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Celebrate the pleasure of the table!</div>
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Discover flavors of some Ark of Taste items!</div>
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Learn about SFAP's progress over the last year!</div>
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Find out how you can get involved!</div>
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Soak in the beauty of Bellair Farm!</div>
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Bring a dish to share, beverages, a blanket to sit on, and your own eating utensils. </div>
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Slow Food Albemarle Piedmonthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05353553741748398531noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2303413521537328232.post-70312562877241597442012-08-24T19:01:00.000-07:002012-08-24T19:01:46.826-07:00Vinegar. Like none you've tasted before.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Right here, in Central Virginia, you can find vinegar like you've never tasted before. Virginia Vinegar Works is producing vinegars in the ancient orleans- style from grapes grown right here. We challenge you to try their white or red wine vinegars next to the store-bought varieties that you may have lurking in your pantry. <br />
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Orleans-style vinegars enjoy a place on Slow Food USA's Ark of Taste. <br />
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You can source these vinegars directly form <a href="http://virginiavinegarworks.com/index.html">Virginia Vinegar Works</a> or<a href="http://localfoodhub.org/"> The Local Food Hub</a>.<br />
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OR come taste them at SFAP's upcoming potluck at <a href="http://www.bellairfarm.com/">Bellair Farm</a>.<br />
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Join Slow Food Albemarle Piedmont in a celebration of Central Virginia food and a recognition of Orange County native Edna Lewis.</div>
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Festival-goers will be able to choose from a variety of activities and events throughout the day, which is coming up on August 11 from 11AM until 5PM in downtown Orange. </div>
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Learn the secrets of Southern cooking from Monticello historian Leni Sorensen and through screenings of <i>The Edna Lewis Story Documentary.</i></div>
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Hear from acclaimed keynote speaker Joel Salatin, meet and interact with sustainable living experts in the “Chat Room,” and check out our outstanding lineup of live music, kids events and more.</div>
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Don't miss the mouth watering series of Chef Demos. Look for Chefs Gail Hobbs Paige and Melissa Close Hart.</div>
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</span>Slow Food Albemarle Piedmonthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05353553741748398531noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2303413521537328232.post-44893201516063159722012-06-21T18:37:00.001-07:002012-06-21T18:37:56.608-07:00HIll and Holler SOLD OUT!We are thrilled to announce that the Hill and Holler dinner at Bellair Farm on June 24 to <i>benefit our local Slow Food Chapter </i>has SOLD OUT! However, Hill and Holler will continue to have farm-based dinners to celebrate our amazing local food scene AND benefit local food-related non-profit organizations. Make sure you follow them on <a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/Hill-Holler/148479065245089">Facebook</a> to stay involved with this yummy configuration of the farm table.Slow Food Albemarle Piedmonthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05353553741748398531noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2303413521537328232.post-63090277425721697882012-06-10T14:43:00.001-07:002012-06-10T14:43:11.664-07:00Hill and Holler configuration will benefit Slow Food Albemarle Piedmont<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; font-family: 'courier new', courier, helvetica, arial, sans; font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 18px;">Join us, June 24th, 2012</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 15px;"></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;"><b>Special pricing $10 is offered to Slow Foodies.</b> Just mention this post to get your discount. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">RSVP required. 434-293-5366or email blenheimartisan@gmail.com. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;"><b>For those over 21 a glass of wine will be provided.</b></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">Swing by Blenheim Vineyards!</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">RSVP required. 434-293-5366 or email blenheimartisan@gmail.com.</span></div>Slow Food Albemarle Piedmonthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05353553741748398531noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2303413521537328232.post-40553698043201058122012-05-23T17:56:00.002-07:002012-05-23T17:56:51.738-07:00Keep Wayside Fried Chicken Part of Our Food HeritageEver been to a tailgate or the Foxfield Races here in Charlottesville? If so, you know the wonders of Wayside fried chicken. It's the kind of food you might think about when it isn't around. Who wouldn't want some Wayside fried chicken right now, in fact? Did you know that one of the principles of Slow Food is to help support food heritage? Wayside fried chicken is certainly represents part of central Virginia's food heritage. <i>Come out to Wayside this Saturday</i> to help keep it from closing its doors (as a result of the prolonged bridge construction on JPA). If you can't make it on Saturday, put Wayside on top of your list for a yummy Virginia meal.<br />
