Locavore odds and ends
2010 March 5
The Sixth Annual Brewers Plate to benefit Fair Food is March 14th at Penn Museum. The event will feature food and beer from local, independent restaurants and breweries.- Did you know there was Jersey Grown certified birdseed? Philly.com reports that the Nature Center in Cape May is now selling local sunflower seeds.
- I don’t know if I can go a week without mentioning Chef Mark Smith and one of his restaurants. His Tortilla Press Cantina in Pennsauken has made a commitment to eco-friendly and local wines and beers. You can read all about it, including a special tasting night on March 11, on the latest What’s Up at The Tortilla Press post.
This Friday night’s “What’s for Dinner” at the Auburn Road Vineyard and Winery is sold out, but the menus for the rest of the month look delicious. This is one place that I’ve been wanting to check out for a while now, and I’m making a commitment right now to get there before the first day of summer this year. Dinner is provided by a local chef or caterer, there’s live music, and it’s only $17.50. Beverages are additional. My favorites are their White Bottle and their Classico.- If you’re watching the Oscars this weekend (I’m such a gown critic!) make sure to root for Food, Inc. for best documentary. If it wins, that means that many more people, not just sustainable food advocates, will be seeing it. If you’re unsure what it’s all about, we covered it thoroughly on MNN.
- Slow Food of Northern NJ will be holding a St. Patrick’s Day Chocolate Event – Join us to taste delicious hand-made chocolates prepared on an Irish theme by Diane Pinder of Donna Toscana, who has earned a reputation as the artisan chocolatier of New Jersey. Be prepared to be amazed! and Diane will bring along a few other delicious surprises for St Patrick’s Day.
The Irish-themed chocolates will be preceded by a selection of local cheeses & breads and quiches from Terra Tea Salon & Fair Trade Market. This is a little far for me to travel, but for those that are further up north, I wanted to let you know about it. - Speaking of St. Patrick’s Day, Irish cookbook author Donal Skehan suggested a real Irish feast for my readers on MNN –Irish stew, brown bread and colcannon. Check it out.
That’s it for this week. It’s going to be sunny and 50 degrees this weekend. Get outside and start planning your garden!
We need to do the Auburn Road Friday night thing. Maybe we could all go together?
Of course, we’ll pen in a date when we see you in a couple weeks.
The chocolate tasting sounds fantastic – I’m hoping that Slow Food Philadelphia starts picking up on the whole event side of things soon!
Philadelphia Slow Food would probably be closer to me than the SJ one that’s down in Cape May. If anything exciting happens, let me know.
I’m with Holly, St Patrick’s Day chocolate sounds great!
I don’t know about South Jersey, but Kansas has been absolutely gorgeous this weekend. It’s been really hard to come inside and do the laundry when I could be digging in the dirt and planting potatoes instead.
Alison,
It was absolutely gorgeous here. I spent the afternoon in the woods with the boys even though I had planned on getting work done all day. Now I’m going to be up half the night, but it was worth it.
Nice blog…