Calendar
of Events for 2008
Slow Food Boulder Convivium
Members please e-mail
us if you have an event you would like to host.
Upcoming Events for 2008
Downloadable Calendar for Printing...Click Here
Though Slow Food Boulder is not affiliated with Meadowlark, we wanted to attach
their link for you to consider for your summer calendar...
http://www.farmdinners.com/cure.html
ONGOING EVENTSVolunteer Days at Cure Organic Farm
Thursdays: April 17th – End of September ... Cure Organic Farm,
7416 Valmont Road, 9-11:30 am. (Slow Coordinator: Mary Johnson, wopork@comcast.net, 303-402-9576.)Convivium a Casa
These are small gatherings in member's homes or businesses where the member host shares a particular passion. The events are open to members only and an example is the recent Ravioli Class hosted by Wendy Sollod on April 12th. Wendy shared her grandmother's ravioli recipe, everyone joined in making the raviolis, while drinking wine, with bread, salad and went home with more ravioli and recipes.
Slow Food Boulder Reads "Convivium a Casa"
If you love reading novels where recipes tell part of the story; memoirs where the ingredients of life and favorite foods are carefully measured and combined; and travelogues that bring the kitchens of the world into yours, you’re going to love Slow Food Reads! Every other month or so, Slow Food Reads will gather for just that – the meeting of culinary-inspired minds for discussion of food-centric books. Members Only. Usually free although you're often asked to "bring a dish."
JULY
Thursdays through end of September
Volunteer Days at Cure Organic Farm
7416 Valmont Road... 9 to 11:30 am
7/4/08 Independence Day
AUGUST
Thursdays through end of September
Volunteer Days at Cure Organic Farm
7416 Valmont Road... 9 to 11:30 am
8/15/12 Julia Child’s Birthday
SEPTEMBER
Thursdays through end of September
Volunteer Days at Cure Organic Farm
7416 Valmont Road... 9 to 11:30 am
9/1/08 Labor Day
Labor Day Weekend 2008,
from Friday, August 29 to Monday, September 1
Slow Food Nation in San Francisco
Find out more about this groundbreaking extravaganza at: http://slowfoodnation.org/9/30/08 Rosh Hashanah
OCTOBER
10/9/08 Yom Kippur
10/13/08 Columbus Day
10/31008 Halloween
NOVEMBER
11/11/08 Veterans' Day
11/27/08 Thanksgiving Day
DECEMBER
12/22/08 First Day of Hanukkah
12/25/08 Christmas Day
12/31/08 New Year's Eve
Completed Events for 2008
JANUARY
Sunday, January 13th at 4 to 6 pm
Hosted by Carol Carlson
Slow Food Reads featured a delicious biography, "Alice Waters and Chez Panisse," excellently written by Thomas McNamee.
Sunday, January 27th at 5 pm
Our Annual Member's Meeting
at The Culinary School of The Rockies
637 S Broadway St # H, Boulder, (303) 494-7988
in the Table Mesa shopping centerOnce again we shall have a fabulously delicious pot-luck supper...Please bring a dish to serve eight..(and bring your recipe if you wish to have it posted on the web site)....and we will provide beverages...There will be lots to discuss and propose for the coming year!
FEBRUARY
February 24, 2008 4 to 7 PM
EDIBLE FRONT RANGE MAGAZINE & SLOW FOOD BOULDER
TEAM UP FOR A RECIPE-TESTING PARTY
Hosts: Lynne Eppel and Nancy Clarke
www.ediblefrontrange.com
www.ediblecommunities.com
Be part of the PREMIER issue of Edible Front Range Magazine!
Every good food magazine has great recipes. Members of Slow Food Boulder,
Nancy Clarke and Lynne Eppel, Editor of Edible Front Range magazine, will
divvy up recipes that will be published in EFR’s April premier issue. Completed
recipes will be shared at a pot-luck party. Wines specially selected to match the
dishes will be poured. Non-alcoholic beverages will also be provided.
