Sand Creek Farm and Monument Cafe Tour-to-Cafe Lunch, 4/9/2011

Date: Saturday April 9th, 11 am – 3:30 pm
Location: Tour starts at Sand Creek Farm in Cameron, Texas

Monument Cafe

On April 9 Slow Food Austinites will experience the local food chain, traveling with our food from its farm of origin til it lands on our plates as a delicious cafe lunch, enjoyed with a lively discussion of our local food future.

At 11 a.m. we’ll start at Sand Creek Farm in Cameron and experience their raw milk dairy, grassfed beef cattle, pigs, poultry and vegetable crops, and, if we play our cards right, possibly a hay ride! Everyone will have the opportunity to purchase farm goods, so bring your coolers.

Then we caravan to Monument Cafe in Georgetown, nationally celebrated for seriously good diner food featuring sustainable farm goods.  Cafe owners will soon be opening Monument Market next door, a storefront offering fresh produce, naturally raised meats, dairy, and more, ALL of it made or grown locally and in Texas.

Lunch is served at 2 p.m. Cafe chefs will craft Sand Creek’s delicious meats, dairy and produce into a springtime meal, which we’ll enjoy while Monument owner Rusty Winkstern explains his vision for local food marketing.  Your ticket of $24.00 covers lunch (including gratuity and tax).

Purchase Tickets for Sand Creek Farm/Monument Cafe

Urban Roots Farm Tour/Work Day, 3/26/2011

Date: Saturday March 26th, 9 am – 12 pm
Location: Urban Roots Farm, 7651 Delwau Ln  Austin, TX 78725
Tickets: purchase farm tour/work day tickets

Urban RootsUrban Roots is a youth development program that uses sustainable agriculture to transform the lives of young people and increase healthy food access.  Join Slow Food for this hands-on farm work day at Urban Roots Farm, in the heart of Austin!

We’ll meet at at the farm at 9 am for coffee. At 9.30 am we’ll join the Urban Roots crew and volunteers for an opening circle. After that, we’ll work til noon, when a closing circle will conclude the work day.

Please wear appropriate clothing for farm work and bring water to drink. Children ages 10 and up with adult supervision are welcome to join. For your donation to Urban Roots of $20, you’ll get to a take-home bag of crunchy fresh vegetables.

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April Farm Tour Preview:

Sand Creek Farm and Monument Cafe Tour-to-Cafe Lunch, Saturday April 9 – Cameron and Georgetown 11-3:30
On April 9 Slow Food Austinites will experience the local food chain, traveling with our food from its farm of origin til it lands on our plates as a delicious cafe lunch, enjoyed with a lively discussion of our local food future.

At 11 a.m. we’ll start at Sand Creek Farm in Cameron and experience their raw milk dairy, grassfed beef cattle, pigs, poultry and vegetable crops, and, if we play our cards right, possibly a hay ride! Everyone will have the opportunity to purchase farm goods, so bring your coolers.

Then we caravan to Monument Cafe in Georgetown, nationally celebrated for seriously good diner food featuring sustainable farm goods.  Cafe owners will soon be opening Monument Market next door, a storefront offering fresh produce, naturally raised meats, dairy, and more, ALL of it made or grown locally and in Texas.

Lunch is served at 2 p.m. Cafe chefs will craft Sand Creek’s delicious meats, dairy and produce into a springtime meal, which we’ll enjoy while Monument owner Rusty Winkstern explains his vision for local food marketing.  Your ticket of $24.00 covers lunch (including gratuity and tax).

Purchase Tickets for Sand Creek Farm/Monument Cafe

happy hour: la condesa/malverde, 2/17/2011

Date: Thursday February 17th, 6 pm – 8 pm
Location: Malverde, 400b West 2nd Street (upstairs at La Condesa)
RSVP: karlal@slowfoodaustin.org

La Condesa/MalverdePlease Join Slow Food Austin for our monthly Third Thursday Happy Hour at Malverde on February 17th from 6-8pm*.