<a href="http://www2.dailyprogress.com/business/2012/may/21/cash-mob-plans-hit-jpa-ar-1931483/">http://www2.dailyprogress.com/business/2012/may/21/cash-mob-plans-hit-jpa-ar-1931483/</a>Slow Food Albemarle Piedmonthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05353553741748398531noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2303413521537328232.post-44794756172278491112012-05-15T12:30:00.000-07:002012-05-15T12:30:27.484-07:00Discount for Slow Foodies at Blenheim Events<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<pre style="line-height: 17px; white-space: normal;">Blenheim launches their weekly series: <i>Artisans in the Vineyard</i> tomorrow </pre>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">(Wednesday, May 16th) 6 pm </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: monospace; line-height: 17px;">with </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: monospace; line-height: 17px;"><b>Gail Hobbs-Page</b>.</span><pre style="line-height: 17px; white-space: normal;">
Gail Hobbs-Page of Caromont Farm speaks about life as a farmer,
cheesemaker, chef, and local food advocate. The Southern Foodways Alliance
(short) documentary, The Rise of Southern Cheese — a look at artisanal
cheese producers in the South by Joe York and Matthew Graves will also be
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</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><pre style="line-height: 17px; white-space: normal;">Get the <b>discounted entrance fee</b> of $10 if you <b>mention Slow Food</b> when you make your reservation. RSVP required. 434-293-5366or email
blenheimartisan@gmail.com. For those over 21 a glass of wine will be
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<pre style="line-height: 17px; white-space: normal;">Here is a list of the rest of the series. The same discount applies to each event. Hope to see you there!</pre>
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</span>Slow Food Albemarle Piedmonthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05353553741748398531noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2303413521537328232.post-90419294691159328922012-05-09T18:43:00.003-07:002012-05-09T18:43:38.941-07:002nd Annual Tour de CoopCharlottesville Community Bikes and CLUCK are excited to present the 2nd annual Tour de Coop, coming up next Saturday, May 19th! What better way to appreciate Slow Food than to see it up close on a bicycle?<br />
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RSVP at the Facebook event page: http://www.facebook.com/events/279956548748185/<br />
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And check out this video about last year's inaugeral event: http://vimeo.com/24076504<br />
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Hope to see you there!Slow Food Albemarle Piedmonthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05353553741748398531noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2303413521537328232.post-13889416491586910942012-05-04T08:53:00.001-07:002012-05-04T08:53:47.097-07:00A Taste of the Farm - Local Food Hub<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #4c5a52; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', Garuda, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">Date: May 5, 2012<br />Time: 10am – 3pm</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #4c5a52; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', Garuda, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">Cost: FREE!</span><br />
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Bring the whole family, stock up on healthy organic plants for your garden, have a picnic, and just enjoy a beautiful spring day on the farm. Check out what’s on the agenda:</div>
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<li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0.85em; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Bring the kids and play some music with <a href="http://blueridgemusictogether.com/" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #f37421; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Blue Ridge Music Together</a>!</li>
<li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0.85em; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Pick up some <strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">farm fresh produce and eggs at our farmer’s market</strong>.</li>
<li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0.85em; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Take a self-guided farm tour and see what we’re up to!</li>
<li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0.85em; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Help us paint a mural and plant some seeds with <a href="http://www.cityschoolyardgarden.org/" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #f37421; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">City Schoolyard Garden</a>.</li>
<li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0.85em; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Take some photos in our photo booth with <a href="http://lucyophoto.com/" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #f37421; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Lucy O Photography</a>!</li>
<li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0.85em; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Grab some food from <a href="http://www.feastvirginia.com/" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #f37421; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Feast!</a> and <a href="http://www.vanguardranch.com/" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #f37421; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Vanguard Ranch</a>, have a picnic, and enjoy the farm life!</li>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #4c5a52; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', Garuda, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Directions:</strong>The farm is located at 7129 Scottsville Road, Scottsville VA, 24590. <div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
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<li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0.85em; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Maple Hill Farm will be on your left (there is a sign).</li>
