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Organic Bulk Foods
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Eugene, Oregon
541.686.0921
HummingbirdWholesale.com
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Excelsior Inn Sustainable Old World Cuisine
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Eugene
541/342-6963
excelsiorinn.com
Ciao Pizza
541/505-8487
ciaopizza.com
Brindiamo Catering
541/895-2147
brindiamo.com
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Hideaway Bakery
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3377 East Amazon Drive Eugene, OR 97405-3816
(541) 868-1982
Open Mon-Sat 7am-6pm; Sun 7am-4pm
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Michelle T. Wyatt, M.D.
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Support The School Garden Project And Have A OOzingly Good Time--The OOzequerade Is Friday, May 20, 5:30 pm at the McDonald Theatre
What a great opportunity to support one of Slow Food Eugene's favorite organizations--the School Garden Project--and celebrate with one of our most esteemed and honored garden pests. The OOzequerade is a gala fundraiser sponsored by "Raining" S.L.U.G. (Society for the Legitimization of the Ubiquitous Gastropod) Queen Slugasana.
The OOzequerade is an OOzingly extravagant evening of entertainment, fun, food, festivities, drink, art auction and education. "Come as you are, or as you aren't!" says Queen Slugasana. "Costumes are encouraged, and prizes will be awarded." All proceeds benefit the School Garden Project of Lane County.
The McDonald Theatre will be transformed into the Queen's Garden of Delights. The Garden Variety Art Show and pianist Rich Glauber will greet guests as they enter. A garden-themed art show-featuring the work of nearly 50 different area artists is presented in honor of Beth Kealy, a longtime supporter of the School Garden Project who passed in December 2010.
Entertainers scheduled include comediennes Leigh Anne Jasheway and Sarah Ulerick, music by the Radar Angels and Accordions Anonymous, with The Essentials-fabulous blues, soul, funk and dance music-closing the event. Performances start at 6:30 p.m.
Field to Table, a Eugene catering company that utilizes ingredients from local farms, purveyors and retailers, will provide appetizers inspired by local gardens.
Sponsors for the event include Organically Grown Company, Hummingbird Wholesale, Horton Road Organics, BRING Recycling, Crosby & Taylor and Pasta Plus.
Important Details:
DATE: Friday, May 20, 2011
TIME: Doors open 5:30pm and shut 11:30pm
PLACE: McDonald Theatre at 1001 Willamette St, Eugene
TICKETS: Tickets are $25, available at the McDonald Theatre Box Office or online at
www.mcdonaldtheatre.com or www.ticketswest.com.
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 Last Tuesday Meet-Up At The Excelsior Inn, May 31, 5:30-7pm, Featuring A Talk On Introducing Culinary Professionals To The Use Of Local Foods One of our Slow Food Eugene sponsors has invited us for our last Tuesday of the month happy-hour event. Come enjoy good company, a short presentation and partake in the happy-hour type food and drink attractions available for purchase. Julie Feather from the Lane Community College Culinary Arts Program will discuss making the farm-to-restaurant ideal a reality for aspiring young chefs. She will speak for about 15 minutes. The rest of the time will be open for people to chat and make new friends. So invite your friends, bring your questions, and come on out.
DATE: Last Tuesday of May, the 31st.
TIME: 5:30-7 pm; presentation from 6:15 to 6:30pm PLACE: Excelsior Inn, 754 E. 13th Avenue, Eugene COST: You are invited to purchase the Happy Hour selections from the menu. |
Join Us For A Potluck Dinner Featuring Food From the Indian Subcontinent At The Camas Country Mill--One Of The Willamette Valley's Most Exciting New Agricultural Ventures--Thursday, June 2, 6:30-8:30pm
Here's another chance to get up close and personal with the local bean and grain movement! Last year we toured the Hunton Farm and saw their plantings of lentils, wheats, teff, and beans. Now we get to see the new mill facility that they recently completed.
Join Slow Food Eugene and Camas Country Mill for a fun evening celebrating this latest piece in our continuing efforts to support bean and grain production in the Willamette Valley. We will hear from the Huntons about the mill and their current bean and grain products, as well as the products that they hope to introduce in the near and far future. Naturally we will also celebrate this great addition to our local food system with a great meal, by way of the Indian sub-continent. Slow Food Eugene will provide the flatbreads (think the thinner types like rotis rather than naan) made out of garbanzo bean flour (garbanzos grown by the Huntons); You bring an Indian dish inspired by the bounty of our local area. Feel free to make locally influenced chutneys, raitas, dahls (did you know that there are locally grown lentils now available?), curries, parathas, gobis, just to name a few, there are so many possibilities! As always, please bring your own plates, flatware, cups, and a beverage. No alcohol please. Space is limited, so buy your tickets right away.
DATE: Thursday, June 2, 2011
TIME: 6:30-8:30pm PLACE: Camas Country Mill, 90785 Link Road, Eugene, OR 97402 (Click the link for a map locating the mill.) COST: $9 per person; children 12 and under free; tickets will be available this weekend at brownpapertickets.com.
