Get over to West Lynn tonight for Slow Food Austin’s January Happy Hour. 2010 kickoff party is at Cipollina. Learn more about Slow Food Austin, meet like minded friends and have a drink or bite. A portion of the proceeds will benefit Slow Food Austin. This is a great group and we need to help keep it active. I’m going.
Category Archives: Community Involvement
Humane Society of Williamson County Chili Cookoff
The Humane Society of Williamson County will be hosting a Chili Cookoff Fundraiser on Saturday, January 23rd from 1:00-3:00pm in conjunction with our monthly Low-Cost Vaccination & Microchipping Clinic! Sample chili made by the contestants and vote on your favorite $10 all you can eat chili from Chili’s restaurant. Or, signup to enter the contest and crush the competition with your own mix of secret spices. All proceeds will go to continue helping save lives in Williamson County! Check the Calendar page for more local events.
Update: Bad To the Bone Benefit Rescheduled
Think you might be hungry Friday night? Want to help out the Sustainable Food Center? Want to see two Chefs wonder why they didn’t win a cooking competition?
Chef’s David Bull (Stoneleigh in Dallas), Shawn Cirkiel (Parkside) and Paul Petersen (formerly at the Gage Hotel) compete in a Bade To The Bone cookoff. Audience participants and a panel of noted culinary experts will sample the dishes and use live text voting to determine the winning chef. The DJ, el john Selector, will be spinning bad-to-the-bone soul, funk and world beats to keep the tempo pumping until final votes have been cast.
Fine Art Food Night
Enjoying Eat Local Week? Good. Tonight’s event is at Wally Workman Gallery. Benefiting Les Dames de Escoffier and Urban Roots, local catering companies will be creating their culinary interpretations of pieces from the show. Food and art mashup. Right on. $10 suggested donation at the door. Wally Workman Gallery : 1202 West 6th Street Austin, […]
Attention Austin, It’s Go Time
This weekend is the beginning of Eat Local Week, setup by Edible Austin. Marla Camp and Co. should be commended on undertaking this production. Movies, demos, bike rides, farm tours, ice skating, cook offs, hot tea, cool food, loopy drinks. It’s got it all. Running from Dec. 5th (this Saturday) to Dec. 12th, check the Events Calendar for more info.
Austin Farmers’ Market Cookbook
The Sustainable Food Center is looking for recipes for their first cookbook. The proceeds will go twords building a permanent home base for their gaggle of programs: Farm Direct, Happy Kitchen and Grow Local. So, if you have a memorable recipe with a fun story behind it, submit it by December 1, 2009.