|
|
Slow Food O'ahu News
Number 2011-17
Mailed November 19, 2011
|
|
Happy Holidays...
We know that your holiday season has just begun with events on your calendar and thus we have a fairly light holiday season of Slow Food O'ahu events. As you prepare your Thanksgiving feast or your holiday meals, please take a moment to buy local, sustainable, and organic, when possible. We consume more food at this time of the year than any other and therefore it is the perfect time to make a conscious statement to "eat how you preach".
We know that First Lady Michelle Obama is not likely to know about our Slow Food O'ahu e-newsletter, but we wish to thank her for prioritizing her time in Honolulu recently to visit Ma'o Farm and host APEC spouses at Kualoa Ranch with chef Ed Kenney to promote local agriculture. If she can keep nutrition and sustainability as a priority, so can we!
Your Executive Committee
|
|
Healthy Holiday Chocolate Truffles Class
Saturday, December 3, 1 p.m. - 4 p.m.
Learn to make delicious, healthy holiday truffles as gifts for your loved ones this holiday season! Kristen Klassen of local chocolate-maker Madre Chocolate will demonstrate how to make delectable truffles using vegan and raw ingredients such as coconut milk, almond butter, and honey as an healthy sweetener. The truffles will feature healthy dark chocolate crafted from bean-to-bar at Madre Chocolate's Kailua shop with the finest cacao grown in Hawaii. Klassen will share secrets from 15 years of experience as a pastry chef and chocolatier in Honolulu, Seattle, and Switzerland. Participants of the class will watch her demo three different truffles (see below), get purchasing tips on the best vegan and raw ingredients to use, and students will go home with recipes for each of them and a gift bag with each of the three flavors of truffles.
The truffle menu is as follows:
Coconut truffles with maple cumin candied pepitas
Vanilla honey truffles with toasted sesame seeds
Almond butter truffles dipped in 70% Raw Hamakua couverature
This event will take place at Ferguson's Kitchen in Kalihi. Please RSVP to Michelle by Sunday, November 27th at sfo.reservation@gmail.com . This event is LIMITED TO 25 PEOPLE and is sure to fill up, so please RSVP quickly if you would like to attend! Please include in your RSVP your name, member status, phone or email and the name of any nonmember or member guests you would like to bring. Payment of $45/members and $50/nonmembers MUST be received by Wednesday, November 30. Please note: due to the nature of this event and the necessity of purchasing ingredients beforehand, if you need to cancel after the RSVP date has passed, you will be held responsible for payment. Payment information will be sent to you following your RSVP and address and final details will be sent to all confirmed guests a few days prior to the event.
|
Slow Food O'ahu Annual Meeting and Potluck - Reserve the Date
January 15, 2012 - 11:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m.
Please mark your calendars for our annual Slow Food O'ahu Annual Meeting and Potluck on January 15, 2012. We have not yet found a site to accommodate an approximate 60 people - so if you have any ideas, please let us know at slowfoodoahu@yahoo.com. We will provide more details in our next newsletter.
|
 Need a Christmas Gift?
Buy a Slow Food O'ahu t-shirt
If you would like to support Slow Food O'ahu consider purchasing one of our t-shirts for a holiday gift.
Our shirts are $20, but we offer a $5 discount for Slow Food O'ahu members. Your purchase assists our outreach activities and also supports our efforts to send local farmers and food activities to Terra Madre in Italy in 2012.
We have made it easy for you to find our shirts, now available at three locations:
Pegge Hopper Gallery
1164 Nu'uanu Ave.
town Restaurant
3435 Waialae Ave.
Downtown Restaurant
250 S. Hotel St.
If you are unable to get to one of the locations and wish to order bulk t-shirts, we can arrange to have them mailed to you for the cost of the t-shirt plus postage. Contact us at slowfoodoahu@yahoo.com. |
Website assistance needed....
Slow Food O'ahu is seeking a person who is able to convert our current website to Wordpress and make some minor changes to the site map. We are willing to pay a nominal fee for the assistance. If you have skills in this area and are willing to assist, please contact Francine Wai at slowfoodoahu@yahoo.com.
|
A little bit of this and that...
- The Gretchen Swanson Center for Nutrition has launched an online toolkit to assist anyone wanting to incorporate more local foods into their school lunch menus through a Farm to School program. The toolkit is designed to walk school food service personnel, food producers, distributors and others through the process of local foods procurement including information on local food sources, the definition of "local" and the seasonality of foods grown and produced in Nebraska. This new Farm to School toolkit is available at http://toolkit.centerfornutrition.org/.
- It's What's For Dinner by Joan Conrow discusses Hawaii's cattle industry and the problems surrounding our slaughterhouses (or lack of) in the Honolulu Weekly (11/26/11)
|
|
Slow Food Leadership
Slow Food O'ahu Officers:
Laurie Carlson, President; Mae Isonaga, Treasurer; Rike Weiss, Secretary; Michelle Phillips, Events Coordinator; Francine Wai, Newsletter Editor; Nina Bermudez, Membership and E-mail correspondent.
Web master: Martha Cheng
Quick Links
Slow Food O'ahu Convivium website Slow Food Hawai'i Convivium website
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
