Greetings and Welcome to the Slow Food KC Blog! Just starting this adventure, we will welcome comments from you, suggestions and any discusssions that you feel apply to Slow Food KC! Welcome, and look for a Thanksgiving letter from our Convium Chair, Jasper Mirabile Jr. soon!
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This is a great way to express any comments or suggestions you have about Slow Food Kansas City! It is easy to sign in and set up a blog name, please do so and lets get started!
Mark you calendars for these upcoming events!!!
January 2006 La Tienda Artisan Mexican Cuisine Workshop & Dinner- Metcalf & 83rd Street
February 2006 Artisan Beer Seminar with Kansas City's own Boulevard Beer & Slow Member, John Byron
March 2006 Slow Food KC St. Patrick's Celebration & Corned Beef Seminar at Boyle's Famous Corned Beef Factory
April 2006 Slow Food KC Artisan Candy Seminar at the famous Valomilk Chocolate Factory in Merriam, KS
May 2006 Shatto Milk Local Artisan Butter & Milk Event@ Regarding Kitchens
June 2006 Slow Food KC BBQ & Jazz Picnic w/BBQ Queens Karen Adler & Judith Fertig and their new cookbook, Weekend Grilling@ Shannon Valley Park, in Overland Park, KS
July 2006 3rd Annual Slow Food KC Heirloom Tomato Seminar at Brookside Farmer's Market with Jasper Mirabile Jr.
August 2006 T-Bone & T-Bones Baseball Game- Artisan Meat Seminar & Baseball Game with W-K Farms & the KC T-Bones Minor League Baseball
September 2006 3rd Annual Slow Food KC Grape Harvest at Somerset Ridge Vineyard
October 2006 Slow Food KC Italy Tour to Salon del Gusto Turin, Italy
4th Annual Slow Food Apple Harvest & Dinner
November 2006 Slow Food KC Turkey Seminar with Frank Reese/Good Shepherd Farms
December 2006 Slow Food KC Celebrity Chef Series (#1 of 4 in Series) & Holiday Luncheon w/Jennifer Maloney from Cafe Sebastian Kemper Museum of Art
November 2005 New addition to the Links Page- Frank Reese and His Good Shepherd Farms
Anyone interested in turkey? Please read on.................
Baking With Fred. Return to Fervere, Kansas City's Artisan Bakery for a true artisan slow baking seminar on Thursday, November 10th, 2005 at 6:00 PM
"Visions of Sugar Plums" Holiday Open House, Culinary Showcase, & Chic Boutique at The Roth Center on Wednesday, November 30th 6-8 PM
Visions of Sugar Plums Holiday
Thanksgiving Thoughts
Dear Members,
It is early morning in my office, just one week before my favorite holiday and I am trying to let the caffeine sink in from my double espresso to give me just enough energy to express my thoughts about Slow Food Kansas City, our convivium and membership, the 2005 past events and our direction for 2006. As we approach the Thanksgiving holiday, I would like to express to our members not only my sincere thanks for everyone's support of Slow Food but also reflect on this past year.
Just three years ago, I started the Slow Food Convivium with only two members, we met at lunch one afternoon and decided to bring a convivium to Kansas City. Our mission, back then, was simple, to support local food artisans and farmers, offer seminars and workshops to showcase local producers and to let our community know about the diverse agricultural possibilities in our area.
Slow Food Kansas City focuses on food, local growers and the food preparation practices within different cultures. Slow Food teaches us about choice and season — choosing food produced in season for the prime taste in the food you eat. Slow Food not only attempts to preserve authentic ingredients in food preparation, but is also dedicated to maintaining traditions which are sometimes centuries old, Slow Food is about sustainability.
This past year we have not only supported local farmers with our events, we worked with a local church and friends of Slow Food Brewster and Kathy Ellis to start our first Slow Food Garden in our community! Local Slow Member Francie Flynn is getting ready for 2006 with help from the community farmers to help this garden grow. This was a huge milestone that we reached and we just barely got a step in the right direction before Summer ended. Our goal next year is to purchase signs for the garden and have a storage shed with equipment for our gardeners and school children.
Our board meets each month at Jasper's and we have worked on many projects in the past such as our Arc nomination (The Norton Grape), event calendars, communicating with national Slow Food, supporting local markets and farmers, etc...We have so many events planned for 2006 that I hope I can attend each one of them but what I am really looking for is help and participation from the membership, organizing events and attending seminars, festivals, picnics, etc...I want you involved in all aspects of our convivium.
