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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.

RSVP HERE

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

Buy Your Ticket Here

JOIN US: Wednesday July 14th for Walk & Wine, a foraging walking tour and wine tasting from 5-7 pm

Jul 6, 2021 | Past Events, Walk and Wine

We are happy to announce a return to live events!  We look forward to seeing you!
All you need is a ticket and your walking shoes to enjoy a private foraging exploration at lush Peconic River Herb Farm,
with herbalist and Slow Food Eat End master farmer, Melissa Mapes.

Learn to identify edible and medicinal herbs  that are local to East End woods and gardens,  learn more about what can be harvested and how to use beneficial herbs while admiring one of our favorite naturalized  gardens along the Peconic River.

If you haven’t been to the Peconic River Herb Farm you won’t want to miss this introduction to one of the fabulous East End gardens and nursery because you’ll also meet Gabriella Macari and taste delicious wines from Macari Vineyards, an award winning Vineyard on the North Fork of Long Island.

Rain date, Thursday July 15th.
Tickets   $25  Non Members
$20 for Slow Food East End members.

Melissa Mapes, Avid Naturalist, Forest School Leader, SFEE Master Farmer and herbalist, comes from a long line of east end farmers and continues her family passion for agricultural life through education as a Master Farmer with SFEE and schools across Suffolk County.   Through SFEE Melissa is currently working with the Butterfly Effect Project based in Riverhead mentoring young gardeners who plant & maintain BEP’s  Intergenerational Community Garden
Gabriella Macari is the Director of Macari Vineyards  She is a Master of Wine candidate and Certified Sommelier and has worked with her family at Macari Vineyards since its inception in 1995.  The Macari family winemaking tradition dates to the 30s & 40s when Gabriella’s grandparents and great grandparents made wine at home, in the 1960s a 500-acre potato farm was purchased but it would be 30 more years before the family started planting vines.  The winery is committed to ecological and holistic soil care, the biodiversity practiced at the winery has been beneficial to the vineyards and helped it win it many awards for its nationally acclaimed wines.

Chef Series: Ratatouille with Chef Stephan Bogardus

May 14, 2021 | Chef Series, Past Events

Join us as Stephan cooks from his own kitchen and makes Summer Farmstand Ratatouille on Sunday, June 6 from 6 to 7:15 p.m..

New promotion! To get $10 tickets click here

 

All ingredients will be sourced from local farm stands. He will discuss seasonal and local vegetable options, how to determine freshness, his favorite knife techniques for vegetables, prefered cooking tools, the importance of seasoning and much more.

Zoom link and recipe will come with your confirmation email. SCROLL DOWN!

About the Chef

Stephan Bogardus is a graduate of the world-renowned Culinary Institute of America. His career has brought him full circle to his native Long Island, where he attended Mattituck High School.

After having graduating in 2009, Bogardus studied and worked under the late Gerry Hayden of The North Fork Table & Inn. His next job took him to Palm Beach to work under Daniel Boulud’s Dinex Group. He also studied at Thomas Keller’s French Laundry.

He returned to home to the North Fork Table & Inn and under his direction, the highly regarded restaurant earned positive reviews from The New York Times.

Now he’s back home and the chef at the Halyard in Greenport, the next incarnation of the Soundview, a North Fork institution, which sits right on the water of the Long Island Sound.