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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.<br /><br />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.<br /><br />Hours: 12:30pm<br />Admission: Free, but donations gladly accepted<br />Location: Legacy Museum, 403 Monroe Street, Lynchburg<br />P:845-3455</div>Slow Food Albemarle Piedmonthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05353553741748398531noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2303413521537328232.post-28057314387438720042012-04-17T11:40:00.000-07:002012-04-17T11:47:06.373-07:001000 Gardens in Africa<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 15px;"></span><br />
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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?<br />
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<strong style="font-weight: bold; line-height: 15px;">Today, we have an opportunity to leave a different legacy -- <a href="http://donate.slowfoodusa.org/site/R?i=nRKjXwcgt99T9GUPw2O7FA" style="color: #0068cf; cursor: pointer; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 15px; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank">by helping Slow Food leaders in Africa build 1,000 vegetable gardens.</a></strong><br />
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<em style="font-style: italic; line-height: 15px;">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.</em><br />
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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.<br />
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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.<br />
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<strong style="font-weight: bold; line-height: 15px;"><a href="http://donate.slowfoodusa.org/site/R?i=8uxXoCAR3pahdBhroJizOA" style="color: #0068cf; cursor: pointer; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 15px; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank">Donate $20 or more today and receive an <em style="font-style: italic; line-height: 15px;">Ingredients</em> DVD</a></strong>, as our way of saying thanks for your support of this important project. Act fast. Quantities are limited.</div>Slow Food Albemarle Piedmonthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05353553741748398531noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2303413521537328232.post-80105104682149228472012-04-14T10:46:00.002-07:002012-04-14T10:47:38.251-07:00Alice Waters at Monticello<br />
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Monticello Museum Shop<br />
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Thursday, April 19th from 3-4pm.</div>
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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.</div>
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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.</div>
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Waters has also authored the foreword of Peter Hatch’s <em style="font-style: italic;">“A Rich Spot of Earth” Thomas Jefferson’s Revolutionary Garden at Monticello</em>.</div>
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The book signing event is free and open to the public. The Monticello Museum Shop will be selling the following books by Alice Waters:</div>
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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.</div>
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President Josh Viertel says the organization has more than 1,500 leaders, and the group’s 225 chapters are in nearly every state.</div>
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“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.</div>
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“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.”</div>
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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.</div>
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<br /></div>Slow Food Albemarle Piedmonthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05353553741748398531noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2303413521537328232.post-45804398510300490492012-03-29T06:19:00.001-07:002012-03-29T06:26:11.966-07:00Apply to be a Terra Madre Delegate, Deadline April 6<h3 style="background-color: white; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.8em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"></h3><h2 style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #80bcc4; font-family: arial, san-serif; font-size: 20px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.3em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Join the International Community!</h2><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #181818; font-family: arial, san-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.45em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br />
Diversity and a global perspective are at the heart of <a href="http://www.slowfoodusa.org/index.php/programs/terra_madre_detail/brief_history_of_terra_madre/">Terra Madre</a> and <a href="http://www.salonedelgusto.it/">Salone del Gusto</a>. Delegates come from all around the world, representing the various communities, cultures, histories, struggles, and solutions united under the banner of good, clean, and fair. Historically, Terra Madre has also been an opportunity for Slow Food USA to broaden and diversify our network by bringing different folks together - from the person who is new to Slow Food to the person who is a long-time supporter. It has been an important avenue for those of us from the U.S. to realize ourselves in the context of and in relation with a truly global movement and community.<br />
