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10/22/2025 06:30:00 PM10/22/2025 09:30:00 PMAmerica/Los_AngelesTeach A Community To Fish 2025Join 18 Reasons this fall for a special fundraising dinner featuring Chef Joshua McFadden. Known for his award-winning cookbooks and ingredient-driven approach, McFadden brings a deep respect for seasonality, craft, and place to every dish. Gather with neighbors at 18 Reasons for an intimate evening where food and community come together. This annual fundraiser supports our free community programs – Food as Medicine, Nourishing Pregnancy, and Cooking Matters. These programs empower thousands of Bay Area families with the confidence and creativity to buy, cook, and eat good food every day.
Your presence helps sustain this vital work and ensures our mission continues to reach more tables, more families, and more communities across the Bay Area and beyond
About Chef Joshua McFadden:
Joshua McFadden is a creative collaborator known for shaping thoughtful, ingredient-driven hospitality experiences. As the founding partner of Submarine Hospitality, he helped bring to life some of Portland’s most beloved restaurants—Ava Gene’s, Tusk, Cicoria, The Woodsman, and Los Burros Supremos—each rooted in a deep respect for seasonality, craft, and place.
Today, Joshua continues to guide new restaurant concepts across the country, offering a blend of culinary vision, operational insight, and design sensibility.
Beyond the kitchen, Joshua is restoring Berney Farm, a 50-acre property in Springdale, Oregon. There, he is cultivating an agricultural and creative refuge where farming, food, and design meet—offering a space for collaboration, education, and celebration.
He is the author of Six Seasons: A New Way with Vegetables, co-written with Martha Holmberg, winner of the 2018 James Beard Award. Their second book, Grains for Every Season, wasnominated for the award in 2022. His third cookbook, a tribute to the art of pasta, will be released in fall 2025.
About 18 Reasons:
18 Reasons is a nonprofit that increases food security through the power of home cooking. Our mission is to empower our community with confidence and creativity to buy, cook, and eat good food every day. Our vision is to create equity and belonging through the transformative and healing power of home cooking.
We offer multiple food education programs. At our 18th Street Kitchen in San Francisco, we host paid cooking classes with chefs from around the world, and ticket sales help support our free programming for low-income families. Through our Community Programs, we offer three, multi-week cooking and nutrition education programs for youth, families, adults, and birthing parents: Cooking Matters, Food As Medicine (FAM), and Nourishing Pregnancy. Each year, we teach thousands of families to buy, cook, and eat good food on a limited budget. You can read more about how we approach discussing food in the community here.
18 Reasons 3674 18th St San Francisco, California 94110
Price
$45
- $300
Event Information
Join 18 Reasons this fall for a special fundraising dinner featuring Chef Joshua McFadden. Known for his award-winning cookbooks and ingredient-driven approach, McFadden brings a deep respect for seasonality, craft, and place to every dish. Gather with neighbors at 18 Reasons for an intimate evening where food and community come together. This annual fundraiser supports our free community programs – Food as Medicine, Nourishing Pregnancy, and Cooking Matters. These programs empower thousands of Bay Area families with the confidence and creativity to buy, cook, and eat good food every day.
Your presence helps sustain this vital work and ensures our mission continues to reach more tables, more families, and more communities across the Bay Area and beyond
About Chef Joshua McFadden:
Joshua McFadden is a creative collaborator known for shaping thoughtful, ingredient-driven hospitality experiences. As the founding partner of Submarine Hospitality, he helped bring to life some of Portland’s most beloved restaurants—Ava Gene’s, Tusk, Cicoria, The Woodsman, and Los Burros Supremos—each rooted in a deep respect for seasonality, craft, and place.
Today, Joshua continues to guide new restaurant concepts across the country, offering a blend of culinary vision, operational insight, and design sensibility.
Beyond the kitchen, Joshua is restoring Berney Farm, a 50-acre property in Springdale, Oregon. There, he is cultivating an agricultural and creative refuge where farming, food, and design meet—offering a space for collaboration, education, and celebration.
He is the author of Six Seasons: A New Way with Vegetables, co-written with Martha Holmberg, winner of the 2018 James Beard Award. Their second book, Grains for Every Season, wasnominated for the award in 2022. His third cookbook, a tribute to the art of pasta, will be released in fall 2025.
About 18 Reasons:
18 Reasons is a nonprofit that increases food security through the power of home cooking. Our mission is to empower our community with confidence and creativity to buy, cook, and eat good food every day. Our vision is to create equity and belonging through the transformative and healing power of home cooking.
We offer multiple food education programs. At our 18th Street Kitchen in San Francisco, we host paid cooking classes with chefs from around the world, and ticket sales help support our free programming for low-income families. Through our Community Programs, we offer three, multi-week cooking and nutrition education programs for youth, families, adults, and birthing parents: Cooking Matters, Food As Medicine (FAM), and Nourishing Pregnancy. Each year, we teach thousands of families to buy, cook, and eat good food on a limited budget. You can read more about how we approach discussing food in the community here.
