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slow session: the science of bread making, 5/9/2011

Date: Monday, May 9th, 7pm-9pm
Location: Habitat Suites, 500 East Highland Mall Boulevard, Austin, Texas 78752
RSVP: anneh@slowfoodaustin.org

Slow Food Presents…The Science of Bread Making

Bread comes in thousands of forms, from fluffy brioche to dense Armenian lavash. They all begin the same way – a mixture of milled grains and liquids. But it is how we combine these basic ingredients that results in a bread with big airy crumbs or a heavy compact consistency. In this Slow Session we will explore the science of bread making with CIA trained baker and Slow Food board member Hannah Casparian. This is an excellent opportunity to perfect your bread making skills and expand your knowledge of the basics such as bread leaveners, gluten development, and rising times. You also get to sample some of the breads discussed and we will end with a Q&A.

This event is free and open to everyone in the community. Please send an RSVP to anneh@slowfoodaustin.org.

happy hour: tecolote farm, 4/21/2011

Date: Thursday, April 21 6 pm – sunset
Location: Tecolote Farm, Decker Lake Rd. Manor, TX 78653
Music by the Skillet Heads
Directions below
RSVP: karlal@slowfoodaustin.org

If you haven’t made it to one of our farm happy hours, you are definitely missing out! Be sure to come out this coming Thursday, April 21st 6pm-sunset to Tecolote Farm on Decker Lane. We will enjoy wine from Ambiente and beer from one of our local breweries. Appetizers sourced directly from Tecolote Farm will will be served al fresco!

We request a $10 CASH donation to cover the cost of food and drinks. Proceeds from the Happy Hour will go to Slow Food Austin to support our local programs.

Lawn chairs and closed-toe shoes are encouraged.

You don’t want to miss this fantastic happy hour with delicious food, toddies and local tunes by Skillet Heads featuring Jerry, Joe, and Jay on the guitar, banjo and fiddle.

DIRECTIONS TO TECOLOTE FARM:Location Details and Parking

To get to Tecolote Organic Farm from central Austin: Take MLK east out of town. MLK becomes FM 969 at 183. Go east on MLK/969 about 8 miles past 183. You’ll cross Decker Lane (the road to the rodeo), FM 973, and the new toll road. When you are entering a wide, right-hand curve and leaving the developed area take the first left after the Exxon gas station, it’s Taylor Lane. Immediately turn left again on Decker Lake Road and go half a mile. We’re the first mailbox/driveway on the left: 16301. Come s l o w l y up the driveway (no dust clouds, please), then park in the grass across the driveway from our house, just off the drive, next to the farm crew’s cars. Sundays are harvest days for our Monday CSA deliveries, so the farm will be in action. Please make sure cars are not blocking any thoroughfares.

slow session: bee keeping 101, 4/11/2011

Date: Monday April 11th, 7pm – 9pm
Location: Habitat Suites 500 East Highland Mall Boulevard Austin, Tx 78752
RSVP: anneh@slowfoodaustin.org

Slow Food Presents…Bee Keeping 101

Wannabee a beekeeper? Are you a newbee?
Then this is the Slow Food Session to attend!

Slow Food has bee fever and given the number of requests for this class so do you! Join us for a special evening in which we will explore the amazing craft of beekeeping with Brandon Fehrenkamp.

Brandon is a self taught bee-keeper who has been refining his bee expertise for close to a decade. This Slow Session is designed to answer your
questions about beekeeping and to give you the how-to on getting a colony established at home.

This event is free and open to everyone in the community so spread the word and bee a part of the movement by sending an RSVP to
anneh@slowfoodaustin.org.

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 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.

Purchase Tickets for Urban Roots

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.

Purchase Tickets for Sand Creek Farm/Monument Cafe

Kocurek Family Charcuterie and Wine Pairing, 3/23/2011

Date: Wednesday March 23rd, 7pm – 9pm
Location: SWOOP House, 3012 Gonzalez Street, Austin
RSVP: karlal@slowfoodaustin.org

Kocurek Family Charcuterie and Wine Pairing

Please join Slow Food Austin for a very special evening at 2dine4 catering’s SWOOP House featuring delicious Kocurek Family Artisanal Charcuterie, sweet and savory treats from Cake and Spoon and elegant wine pairings generously provided by Pioneer Wine Company.