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This year, Terra Madre and Salone del Gusto will come together as a unified event open to the public in Turin, Italy from October 25-29, 2012. The International Congress, which is a closed conference for Slow Food leaders worldwide that happens every five years, will take place concurrently in Turin from October 27-29, 2012. There will be a total of 2000 delegates to both events—and for the first time, regional selection committees will be choosing the majority of U.S. delegates. </div><ul style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #181818; font-family: arial, san-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: square; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0.5em; margin-right: 0.25em; margin-top: 0.35em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">
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<span style="font-weight: normal;">But before you do—please read these </span><a href="http://www.slowfoodusa.org/downloads/Application_Guidelines.pdf"><b>Application Guidelines</b></a><span style="font-weight: normal;">. Also, note that the U.S. delegate application is for both Terra Madre/Salone del Gusto </span><i style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">and </i><span style="font-weight: normal;">International Congress. If you indicate interest in attending International Congress, you will be considered ONLY for an International Congress delegate spot. If you are not selected, you will NOT be reconsidered instead for a delegate spot to Terra Madre/Salone del Gusto.</span><br />
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<b style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><a href="https://secure3.convio.net/sfusa/site/SPageServer?pagename=USDelegate_Application">CLICK HERE FOR THE APPLICATION</a><span style="font-weight: normal;">.</span></b><span style="font-weight: normal;"> The deadline to submit your complete application has been extended to 11:59pm ET on April 6, 2012. You should receive an auto-response confirmation email after you submit your application. If you did not or do not receive one, email </span><span id="eeEncEmail_HkISeUMafW" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="mailto:Hnin@slowfoodusa.org" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #181818; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Hnin@slowfoodusa.org</a></span><span style="font-weight: normal;">.</span></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #181818; font-family: arial, san-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.45em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br />
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<i style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">You may also attend Terra Madre/Salone del Gusto 2012 as a public event-goer. </i>Tickets will go on sale at <a href="http://www.salonedelgusto.com/" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #181818; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">http://www.salonedelgusto.com</a> sometime in May.</div>Slow Food Albemarle Piedmonthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05353553741748398531noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2303413521537328232.post-72629045309377782752012-03-28T18:37:00.000-07:002012-03-28T18:37:20.347-07:00Monticello Garden Ambassadors<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.monticello.org/sites/default/files/uploaded-content-images/site_md.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://www.monticello.org/sites/default/files/uploaded-content-images/site_md.jpg" /></a></div><div class="im" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #500050; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br />
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This year Monticello is launching a new garden program entitled Thomas<br />
Jefferson’s Revolutionary Garden</div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Tour<</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><a href="http://www.monticello.org/site/visit/tours/thomas-jefferson%E2%80%99s-revolutionary-garden-tour-monticello" style="color: #0000cc;" target="_blank">http://www.monticello.<wbr></wbr>org/site/visit/tours/thomas-<wbr></wbr>jefferson%E2%80%99s-<wbr></wbr>revolutionary-garden-tour-<wbr></wbr>monticello</a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">>.</span><div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="im" style="color: #500050; font-size: 13px;"> This tour is more in depth than our typical garden tours and focuses on<br />
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Monticello is looking for volunteers who can help with this program<br />
specifically, and possibly other garden activities if they are interested.<br />
These tours are running from April 27- Oct. 27 on Friday and Saturday<br />
mornings from about 9-11:30 am. Training would be provided, of course, and<br />
volunteers would be working directly with the visitors and other Monticello<br />
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If you are interested in getting involved in Monticello's world-renown<br />
gardens, please contact Emily Tenhunfeldt. <a href="mailto:etenhundfeld@monticllo.org" style="color: #0000cc;">etenhundfeld@monticllo.org</a></div></div>Slow Food Albemarle Piedmonthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05353553741748398531noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2303413521537328232.post-1852790436275359752012-03-20T07:49:00.000-07:002012-03-20T07:49:58.898-07:00Vandana Shiva to speak at UVa today<div style="color: #4c3c2d; font-family: helvetica, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 1em; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white;">Internationally acclaimed food democracy advocate Vandana Shiva will be giving a free public lecture <b>TODAY, March 20th at 5:30pm</b> in the Auditorium of the Harrison Institute/Small Special Collections Library.