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Macari Vineyards Awarded Snail of Approval

May 8, 2024 | Blog, In The News, Snail of Approval

Slow Food East End is excited to announce that Macari Vineyards has been awarded our coveted Snail of Approval! 

We invite you to join us at Macari on Thursday, May 23 between 4-7pm for a celebration and the award presentation.

Stop by for live music by the John Ludlow Trio and to taste Macari wines paired with small bites including cheese, charcuterie, and locally made empanadas. 

RSVP HERE

The Snail of Approval (SOA) award is a recognition of businesses that align with the Slow Food values of good, clean, and fair food for all. SOA has long been a mission for Slow Food. Each year, we highlight and promote businesses around the world that deserve recognition for their exceptional work in these areas.

Macari Vineyards is an exceptional example of a business that exemplifies the good, clean, and fair standards of Slow Food. Macari’s mission is to have a boutique winery that produces age-worthy wines in a regenerative, herbicide and pesticide-free agricultural environment.  As such, they have invested in on-property state-of-the-art storage and wine-making facilities. The goal is balanced, characterful, world-class wines.  For three generations, the Macari family has owned their North Fork vineyards, taking decades to nurture the soils with organic compost that has yielded award-winning vintages and international accolades. 

From White House State Dinners to wine club member’s dinner tables, Macari Vineyards is also known for its welcoming familial spirit and long-tenured staff — instrumental in the success of the winery. Together they have made an indelible, impactful mark on the local community by supporting community organizations, promoting healthy, agricultural initiatives, and by setting the standard for a positive work environment. 

We are so proud of our newest Snail Of Approval awardee, Macari Vineyards. Stop by for live music by the John Ludlow Trio and to taste world-class wines paired with small bites including cheese, charcuterie, and locally made empanadas.

Visit our website for more information on all the local restaurants, farms, and food producers who have been awarded our coveted Snail of Approval. 

RSVP HERE

May 14: Flour Power Baker’s Workshop at St. Joseph Villa

May 8, 2024 | Blog, Events, Flour Power

We invite you to join Slow Food East End and St. Joseph Villa for an in-person Flour Power gathering.

WHAT: Slow Food East End Flour Power Baker’s Workshop

WHEN: Wednesday, May 14, 5:30 – 7:00pm

WHERE: St. Joseph Villa, 81 Lynn Avenue, Hampton Bays (Drive to end of driveway and Park in lot closest to Main House)

WHO: Everyone who has baked or has ever been interested in learning about becoming a Flour Power baker.

WHY: Food insecurity is a huge issue in our community and our community needs loaves.

We love getting our community together to talk all things Flour Power. We will gather at this beautiful venue on the Shinnecock bay, and our very own Bread Ambassador, Pennie Schwartz, will be there to discuss the finer points of the program.

RSVP for Flour Power Baker's Workshop

WE NEED MORE LOAVES..

If you signed up a while ago and have yet to get your hands in the dough, this evening is for you.

If you are already a baker (Thank you), we’d love for you to come mingle with your fellow bakers and share your expertise — the new bakers always love your experienced tips and tricks.

Bringing our expert baking community together with our novice bakers is always a beautiful thing. We love swapping stories and hearing your experiences, tips, and feedback about the program.

As we like to say, nothing says love more than a home-baked loaf of our deliciously nutritious bread. Flour Power has been SFEE’s community initiative of inspiring home bakers to join us as we continue our work to fight food insecurity on the East End. Since our launch during the pandemic, we have grown to provide loaves to 4 local pantries, 2 on each fork.

Here are some Highlights of our updated Flour Power program…

  • We have sturdy and secure Igloo coolers at each drop-off location so you can securely and easily drop your loaves.
  • We have updated the recipe (specifically the amount of flour) for those bakers who prefer to measure rather than weigh their flour. 
  • We have begun distributing complimentary bread baking starter kits (4 metal loaf pans, some ingredients, recipe cards, bread bags…) in a sturdy canvas tote designed to make bread carrying to the drop-off locations easier. These kits will be available to ALL registered bakers, new and existing.
  • We have also added group dough-making workshops where we can all prep the recipe “together” to bake, so you are more confident in your technique when you take that solo plunge. The “together” is in quotes as these will be group Zoom bake classes so you won’t leave YOUR kitchen while baking. More details at the workshop.

We would love for ALL our current bakers to come to this workshop and pick up their kits and get the updated information.

Share this event info with your friends and neighbors, let’s grow our baking tribe. Come chat with us. And break bread with us (pun intended). The bread we bake is delicious and you will get to hear and sample for yourself why we created this recipe to help feed the forks.

Come prepared to learn, to laugh, and to connect with fellow like-minded community members.

#Slowtheforksdown – #FeedtheForks

RSVP for Flour Power Baker's Workshop
Watch Baking Demo

Did you know, we have a Flour Page on Facebook? It’s a great way for our FP community to stay connected. We invite you all to join, share baking tips and post pics!

