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Chef Series: Cooking Slow with Peter Berley

Feb 20, 2021 | Chef Series, Past Events, SFEE LIVE

In March 2021, local Chef Peter Berley cooked with us from his beautiful kitchen in South Jamesport, where he teaches many cooking classes in front of a roaring fire for a reimagined St. Patrick’s Day Dinner

Chef Berley foremost concern is the development of local sustainable food systems and the fate of the home cooking in America.

A former executive chef of the world-renowned Angelica Kitchen restaurant in New York City, Berley now owns of The North Fork Kitchen and Garden, a culinary studio where he teaches intensive workshops on modern food craft and wood-fired bread baking and cooking.

His ground-breaking “The Modern Vegetarian Kitchen” received a James Beard and IACP awards. A second book “Fresh Food Fast” was chosen as one of the 25 Best of 2005 by Food and Wine Magazine. Peter’s latest new book “The Flexitarian Table; Inspired Flexible Meals for Vegetarians, Meat lovers and Everyone In Between,” was released in 2007.

The dinner featured braised lamb shanks with Greenport Harbor Brewery Black Duck Porter, wholemeal Irish soda bread, spicy smashed turnips, and apple cabbage salad.

Greenport Harbor Brewing Co.‘s Greg Doroski joined the Zoom call to talk about the beer Peter will cooked with. GHB, one of the first craft breweries on the North Fork, opened in 2009 in the old Greenport firehouse. It has since expanded with a full brewery and tasting room in Peconic, which features a restaurant. Its beers are distributed in New York, Connecticut and New Jersey. Every drop of its 10,000 barrels a year are made on the North Fork. Greg Doroski of Mattituck, a former partner and head brewer at Threes Brewing in Brooklyn, began his career as an intern at Greenport Harbor, and returned a year ago to serve as innovations director.

Chef Series: Cooking Slow with Claudia Fleming

Jan 27, 2021 | Chef Series, Past Events, SFEE LIVE

We are happy to kick off our Chef Series with pastry chef Claudia Fleming. She moved to Southold with her husband, Gerry Hayden and dear friends, Mike and Mary Mraz to open North Fork Table & Inn in 2005, which was a pioneer of the farm to table movement becoming recognized as Long Island’s top rated restaurant, and one of the very few East End restaurants to be awarded the Slow Food Snail of Approval award. Claudia is a widely acclaimed pastry chef and author of the beautiful and delicious book, The Last Course, where she shares her tips and talents honed from a wonderful career working at favorite NYC restaurants, Union Square Cafe, Montrachet, Tribeca Bar & Grill, & Gramercy Tavern where she was awarded the coveted a James Beard Award in 2000. We are also delighted to have North Table co-founder, Mike Mraz participating tonight, a wine expert who now works with T Edwards Wine & Spirits, a distributor of fine wines and craft spirits.

Read more about Claudia’s dessert recipes by getting a copy of her book, The Last Course.

WATCH: Roll Out the Red Carpet! We Dropped a New Video

Jan 17, 2021 | In The News

We Are Slow Food was created by Bfantastic, directed by Bill Mouton and produced by SFEE board member Maria McBride.

We are so proud of the people on the East End who grow, fish, harvest, process and cook the delicious food our end of the island provides. And we’re proud of the work we do with them. So we made a video!

Watch to learn about us and about the people we recognize and those we were able to help during the pandemic in order for their business to survive. Read more about them below.

See Who Is Slow Food

We feature 12 producers, oyster farmers, organic farmers, gardeners, winemakers and chefs in “We Are Slow Food.” See who they are and read their bios.

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Check Out Who’s Featured in our Video “We Are Slow Food”

Jan 15, 2021 | In The News

Mimi

Mimi Edelman of I&Me Farm, in Orient, N.Y., which specializes in heirloom varietals. Mimi is a SFEE board member and a leader for the Ark of Taste movement, an international effort to catalogue and promote heirloom varietals and food traditions.