</span></div><div style="color: #4c3c2d; font-family: helvetica, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 1em; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white;">The winner of the 1993 Alternative Nobel Peace Prize (also known as the Right Livelihood Award), Vandana Shiva is a world-renowned environmental activist and one of the leading voices in the local food movement. Based in New Delhi, India, Dr. Shiva is the Director of the Research Foundation on Science, Technology, a leader at the International Forum on Globalization and the author of over twenty books including</span><span style="background-color: white;"> </span><i style="background-color: white;">Staying Alive: Women, Ecology, and Development</i><span style="background-color: white;"> </span><span style="background-color: white;">(2008),</span><span style="background-color: white;"> </span><i style="background-color: white;">Earth Democracy: Justice, Sustainability, and Peace</i><span style="background-color: white;"> </span><span style="background-color: white;">(2005) and</span><span style="background-color: white;"> </span><i style="background-color: white;">Water Wars: Pollution, Profits, and Privatization</i><span style="background-color: white;"> </span><span style="background-color: white;">(2001). She is also the founder of Navdanya, an organization that promotes the conservation of diverse seed pools threatened by the spread of genetically-modified (GM) biota.</span></div><div style="color: #4c3c2d; font-family: helvetica, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 1em; text-align: justify;">This is an extraordinary opportunity to have Dr. Shiva in town. Arrive early if you plan to go, as seats are expected to fill quickly!</div><div style="color: #4c3c2d; font-family: helvetica, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 1em; text-align: justify;">More information on the Brown College Visiting Environmental Writers and Scholars Lectures Series available <a href="http://www.virginia.edu/browncollege/ViEWS/">here</a>.</div>Slow Food Albemarle Piedmonthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05353553741748398531noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2303413521537328232.post-1447241579538674182012-03-14T12:48:00.001-07:002012-03-14T12:50:40.814-07:00Reclaiming Our Food: How the Grassroots Food Movement is Changing What We Eat<div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #292929; font-family: Trebuchet, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b>Looking at this post and the previous post, it is pretty clear that our food community ROCKS! Thanks to those of you who are working to honor <i>good, clean and fair food</i>.</b></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #292929; font-family: Trebuchet, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">All across the country, Americans are seeking more fresh, local foods – at home, in their schools, in restaurants, and at food markets. Grassroots community food projects from Boston to Nashville to Birmingham to Seattle are rising to meet this demand. Led by innovative, creative people from all walks of life, these projects are building community by creating valuable jobs, preserving cultural traditions, building local knowledge about growing food, and educating school-children. Inspirational stories of nearly 60 grassroots food programs provide hundreds of useful “lessons learned,” offering an enduring handbook for everyone hoping to join the movement.</div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #292929; font-family: Trebuchet, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Whether you like to buy local food, raise a garden, are a beginning or experienced farmer, a school nutritionist, or economic development guru, this book can help you.</div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #292929; font-family: Trebuchet, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">You’ll be inspired and, more, you’ll learn a host of important lessons from community food leaders of more than 50 different food projects across the U.S. Their successes offer both inspiration and practical advice.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-ISfzJcJd4rg/T2D1Kt8gfnI/AAAAAAAAAAk/qQl3zPKp35E/s1600/reclaiming+our+food.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-ISfzJcJd4rg/T2D1Kt8gfnI/AAAAAAAAAAk/qQl3zPKp35E/s320/reclaiming+our+food.png" width="263" /></a></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #292929; font-family: Trebuchet, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Where others have made the case for the local food movement, <em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-style: italic; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Reclaiming Our Food</em> shows how communities are actually making it happen. This book offers a wealth of information on how to make local food a practical and affordable part of everyone’s daily fare. <i>source: www.tanyadenklacobb.com</i></div>Slow Food Albemarle Piedmonthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05353553741748398531noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2303413521537328232.post-53932280792720703182012-03-14T12:37:00.001-07:002012-03-14T12:51:41.979-07:00A Central Virginia Food Heritage Gathering<div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-style: inherit; line-height: 23px; margin-bottom: 1.7em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><b>Great event hosted by the Virginia Food Heritage Project. Maybe we'll see you there!</b></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 23px; margin-bottom: 1.7em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></strong><strong style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://vafoodheritage.files.wordpress.com/2012/03/march26-event-flyer.pdf" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #0060ff; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; 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Bring your knowledge and adventure to this excitin<strong style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></strong>g and innovativ<strong style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></strong>e project.</div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; 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padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><li style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Monday, March 26, 6:00 – 8:30 p.<strong style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></strong><strong style="border-bottom-width: 0px; 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<li style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Lane Auditorium, Albemarle County bui<strong style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></strong>lding in Charlottesville—401 McIntire Rd, C<strong style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></strong>harlottesville, VA 22902</li>