SFEE Facebook Group for Bakers

February 28: Flour Power Baker’s Workshop at CAST

Feb 26, 2024 | Blog, Flour Power, Past Events

We invite you to join Slow Food East End and CAST for an in-person Flour Power gathering.

WHAT: Slow Food East End Flour Power Baker’s Workshop

WHEN: Wednesday, February 28, 5:30 – 7:00pm

WHERE: CAST – 53930 Main Road, Southold, NY11971

WHO: Everyone who has baked or has ever been interested in learning about becoming a Flour Power baker.

WHY: Food insecurity is a huge issue in our community and our community needs loaves.

RSVP for Flour Power Baker's Workshop

We need more bakers! We want you to share this event info with your friends and neighbors. Come chat and break bread with us (pun intended). The bread we bake is delicious and you will get to hear and sample for yourself why we created this recipe to help feed the forks.

Flour Power has been SFEE’s community initiative of inspiring home bakers to join us as we continue our work to fight food insecurity on the East End. Since our launch during the pandemic, we have grown to provide loaves to 4 local pantries, including CAST in Southold.

We are excited to share that we have made several important program updates for 2024 and are ready to Re-Launch the program after a brief winter pause.

  • We have upgraded our bread drop bins to be sturdier Igloo coolers that are more weatherproof, and secure and added enhanced drop-off procedures.
  • We will be distributing complimentary bread baking starter kits (4 metal loaf pans, some ingredients, recipe cards, bread bags…) in a canvas tote designed to make bread carrying to the drop-off locations easier.
  • Who gets a kit? Oprah said it best – you get a kit and you get a kit and yes even you get a kit. All new and existing bakers, we want to make this easy for you. If you are signed up to be a baker, whether you’ve baked before or are new to the program, you are eligible for a starter kit.
  • Speaking of easy – we are also adding group dough-making workshops where we can all “prep the recipe together” to bake, so you are more confident in your technique when you take that solo plunge. Please note the “together” in quotes. To make it even easier, you won’t leave YOUR kitchen while you are baking. More details at the workshop.
  • Not a baker yet? Join us at CAST and hear from the inspiration behind Flour Power – our very own Bread Ambassador, Pennie Schwartz, as she discusses the program’s finer points. You’ll have an opportunity to sign up at the event, take home your starter kit, and join in the baking fun! From there, you’ll choose one of 4 food pantries to donate to based on your preference or ease of drop-off. We simply want you to bake, you choose which pantry to bake for and which baking session works for you.

Come prepared to learn, to laugh, and to connect with fellow like-minded community members.

#Slowtheforksdown — #FeedtheForks

RSVP for Flour Power Baker's Workshop

Did you know, we have a Flour Page on Facebook? It’s a great way for our FP community to stay connected. We invite you all to join, share baking tips and post pics!

SFEE Facebook Group for Bakers

You Made It Happen!

Nov 26, 2023 | Blog, In The News, Past Events

WE DID IT!

Well… you did it! Together, we raised enough money to keep funding our Feed the Forks programs that help nurture our East End communities.We are so grateful to you!

Thank you to everyone who placed a bid, helped spread the word, and all the ways in which you all gave your support. We are grateful for the amazing community response and together we raised over $15,000 via our online auction, and all of that is going directly to supporting our Feed the Forks initiatives. The money raised through this auction is instrumental in helping carry our work forward into the coming year.

Congrats to all the winning bidders, we are busy reaching out to you!

You will receive a confirmation email this week from us with details about your winnings and how to collect your items.

And a HUGE thank you to all of our donors!

We are grateful for the support of local businesses who believe in the work we do #ShopLocal

8 Hands Farm

Al Goldberg

Almond Bridgehampton

Amber Waves Farm

America’s Test Kitchen

American Beech Restaurant

Arni Paperie

Art of Eating

Bell and Anchor

Body By Carrozza

Carissa’s the Bakery

Cornell Cooperative Extension-Spat Program

Cornell Cooperative Extension- Choose Local F.I.S.H.

Channing Daughters Winery

Chris Hamilton

Chronicle Wines

Corey Creek Winery

Croteaux Vineyards

Disset Chocolate

East End Mixology

Eastern Front Brewing

Fini Pizza

Food Cycler

Fortunato Photography

Founders Tavern

Gluten Free Groove

Golden Earthworm

Graceful Space

Greenie Supply & Tackle

Greenport Harbor Brewing Co

Hampton Oyster Company

Happy Camper Candle

Harbor Pet

Isola

J & S Reeve Cottages

Jill Schroeder Personal Training

Joto Sake

Julia Stambules

Kelly Franke

Kitchen Of Youth

Laura Luciano

Little Fish

Lombardi’s Love Lane Market

Love Lane Kitchen

Macari Vineyards

Main Road Biscuit Co.

