Thank you to KMOV for the opportunity.

Annie Gunn’s

Roasted Prairie Grass Farms leg of lamb on grilled Companion bread with local peaches, Goatsbeard Farm chevre, and caramelized candy onions.

Araka

Local Watermelon Gazpacho with Sweet Yellow Corn, Rock Shirpm and Housemade Fresh Corn Tortillas

Bailey’s / Rooster

1. Fruitland Farms Chipotle Pulled Pork with Eckert’s Peach Salsa on San Louis Tortilla  Chips

2. Buila Land Jalapenos stuffed with Heartland Creamery Goat Cheese and Caramelized Onion, Wrapped in Fruitland Farms Bacon

Overlook Farm – Clarksville, MO

Vesterbrook FarmLamb “Rillets” with Overlook Farm Garden Greens & Chopped Duck Eggs

Erato

Farrar Out Farm Rabbit Gumbo

Harvest

1. Missouri Grass Fed Oxtail Barley with Peppered Ahi Tuna and a Roasted Sweet Red Pepper Emulsion

2. Warmed Companion Brioche Bread Pudding with Bourbon Currant Sauce and Vanilla Whipped Cream

Kakao Chocolate

1. Homemade Marshmallow Pies with Chocolate and Pecans
2. Hand-Dipped Caramels with Sea Salt

Local Harvest

Biver Farms Heirloom Tomato Flatbread with Goastbeard Farm Goat Cheese and Pesto

Mad Art

Citrus Cured Troutdale Farm Trout with Baetje Goat Cheese, Fresh Claverach Farms Cucumber-Pickled Ginger Chutney and Radish Shoots on a Black Mustard Seed Cracker

Monarch

Root Cellar and Hannaway Farms Tomato Terrine, Whipped Balsamic, Goatsbeard Chevre Crème Fraiche, Black Olive Oil

Niche

Spicy Pork Meatballs – Greenwood Farms

Serendipity Ice Cream

“Peaches and Cream Floats” – Calhoun County Peach Ice Cream Floated in Fitzs Cream Soda

Sidney Street Café

EIEIO Acres Goat Sliders with Pickled St. Isidore Farms Eggplant, Arugula, and Curry Aioli on a Housemade Sesame Bun

Winslow’s Home

1. Chilled Winslow’s Home and Farm Eggplant Soup with Sweet Curry Creme Fraiche

2. Garlic Rubbed Benne’s Best Smoked Chicken with Winslow’s Home and Farm Red Onion Jalapeno Jam on Toasted 222 Artisan Bakery Baguette

How much do we really know about the food we buy at our local supermarkets and serve to our families?

Slow Food St. Louis is pleased to announce our participation in a special screening of the new documentary, Food, Inc.

The makers of the film, Magnolia Pictures, and Participant Media, have graciously donated 130 tickets to the Tuesday, April 14^th viewing of the film at the Tivoli Theatre. Officially due out June 12^th, this is your chance to not only see what is sure to be a moving film months before opening, but also for free!

Those interested in attending can RSVP at http://sites.google.com/site/foodincrsvp/

Once there, click on the link for St. Louis and enter in your information. It’s first come, first serve, and people will be contacted by the film company – not Slow Food St. Louis – about their tickets.

For more information, continue reading after the jump or visit director Robert Kenner’s website for a complete trailer and reviews of the film.

In Food, Inc., filmmaker Robert Kenner lifts the veil on our nation’s food industry, exposing the highly mechanized underbelly that’s been hidden from the American consumer with the consent of our government’s regulatory agencies, USDA and FDA. Our nation’s food supply is now controlled by a handful of corporations that often put profit ahead of consumer health, the livelihood of the American farmer, the safety of workers and our own environment. We have bigger-breasted chickens, the perfect pork chop, insecticide-resistant soybean seeds, even tomatoes that won’t go bad, but we also have new strains of e coli–the harmful bacteria that causes illness for an estimated 73,000 Americans annually. We are riddled with widespread obesity, particularly among children, and an epidemic level of diabetes among adults.

Featuring interviews with such experts as Eric Schlosser (Fast Food Nation), Michael Pollan (The Omnivore’s Dilemma) along with forward thinking social entrepreneurs like Stonyfield Farm’s Gary Hirshberg and Polyface Farms’ Joel Salatin, Food, Inc. reveals surprising — and often shocking truths — about what we eat, how it’s produced, who we have become as a nation and where we are going from here.

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Slow Food St. Louis is excited to announce that we are the recipient of Whole Foods Market’s “One Dime at a Time” program for January, February and March of 2009! This is at the Brentwood location only. So bring your bags and donate your dimes…..

One Dime at a Time

Whole Foods Market gives 10 cents per bag to customers who re-use their own shopping bags for their purchased groceries. This program reduces our impact on the environment and now supports local non profit groups. Customers will have the choice to accept their cash refund, or donate the cash back to the store’s chosen non profit organization.

The convivium was founded by Beki Marsh in 2000; Sara and Stephen Hale joined her in 2004 to help continue to promote its objectives and fulfill its missions, and all of them are thrilled to be working with such dedicated, enthusiastic volunteers. Thanks to all members and supporters who have helped make this convivium what it is. We’re all looking forward to many fabulous results in the future.

Festina lente,
Stephen, Sara, and Beki

We have established the Terra Madre Relief Fund for precisely this purpose.  Some of you may remember of the great successes this fund had, under Poppy Tooker’s able guidance, in raising over $40K to help victims of Katrina and Rita.  Today the fund exists to help all those farmers and food artisans struck by natural disasters nationwide, and right now the focus is on the Mississippi River and its tributaries.

But just as it was for so many after Katrina, such as Kay and Ray Brandhurst, the shrimpers in Louisiana who’s trawler got a new engine thanks to the TM Relief Fund, so that they could get back to providing good, clean, fair food, there is hope for the folks in the Heartland as well.  We intend to help get these farmers back to the markets, and get those markets back up and running.

Please also consider organizing a benefit event within your convivium to help us raise the money that is so desperately needed, or perhaps to refocus an event you already have planned to benefit flood relief.  And please be sure to ask each of your members to give generously at this link or by sending checks (made out to Slow Food USA – with “Terra Madre Relief Fund: Iowa” in the memo) to the address below.

We truly appreciate, and are relying on your generosity.  Please give at the Terra Madre Relief Fund, and feel free to contact me at any time with comments or questions.  Thank you all so very much, and I’ll be in touch soon with more details.

Slow Food has a program called the Ark of Taste which aims to rediscover and catalogue forgotten flavors, documenting excellent food products that are in danger of disappearing. More than 750 products from dozens of countries worldwide have been added to the international Ark of Taste which contains everything from heirloom vegetables to heritage animal breeds to salumi.

Bringing it closer to home, here are just a few items listed in the Ark with a strong foothold in Missouri:

• black walnuts
• norton grapes
• red wattle hogs
• traditional Sorghum syrup

LocalHarvest has now partnered with Slow Food USA and will be helping to bring attention the Ark of Taste by utilzing the LocalHarvest database to to find more farmers and artisanal food producers who might be interested in producing Ark of Taste products. They have also listed all of the Ark of Taste products independently under each farmers listing so that consumers can more easily find these unique items and learn about their place in our American food heritage.

More on the Slow Food USA Ark of Taste can be found here, and further information on the partnership is available on LocalHarvest’s website.