field trip to taste fresh oysters at Tomales Bay. If we totally run out of ideas, we might visit The French Laundry. But not before then. Like our sister meetu …

Everyone is Welcome! Let's enjoy vegan and vegetarian food. I grew up as vegan and vegetarian. There are a lot of vegan and vegetarian options in San Francisco. Let’s check them out. Let's also try cooking simple seductive dishes at home. Vegan and vegetarian cooking is not special. I hope I can encourage people for experimenting with vegetarian and vegan food. We are going to have simple get together, potlucks, dinners, brunches etc. We will be meeting around greater San Francisco Area inclu …

… There are stay-at-home moms, working moms and moms in between in our meetup community.  We hope to see you at one of the events soon.

If you like to cook or want to learn and want to have fun doing it with like-minded people; then this is the meetup for you. If you watch the Cooking Channel, Food Network, America's Test Kitchen, Julia, Jacques...you are a Culinary Addict, If you read Food and Wine, Bon Appétit, Food Arts, Cooks Illustrated you are a Culinary Addict...If those magazine pages, worn recipes torn from newspapers, and pages of your cookbooks are stained and smeared from use...then this group is for you. If you want …

Our group is currently not accepting new members at this time.   Pam and Tom want to create an informal wine tasting group to explore our local wines beyond just naps and Sonoma. The tastings will be held at our home. Space is limited so meetups will be a small group of10 people max. Our goal is to develop a core group of friends that we can taste with on a regular basis.Because of this memberships will be limited to a small number of people.  Members that do not participate for 6 months or long …

We love making good foods at home, especially cultured or fermented foods, such as: yogurt, kefir, kombucha, sauerkraut, pickles, cheese, and sourdough. And we love to preserve foods, too, like fruits and vegetables, maybe even sausage. And then there's always dehydration, sprouting and herb-growing to discuss. If you also enjoy this sort of kitchen alchemy, please join us to exchange tips and tricks, teach each other techniques, share our latest culinary triumphs and tragedies, and trade reci …

NOTICE: As of 11/7/11, this Meetup group (formerly known as 'Creative Cooks') is under New Management. Greetings Bay Area Creative Cooking Enthusiasts!   Do you love to cook gourmet dishes, or just wish you knew how to cook? Maybe you have (or, maybe you haven't before) traveled to places like Indonesia, South Korea, Philippines, Ghana, Ethiopia, Morocco, Iran, France, Russia, Columbia, Jamaica, or Alabama, but wish you could taste some of these and other authentic foods right in your own back y …