Main Roots Hair Salon/Salty Threads

Maria Plitt

Maroni Southold

Matchbook Distilling

McCall Wines

Meadowlark North Fork

Mint

Nassau Point Honey

Nicolette’s For the Home

Noah Schwartz & Noah’s

NOFO LIVE show

North Fork Flower Farm

North Fork Table & Inn

Old Field Vineyards

On the Road Food Truck

One Woman Wines & Vineyards

Palmer Vineyards

Parrish Art Museum

Peconic Bay Vineyards

Pelligrini Vineyards

Peconic Escargot

Peter Berley

Promise Land Apiaries

Relic Design

Rose Hill Vineyard

Sag Harbor Cinema

Sang Lee Farms

Sara & Brad Phillips

Silver Per Se

Sound View Greenport

Southold Fish Market

Sparkling Pointe

Stacey Isaacs

Sunita Narma

Tango Hot Sauce

That’s What She Fed

The Church Sag Harbor

The Harvest Inn

Tony Holman

Viking Fleet

Whalebone

William Ris Gallery

Wolffer Estate Vineyard

Yard Crop

 

Annual Meeting 2023 Recap

Nov 9, 2023 | Blog, In The News, Past Events

Board members not pictured above: Claudine Nayan & Becky Chidester

Thank you to everyone who joined us at our Annual Public Board Meeting on November 5th. This is always one of our favorite events each year because we get to share our accomplishments and hear more directly from you about our work and initiatives.

We had the perfect day! The weather was beautiful, and the location, Veterans Park Community Center, was ideal with a gorgeous view of the Peconic Bay and the company even better. We know we are lucky to have so many friendly, talented, and caring people in our Slow Food community.

This year we celebrated with lots of delicious food, guests and board members brought potluck offerings from goat cheese toasts with local honey brought by Gabriella Macari, Al Goldberg brought his famous fish cakes from fish he recently caught near Montauk, Main Road Biscuit biscuits – were so delicious you know why the restaurant is named Biscuit! We also poured an amazing assortment of wines donated by members of the Long Island Wine Country wineries, LIWC celebrated 50 years of viniculture on Long Island this year and has been a sponsor of our events this year, a special thank you to: As If Wines, Chronicle Wines, Saltbird, Brooklyn Oenology, Lieb Cellars, Macari Vineyards, Pellegrini Vineyards, Rose Hill Winery, SuhRu Wines, Sparkling Pointe Vineyards & Wolffer Estate Vineyard.

The day was wonderful, but also bittersweet as we said goodbye to two of our amazing Board members who are at the end of their term limits: Pennie Schwartz, president, and Robin Tyson-Stoehr, secretary and so long to Peter Berley, an amazing chef who is off to new adventures, you will all be missed. But we know you will continue to be part of our community because we have become friends, we know that we will all see each other over wine and food on the forks.

Our annual meeting is also the day we vote new Board members into office, all have already participated in previous events we’ve hosted this past year, are members of our organization, and support our mission. We are thrilled to have them aboard and excited for the coming new year.  We’ll share more information about our new board in an upcoming newsletter.

Congratulations to all our 2024- Slow Food East End Board Members 

Maria McBride – Chair

Sunita Narma – Vice Chair

Becky Chidester

Alyson D’Anna

Marissa Drago

Stacey Isaacs

Gabriella Macari 

Claudine Nayan

Ralph Reinertsen

Nicole Sinning

Susan Wachter, guest leader, nonvoting board member

Our annual meeting is also the night we kick off our Feed the Forks Virtual Auction it is now live and ends November 12th at 9 pm EST. Start bidding now! There are 85 great items to bid on from cooking lessons to great East End activities on both the North and South forks. Auction items make great holiday gifts, feel free to share the link with friends! The proceeds from the auction will fund SFEE  initiatives including Flour Power, School Gardens, Snail of Approvals, and Resilience Grants. 

We are grateful to everyone who comes out to learn more about Slow Food East End. Your support allows us to help local farmers & food producers who support a healthy environment, good soils, and clean waters for all. 

We hope you’ll join us for many events we’re planning in the new year, meanwhile, enjoy these photos from our 2023 Annual Meeting.

START BIDDING NOW!

SFEE 2023 Auction is NOW LIVE!

Nov 6, 2023 | Blog, Events, In The News

Slow Food East End 2023 Auction is LIVE – BID NOW! 

Happy November! Our annual virtual auction to raise money to support Feed the Forks initiatives is now live!

If you believe in the work we do all year long, we appreciate your help. You’ll find an array of amazing experiences, gifts, and more to bid upon. Every dollar we raise goes to support our programming. We are an all-volunteer organization and count on the support of our community to help us continue supporting programs like Edible School Gardens, Flour Power and so much more.

We are so grateful to our generous donors on the East End and to all the bidders who engage with the auction this week. To register and view the auction just use the link below or get started with a simple text from your phone. Text “sfee2023auction” to 76278.

 

The Auction will END Sunday, November 12 at 9PM! 

Browse, Bid & Buy!