Unlike the City of Austin, Sunset Valley doesn’t have a problem with serving hot food at their farmers’ market. That’s enough to motivate me to drive on down. Dai Due will have the griddle fired up cooking local tastiness:
Biscuits, Gravy and Country Style Sausage. $6
Biscuit with Butter and Hairston Creek Strawberry Jam. $3.50
Strawberry Soda. Fresh Poteet strawberries with organic sugar and sparkling water. $3
Duck, Sausage and Oyster Gumbo. Smoked sausages, Oaks of Mamre Farm ducks and fresh Gulf oysters simmered with celery and onions, thickened with dark roux and ladled over organic rice from the Texas Gulf coast. $7
Meatball Sandwich. Freshly made meatballs (Bastrop Cattle Company Beef and Richardson Pork) with herbs, garlic, breadcrumbs and Brazos Valley Parmesan, simmered in our own canned tomato sauce with Full Quiver Mozzarella. $8
Weisswurst or Bratwurst and Sauerkraut with Fireman’s 4 Mustard on a soft roll. $7
Sustainable Food Center Market – Sunset Valley : Saturday 9am – 1pm
3200 Jones Street (Toney Burger Center Parking Lot) Austin, TX
I thought that Mark Ott was supposed to have completed his study by now. Any idea when CoA might be making a decision about hot foods at the Austin markets? I wish Leffingwell would see this article so that he would know what is the coming cost of dragging this process out.
Poryorick – this is the latest from the mouth of SFC…
The discussion for allowing hot cooked foods at markets in the City of Austin is still ‘hot’, and has not been resolved to everyone’s satisfaction, but in the meantime, a resolution on the consent agenda this Thursday (April 29th) will change the way that vendors and volunteers in such markets as the SFC Farmers’ Market at downtown and The Triangle can sample out foods. Cooking at chef’s demos, a farmer slicing off a wedge of cheese, or volunteers continuously running a tasting tent for farmers’ raw products like tomatoes or squash will be allowed–with a significant change to the health code of the city of Austin that goes into effect Thursday. The rewriting of the health code on sampling came at the bequest of the Sustainable Food Center on behalf of farmers and other vendors who wanted the freedom to sample out foods in a safe manner, but without the resource-hogging, landfill clogging sample cups and lids previously required for every single bite. This is a definitely step in the right direction to help bolster the ability of the public to educate themselves about the taste of local foods grown right here in Central Texas. If you want to acknowledge and affirm the council’s vote on this important measure, please go in person to City Hall to register your “affirm” vote. A person may register electronically “affirmative” on an agenda item from now until early Thursday morning before the mayor calls for a vote (council convenes at 10 am) at the kiosk in the lobby of City Hall, 301 W. 2nd Street. You can also show up at City Hall, Thursday, April 29th to hear the reading of the agenda — 10 am — and to hear the vote to accept the consent agenda, including the resolution on the tasting permit and changing of the health code. You can leave (about 10:30 am). Tickets for parking in the city garage are free.
Oh, how I wish this was centralized…
We’ll go register our position tomorrow morning, but these on-the-fly schedules are hell on those of us who work flex hours. Does the city not see the potential value of this? We could easily have swung by on the way home from work today…
Thanks for the heads up.
It drives me absolutely apeshit that we have to do this incrementally. Look at so many other markets…Cleveland, for god’s sake, has a permanent space (what are they planning for the power station?).
We should be better than this. Keep flowing the info. We’ll do what we can to help it along….