Feast of Five Senses - 2009 (Added Post Event Wrap-up)

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Building Community Through Food

Join us for an extraordinary gathering of chefs and local food artisans at
Slow Food Utah’s 5th Annual Feast of Five Senses.

Sunday, October 18, 2009 - 5:30 p.m.
Current Slow Food Utah Members please arrive @ 4:30 p.m.
for a special artisanal cheese and wine tasting.

Kimball Distributing – Viking Cooking School & Showroom
2233 South 300 East, Salt Lake City, Utah

—  Feast Makers  —
Antipasti by Liberty Heights Fresh
Greg Neville of Lügano
Dave Jones of Log Haven
Adam Kreisel of Tipica … A Caputo Project
Ali Sabbah of Mazza
Romina Rasmussen of Les Madeleines Patisserie

We’ve built a schoolyard garden.
We’ve helped our food-producing neighbors with a successful micro-grant program.
We’re building a food community.

We couldn’t have done it without you.

Now, we’re looking to enrich this food community of ours with new faces and new flavors.
We’re at it again. This time it’s all about tradition: Celebrating ours and welcoming others.
This year, we’re developing micro-grants to sustain food cultures and
the memories and flavors that go with them.
Together, we can ensure we all have a place at our community table.

The Annual Feast of Five Senses is Slow Food Utah's major annual fund-raising event. Our "Feast Makers" have graciously contributed their talents and foods for your enjoyment. We invite you to share in this community event. Your support of this event will help ensure that this community continues to grow and flourish.

Five Senses Regular Seating: $100 per person, $25 optional wine pairing.
Five Senses Kitchen Table Seating: $125 per person, $25 optional wine pairing.
(Watch and mingle with our Feastmakers at the Five Senses Kitchen Table!)
Seating is limited.

For further information please email or call (801) 706-8828.

Feast of Five Senses: Luscious Success

Slow Food Utah’s annual Feast of Five Senses fundraiser rocked the house at Salt Lake’s swanky Kimball Distributing and Viking Cooking School on Sunday night, October 11, 2009.

One hundred and twenty Slow Food members, guests, chefs and volunteers mixed and mingled, ate and drank and sang the praises of our bounty of local foods--all prepared with heart and soul by a dedicated group of chefs and volunteers. And, we savored it all amid fantasy-inducing kitchenware, countertops and Viking appliances, beckoning with their gorgeous, saturated colors. From auction to appetizers, dinner to dessert, the evening truly dazzled and delighted all the senses as it successfully raised needed funds for local micro grants.

Antipasti by Steven Rosenberg, Amber Billingsley and the Liberty Heights Fresh crew showcased Miya Farm pumpkin soup shooters, Wight Family Farm turkey leg confit and a superb local cheese selection, all accompanied by perfectly chilled Caymus Conundrum, and tempting silent auction items from local purveyors.

Chefs and their crews gathered in the cooking school’s huge, gleaming kitchen where each orchestrated his or her dish with great aplomb—no easy task considering there were five chefs and endless plates and platters to fill.

Lugano chef/owner Greg Neville plated single servings of an unforgettably silky cauliflower flan topped with Beehive Barely Buzzed Cheddar and Bell Organic Braising Greens.

Adam Kreisel, Tipica chef dished up a fragrant, slow-cooked local organic “chicken coccione” with cinnamon-scented eggplant and a rich poultry reduction.

Log Haven chef Dave Jones followed up with a refreshing salad of frisee, Utah crispin apples and butternut squash chips in a pumpkin-cider vinaigrette with a pecan and feta spanokopita on the side.

Finally, Mazza owner/chef Ali Sabbah’s slow-braised aromatic lamb with Middle Eastern spices was spooned over spicy fava bean stew…and, we were full. But not too full to gobble down Pastry chef Romina Rassmussen’s now-famous, buttery kouing aman, dressed up with a brilliant twist of bacon, served with apple compote and salted caramel ice cream.

Thanks to Francis Fecteau of Libation for inspired wine pairings and to Steve Kuftienec of Uinta Brewing Company for the array of autumny brews paired to each course—and for their descriptions of each beverage.

Thanks also to all of our silent auction donors and to food stylist Susan Massey for procuring and arranging the stunning, seasonal flowers, and to Steve Smith for providing photography.

Thanks to all who attended and supported Slow Food Utah.

Thank you to our supporters and sponsors for the 5th Annual Feast of Five Senses.

Kimball Distributing – Viking Cooking School & Showroom
located at 2233 South 300 East, Salt Lake City, Utah.
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