Upcoming Slow Food Gulf Coast Event

WHAT: A Taste of the Gulf Coast in partnership with Culinary Corps
WHEN: Wednesday, June 4, 5:30pm – 7:30pm
WHERE: Gulf Hills Hotel and Conference Center, Ocean Springs MS
COST: -Approximately- $25; cash bar will be provided by the hotel
CONTACT: Diane Claughton at 251.633.6944 for more information and tickets
WHY: Kick-off and fund raiser for the first Slow Food Gulf Coast project, a cookbook entitled “Lost and Found Family Recipes of the Gulf Coast,” a remembrance and recreation of family recipes that were lost in hurricane Katrina.
Volunteers for the event are also needed.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:
“A Taste of the Gulf Coast” will feature ingredients from the LA/MS/AL Gulf Coast Region and the producers who make such food possible. Designed as a cross between a cocktail party and a cooking demonstration, the event will allow ticket holders to taste a variety of local foods such as Sweet Home Farm cheese, Al’s Bread, Dita’s pepper jelly, Terri’s produce, Gloria and Morris’ goat sausage and much, much more. In addition the chefs will be cooking up such delights as herbed crepes with Gulf Coast shrimp and crawfish, smoked Lucedale quail, shitake mushroom and goat cheese tartine, French toast with blueberry compote and sweet potato scones with pecan-honey butter.
Slow Food Gulf Coast MS and AL is a relatively new chapter of Slow Food USA, founded last year and still in the process of developing a membership base. Slow Food is an international organization that originated out a reaction to the increasing pervasiveness of “fast food.” Slow Food USA (the parent organization of Slow Food Gulf Coast) is a non-profit educational organization dedicated to supporting and celebrating the food traditions of North America. Slow Food USA believes that pleasure and quality in everyday life can be achieved by slowing down, respecting the traditions of the table and celebrating the diversity of the earth’s bounty. You can read more about “Slow Food USA”:http://slowfoodusa.org/about/ and “Slow Food International”:http://www.slowfood.com/ on the organization web sites.
“Culinary Corps”:http://culinarycorps.org/ “designs, organizes and launches outreach experiences for culinary students and professionals. Currently, our efforts are centered on the rebuilding efforts and culinary renaissance of New Orleans, LA.” You can read about their “upcoming trip to the Gulf Coast region”:http://culinarycorps.org/join-us-in-new-orleans/ on their web site (note that the $300 cost listed there is for the chefs and students involved, not for people attending the Slow Food event).