Robin

Robin Epperson McCarthy, winemaker and owner of Saltbird Cellars, wine journey took her from her native Long Island to New Zealand and Tasmania and back again. Saltbird, one of the few local wine brands owned by a woman, produces vintages with Long Island sauvignon blanc, chardonnay, merlot and cabernet sauvignon. SFEE is proud to have given Saltbird received resilience grant in the wake of the pandemic

Colin

Colin Ambrose, chef and owner of Estia’s Little Kitchen, was one of the first to receive a SFEE Snail of Approval due to his ongoing commitment to the Slow Food ideals of Good, Clean and Fair Food for All. His restaurant is dedicated to seasonal menus that feature its kitchen garden and composting program.

Cathy

Cathy Demeroto, executive director of Community Action Southold Town, which provides essential services and a food pantry to the neediest on the North Fork. SFEE supports these efforts with grants.

Tijuana

Tijuana Fulford is the founder and executive director of the Butterfly Effect Project, a nonprofit devoted to empowering young girls by giving them tools to achieve emotionally stable and self- confident futures. The Butterfly Project received a SFEE 2020 grant to start a community garden.

Kate

Kate Fullam is the executive director of the East End Food Institute, which has built partnerships among farmers, food producers and consumers to create an economically viable, environmentally sustainable and an equitable food system. EEFI has licensed commercial kitchen that gives farmers and entrepreneurs a shared kitchen to create packaged products giving added value and shelf life to local fresh produce.

Tom

Tom Hart’s family at Deep Roots Farm in Southold raises livestock and grows produce to maintain biodiversity among plants, animals and microorganisms above and below the soil. Techniques include crop diversity and rotation, intercropping, cover cropping, conservation tillage and incorporation of organic matter. Deep Roots was awarded a SFEE Snail of Approval in 2017.

Fred and Will

Fred Lee and his son Will own Sang Lee, a certified organic farm that produces more than 100 varieties on 100 acres in Peconic. The business continues the family legacy that began in the 1940s. Sang Lee was honored in 2019 by the Northeast Organic Farming Association of New York as Farmers of the Year and a Snail of Approval by SFEE in 2017.

Jay

Jay Lippin, chef in residence at the East End Food Institute and SFEE board member, has a career that includes tenures at New York’s famed Odeon and Cafe Luxembourg and most recently at Baron’s Cove in Sag Harbor. Jay is an advocate of cooking with endangered heirloom produce to ensure biodiversity and deliciousness.

Mark-Antonio

Mark-Antonio Smith is a master gardener, who has worked with SFEE to operate and manage East End school gardens supported with grants from the Josh Levine Memorial Fund.

Peter

Peter Treiber Jr, of Treiber Farms in Southold established in 2014 with his father, Peter, is committed to minimal reliance on machinery, zero chemical fertilizers, herbicides or pesticides and cross pollinating with those,who create using farm byproducts. He supports community activists, who share produce with needy families.

Sue

Sue Wicks, an oyster farmer and owner of Violet Cove Oysters of Moriches Bay, was once a WNBA star and a sports ambassador for the U.S. Department of State. She returned to her roots of baymen, boat builders and sea captains to start a floating cage system of sustainable oyster farming. Violet Cove Oysters received a 2020 resilience grant from SFEE. to this text in the module Advanced settings.

LIVE: Toast 2021 with Wine and Chocolates

Jan 10, 2021 | Past Events

Join Us!

courtesy Chronicle Wines

We’re going live on January 17 for a virtual wine and chocolate tasting with the local ladies from Chronicle Wines, Ali Shaper and Robin Epperson McCarthy.

On the menu are a selection of five wines in 50 ml bottles, plus four bon bons from Long Island based Bluebird Chocolates.The tasting kits can be picked up at Peconic Cellar Door at 2885 Peconic Lane in Peconic for $35. Order that here. To get the kit shipped for $45 click here. Deadline is January 12. || Special Bonus! Roll out the red carpet for our the debut of our video featuring local food producers that live by the mission of Slow Food East End.

What: With Chocolate and Wine, 2021 Will be Fine

Who: Ali Shaper and Robin Epperson McCarthy

When: Sunday, January 17, 2021 from 6-7:15 p.m.

How: Via Zoom. Click here to register. (If you haven’t yet, download the Zoom App to join the fun.)

Chocolate and Wine is one of the Slow Food East End Live events we started to keep in touch with our members and our community. Check out previous Live events here.