<li style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">A sampling of heritage foods will be provided</li>
</ul><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 23px; margin-bottom: 1.7em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">(<a href="http://vafoodheritage.files.wordpress.com/2012/03/march26-event-flyer.pdf" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #0060ff; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Download </a>a PDF of our flyer)</div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 23px; margin-bottom: 1.7em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">What is “food heritage?”</strong></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 23px; margin-bottom: 1.7em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Broadly defined, it is the history and culture of foods produced and processed in our region – old-fashioned varieties of fruits and vegetables, family recipes, heirloom seeds, former grain mills, cideries, and much more. This project intends to use our local food heritage to create jobs and economic development. We want you to help us identify ways to preserve and revitalize our food heritage, and ways this effort could support economic development.</div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 23px; margin-bottom: 1.7em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">With your participation, this free community event will help us re-discover and identify our food heritage as well as reconnect with each other. By knowing our past, we can grow our future!</div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 23px; margin-bottom: 1.7em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Who’s invited?</strong></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 23px; margin-bottom: 1.7em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Anyone who knows something about our food heritage is invited: gardeners, farmers (young and old!), local chefs, market vendors, senior citizens, 4-H Clubs, historical societies, local food purveyors, dieticians, farm bureaus, area churches, culinary students, conservationists, area businesses, elected officials. Please bring friends, family, and other guests who may be interested in learning or contributing!</div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 23px; margin-bottom: 1.7em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">There’ll be something for everyone! After a brief introduction to the project, participants will be able to visit different “booths” where you can learn and share information. You might want to tell us about an old-time apple you don’t see anymore, or vegetables that are unique to this area, or a heritage chicken breed you’re now raising. You can share old-time recipes and food traditions. You can swap stories about how food used to be grown, processed, or sold. Help us locate old farms, orchards and other food heritage sites on maps. You can even tell a story while being interviewed on video. And we hope everyone will offer ideas for how we can integrate our food heritage into our future community development.</div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 23px; margin-bottom: 1.7em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Who’s hosting?</strong></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 23px; margin-bottom: 1.7em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Virginia Food Heritage Project is a collaboration of community organizations and passionate individuals who seek to build understanding and documentation of our food heritage, and who aspire to use this knowledge to advance our local food, agriculture and economy.</div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 23px; margin-bottom: 1.7em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">What to bring:</strong></div><ul style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 23px; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: square; margin-bottom: 1.7em; margin-left: 2.5em; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><li style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Old recipes, menus or historic cookbooks</li>
<li style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Locations or pictures of old food sites (mills, farms, orchards, etc.)</li>
<li style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Pictures and names of heritage foods</li>
<li style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Stories of how you or your elders planted, grew, harvested or cooked food</li>
<li style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Heritage or heirloom seeds for an old-fashioned seed swap (bring in labeled packets)</li>
</ul><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 23px; margin-bottom: 1.7em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Please join us! Feel free to bring guests, and walk-ins are welcome too.</div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 23px; margin-bottom: 1.7em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Help us honor our local food heritage and lay the groundwork for growing a strong, healthy future for Albemarle, Greene, Fluvanna, Louisa, and Nelson Counties and the City of Charlottesville!</div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 23px; margin-bottom: 1.7em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">To help us plan enough refreshments, if you think that you might attend, please RSVP to <a href="mailto:vafoodheritage@gmail.com" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #0060ff; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Paul Loren Hughes</a> at or to Ellen Martin at (434) 924-1970.</div><div><br />
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