Archive for June, 2009
Slow Food Calgary
Slow Food Calgary’s 8th Annual Feast of Fields
September 13, 2009
Rouge Restaurant, Calgary
Slow Food Calgary is please to present the 8th Annual Feast of Fields. This celebration of Alberta’s harvest features 20 of Calgary’s best chefs in partnership with 50 local food producers. Rouge Restaurant plays host in their historic garden and smooth jazz by Simply Sinatra sets the mood.
Feast of Fields 8 will see the launch of a new guidebook for consumers. The Snail is the symbol of Slow Food International. The new guidebook is called “The Snail Trail” as it leads consumers to local producers, chefs, caterers and restaurants approved by Slow Food Calgary for their use of “good, clean and fair” local foods.
Slow Food Calgary is partnering with The Delta Bow Valley, Acquired Tastes Food Tours and Foodsmith Inc. to provide an unique culinary tourism package for the weekend of September 12 & 13. The Delta Bow Valley will have a “100 mile diet” menu and special room rates. Acquired Tastes Food Tours will offer a tour of Calgary’s Inglewood neighbourhood with an emphasis on businesses that support local products and Foodsmith Inc. will host a bust tour called “The Flavours of the Foothills” on September 12.This year’s Feast of Fields’ educational component focuses on “The Fate of Bees” with the disturbing trend to Colony Collapse Disorder and what every person can do to help to stabilize the bee population.
Slow Food Calgary’s 8th Annual Feast of Fields
Sunday September 13, 20091 – 4 pm
Rouge Restaurant, 1240 – 8 Ave SE, in the garden.
This is a “Rain or Shine” event.
Members: Adults $55; Youth (8-18) $15; Family of 4- $135; Kids under 8 – free
Not yet members: Adults $70; Youth (8-18) $30; Family of 4- $160; Kids under 8 – free
Tickets at The Cookbook Co. Cooks: 722 – 11 Ave SW / 403-265-6066
Growers and Farmgate Sales, Local
Singing the praises of Highwood Crossing’s Organic Canola Oil
It’s great to see a treasured local product get some national press.
Read about how Tony and Penny Marshall’s (Highwood Crossing) organic canola oil has inspired chefs with its warm, bright complex flavours and is raising the profile of the oil itself: The Globe and Mail
Find out where to buy Highwood Crossing’s Canola Oil: Highwood Crossing
Global, Slow Food Calgary
Red Fife Wheat Pasta
Yes, Canada’s first nomination to Slow Food’s Ark of Taste has taken on a new form – pasta. Recently embraced by artisanal bread makers nationwide, this heritage cereal planted on the David Fife homestead in Peterborough in 1842 has survived the onslaught of industrial seed proliferation, to exist today. It is now thriving, in fact, as more farmers choose to grow quality plants that exist, tenuously, outside industrial agriculture’s canons.
In this case, the same people who grow the wheat – John Rowe and Paul Moyer – mill it and make the pasta. “I don’t think any other pasta product you buy,” Mr. Rowe says, “can tell you where the wheat was grown, how it was grown and when it was milled.”
Read about how this extant wheat with a distinctive red kernel got from the mill stone to the pasta bike. >Special to the Globe and Mail, by Ivy Knight – posted Wednesday June 3, 2009.
Global, Slow Food Calgary
Not so many fish in the sea…
Ethical fish consumption is a can of worms. How does one navigate the ship of good, clean and fair to land the catch of the day? Many will argue that we simply cannot and so should keep our mouths and bellies out of the water entirely while there are still fish to consider frying. Others think that this itinerate and finite resource may, in some of its forms, sustain a presence on our plates.
Looking for information on fish with the smallest fin prints?
Check out these web sites:
For a prominent Canadian authority on the topic: www.seachoice.org
The American authority: www.montereybayaquarium.org/cr/seafoodwatch.asp
Further information on best fish to buy: www.seafood.audubon.org