Welcome in the Year of the Tiger with a special members only Slow Food potluck dinner and movie event on Saturday, February 27, 2010!

We will watch “Eat, Drink, Man, Woman,” the 1994 film set in Taiwan directed by Ang Lee. Attendees will bring any Pan-Asian potluck dish to share and then together we’ll cook two of the dishes from the film. Then, plates in hand, we’ll head downstairs to watch the film on a big screen TV.

Time: 3 pm to 9 pm
Location: The home of John Accardi and Nancy Clarke in North Boulder
What to make ahead: a potluck pan-Asian dish to serve 13

Send email to Bouldernancy@comcast.net to hold your place, receive email confirmation, and get directions to the house

This event is limited to 10 attendees as well as the hosts, Laura Bloom, John Accardi, and Nancy Clarke

More about the film:
Every Sunday, venerable chef Chu (Sihung Lung) prepares an elaborate dinner
for his three lovely daughters. Despite Chu’s exotic dishes, the family
barely nibbles at the food. The listless mealtime ritual mirrors the foursome’s general lack of appetite for life: Chu has lost his sense of taste, and his daughters just want to go on with their separate, lonely lives. But something new is cooking that is about to spice up everyone’s existence. This is the third and final film in director Ang Lee’s Father Knows Best trilogy, EAT DRINK MAN WOMAN is laugh-out-loud funny in its depiction of the foibles of the contemporary Taiwanese family. Whenever one of the characters utters “I have an announcement,” be prepared for ensuing hilarity. The film also movingly captures the complexities of modern life, the inevitability of change, and the necessity for Zen-like balance.

More about the year of the Tiger:
Tiger years: 1938, 1950, 1974, 1986, 1998, 2010
People born in the year of the tiger are aggressive, courageous, candid, and
sensitive.

We send our good wishes to Slow Food Boulder member Suzanne Schmidt, who has been united with her newly adopted baby boy, Gavin, from Haiti. Their photo and story is in today’s Daily Camera

The American Pie Council’s National Pie Day is today, Jan. 23. So eat more pie!
Click here for more info.

Bonfils-Stanton 2010 Series: The Feast in the Garden: Edible Landscapes and Regional Food Traditions:

Check this out: Our sister chapter in Denver is up to something fun! The Denver Botanic Gardens’ 2010 series illustrates the creative fusion of gardening with the culinary arts. Seven outstanding writers, garden designers and chefs will share their vision of local food and agriculture, growing edibles in the home garden and celebrating regional food traditions. Denver Botanic Gardens has partnered with Slow Food Denver to present a special tasting at each program this year, highlighting the speakers’ themes and recipes. A portion of this year’s ticket price will be donated to Slow Food Denver to support their education and advocacy programs

Our Annual Members Meeting and Tapas Potluck is this Saturday, Jan. 23, from 5:30-8:30 pm. at Bookcliff Vineyards. National interest in Slow Food has heated up this year, and Boulder is no exception: we have over 70 new members! Jan. 23 is the time to meet new members and plan the year. We are excited to be gathered in one room to hear your ideas for Slow Food Boulder. Let’s plan some fun, informative and supportive events that foster good, clean, fair food and the pleasures of the table for our Boulder community. All current Slow Food Boulder members have received the email invitation. If you have not, please email us at slowfoodboulder@yahoo.com for more info.

This Friday evening at BMOCA, come join the festivities and donate to a worthy cause: teaching children to care for the health of their bodies and the planet. Go here for more info.

We enjoyed a BEAUTIFUL evening at Radda with filmmaker Douglas Gayeton on Monday. What a local and delicious feast was served. Isabelle Farms and Bob Munson were there, bragging about their winter squashes! Worth bragging about – that butternut zuppa was out of this world!  And tonight, in many cities in many states, Douglas’ gorgeous book is being celebrated! He’ll be at Chez Panisse (yum).

Please join SlowFood Boulder on November 4, 2009 from 6:00PM – 7:30PM at Left Hand Brewing Company’s Longmont Tasting Room for an encore event. The folks at Left Hand will be pairing specially prepared appetizers, Belvedere chocolates and Haystack Mountain cheeses with their fine beers for an evening of education, entertainment and comraderie. We hope to see you there.

Beer and Food Pairings Event
1265 Boston Ave.
Longmont, CO 80025

Send an email to reserve a spot and then send a check to guarantee it. The cost is $20.

donnafellman@comcast.net

Mail check to:

Donna Fellman 202 S. Jefferson Ave. Louisville, CO 80027