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Celebrate Earth Day on the East End

Apr 6, 2022 | In The News, Past Events

Slow Food East End invites you to celebrate Mother Earth and all she provides for us on Saturday April 23, from 1-4pm (rain date is April 24). Join us for an afternoon of fun education for the whole family, it’s free to attend!

Passionate or curious about local farming practices?  Ready to up your gardening game? Concerned about heathy lands and waters? Join Slow Food East End and our community of farmers, food producers, gardeners, educators at Saint Joseph Villa for a day of food and learning.  The Villa is located on the scenic Shinnecock Bay waterfront in Hampton Bays and is also home to the Ecological Cultural Initiative and Shinnecock Nation Kelp Farmers.

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Come meet local farmers, growers, and business owners to learn directly from them. Talks and demonstrations will cover composting, kelp farming, raised beds, no-till practices, hügelkultur, biodiversity, food production, seed sharing, clean water practices and so much more

There are also activities for the whole family! Join a garden tour by the Ecological Cultural Initiative and an introduction to kelp farming. Hands-on projects and displays from guest farmers and growers will also be set up on the Villa lawns. Enjoy food and drinks from Mattitaco’s On the Road Food Truck and Macari Vineyards. There will be an indoor screening of the documentary Farming Long Island, a film about the challenges that Long Island farmers face today and the importance of land conservation and local farming.

Plus there will be a seed swap – bring some, take some!

Vendors and Participants include:

Butterfly Effect Project
Early Girl Farm
East End Food Institute
Ecological Cultural Initiative
Founders Oyster Farm
Green Door Woodworks
Landcraft Garden Foundation
Living Wild on Long Island
Macari Vineyards
Mattituck Mushrooms
On the Road Mattitaco Food Truck
Relic Design
Shinnecock Kelp Farmers
Slow Food East End
Sweet Woodland Farm
The Granola Plant
Violet Cove Oyster Company

The first Earth Day, April 22, 1970, was a student protest to raise public awareness about the impact of pollution that presented real and disastrous challenges for the healthy future of our world. The protest sparked a movement that initiated the Environmental Protection Agency and ongoing substantive legislative efforts that have helped clean our lands and waters. Earth Day is now celebrated internationally by folks seeking solutions to combat climate change and to sustain a healthy earth.

Slow Food East End supports healthy farming practices which are essential to a sustainable future, join us on Earth Day to meet folks in our own community who are leading the way, and learn more about what is happening on the East End.

March 20 Chef Series: In the Kitchen with Jack Bishop and Lauren Chattman

Mar 9, 2022 | Chef Series, Past Events

Pasta and Pesto Cooking demo with Chefs Jack Bishop and Lauren Chattman.

When a chef is married to a chef, their kitchen is always the heart of the home. We invite you to join us in Jack and Lauren’s kitchen. The couple lives on the North Fork and are educators, passionate foodies and members of our Slow Food East End community: Lauren is one of our Flour Power volunteer bread bakers and Jack is an avid home gardener.

Many of you will recognize Jack Bishop as a leading food authority who is a host of the popular PBS show America’s Test Kitchen. Jack is also the Chief Creative Officer at both America’s Test Kitchen and Cook’s Country; this multimedia publishing company is a foodie think tank which has published recipes and tips across many platforms including print, broadcast and digital products. The company also produces Cook’s Illustrated and Cook’s Country magazines as well as America’s Test Kitchen books, three subscription-based websites, and an online cooking school as well as America’s Test Kitchen and Cook’s Country television shows. Whew!

Lauren Chattman, a former pastry chef, is also a well recognized expert in the kitchen. Lauren is a prolific author & co-author with 12 cookbooks published to date including Mom’s Big Book of Baking, The Gingerbread Architect, Cookie Swap! and Dessert University with former White House pastry chef Roland Mesnier.

On Sunday March 20 live via zoom, Lauren and Jack will demonstrate the preparation of a delicious slow food style menu. Lauren will take us through the steps of making fresh pasta using local eggs. Jack will share his kale pesto recipe that will be made from freshly-harvested local kale. To finish the meal Lauren & Jack will demonstrate yummy chocolate pots de crème, one of their favorite desert recipes. All demo recipes are from America’s Test Kitchen: The New Cooking School Cook Book (2021). Autographed copies of this book will be available for a few lucky registrants to win.

All ticket proceeds from this Chef Series will be donated and matched by SFEE to benefit, World Central Kitchen who are feeding Ukraine refugees in Europe.

#ChefsForUkraine

Feel free to share the event link with friends and family (near and afar), virtual events allow us all to remain connected and share in the joys of learning together.

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Chef Series: Cooking with Peter Berley, Beans and Pulses

Feb 8, 2022 | Blog, Chef Series, In The News, Past Events

Slow Food East End cooking demo with Chef Peter Berley, showcasing Beans and Pulses.

