Thursday, April 8, 2010

Celebrate Spring Food at April 18 Dinner



Slow Food Katy Trail

and Broadway Brewery present


An Early-Spring Dinner and Beer Tasting

Four courses and five beers to celebrate local spring foods

and to benefit Slow Food-in-Schools projects


April 18 at 5 p.m., Broadway Brewery

Festive group tables and camaraderie * brewery tour


THE MENU

Spring sextet charcuterie platter

Walker's handcrafted coppa, soppressata, pâté

and vegetarian appetizers begin the festivities

Uprise bread accompanies


A trio of beautiful babies

Three baby-lettuce heads (one freckled, one red and one green) lightly dipped in different dressings and each crowned with its own blend of delicate vegetables, cheese and/or nuts


A delectable duo of meats

A sorghum-glazed baked leg-quarter of chicken shares the plate with herb-encrusted dry-aged beef

First-of-the-season asparagus and local grains accompany


The dessert quartet

Chocolate ganache bites

First-of-the-season strawberry shortcake

Blueberry compote with fresh cream

Mint sorbet


A variety of Broadway Brewery beers accompany the courses

(Wine available for purchase for non-beer drinkers)


Cost per person is $45 and only 60 tickets are available

Slow Food members received the first opportunity to purchase tickets during the first five days of sales. On April 8, ticket sales are open to the public. Sales will be made only through the Brown Paper Tickets site: http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/107131

All proceeds will benefit Slow Food Katy Trail's Slow Food-in-Schools projects. Even though we don't tout these important projects nearly often enough (we're too busy actually getting them done!), we do want you to know the great things we are doing with schoolchildren to raise their local-food awareness. Please see our blog (http://slowfoodkatytrail.blogspot.com/2009/05/sfkt-connects-local-children-with-local.html) to get a taste of all we've accomplished during the last year with Lee Elementary School third graders. We are continuing the program this year, as well as providing snacks to all the children at West Boulevard Elementary during MAP testing for seven days in April.

2 comments:

Sg said...

Do you work with other elementary schools or just Lee?

Bernadettte Dryden said...

Our plan is to work with another school next year; in addition, we're meeting with a representative of a third school this month to help them develop a similar program. We worked with Lee two years, and we hope to work with the next school two years, then move to another. We'd love to help all at once, but we are an all-volunteer organization so it is difficult to assist more than one school at a time.