*Please note that the happy hour is later than normal and that it will be held at Malverde. We thank La Condesa for sponsoring this wonderful happy hour for us!

Malverde has concocted a special slow food cocktail menu available for a small CASH donation to Slow Food Austin. Chef Rene Ortiz of La Condesa, our generous hosts, will be providing delicious Locally sourced appetizers for you, our Slow Food Guests.

We will also have a special guest joining us for this Happy Hour…come and find out who it is! We will see you on Thursday!

slow session: terra madre tales, 2/15

Date: Tuesday, February 15th, 7pm – 9pm
Location: Habitat Suites, 500 East Highland Mall Boulevard Austin, Tx 78752
RSVP: anneh@slowfoodaustin.org

Slow Food Presents:
The stories and experiences of what Terra Madre was like and what we can learn from it.

Terra Madre
Based on popular requests, we will get a chance to hear the stories and experiences of our loved Austin Terra Madre delegates at Terra Madre. Terra Madre is Slow Food International’s biennial conference that gathers sustainable food producers, farmers, cooks, educators and activists from around the world to connect and share their stories and traditions, as well as their innovative solutions for keeping small-scale agriculture and sustainable food production alive and well. Delegates come from over 150 countries and luckily we have some right here in Austin. Come and hear from your local Austin delegates what their experience was like and what they learned. The session will be a discussion and slide presentation. In addition, we will be sampling an Italian-style salumi and cheese plate with a local twist so please RSVP to anneh@slowfoodaustin.org.

happy hour: east side show room 1/20/2011

Date: Thursday, January 20th, 5pm – 7pm
Location: East Side Show Room, 1100 East Sixth Street

EastSideShowRoom

Come check out the beautiful and seasonal food at East Side Showroom. Chef Sonya Cote will be serving a very special 1/2 priced Slow Food Happy Hour Appetizer menu. And the Eastside Showroom bartenders will be slinging slow cocktails. We are looking forward to kicking off our exciting 2011 Happy Hour schedule!  See you next Thursday!

There will be two special cocktails for the event priced at $5 each, and proceeds from the Special Cocktail list will got to Slow Food Austin.

RSVP: karlal@slowfoodaustin.org

farm tour: sand creek farm and monument cafe, 11/20

We’re very sorry to announce that we’re having to cancel the Sand Creek Farm and Monument Cafe event, due to lack of ticket sales. There were RSVP’s and then cancellations, possibly due to it being just too close to the Thanksgiving holiday. There was a good amount of interest, it just didn’t add up to enough attendance to make the project feasible for the farmer and for Monument Cafe.  We’ll definitely be re-offering this same event in the spring.

Date: tbs
Location: Sand Creek Farm and Monument Cafe
Tickets: available at brown paper tickets

Monument Cafe

This Saturday we head out to Sand Creek Farm in Cameron to see their raw milk dairy, grassfed beef cattle, other livestock and vegetable crops, and, if we play our cards right, possibly a hay ride! Everyone will have the opportunity to purchase farm goods. Then we caravan to Monument Cafe in Georgetown, nationally celebrated for seriously good diner food featuring sustainable farm goods products, much of it sourced locally.  The cafe’s owners will soon open Monument Market, featuring naturally raised meats, produce, dairy and more, all made or grown in Texas.  Cafe chefs will prepare and serve a harvest lunch featuring Sand Creek’s delicious meats, dairy and produce.  Purchase tickets here, and contact betsyl@slowfoodaustin.org with any questions.

happy hour: peche, 11/18

Date: Thursday, November 18th, 5 pm – 8 pm
Location: Peche

PecheJoin Slow Food Austin for our monthly third Thursday Happy Hour at Péché. Chef Jason Dodge will be offering a specially created Slow Food appetizer menu featuring seasonal ingredients. A special drink menu will be available and served up by the seasoned Péché bartenders, including Maker’s Mark cocktails, Bombay Sapphire Gin cocktails and select wines. Drinks will be CASH ONLY. RSVP to karlal@slowfoodaustin.org.

