Date: Saturday, May 19^th

Time: 10:00 am – 12:00 pm (come late or leave early- but please RSVP!)

Location: preSERVE Garden, 12th Place and Central Park Avenue, North Lawndale.  The Homan/Kedzie Blue Line stop is about a 25 minute walk away.

Details: Water will be provided.  Bring your own lunch and work gloves, if you have them.

RSVP to slowfoodpreserve {at} gmail(.)com

(Rain date will be Sunday, May 20^th)

From 10:00 am – 1:00 pm on Saturday, April 14th, volunteers will spread planting material on the garden beds, excavate holes, and help plant fruit trees, shrubs, vines, onions, and potatoes. This is heavy work, so be prepared! Wear work clothes and shoes and bring work gloves if you have them. Spaces are limited, please RSVP to slowfoodpreserve {at} gmail(.)com.

Date: Saturday, April 14th
Time: 10:00 am – 1:00 pm (come late or leave early- but please RSVP!)
Location: preSERVE Garden, 12th Place and Central Park Avenue, North Lawndale. The Homan/Kedzie Blue Line stop is about a 25 minute walk away.
Details: Water will be provided. Bring your own lunch and work gloves, if you have them.
RSVP to slowfoodpreserve {at} gmail(.)com
(Rain date will be Sunday, April 15th)

If you can’t help out on Saturday, April 14th, but you want to be part of Slow Food Chicago’s preSERVE Garden initiative, let us know! We’re looking for Team Leaders to help with the garden this summer including managing volunteers and helping with community outreach. All volunteers will share in the harvest! For more information, or to volunteer for other preSERVE events, visit http://www.slowfoodchicago.org/index.php/preserve-garden/.

Start Time: 10:00
Date: 2012-04-14
End Time: 13:00

May 23, 2012 Slow Food Dinner at uncommon ground

6:00 p.m. reception

7:00 p.m. dinner

1401 West Devon Avenue

Price: $65 per person includes a donation to Slow Food Chicago to help support our local farmers going to TERRA MADRE in Torino, Italy this fall! Dinner price excludes tax & gratuity. This event sells out every year.

Reservations: phone  773-465-9801

Description: Organic products of Harvest Moon Farms and the excellent spirits from our friends at Few as well as beef and pork from Cedar Valley Sustainable Farm. Farmers in attendance to talk about their products.

Menu: Introducing Executive Chef Matthew Holmes, who will prepare his first special Slow Food Dinner at uncommon ground.

The Spring Menu (each course prepared with FEW seasonal cocktails!)

Roof top farm reception passed selection:

• Baby Radishes with butter and sea salt
• Chilled Pea Soup with mint, creme fraiche and pea tendrils
• Smoked Beef Ribs with pickle, ramp, and spice

First Course:

• Nettle Risotto with soft egg, crispy pork belly

Entree:

• Roasted Pork with green garlic, chimichurri, and morel

Dessert:

• Shortcake with rhubarb and cream

Slow Food Chicago would like to thank Helen and Michael Cameron, owners of uncommon ground for offering their restaurant for this opportunity, to Chef Matthew Holmes for putting together a scrumptious menu and to the staff at uncommon ground for their hard work on this event. In addition, we’d like to thank the fine folks at Harvest Moon and Cedar Valley farms, and FEW Spirits for their organic and sustainable products.

Date: 2012-05-23

4th Annual Pig Roast at Goose Island Beer Company
June 10, 2012

1800 West Fulton Street
X-marx, Three Aces, Green Zebra,  uncommon ground, Sable Kitchen & Bar, and La Boulangerie confirmed, as well as Goose Island, Templeton Rye and Intelligentsia for beverages. Details will keep on comin’ but expect fun, food, beer, and music.

$50 Early Bird Special through 5/18; $60 per person after

includes a commemorative glass as well as all of the food and beverages that you can consume responsibly.

Purchase tickets now!

2:00 – 5:00 -p.m.

Slow Food Chicago is looking forward to an exciting 2012, with several new initiatives in the works and the international Terra Madre Convivium in the second half of the year. We hope you will join us as we share our vision and plans for 2012, and talk about Slow Food Chicago’s role in the global Slow Food community.

We are delighted to welcome keynote speaker Greg Hall, founder of Virtue Cider and former brewmaster of Goose Island, to talk about his experiences as an entrepreneurial ciderist and two-time delegate to Terra Madre. Greg will also share samples of his new hard cider – a truly unique “sneak peek” for the Slow Food community in advance of its market launch.

The annual meeting will also host a meet-and-greet session where you will be able to meet and talk with Slow Food board members, Greg and past Terra Madre delegates.

The meeting will be held at the Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum on Sunday, February 26, from 2:00-4:00 p.m.

The Annual Meeting is a free event. Due to demand, please RSVP online here.

We look forward to seeing you there!

Lis David and Zvi Bar-Chaim of Scratch Homemade will lead this intimate, hands-on workshop where attendees will learn the basics of home canning while preparing their recipe for Curry Apple Chutney. The workshop will happen at the beautiful, LEED-certified Logan Square Kitchen (2333 N. Milwaukee Ave.) from 6pm-8:30 p.m. on Tuesday, November 15th.

Tickets are $30 for Slow Food Chicago members and $40 for non-members. Tickets include Earth First’s organic apples and all the other ingredients necessary to fill the two jars of chutney you’ll be taking home to add to your holiday table. Contact megan {at} slowfoodchicago(.)org with any questions.

• Why doesn’t honey “go bad” even if you leave it in the cabinet for months or years?
• What are the different viscosities of honey?  Does it affect taste?
• Does the amount of water in honey matter?
• What about honey’s antibiotic properties?
• What the heck is the “osmotic effect” of honey and what is Mānuka honey?

You’ll conduct experiments yourselves to explore the wonders of this golden goodness.  There may be balloons and beakers and ph involved, and perhaps refractometers, but there will definitely be tastes to tantalize your tongue.
Tickets are $15 (includes Nature Museum admission) and available through the Illinois Science Council. This program is in collaboration with the Illinois Science Council and Slow Food Chicago.

• Plant school gardens and teach children about healthy, fresh food
• Advocate for food and farm policy that serves farmers, eaters, and the earth
• Fight for real, sustainable food to be more accessible for everyone.

Help us take advantage of this incredible opportunity.  Every gift has double the impact, from now through October 15.
Thank you for being a part of this food fight

All volunteers will share in the harvest! For more information, or to volunteer for other preSERVE events, visit http://www.slowfoodchicago.org/index.php/preserve-garden/.

Start Time: 10:00
Date: 2011-10-08
End Time: 14:00