Slow Food is a non-profit member supported International movement, founded in 1989 to counter the rise of fast food and fast life, the disappearance of local food traditions and people's dwindling interest in the food they eat, where it comes from, how it tastes and how our food choices affect the rest of the world. |
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Greetings!
Our congratulations go out to all of the people who made the PASA & Fair Food Farm & Food Fest at the Convention Center a tremendous success. Slow Food Philly generously contributed $1600, raised at our recent collaborative dinner at Pumpkin Restaurant to pay for lunches served to the farmers and vendors provided by Feast Your Eyes Catering located at Front & Palmer (their location and the name of their new catering hall). The Farm & Food Fest website lists all of its contributors so if you are a restaurant who is looking to buy from local producers, please go to their website or to Fair Food's website to find available purveyors and products.
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Our next seminar being held at the Restaurant School is this coming Wednesday, and we've added a seminar for May! Details below...
Backyard/Urban Gardening
Date & Time: April 11, 7-9pm
Location: The Restaurant School, 4100 Walnut Street
Free Parking: Campus lot at 4207 Walnut St
 With this incredible weather and gardening season right around the corner we had to book this seminar with the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society. Sally is one of their top educators, always entertaining and will be discussing backyard/urban gardening to include culinary plants, herbs, and flowers. We still have a few seats left so please make reservations now before it is sold out!
The Art of Making Chocolate
from Bean to Bar
By LoveBar
PLUS Matching Chocolate and Wine/Scotch
Date & Time: May 16, 7-9pm
Location: The Restaurant School, 4100 Walnut Street
Free Parking: Campus lot at 4207 Walnut St
 LoveBar Chocolate is a unique local business that hand crafts direct trade and organic bean to bar chocolate and supports the arts community by wrapping every bar with original art designed and printed by Philly artists. Tegan Hagy owner and confectionary creator will lead this informative seminar discussing the process of how they take cacao beans and process them into chocolate bars. The tasting portion is a recreation of an event we did at Spring Mill Café recently where we matched Bruichladdich Islay lightly peated Scotch with LoveBar chocolates and it was a match made in heaven. You must be 21 to be admitted to this seminar.
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Other events that our Slow Food Philly friends have asked us to tell you about...
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Date & Time: Friday, April 13th, 6-9pm
Location: Philadelphia Brewing Company, 2439 Amber Street, Philadelphia, PA, 19125
Tickets: $75, $50 for CSA Members
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Date & Time: Friday, April 27th, 7PM
Location: Swarthmore Co-op
In support of Greener Partners, the Swarthmore Co-op will be hosting a Community Supported Shares Benefit Event. The event will be a Spanish themed B.Y.O.B. with music, dancing and a Tapas menu.
Cost for the event is $30 for Greener Partner Members, Swarthmore Co-op Members, CSA Members, Students and Seniors. All non-members will be $35 per person, children ages 6-13 are $20, and children under 6 are free.
All proceeds from the event will support the Greener Partners Organization. We hope you'll join them!
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Host a dinner at your home and pledge your guests to contribute to fight hunger right here in our own community. Iron chef Jose Garces has once again this year stepped up to be spokesman for this wonderful program sponsored by St. Christopher's Foundation for Children, Farm to Families Program. Go to their website where they have put together a full set of planning resources - sample invitations and theme ideas, information to share with your guests, healthy shopping tips, guide to your local farmers market to shop, special menus and recipes from Iron Chef Jose Garces himself, and more. You can Create a Pledge Page, totally optional, but an easy and effective way to invite friends and family to contribute to your Dine In. Their website has provided all the tools to effectively host an evening Slow Food style dinner event and a chance for you to do something for our community.
dineinhelpout.org
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Buon Appetito!
Joseph Brandolo, President
Slow Food Philadelphia |
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