This event will be photographed and written up for the April issue.Friday, February 29
Scotch tasting hosted by Hillary Boslet
MARCH
Sunday, March 16th
Bestselling author Barbara Kingsolver returns with her first nonfiction narrative that will open your eyes in a hundred new ways to an old truth: You are what you eat. With characteristic poetry and pluck, Barbara Kingsolver and her family sweep readers along on their journey away from the industrial-food pipeline to a rural life in which they vow to buy only food raised in their own neighborhood, grow it themselves, or learn to live without it. Their good-humored search yields surprising discoveries about turkey sex life and overly zealous zucchini plants, en route to a food culture that's better for the neighborhood and also better on the table. Part memoir, part journalistic investigation, Animal, Vegetable, Miracle makes a passionate case for putting the kitchen back at the center of family life and diversified farms at the center of the American diet. But beware, after reading the book, you may just morph from a CSA member or farmer's market shopper into a backyard gardener, bread baker, cheese maker, and/or farm animal caretaker.
APRIL
Convivium a Casa...
Make Homemade Ravioli with Wendy Sollod
Saturday, April 12 . 3 to 6
Convivium a Casa events are open to Slow Food members only
A grand time was had by all who attended Wendy's authentic Italian raviolis class. We drank wine while enjoying eating the raviolis and homemade sauce, made by everyone. And went home with the recipe, extra raviolis and great memories!
This is the recipe of my Great-grandmother Anna Maria Palange (nee Cefferati - or so my mom promises!) She was born near Naples and came to the US in the 1880's when she was 12 or so. My mother grew up with her grandparents in the house. This is an egg pasta (and we'll use eggs from my neighbor's happy chickens) with a meat filling. And a rumor was heard that Wendy might like to do this again for htose who missed the day!
Convivium a Casa...
OLIVE OIL TASTING AT OLIV YOU AND ME
Sunday, April 27 6 to 8
Convivium a Casa events are open to Slow Food members only
Patti Scott of Oliv You & Me offered an evening of Olive Oil tasting exclusively for Slow Food Boulder members on Sunday, April 27th from 6:00 to 8:00 pm. The first hour focused on learning about olive oil and the impact of terroir on its characteristics. Followed by a taste of olive oil “in action,” paired with bread, cheeses, greens, and meat. After all that work, the wine flowedand the evening was relaxing and well-oiled.
May
JUNE
Slow Food Reads – The Beauty of Butter
Sunday, June 22 4 to 7
Open to Slow Food members only...
Butter. That’s the title of the March issue of Saveur magazine, the topic of The Great Big Butter Cookbook (von Glahn, ed.), and a favorite ingredient of Julia Child’s.
What: SlowFood Reads and Butter Extravaganza
Who: Karen Dunivan
When: Sunday, the 22nd of June, which is National Dairy Month. From 4 to 7pm.
Where: Karen’s house in Arvada
Why: To celebrate the return of Butter (if you ever gave it up)
· Learn how to make butter in Karen’s butter making workshop (she even has a churn!)
· Experience many butters in our butter tasting
· Enjoy butter in every form, from flavored spreads to baked goods, to sauces, to main courses at the potluck
Details: Read anything and everything you can about butter. Bring a stick of unflavored butter (Your favorite? Most unusual? The one with the prettiest label?) for the butter tasting. Then make something that is better because of butter and bring it to Karen’s house. It can be anything from flavored spreads to baked goods, to sauces, to main courses. It's up to you.
Wednesday, June 25 8 to 10 am
Attention all Garden enthusiasts!! The Growing Gardens/Cultiva! program is hosting its popular “Breakfast in the Garden” event on Wednesday, June 25 from 8-10 a.m. Location is the Growing Gardens located in the Community Gardens off Iris Avenue. Slow Food members are invited to visit, mingle, have a light breakfast and tour the accomplishments of the program in living color.
JULY
AUGUST
SEPTEMBER
OCTOBER
NOVEMBER
DECEMBER
Slow Food Reads