slow session: breaking the jemima code, 11/8

Date: Monday November 8, 7 pm – 9 pm
Location: Carver Library, 1161 Angelina, Austin, Texas
RSVP: anneh@slowfoodaustin.org

Slow Food Presents:
Folk and Fork History of Texas Foods

A three part series on the culinary heritage of Central Texas.
Food with tall tales and tasters for all!

booksThis month part two of our three part series on the culinary history of Texas will focus on how the African American culture has influenced Texas cuisine. Culinary history has been cruel to African American cooks.For more than 200 years, the Aunt Jemima image has been powerful shorthand, used to minimize the role of black women in the creation of southern cuisine. But cookbooks are recognized as one important way women assert their individuality, develop their minds and structure their lives. With that in mind, Toni Tipton-Martin as a modern, food professional, puts on the aprons of great black cooks by peeking into their recipe collections. She looks beyond ingredient lists and instructions to see the talents and skills that have been ignored by historians. Her presentation explores slave narratives and rare black cookbooks from the late nineteenth and early twentieth century to crack the Jemima code and to tell a remarkable history that destroys a myth and reconstructs a new role model for today.  Through Toni’s discoveries, audiences see that there is a lot more wisdom to learn from Aunt Jemima than just her recipe for great pancakes. She helps us all restore a little warmth to our kitchens of granite and steel.

In addition, there will be a live cooking demonstration in which Toni will not only pass down a traditional recipe, but also pass it around for all to share. Space is limited to 25 people so please RSVP to anneh@slowfoodaustin.org.

farm tour: richardson farms, 10/24

Date: Sunday, October 24th 10:00 am – 1:00 pmRichardson Farms
Location: Richardson Farms

Is pastured meat different? Better? More flavorful? And if so, why? Slow Food Austin is going to visit area expert livestock farmers Jim and Kay Richardson to find out.

The Richardson family has been farming for generations. On their Rockdale farm Jim and Kay Richardson raise wholesome meats in time-tested natural ways, grinding the corn grown on-farm for their pigs, raising their beef cattle solely on grass, pasturing chickens for eggs and broilers, and producing all-natural turkeys for area holiday tables.

October’s cooler weather is perfect for savoring slow-roasted meats, and high time to reserve your holiday turkey! Tour participants will redeem their $20 tickets at the farm for a selection of the Richardson’s natural pastured meats, and we’ll see the farm and have plenty of opportunity to ask our hosts about their production methods and how best to cook their meat. Join us October 24 from 10-1.

Limited space remains, so please RSVP today to receive the ticket purchase link: betsyl@slowfoodaustin.org

There is another farm tour on the same day, right after the slow food austin tour of Richardson Farms.

The Brazos Locavores’ October Farm Tour is planned for Oct 24th from 1pm-5pm at the Wild Type Ranch. The tour is free and they will be collecting donations to support the Milam County Food Pantry.

Check out their website for more information: www.wildtyperanch.com

Those who wish to attend are encouraged to RSVP at brazoslocavores@gmail.com The group will meet-up at Brazos Natural Foods (4303 S. Texas Ave in Bryan) and carpool out to the farm.

happy hour: jeffrey’s, 10/21

Jeffrey'sDate: Thursday, October 21st, 5pm – 7pm
Location: Jeffrey’s
RSVP: Karlal@slowfoodaustin.org

Chef Degan McClung will be serving up delectable appetizers, and during happy hour, appetizers are half-price. This happy hour is sponsored by Deep Eddy Vodka and Pioneer Wine Company. There is no cover or fee associated with attending this slow food event.  Proceeds from the special slow food happy hour drink list (one cocktail and wine selections) will go to slow food. But, space is limited, so RSVP: Karlal@slowfoodaustin.org.