Slow Food Austin Member Price: $40
Non-Member Price: $50

RSVP: karlal@slowfoodaustin.org

Price includes:
Quiche tartlets (Cake and Spoon)
Czech Blood sausage with beurre noisette on baguette (Kocurek) with wine
Duo of pate, pate de campagne with tarragon grain mustard, pate de maison with parsley gelee on brioche (Kocurek) with wine
Hure de Tete terrine with frisee salad, mustard viniagrette (Kocurek) with wine
Scallop seared over a bed of bacon and leek ragout with sauce charcuterie (Kocurek) with wine
Bacon and chocolate tart (Cake and Spoon)
Passed Appetizer / Open House Format

Our sponsors:
Cake and Spoon
Pioneer Wine Company
2Dine4 Catering/SWOOP Events
Kocurek Family Artisanal Charcuterie

*A portion of the proceeds will benefit Slow Food Austin.

Our Sponsors

slow session: Bee the Change, 3/14/2011

Date: Monday March 14th, 7pm – 9pm
Location: Habitat Suites, 500 East Highland Mall Boulevard
RSVP: anneh@slowfoodaustin.org

Slow Food Presents: Bee the Change

Join our hive as we watch Vanishing of the Bees, a documentary described by the press as the “most important film since An Inconvenient Truth.” Following the story for three years, Vanishing of the Bees, narrated by Oscar-nominated Ellen Page chronicles the innermost thoughts and feelings of beekeepers and scientists as they fight to preserve the honeybee and make it through another day. Combining interviews from around the world, animation, 50’s educational films, and breathtaking nature cinematography, Henein and Langworthy present not just a story about Colony Collapse Disorder, but a platform full of solutions, encouraging audiences to be the change they want to see in the world.

Space is limited so please RSVP to anneh@slowfoodaustin.org.

Sign a petition to help Bees today!

Slow Food USA has recently launched a campaign to pressure the EPA to take action on the bee disappearance. The EPA has been dragging its feet because of strong lobby from the pesticide companies. We need to counter the pesticide lobby’s pressure and hold the EPA to that commitment, by sending them a message they can’t ignore:

Click Here to Sign the Petition today!!

Go to the Slow Food USA Blog for more info on bees

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/Malverde Please 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.

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.

two february food events

Antonelli’s Cheese Shop Announces 1 Year Anniversary
February 7th – 10th

Antonelli's Antonelli’s Cheese Shop, locally-owned and operated by John and Kendall Antonelli, will celebrate its one-year anniversary on February 11, 2011. To commemorate this cheese-y day, as well as thank customers and partnering wholesale restaurants, Antonelli’s Cheese Shop is giving away free cheese plates around town from February 7-10. While supplies last, the following restaurants will be participating:

Monday, Feb.7th:
FINO – Free Cheese Plates starting at 6pm
ASTI – Free Cheese Plates starting at 6pm

Tuesday, Feb.8th:
El Arbol – Free Cheese Plates starting at 5pm
Dolce Vita – Free Cheese Plates starting at 5pm

Wednesday, Feb.9th:
Jeffrey’s Restaurant – Free Cheese Plates starting at 5pm
House Pizzeria – Free Cheese Plates starting at 5pm

Thursday, Feb.10th:
Apothecary – Free Cheese Plates starting at 5pm
24Diner – Free Cheese Plates from 6pm to 10pm

Monday through Friday: Make a purchase at Antonelli’s Cheese Shop and be entered into a raffle to win a free private cheese tasting in the shop for up to 20 guests. Additionally, bring into the shop a receipt showing a cheese plate purchase that week (2/7-2/11) from one of the businesses above or from the following and be entered into the raffle: Andiamo Ristorante, Max’s Wine Dive, Truluck’s, The Steeping Room, Salt Lick Cellars, Snack Bar, House Wine, Hotel Saint Cecilia, Star Bar (Wednesday only), and Gibson (Wednesday only). (Please note that the raffle closes at 7pm Friday, February 11.) Thanks also to wholesale friends Vino Vino, Farmhouse Delivery, Hyde Park Bar & Grill, Royal Fig Catering, 2nd & Congress, Pink Avocado Catering, Barr Mansion, and Bola Pizza.

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Private Wine and Chocolate Tasting
Sunday, February 13th

Becker and Delysia Join the Sustainable Foodies on Feb. 13 for a Becker Vineyards and Delysia Chocolate pairing and hill country day trip. Don’t miss this Valentine Sunday afternoon chance to join the Sustainable Foodies for an exclusive Becker Vineyard Tour and Tasting with Delysia Chocolate. Included in your ticket price are roundrip transportation on a charter bus, pairing of six Becker Wines, and six Delysia Chocolates. Only a few tickets remain! Click here for more details.