We are returning to Somerset Ridge Vineyards with members Dennis and Cindy Reynolds to pick grapes, our friends and members from Louisburg Cider Mill, Tom and Shelly Schierman are again planning our 2006 Harvest at the Cider Mill and we are doing a cookbook signing and picnic with Karen Adler and Judith Fertig, local members of Slow KC and nationally known cookbook authors. Our Slow Food Kansas City blog is up, thanks to all the hard work from our secretary and web mistress Liz Handlen. Mike Hursey and Christine Thomas, along with Suzanne Cruise and George Vesel, continue to support every event, bringing in many new members, organizing events and setting them up and cleaning up,(MANY THANKS) and spreading the Slow word as Hilary Cooley continues to update and figure out our membership, e-mail, etc...trying to contact old members, it is not easy and everyone is really trying. Lonnie Williams and Karen Adler are setting up a local Slow newsletter and making many contacts in the community and to top everything off, we even get to work with Frank Reese and his turkeys in 2006 for another great seminar. Slow member and treasurer Mariann Vandenberg is planning a trip to Italy in October for our convivium, I will keep you posted! All of these co-leaders make Slow Food happen, believe me!!!!! Did I forget anyone, if so, I am so sorry, I appreciate everyone's support!
As we grow in 2006 (150 members) please remember the real energy of Slow Food comes from the convivium and those grass root structures must be sustainable if we are to remain successful. we continue to get local and national press but our job is not done, we need to get more involved, each and everyone of us!
I wish everyone of you a Happy Thanksgiving as I give thanks for another wonderful year with my family, our restaurant but most of all with Slow and the opportunity to lead our convivium to another successful year. Please do not hesitate to ever call on me, whether I am cooking at Jasper's, doing a demo, or signing a cookbook, I will ALWAYS make time for our members and don't forget to visit our web-site www.slowfoodkansascity.com for updates and please remember to renew your membership in 2006!.
Thank you again for your continued support, I am sincerely,
Jasper Mirabile Jr.
There is an upcoming article
in the Kansas City Star next
week on Kansas heritage pork. Craig Good, a Duroc
pork farmer, produces a rare
breed of pigs. His Duroc
pork is being served at Lidia's and Cafe Sebastienne. The article should be in the December
Food section of the Star.
Congrats to Slowfood KC for starting a blog. While I have not yet made it to the events, I am intent on doing so in the coming year. I've only been in the convivium a short time.
If interested, you can visit my food blog, the The Expatriate's Kitchen. I'd be interested to see other convivium members' blogs and sites as a way to learn more about the other convivium members.
Congrats to Slowfood KC for starting a blog. While I have not yet made it to the events, I am intent on doing so in the coming year. I've only been in the convivium a short time.
If interested, you can visit my food blog, the The Expatriate's Kitchen. I'd be interested to see other convivium members' blogs and sites as a way to learn more about the other convivium members.
Congrats to Slowfood KC for starting a blog. While I have not yet made it to the events, I am intent on doing so in the coming year. I've only been in the convivium a short time.
If interested, you can visit my food blog, the The Expatriate's Kitchen. I'd be interested to see other convivium members' blogs and sites as a way to learn more about the other convivium members.
Expatriate Chef, thanks so much for the nice comment about our blog and your thoughts, I look forward to seeing you at a Slow Food Event in Kansas city. By the way, I like your blog, VERY INTERESTING! I will send it to my members! Happy Thanksgiving.
Thanks for the nice comments on my blog, glad you could find time to stop by. My best wishes for you in the holiday season and the coming year.
The Expatriate Chef
BTW, the longer posts in the archives may be of interest. This one is my favorite: A Sandwich is a Sandwich ...
Best,
EC
Happy Holidays to all!
I was treated by Jasper to a delicious Applecello,a Jasper recipe. Made with cider from Louisburg Cidermill. If you ever had Lemoncello you would love this treat. Stop by and twist Jasper's arm.
Buon Natale.
Mike
Slow Food Kansas City
Presents
A Winter Tuscan Cooking Class At Jasper's
January 18, 2006
Join Jasper Mirabile Jr. and the Slow Food Kansas City for a Slow Food class featuring the bounty of the winter with traditional Tuscan dishes such as Roasted Fennel Soup, Risotto Modo Mio, Brick Oven Roasted Pousson ((whole baby chicken) over soft polenta with root vegetables, winter salads and a unique Macaroni with Butchers sauce along with a dessert along with homemade gelato,
Tuscan Olive Oil Biscotti and Jasper Jr.'s. Bicerin, a chocolate drink
that Jasper will lace with some grappa.
This cooking class will start at 7:00 PM and is a class not to be missed!
Jasper will provide recipes and techniques while you savor his fine dishes.
72 Hour cancellation policy will be enforced on this dinner. No refunds!
A portion of the proceeds will be donated to slow Food Kansas city!
Reservations are limited, make your plans today!
