Slow Food OKC Presents a Celebration of the Wines, Cheeses and Specialty Meats of the USA
When: Thursday, May 22nd, 6pm
Location: Address will be provided with paid reservations
Descriptions : Wines, Cheeses and Specialty Meats of the USA

Please join Slow Food OKC for what promises to be yet another fantastic celebration of our food traditions featuring locally produced and other american artisan cheeses, meats and fine wines. We will be sampling wonderful cheeses produced by local cheesemakers - including Watonga and Christian Cheese - and other nationally recognized artisan cheesemakers - namely the Cowgirl Creamery in Northern California.

We will also feature artisan meats including ham, buffalo summer sausage from Wichita Buffalo and other delicious specialty cured meats. Artisan American wines will also be featured.

This year we will also be featuring vocalist and wife of Slow Food member - Ann Parsons accompanied by jazz guitarist Jerry Connell as entertainment. Ann will be serenading us classic tunes from the 30s, 40s and 50s.

This event fills up quickly and spaces are limited - so reserve today and enjoy a wonderful evening with Slow Fooders. Prepaid reservations are required. Price is $35 per person for Slow Food OKC members and $40 for non-members. Checks and paypal are accepted. If you are not yet a Slow Food member, we encourage you to join and support our efforts and save money!

Since we'd rather not have a home address posted on the internet, we're going to send the address and directions to the event with the paid reservations. For more information or to make a reservation contact slowfoodokc@yahoo.com or call 440-6555.

More events of interest to Slow Food OKC

Cafe Nova presents Local - Featuring Local Art, Local Music, Local Wine and Local Food and benefiting a local charity, White Fields - on May 1st at 6pm. Call Cafe Nova for more details 525-6682

If you missed the Slow Food OKC screening of King Corn in February, OETA's Independent Lens series will be broadcasting King Corn on Tuesday April 15th at 9:30pm.

Special Screening and Panel Discussion for King Corn Documentary
When: Thursday, February 28th, 7:30pm (film) followed by panel discussion
Location: Oklahoma City Museum of Art – 415 Couch Drive in OKC www.okcmoa.com

Slow Food OKC and the Oklahoma City Museum of Art, in association with the OK Fit Kids Coalition, Oklahoma Food Coop, Sustainable OKC, deadCENTER Film and OETA are proud to present a special screening of the critically acclaimed documentary, King Corn followed by a panel discussion led by community leaders and experts.

(The film will be shown again on Friday, February 29th at 5:30pm and 8pm – not panel discussion)

Cost: Attendees affiliated with the above groups $5/person (honor system). Others $8 adults/ $6 seniors and students.

About the Film King Corn:

King Corn is a critically acclaimed feature documentary about two friends, one acre of corn, and the subsidized crop that drives our fast-food nation.

In King Corn, Ian Cheney and Curt Ellis, best friends from college on the east coast, move to the heartland to learn where their food comes from. With the help of friendly neighbors, genetically modified seeds, and powerful herbicides, they plant and grow a bumper crop of America ’s most-productive, most-subsidized grain on one acre of Iowa soil. But when they try to follow their pile of corn into the food system, what they find raises troubling questions about how we eat—and how we farm.

For more information about the film including reviews and a trailer please visit the website www.kingcorn.net

About our panelists: We have assembled a fantastic group for our panel discussion on issues covered in the film – issues that impact everyone – sustainable agriculture, the impact of the farm subsidy program on the production of corn, the impact of low corn prices on obesity and general health, and much more. Panelists will take questions from the audience and speak from their experience and areas of expertise.

• Kamala Gamble - Moderator– Slow Food OKC Co-Founder, Organic Gardener and Chef
  
• Anne Roberts – Director, Oklahoma Fit Kids Coalition
  
• Jonathan Willner - Professor of Economics, Director of Global Programs, Meinders School of Business, Oklahoma City University
  
• Robert Waldrop –President, Oklahoma Food Coop
  
• Doug Walton – Community Foods Coordinator – Kerr Center for Sustainable Agriculture
  
• Nutritionist - TBD

2nd Annual Wild Game Night
When: Sunday, February 17th, 6pm
Location: Coach House

Slow Food OKC invites you to our 2nd Annual Wild Game Night at the Coach House. Similar to last year's sold out event, Kurt Fleischfresser of the Coach House will inspire and amaze us with his menu of locally produced wild game. This is a unique celebration of our local food traditions. Fine wines will accompany this multicourse meal.

When: Sunday, February 17th, 6pm
Where: the Coach House
Price: $100 per person for Slow Food Members and their guests; $125 for non-members - food, wine and gratuity included.

Space is limited and this event is almost completely sold out. Prepaid reservations are required and preference will be given to Slow Food OKC members and their guests.

To reserve email us at slowfoodokc@yahoo.com or call Cristina at 440-6555. Checks or Paypal accepted. Contact us if you would like to become a Slow Food OKC member. Your Slow Food membership offers discounts at each of our 4 annual events, helps support our annual fall picnic that helps bring local producers together with our community and many other benefits.

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