Slow Food members, guests, chefs, winemakers, musicians, local school students and volunteers will mix and mingle, eat, drink, dance and build community over slow food this coming Sunday, May 20 from 4 – 8 p.m.
The convivial experience will be savored amid the Tuscany-esque setting of Overmountain Vineyard and Winery in Green Creek. The evening will entertain from auction to appetizers, live music sets and local foods while it raises needed funds for Slow Food Foothills’ local programs and projects.
Stone Soup Restaurant, located in Landrum and owned by Suzanne Strickland, will cater the event, and the media sponsor is WNCW.
Entertainment will be provided by Gig Dover and The Big Love. Opening for Gigi will be Cole Pellatt of Saluda (my son, a PCHS senior) and the PCHS Percussion and Sax Ensemble, a Slow Food in Schools applicant for local foods support during their 2012 summer camp session.
A silent auction will tempt the crowd with items like dinners for two, tickets for two to the WNC Food and Wine Show and a local chef and cooking class experience in your home.
Tickets can be purchased online at www.brownpapertickets.com or at La Bouteille in Tryon and Overmountain Vineyard and Winery in Green Creek. Call me if you have any questions: 828-817-2308.
Slow Food is a non-profit, eco-gastronomic member-supported international organization that was founded in 1989 to counteract fast food and fast life, the disappearance of local food traditions and people’s dwindling interest in the food they eat, where it comes from, how it tastes and how our food choices affect the rest of the world. To do that, Slow Food brings together pleasure and responsibility, and makes them inseparable.
Slow Food Foothills kicked off with founding members Lee and April Mink of LEAP Farm, on Oct. 23 in Mill Spring, where approximately 125 folks converged to celebrate the fall bounty of homegrown food. Since then, the growing group meets monthly for a potluck and brief reports on developing projects and committee work. Current committees include Slow Food in Schools: putting good, clean, fair food and growing practices before the students of Polk County; Slow Food Community Outreach: speaking to groups and setting up booths and fundraisers for local agriculture, and Gleaners for Good, a stewardship program working with Thermal Belt Outreach Ministry, the Society of St. Andrews of WNC and the Welcome Table program developing at the Saluda Methodist Church.
Thank you, foothills farms and families, for building community in good taste.