Enjoy some Holiday Cheer
and help support
Slow Food North Shore’s
School Garden Program

A Seasonally Inspired Holiday Vegetarian Dinner
(with Vegan & Gluten free options)

 $45 pp Slow Food members / $50 non-members

TUESDAY DECEMBER 15, 2015 – 7:30pm

DANYELL’S KITCHEN NPT
225 Main Street
Northport, NY 11768

Includes:

Cocktail Hour with Passed Hors d’oeuvre’s 
House Wine and Local Craft Beer
Salad
Choice of Entrée
Family Style Sides – Potatoes, Rice & Vegetables
Choice of Dessert

TO BE PART OF THIS
UNIQUE EVENT:
CALL 631-757-6700 
ADVANCE SEATING
RESERVATIONS REQUIRED

MENU DETAILS: 
Cocktail Hour with Passed Local Cheeses & Spreads
served with Assorted Breads:
Walnut Taratoor, Pumpkin Eggplant Baba Ganoush, Split Pea Hummus, Cheese & Pickles with Homemade Breads & Pretzels
Salad Plated at the Table: 
Curried Quinoa with Dried Apricots & Walnuts,
served over Mixed Greens V, GF

Entrée Selections (choice of one):
Smoked Chile & Lentil Stuffed Squash, Sautéed Spinach, Sautéed Beets Topped with Smoked Jalapeño Chèvre (local cheese)
GF (Vegan option available)

Polenta Cakes topped with Root Vegetable Ratatouille V, GF

Yam Gnudi over Forest Mushrooms with Sage Butter

Roasted Cauliflower with Kale & Pecan Pesto Fettucine with Chèvre
(Vegan option available)

Butternut Eggplant Simmer with Cannellini Bean & Sage

*All Entrées come with vegetable sides served Family Style 

Dessert: 
3 Seasonal Dessert Options provided by Caffe Portofino
(Vegan & Gluten Free option available)

CALL 631-757-6700 
ADVANCE SEATING
RESERVATIONS REQUIRED

South Shore Farm Tour – POSTPONED – Stay tuned for rescheduled date…
On _________,  the Long Island Food Coalition will host its South Shore Farm Tour, following a successful North Shore Farm Tour in August. The South Shore Farm Tour will visit four farming ventures in Nassau County: the Kennedy Plaza Farmers Market, Crossroads Farm at Grossman’s, the Baldwin Organic Garden Share, and NIKE Alternative School Garden. The tour will be chartered by bus, and begin and end at NIKE Alternative School, located at 659 Lido Boulevard, Lido Beach.

The South Shore Farm Tour represents a range of sustainable suburban growing models that engage the community, protect natural resources, and encourage the growth of local economies. Attendees will have the opportunity to meet the farmers, learn about their growing methods, and shop for organic and local produce.

Click HERE to purchase tickets

For more information, please visit lifoodconference.com or contact the North Shore Land Alliance at 516-626-0908 or send an email to stephen@northshorelandalliance.org.

Please join Slow Food North Shore in supporting the Long Island Food Coalition’s Tour of Nassau County Farms…

Saturday, August 8th –  10 AM

Visit farms across Long Island to see sustainable agriculture in action! Meet the farmers, see the fields, and learn about their growing methods while traveling by charter bus between destinations.

Tour begins at Christopher Morley Park (bus leaves at 10 AM) , visits three Nassau County farms (Orkestai Farm – Oyster Bay, Young’s Farm – Brookville, Three Castles Gardens – Old Westbury) and includes a farm-to-table lunch at the iEat Green Homestead in Old Westbury.
$50 single ticket
$90 for two tickets
Includes farm-fresh lunch
Call North Shore Land Alliance for tickets: 516-626-0908

Local Long Island Farmland

Please welcome
South Shore Slow Food
to the Slow Food USA family!

Join us as we celebrate the launch of Long Island’s newest local chapter hosted by Seatuck Environmental Association.

There will be food & drinks from local restaurants who support Slow Food’s mission and are also dedicated to offering farm fresh ingredients! Pot luck style night so bring an app. or small dessert to share using as many local, organic/non-gmo ingredients as possible 😉 There will be live music too!
Friday July 10 @ 6pm
550 South Bay Ave.  Islip, NY

Long Island Food Conference Debriefing Meeting Monday, June 22nd – 6 PM Thank you to everyone who attended and supported the Long Island Food Conference back in April!  It was a packed day that featured educational workshops on growing food, eating healthy and living sustainability as well as an inspiring and empowering keynote address from the GREEN BRONX MACHINE’S Stephen Ritz.  Thanks again to all those that helped make this Conference a success!  The Conference organizers would like to invite you to our next meeting to debrief the Conference, plan future events and continue to develop the organizing body, the Long Island Food Coalition. The meeting will be held on Monday, June 22nd at the Cornell Cooperative Extension of Nassau County, East Meadow location (address below) at 6pm.  This will be a potluck meeting so please bring a dish to share. Location: Cornell Cooperative Extension of Nassau County 832 Merrick Avenue East Meadow, New York We look forward to seeing you!

FAST FOOD WAGE BOARD HEARING JUNE 18TH
AT NASSAU COMMUNITY COLLEGE
As The Slow Food Credo states:
Food should be:
Good – Our food should be tasty, seasonal, local, fresh and wholesome.
Clean – Our food should nourish a healthful lifestyle and be produced in ways that preserve biodiversity, sustain the environment and ensure animal welfare – without harming human health.
Fair – Our food should be affordable by all, while respecting the dignity of labor from field to fork.
For All – Good, clean and fair food should be accessible to all and celebrate the diverse cultures, traditions and nations that reside in the USA.

Along these lines, even though we abhor FAST FOOD, we DO support fair  wages for fast food workers. If you can, please attend this pubic hearing of the NY State Wage Board:
The NY State fast-food wage board will hold a hearing in Garden City on June 18 at noon in the multipurpose room at the College Center Building on the campus of Nassau County Community College.

The three-member board is expected to issue its recommendations in July to the state labor commissioner. The commissioner, who reports to Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, then can unilaterally implement them.

People wishing to testify should register athttps://labor.ny.gov/secure/worker-protection/labor-standards/register.shtm.

A report last month from the labor department found the Island’s 24,074 fast-food workers, both full-time and part-time, earn $16,363 per year, on average.

Monday, June 8th
UUF of Huntington
109 Browns Road
Huntington NY

Journey Toward Wholeness, an anti-bias, social justice ministry of the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Huntington invites you to their screening of Food Chains, a film by Eric Schlosser and Eva Longoria. In this exposé, an intrepid group of Florida farmworkers battle to defeat the $4 trillion global supermarket industry through their ingenious Fair Food program, which partners with growers and retailers to improve working conditions for farm laborers in the United States.

FREE ORGANIC VEGETABLE GARDENING WORKSHOP!
TUESDAY MAY 26TH! 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM
With Larry Foglia and Heather Forest of Fox Hollow Farm
Learn from the best of the best!
Freeport Public Library
144 West Merrick Rd. Freeport
FREE!!