A Celebration and Fundraiser for Pesticide Watch Education Fund
Posted on | January 3, 2010 | No Comments
On January 21st, Slow Food Sacramento and Pesticide Watch Education Fund will host Sustainable Sacramento, an annual celebration of Sacramento residents and organizations that have worked hard to make the region healthier and more livable in 2009.
Award recipients include:
*Harvest Sacramento – A regional volunteer effort to glean and supply fresh produce to local food banks, supported by Soil Born Farms & The Sacramento Food Bank
*Hot Italian – A newer restaurant that has modeled sustainability with a LEED certified building, large-scale composting facilities, as well as local and organic food
*GEO Program – A high school program has pioneered efforts to teach business education coupled with health education
Also speaking at the event will be Sheng Yang, author of “Cooking from the Heart,” the first comprehensive Hmong cookbook in America. Approximately 150 people are expected to attend and will be joined by local chefs, political leaders and other community leaders to enjoy this annual celebration.
WHEN: January 21, 2010, 6-9pm
WHERE: Hot Italian, 1627 16th Street (16th & Q St), Sacramento
COST: $35/person; Tickets available at http://www.pesticidewatch.org/events
CONTACT: Paul S. Towers, Pesticide Watch Education Fund, cell: 916.216.1082, Charity Kenyon, Slow Food Sacramento, CKenyon@kenyonyeates.com, 916.609.5012
Cook Book Author Georgeanne Brennan – Nov. 5 @ 7 pm @ Borders Books
Posted on | October 30, 2009 | No Comments
Georgeanne Brennan, author of the new entertaining cookbook “Gather: Memorable Menus for Entertaining Throughout the Seasons,” will be at Borders Sacramento, 2339 Fair Oaks Blvd., on Thurs., Nov. 5 at 7 pm. She will sign her new book as well as discuss her extensive career in the world of food, gardening, travel and the Slow Food Movement. Treats from the book will be served. No charge .
Third-Annual Fall Harvest Dinner at Mulvaney’s B&L
Posted on | October 6, 2009 | No Comments
Chef Patrick Mulvaney will create a three-course family-style meal highlighting fall foods from local purveyors including Jeff Rieger from Penryn Orchard Specialties — a small orchard with uncommonly good fruit. Patrick will use the orchard’s rare and heirloom persimmons. Sacramento’s only urban winery, Revolution Wines, will be on site and feature wines for purchase. Seating is limited. Price includes tax and tip, but does NOT include wine.
Menu: We’ll start the evening sampling three signature varietals from Revolution Wines – three blocks away, how local can you get?
First Course: Reiger Rare & Heirloom Persimmon Salad, Silva Walnuts ~ Shaft Blue Cheese
Second Course: Del Rio’s Big Cheese Squash Pasta, Fiscalini Farmhouse Cheddar
Third Course: Grilled Snake River Farms Beef in the Van Vleck Style, Sacramento Valley Rice from the Montna Family of Farmers, A Mess of River Dog Farms Greens
Fourth Course: Persimmon Toffee Bread Pudding With a Triple Play of Persimmons, Chocolate ~ Cinnamon ~ Cream
Date: Monday Nov. 2, 2009 6:00 PM
Location: Mulvaney’s B& L Next Door, 1215 19th St, Sacramento 95816 [map it!]
Price: $45.00 Slow Food Members; $55.00 Non-members
For more information, please contact Melinda Beer, 916.717.1621, melinda_beer@yahoo.com
Tickets available at Brown Paper Tickets
And We’re Back!
Posted on | October 5, 2009 | No Comments
My apologies to the group for the downtime while we changed servers. Give us a few more days to get things back in order, but in the meantime Melinda will be posting event information here.
– Your webmaster,
Larissa