Beans truly are the staff of life, from the old world to the new world beans have fed and nourished our bellies and soils.

Slow Food East end would like to invite you to a demonstration with Chef Peter Berley in his beautiful South Jamesport kitchen to learn more about the fascinating history of beans and a cooking lesson showcasing how to prepare these delicious dried beans and pulses.

  • Getting started: How to soak and properly prepare the bean.
  • The right techniques to cook beans using a stove top, oven and pressure cooker.
  • Three basic bean recipes: A soup, a salad and a spread. Peter will share his favorite recipes that are endlessly adaptable.

Chef Berley’s foremost concern is the development of local, sustainable food systems and the fate of home cooking in America. A former executive chef of the world-renowned Angelica Kitchen restaurant in New York City, Berley now owns 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. Peter’s second book “Fresh Food Fast” was chosen as one of the 25 Best of 2005 by Food and Wine Magazine. Peter’s most recent book is “The Flexitarian Table; Inspired Flexible Meals for Vegetarians, Meat lovers and Everyone In Between,”

Reserve your ticket now, the program fees are $25 or $20 for Slow Food East End members. Join Slow Food East End now and enjoy member benefits all year long.

All ticket proceeds support Slow Food East End Feed the Forks initiatives including Flour Power, The Edible School Garden Project and more.

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January 16 Chef Series: Flour Power “It’s the yeast we can do”

Jan 10, 2022 | Chef Series, Past Events, SFEE LIVE

Join us this Sunday January 16 6-7pm as we host our first Chef Series of 2022 with not one but two expert bread makers.

Our own SFEE board member, David Chaffin, who created the recipe for our Flour Power bread will be on hand to demonstrate and discuss all things bread baking. David is an expert bread maker who has worked for bakeries such as the renowned New York City bakery Amy’s Bread. He will be joined by Ana Burcroff, owner, founder, and baker of Jamesport Sourdough and Coffee Company. Ana and her husband brought their love of sourdough from Seattle to the North Fork, and during the pandemic have begun to sell their sourdough throughout the East End to great acclaim.

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This interactive, demonstrative baking session is designed with both expert and novice bakers alike in mind. Filled with general baking tips, a Q and A session, and information on our community outreach program Flour Power.

Feel free to share the event link with friends and family, near and afar, virtual events allow us all to remain connected and share in the joys together.

Program is free to attend, donations are gladly accepted. Thanks to your continued support our community programs from Flour Power to our Edible School Garden Project continue to grow and nourish our local food systems.

Our Annual Meeting at Brick Cove Marina

Oct 21, 2021 | Past Events

Please join us for our annual meeting open house – Sunday November 7, from 1 to 4 PM at Brick Cove Marina in Greenport. If you have been wanting to get involved and learn more about what our chapter does, this is the perfect opportunity to come learn first hand. Join us to learn about what we’ve been up to this past year and our plans for the future!

Each year we at Slow Food East End hold an open meeting to welcome new faces and introduce new board member nominees to our community. This event will be your opportunity to vote on our 2021 board members, and will be the kick off for our Feed the Forks silent auction fundraiser which will run from Nov. 7-14th. 

Food will be provided by Mattitaco‘s food truck and Peeko Oysters, and wine from Macari Vineyards. There will also be live music from local rock and funk band, Jack Toad and Relic Designs will be selling their t-shirts, from which the profits support planting oysters in Moriches Bay.

The event is free to attend – please register here to help us plan the days events.

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JOIN US: Saturday Sept. 18 – Walk and Wine with Landcraft Garden Foundation

Sep 2, 2021 | Past Events, Walk and Wine

Be deliciously inspired by people passionate about the beautiful East End. Join Slow Food East End and Landcraft Garden Foundation for an evening of sipping local wines and strolling through the beautiful Landcraft gardens. 

Learn more about naturalizing landscapes and gardens to be pollinator friendly and biodiverse, what is best suited for our particular ecosystem, and discuss what is being done locally. As you tour the gardens you’ll also taste select local wines and snacks sourced from Landcraft Gardens’ harvest and a few of Slow Food’s favorite local farmers.

Ticketed guests are welcome to stroll through the gardens at your own pace and stop along the trails for tastes and chats. There are four acres of cultivated and naturalized garden spaces to enjoy surrounded by almost 10 acres of natural meadows with mowed paths providing easy access to view native plants and abundant wildlife.

This event is co-hosted by Slow Food East End and Landcraft Garden conservancy. Tickets benefit Slow Food Feed the Forks initiatives and the Landcraft Garden Foundation. Tickets include wine and snacks from local food producers.

The Landcraft Garden Foundation is located at 4342 Grand Street, Mattituck.

RAIN DATE: Friday, September 24, 4:30pm-7pm

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