40.00 Slow Food Members 45.00 Non- Slow Food Members
Jasper's
1201 W. 103rd. Street
Kansas city, MO 64114
816.941.6600
I thought it would be appropiate to write about the history Of St. Joseph's Day since many of our members have e-mailed me asking about the patron saint of Sicilians and the feast that is prepared. St. Joseph's Day
March 19
Catholics prepare “St. Joseph Tables,” set to honor St. Joseph. They are filled with beautiful and often elaborate foods, including meatless dishes such as stuffed artichokes, pasta and fish, as well as breads, cookies, pastries, cakes and other delicacies.
St. Joseph Tables are placed in both churches and homes. Each table is blessed by a priest and presided over by a statue of St. Joseph. A stalk of lily blossoms, votive candles and a lace tablecloth are typically used to decorate the feast table.
Notices are posted in newspapers and in other media inviting the public to view and partake of the traditional meal of pasta Milanese. Participants often leave donations at the table.
Special groups such as orphans, the elderly or the homeless are invited to share in the feast. At the end of St. Joseph’s Day, leftover food is sold or given away, and any money earned is donated to the poor.
The feast day of St. Joseph is celebrated on March 19 every year. In 2006, the St. Joseph's Day is on Sunday.
St. Joseph’s Day is a Roman Catholic feast day commemorating the life of St. Joseph, the foster father of Jesus and husband of the Blessed Virgin Mary.
Those with strong religious associations, often those of southern Italian descent, typically celebrate St. Joseph’s Day.
In many countries St. Joseph’s Day is a national holiday.
Those who visit a St. Joseph’s table, often receive gifts of fava beans and breads. Fava beans play an integral part of the celebration because this was the food that saved the Sicilians from starvation. The bean is said to bring good luck, and it is believed that if the St. Joseph’s bread is kept in the home, the family will never starve.
During a famine in Sicily, when food was scarce and many people were starving, the poor people had only their faith to rely on. St. Joseph was known as the protector of the Holy Family; thus, Italians with strong family relationships prayed for St. Joseph to intercede for them, in an effort to ensure successful crops. Their prayers were answered, and the famine came to an end. In gratitude, people promised to make annual offerings of their most precious possession – food – in St. Joseph’s honor.
Buona San Giuseppe
Developing a Local Sustainable Food System,
Supporting Your Local Farmer,
Providing Good Food
The Kansas City Food Circle has set up a new website!
In operation for over 12 years, ours is an all-volunteer, grassroots organization created to promote the development of a local food system that will nourish the present generation of Kansas Citians without degrading the ability of future generations to nourish themselves. We provide an alternative to the conventional agricultural system, which is dependent on practices that are neither good for our personal health nor for the health of the living world we are part of. Most of our work centers on making connections between area growers who meet our organic produce or free-range animal standards and people who want to eat delicious, nutritious, locally-grown food.
Printed materials (including the quarterly KCFC UPDATE, and our annual Directory of Local Organic and Free Range Food Producers) have been available for years, sent to our members (by mail) and distributed to the community at large (at our sponsored functions and other events), but this new website is our main resource for providing our KC-area community with the most timely information about member farmers' organic and sustainably-grown local farm products.
Our networking vision goes beyond mere archival of print-style media uploaded to static, non-dynamic web pages, and we have already put into service an active bulletin board and link repository for related news, member feedback and information - the only thing lacking is total community envolvement. The success of this endeavor is wholly dependent upon input from our member farmers and consumers, dedicated distributors, our fellow activists, and other motivated volunteers - please bookmark our site, pass the word along, and come back often to read up on current developments and to add your voice, your words to the effort!
http://www.KCFoodCircle.org
By the way...
...don't miss our
8th Annual KC Farmers' Exhibitions,
Saturdays, April 1st and 8th, 2006
KC Food Circle
Local / Sustainable Food Q&A Discussion
at and after Movie Nights
at UMKC's Royall Hall, Rm 104, at 7pm
Tuesday, April 11th, 2006
The Future of Food
- and -
Wednesday, April 12th, 2006
The Slow Food Revolution
Admission is free -- Street and UMKC lot parking is available nearby -- Air-popped popcorn and other user-friendly snacks are usually available in the theater
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Congrats to Slow Food Kansas City As one of the Premier members to this city's group it is a fantastic site to see us grow and grow. Lets make our community Slow down and enjoy.....the honest pleasures of Food.
With my interest in Slow Food and the Eat Local Challenge, I have begun a local food site for the Kansas City area. I am looking for farmers/restaurants/people/products that relate to local foods to write about in the blog. If you know of any great story ideas, please stop by and post a comment, or email me. I hope you will stop by the web site and read about local foods and events.
Site url: http://www.eatlocalkc.com
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