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SLOW FOOD EUGENE EVENTS--We Have A Date Change For You--Ninkasi Carts And A Cold One Changed to July 31
Here is brief overview of the upcoming events: - Last Tuesday of each month--Happy Hour meet ups
- June 2--Tour and potluck at Camas Valley Grains/Hunton Mill. This is one of the projects that is bringing beans and grain to the Willamette Valley.
- June 26--Slow Food Eugene informational table at the KLCC Garden Tour.
- July 31--Carts and a Cold One at Ninkasi Brewery. This is a reprise of last year's wildly successful Sunday afternoon event.
- August (details to be announced)--One Field Meal.
There are more events on the horizon, including some theme potlucks, so keep an eye out for more news.
To make all this happen, we can use your help. Contact us at eugene@slowfoodusa.org to help make these events successful. |
Slow Food Eugene Welcomes Two New Newsletter Sponsors-
Sweet Life Patisserie and Hideaway Bakery
This month, we welcome Sweet Life Patisserie and Hideaway Bakery to our growing list of sponsors. Their help is vitally important to our efforts to support organizations like the School Garden Project and the Farm to School Program.
We encourage others of you to help us out. This is a great opportunity to get your business name out to our large and growing newsletter subscriber list. Join the sponsors listed along the left hand column. Not only are they supporting good, clean, and fair food, but they are letting our subscribers know that they are friends of Slow Food Eugene. Send an email for details about our sponsorship program.
And, for our subscribers out there, show your support by clicking on their ads and patronizing their businesses.
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Interesting Tidbits
We would like to add links in our newsletter to pieces about Oregon agriculture and cuisine, Slow Food, healthy eating, food politics, and just plain food fun. If you have links to articles that you think our readers would find interesting let us know. Send us an email with the link.
By the way, if you've sent us a link in the past, you may have found that the email bounced. We are happy to report that our address works just fine now.
Some Good News About Food From Mark Bittman
http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/03/22/food-six-things-to-feel-good-about/?hp Terrific New York Times Article On A New Generation Of Farmers In Oregon
Thanks to Jim Maxwell for sending us the article.
OPB Features James Beard And The Oregon Way Of Cooking
We take a lot of pride in Oregon's food bounty. We should also take pride in our fascinating history. Here is a link to an Oregon Public Broadcasting program on James Beard and his roots in Oregon. "Oregon Experience: A Cuisine of Our Own." James Beard and the Oregon way of cooking.
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Join Slow Food Eugene
The best way to join the fight for good, clean, and fair food AND enjoy yourself while you are doing it is to join Slow Food. Go to the Slow Food USA website and pay your individual membership of $25. After you join, you will be able to designate Slow Food Eugene as your home chapter. Your participation will link you with 24,000 members nationwide and 100,000 members worldwide.
Our chapter has numerous events and potlucks throughout the year that celebrate the pleasures of the table. In addition, by joining the national organization, you will support local efforts to improve food in schools, increase access to affordable, real food in low income communities, and promote biodiversity.
On a national level, we are building the power to transform food policy. Our key priority is to reform the 2012 Food and Farm Bill. Getting as many people as possible to join us in this fight is critically important to our success.
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Farm to School Apple Fundraiser
When you buy Farm to School Fuji apples at participating retailers in the Eugene area including Kiva, Friendly St, Sundance, Cappella, Red Barn, New frontier and Eugene Local Foods, profits from the sale will support the Willamette Farm and Food Coalition's Farm to School Program! For more information visit www.organicgrown.com
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Public Service Announcements
As a public service, we are listing some upcoming events we thought that you might be interested in. Listing an event in our newsletter is not an indication that we are sponsoring or endorsing the event.
Farmers Markets
Hideaway Bakery
Saturdays ongoing; 9am to 2pm
Hideaway Bakery; 3377 E. Amazon Dr., Behind Mazzi's Restaurant
More Information: www.mazzis.com or call 541.868.1982
Lane County
Main Saturday Market
Saturdays: 9am-4pm
8th St, Oak & Park Streets, Downtown Eugene
Tuesdays: May 3 to October 25; 10am-3pm
8th and Oak streets, Downtown Eugene
More information: Lane County Farmers Market or call 541.431.4923
Other Local Food Organizations
Weston A. Price Foundation Potluck
What: A monthly potluck in Eugene (and other locales) to foster discussion and understanding of traditional healing foods used by long-lived and healthy societies. Based on researched gathered by Weston A Price, DDS.
Who: Weston A. Price Foundation, Eugene Chapter
When: Held second Monday of each month, 6:30pm to 8:30pm
Where: Rotates among members' homes. Email Lisa at info@krautpounder.com for current location and to get newsletters of activities.
Cost: Bring a Weston A. Price Traditional-Style dish to share. More Information: Lisa at info@krautpounder.comVictory Gardens
What: Ongoing edible planting events providing an opportunity to volunteer in creating new gardens, developing edible forests, caring for existing gardens, making compost and meeting like-minded gardening folks.
Who: Victory Garden Team
When: call or email for winter schedule
Where: 505 River Road, Eugene
Cost: free
More information: victorygardensforall@gmail.com or call Charlotte 541.653.0149 |
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