On Thursday, June 25th, Slow Food Maumee Valley members and friends will be traveling to the much-celebrated Revolver Restaurant in Findlay where chef/owner Mike Bulkowski will prepare a seasonal dinner and talk with us about how he partners with local farmers to produce great food.
The price for this special evening will be $80 for SFMV members, $100 for non-members, plus wine if you care to order it. Please contact us: slowfoodmaumeevalley@gmail.com if you are interested in reserving a seat at this very special event. Menu details will be available as the evening approaches.
Slow Food Maumee Valley
Thursday, April 30, 2009
Wednesday, March 4, 2009
Chocolate From Bean to Bar
The Mansion View Inn was a beautiful setting for last night's chocolate event. Some of Toledo's savviest food purveyors were on hand - Flying Rhino, Downtown Latte, Phonenix Earth Food Co-op and the Original Sub Shop were all represented - to learn about Ecuador's Kallari Chocolate Co-operative, where indigenous families harvest, ferment, and roast cacao beans in the foothills of the Andes, then make fabulous organic dark chocolate bars at nearby factories in the cooler highlands.
We blind-tasted 10 dark chocolates, and the Kallari bars were a clear favorite. Look for them now at Whole Foods, perhaps soon in Toledo!
Monday, February 23, 2009
Chocolate Event Details Set
SFMV Members and Friends are invited to the Mansion View Inn, 2035 Collingwood, at 7 PM on Tuesday March 3rd to meet Enrique Cerda, a member of the Kallari Association in Ecuador, whose Kallari Chocolate bars were recently launched at Whole Foods stores in the U.S. Cerda will be traveling with a translator, Rebecca Roebber, an intern from the University of Oregon
The Kallari Association is a cooperative of over 850 Quichua families in Napo Province in the Ecuadorian Amazon. Recognizing that most of the profit is to be made from sales of chocolate bars, not the cacao beans, the Quichua people created a cooperative where they would have more control over revenues. The Kallari Association, with its self-reliant governance and innovative economic model, is nothing short of revolutionary in the global chocolate industry. Cacao production provides the Quichua people with a viable income so they have the economic resources to resist logging their forests or succumb to the short-term riches offered by petroleum extraction. A full 100 percent of profits from sales of the chocolate bars are returned to the Kallari Association.
Monday, February 9, 2009
Chocolate Can Be Good, Clean And Fair - Learn How
On Tuesday March 3rd, SFMV will host Kallari chocolatier Enrique Cerda and intern Rebecca Roebbler, who will be visiting Toledo to share the techniques of organic cacao production and artesanal chocolate making.
The talk and tasting will be held at 7 PM at a location to be announced. The cost will be $10 per member, $20 for non-members.
Participants will also have the opportunity to sample various chocolates in a blind tasting, including several gourmet, organic, fair trade, and single origin dark chocolates.
The Kallari Association is the first indigenous organization of cacao growers to receive 100% of the proftis from their own line of chocolate bars.
Kallari cacao growers transport their cacao harvest to a nearby factory in Quito Ecuador. The Amazon beans are processed when they are still fresh, only weeks after the harvest. Kallari is one of the few chocolate bars made without the typical Methyl Bromide fumigation of cacao beans prior to export, weeks spent in airtight shipping containers and months/years spent in storage as brokers await price hikes in cacao or chocolate makers churn out bars.
Wednesday, January 14, 2009
Healthy Living Series
"Skyrocketing health care costs send the message that things need to change."
SFMV Members Lisa Bowe and Kris Johnson have lots of suggestions for those who want to change the way they eat. Their Healthy Living Series at Grace Lutheran Church begins on January 19th.
SFMV Members Lisa Bowe and Kris Johnson have lots of suggestions for those who want to change the way they eat. Their Healthy Living Series at Grace Lutheran Church begins on January 19th.
What To Eat
Dr. Marion Nestle, NYU professor of Nutrition, Food Studies, and Public Health, will be in Toledo on Tuesday March 17th to kick off a series of events offering local and global perspectives and strategies on food production and acquisition. Dr. Nestle will speak at 7:30 PM at UT's newly renovated Memorial Field House, Room 2100.
The series is sponsored by the UT Departments of Environmental Sciences and Women’s and Gender Studies and the UT Society for Environmental Education and are supported by a grant for the Program for Academic Excellence.
In preparation for this visit, several groups are forming to read Dr. Nestle's new book, What To Eat. If you'd like to join a group, please e-mail us: slowfoodmaumeevalley@gmail.com .
What To Eat is available at People Called Women, mention the book group for a discount.
The series is sponsored by the UT Departments of Environmental Sciences and Women’s and Gender Studies and the UT Society for Environmental Education and are supported by a grant for the Program for Academic Excellence.
In preparation for this visit, several groups are forming to read Dr. Nestle's new book, What To Eat. If you'd like to join a group, please e-mail us: slowfoodmaumeevalley@gmail.com .
What To Eat is available at People Called Women, mention the book group for a discount.
Goodby Grocery Store Hello Farmer
Join D.I.G. (Dedicated Independent Growers) Local on Thursday, January 15th at 4:30 pm BGSU/Hanna Hall Room 205. Come learn how you can have can have a personal shopper (your local farmer!) pick your fresh produce every week and deliver it to your neighborhood.
Meet the food growers in your community who have been feeding your family and theirs for generations, and learn more about Community Supported Agriculture (CSA)
Thursday January 15th 2009 at 4:30 pm,
Hanna Hall, Room 205.
Sample next summer!
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