Location
18 Reasons
3674 18th St
San Francisco, California 94110
United States
Add to Calendar
10/22/2025 06:30:00 PM10/22/2025 09:30:00 PMAmerica/Los_AngelesTeach A Community To Fish 2025Join 18 Reasons this fall for a special fundraising dinner featuring Chef Joshua McFadden. Known for his award-winning cookbooks and ingredient-driven approach, McFadden brings a deep respect for seasonality, craft, and place to every dish. Gather with neighbors at 18 Reasons for an intimate evening where food and community come together. This annual fundraiser supports our free community programs – Food as Medicine, Nourishing Pregnancy, and Cooking Matters. These programs empower thousands of Bay Area families with the confidence and creativity to buy, cook, and eat good food every day.
Your presence helps sustain this vital work and ensures our mission continues to reach more tables, more families, and more communities across the Bay Area and beyond
About Chef Joshua McFadden:
Joshua McFadden is a creative collaborator known for shaping thoughtful, ingredient-driven hospitality experiences. As the founding partner of Submarine Hospitality, he helped bring to life some of Portland’s most beloved restaurants—Ava Gene’s, Tusk, Cicoria, The Woodsman, and Los Burros Supremos—each rooted in a deep respect for seasonality, craft, and place.
Today, Joshua continues to guide new restaurant concepts across the country, offering a blend of culinary vision, operational insight, and design sensibility.
Beyond the kitchen, Joshua is restoring Berney Farm, a 50-acre property in Springdale, Oregon. There, he is cultivating an agricultural and creative refuge where farming, food, and design meet—offering a space for collaboration, education, and celebration.
He is the author of Six Seasons: A New Way with Vegetables, co-written with Martha Holmberg, winner of the 2018 James Beard Award. Their second book, Grains for Every Season, wasnominated for the award in 2022. His third cookbook, a tribute to the art of pasta, will be released in fall 2025.
About 18 Reasons:
18 Reasons is a nonprofit that increases food security through the power of home cooking. Our mission is to empower our community with confidence and creativity to buy, cook, and eat good food every day. Our vision is to create equity and belonging through the transformative and healing power of home cooking.
We offer multiple food education programs. At our 18th Street Kitchen in San Francisco, we host paid cooking classes with chefs from around the world, and ticket sales help support our free programming for low-income families. Through our Community Programs, we offer three, multi-week cooking and nutrition education programs for youth, families, adults, and birthing parents: Cooking Matters, Food As Medicine (FAM), and Nourishing Pregnancy. Each year, we teach thousands of families to buy, cook, and eat good food on a limited budget. You can read more about how we approach discussing food in the community here.
18 Reasons 3674 18th St San Francisco, California 94110
Price
$45
- $300
Event Information
Join 18 Reasons this fall for a special fundraising dinner featuring Chef Joshua McFadden. Known for his award-winning cookbooks and ingredient-driven approach, McFadden brings a deep respect for seasonality, craft, and place to every dish. Gather with neighbors at 18 Reasons for an intimate evening where food and community come together. This annual fundraiser supports our free community programs – Food as Medicine, Nourishing Pregnancy, and Cooking Matters. These programs empower thousands of Bay Area families with the confidence and creativity to buy, cook, and eat good food every day.
Your presence helps sustain this vital work and ensures our mission continues to reach more tables, more families, and more communities across the Bay Area and beyond
About Chef Joshua McFadden:
Joshua McFadden is a creative collaborator known for shaping thoughtful, ingredient-driven hospitality experiences. As the founding partner of Submarine Hospitality, he helped bring to life some of Portland’s most beloved restaurants—Ava Gene’s, Tusk, Cicoria, The Woodsman, and Los Burros Supremos—each rooted in a deep respect for seasonality, craft, and place.
Today, Joshua continues to guide new restaurant concepts across the country, offering a blend of culinary vision, operational insight, and design sensibility.
Beyond the kitchen, Joshua is restoring Berney Farm, a 50-acre property in Springdale, Oregon. There, he is cultivating an agricultural and creative refuge where farming, food, and design meet—offering a space for collaboration, education, and celebration.
He is the author of Six Seasons: A New Way with Vegetables, co-written with Martha Holmberg, winner of the 2018 James Beard Award. Their second book, Grains for Every Season, wasnominated for the award in 2022. His third cookbook, a tribute to the art of pasta, will be released in fall 2025.
About 18 Reasons:
18 Reasons is a nonprofit that increases food security through the power of home cooking. Our mission is to empower our community with confidence and creativity to buy, cook, and eat good food every day. Our vision is to create equity and belonging through the transformative and healing power of home cooking.
We offer multiple food education programs. At our 18th Street Kitchen in San Francisco, we host paid cooking classes with chefs from around the world, and ticket sales help support our free programming for low-income families. Through our Community Programs, we offer three, multi-week cooking and nutrition education programs for youth, families, adults, and birthing parents: Cooking Matters, Food As Medicine (FAM), and Nourishing Pregnancy. Each year, we teach thousands of families to buy, cook, and eat good food on a limited budget. You can read more about how we approach discussing food in the community here.
