BBQ pleasure at Brookville Restaurant

At the recent Slow Food National Congress in Lousiville, we were reminded about one of the important ideals of Slow Food: the pleasure of the table.  The upcoming focus on bbq at Brookville will surely mean a pleasurable table.  Check out the info below and pull up a chair at their table.  May the pleasure be all yours.

BVILLE-Q Restaurant

On Friday May 4th, for 1 night Brookville Restaurant is turning into Bville-Q Restaurant.
Bville-Q will be a 100% LOCALLY SOURCED BBQ RESTAURANT (so the menu will be posted a little closer to the event). However, rest assured that you will need to bring a bib or a second shirt to change into after we get through with y'all.
Beer, Cider and Pork will be flowing all night.
$45 all you can eat and 2 Drinks (additional drink tickets available at the bar)
Call 434-202-2791 to purchase tickets (limited quantities available)
Enjoy passed pig parts throughout the night, as well as, a good old pig pickin' at 8pm.
As an added bonus this event will support the Tom Tom Founders Festival. Information can be found at the website http://tomtomfest.com/.
We hope to see you there and promise that you will be taken care of like you a part of our family!

This is an open Event so feel free to pass this along!


http://www.brookvillerestaurant.com/Home_Page.html


225 W Main St
Charlottesville Va22903 

Virginia Food Heritage: Slave Gardens in Lynchburg

April 21

Gardening Practices of Central VA's Enslaved African Americans

In recognition of the rich culinary and gardening traditions of the African American community, and in anticipation of the establishment of a replica slave garden on Monroe Street, the Legacy Museum of African American History is pleased to welcome community scholar and writer, Michael Twitty to deliver a talk on Gardening Practices of Central Virginia? Enslaved African Americans.

Michael Twitty is a recognized authority of Afro-American and African food culture, traditional lifeways and regional history.  As the curator for the African-American Heritage Collection at the Landreth Seed Company, his specialization has been on the historic garden practices and culinary traditions of African-Americans.

Hours: 12:30pm
Admission: Free, but donations gladly accepted
Location: Legacy Museum, 403 Monroe Street, Lynchburg
P:845-3455

1000 Gardens in Africa

420 gardens to grow!

Almost everywhere you go in the world today, you can find a McDonald’s, KFC or Taco Bell. Fast food -- is that the legacy we, as Americans, want to leave the world?

Today, we have an opportunity to leave a different legacy -- by helping Slow Food leaders in Africa build 1,000 vegetable gardens.

Our local project coordinators in Kenya, Uganda and Ethiopia are depending on us to support their effort to build the next 15 gardens this season.

Can you make a donation in any amount before May 1?

A vegetable garden means healthy, local food for the community, sharing of knowledge from the old to the young, extra income for the village, and a reinforced spirit of collaboration.

Let’s prove that we know what a true “value” meal is  -- one that encourages community collaboration and self-sufficiency, respects cultural traditions and is made with fresh, local ingredients.

Sincerely,

Josh Viertel President of Slow Food USA

P.S.
Donate $20 or more today and receive an Ingredients DVD, as our way of saying thanks for your support of this important project. Act fast. Quantities are limited.

Alice Waters at Monticello

Thomas Jefferson Visitor Center (map)

Thursday, April 19, 2012, 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm

Reservations: Not required

Alice Waters Book Signing 
Monticello Museum Shop
Thomas Jefferson Visitor Center
Thursday, April 19th from 3-4pm.

Internationally known chef and author Alice Waters visits Monticello and will hold a public book signing at the Monticello Museum Shop, Thursday, April 19, starting at 3 p.m.

Waters is an American pioneer of a culinary philosophy that maintains that cooking should be based on the finest and freshest seasonal ingredients that are produced sustainably and locally. She is a passionate advocate for a food economy that is “good, clean, and fair.” Over the course of nearly forty years, her restaurant, Chez Panisse, has helped create a community of scores of local farmers and ranchers whose dedication to sustainable agriculture assures the restaurant a steady supply of fresh and pure ingredients.

Waters has also authored the foreword of Peter Hatch’s “A Rich Spot of Earth” Thomas Jefferson’s Revolutionary Garden at Monticello.

The book signing event is free and open to the public. The Monticello Museum Shop will be selling the following books by Alice Waters:

• 40 Years of Chez Panisse: The Power of Gathering
• In the Green Kitchen
• The Art of Simple Food
• Edible Schoolyard

http://www.monticello.org/site/visit/events/alice-waters-book-signing

Slow Food Albemarle Piedmont attends National Congress

The organization’s National Congress is a time when slow food leaders come together and set the organization’s direction for the next four years. The non-profit and its chapters focus on making food healthy and sustainable for people, workers and communities.

President Josh Viertel says the organization has more than 1,500 leaders, and the group’s 225 chapters are in nearly every state.

“Last year [leaders] they reached 150,000 children in schools, school gardens, school cafeterias to help them understand where food comes from, understand how to grow it, prepare it, share it,” he said.

Viertel says there were lots of reasons to choose Louisville for this year’s Congress.

“There’s amazing stuff that’s happening with the food culture there, whether it’s barbeque or bourbon,” he said. “There’s a sense that there’s kind of a return to slow foods values in what’s happening in a lot of the businesses and restaurants and farms in and around Louisville that we really want to reinforce.”

And, the central location doesn’t hurt. Viertell expects about 150 slow foods leaders from around the country to attend. The Congress will be in Louisville from April 13-15. Parent organization Slow Food International previously considered also hosting its international congress in Louisville, but has since combined the congress with another event.