Evelyn's Crackers Participates in Slow Food's Terre Madre Day

Terra Madre Day
Celebrating Local Food!
Slow Food Toronto

December 10, THURSDAY - 6-9pm

Hosted by
FoodShare
90 Croatia Street
Entrance on Brock Avenue, which runs South from Bloor Street West, 1 street West of Dufferin
FoodShare website
Map to 90 Croatia Street

Tickets
$10 general admission
Free for children under 12

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About Terra Madre Day

The very 1st worldwide Terra Madre Day is being held on December 10, 2009 to celebrate Slow Food International’s 20th anniversary, in recognition of the importance of supporting local food networks.

Terra Madre Day will be celebrated in endless ways by the Slow Food network all around the world. Celebrations will take place on farms and in homes, in schools and communities, in cities, and rural areas: from New York to New Delhi, Turkey to Tanzania, Austria to Argentina.

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What is Slow Food Toronto doing for Terra Madre Day?

Slow Food Toronto will celebrate Ontario’s local food community with delicious sustainable offerings, music, and family-friendly activities, held at FoodShare on Thursday December 10th, open to the public from 6-9pm.

Travel through the various stations, sample delicious local product, and have an opportunity to connect with the people who produce, raise, grow, cook, and advocate for it all!



Participants Include:

·
YU Ranch, Bryan, Grilled naturally raised beef

· Niagara Specialty Foods, Mario Pingue, Proscuitto on Grassin

· The Healthy Butcher

· Akiwenzie Fish and More, smoked fish, Natasha Akiwenzie

· Matchbox Gardens, Hanna Jacobs, Vegetables, Serving Squash Bites

· Pfenning’s, Jenn Pfenning, Vegetables, Serving Carrots and Roasted Vegetables

· The Cutting Veg, Daniel Hoffman, Vegetables, varieties of garlic and red potatoes

· Everdale Farms, Gavin Dandy, raw carrots, gavin@everdale.orgCookstown Greens

· The New Farm

· KEG, Mark Trealout,

· FoodCycles, Ashlee Cooper, Sprouts

· Toronto Sprouts

· Plan B Organics

· HOPE Eco Farms, tentatively

· Torrie Warner, Warner Farms, apples, pears, cider,

· Lincoln Line Orchards, callahan_william@rogers.com

· Fifth Town

· Monforte Dairy

· Arwa Root, Mapleton’s Organic Dairy, Ice Cream, Frozen Yogurt, Yogurt, Pumpkin Ice Cream

· St.John’s Bakery, Jeff Connelly, Red Fife Wheat Breads, Artisinal Loaves and Brioche

· Evelyn’s Crackers, Dawn Woodward and Ed Rek, Crackers, Jam and Crackers

· CIPM Farm, Patricia Hastings, Red Fife Wheat

· August’s Harvest, Wareen Ham, Garlin, Shallots, Saskatoon Berries

· Forbes Wild Foods, Jonathan Forbes, Wild and Forages Preserved foods

· Persall Naturals, Jason Persall, Vinegars and Cold Pressed Canola Oil

· Kozliks Mustard

· Culinarium

· Chocosol

· SOMA, tentatively

· JK Kitchens

· Haisai, Michael and Nobuyo Statlander

· 100 Km Foods, Grace and Paul, able to represent their growers and/or weekly food box

· Slow Food Toronto, with Margaret Webb’s Apple to Oyster’s book

· FoodShare

· FarmStart

· Not Far From The Tree

· Local Food Plus

· Evergreen

· West End Food-Coop

· Edible Toronto


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For more information, please contact:
Paul DeCampo, paul@toronto.slowfood.ca or
Miriam Streiman, miriamstreiman@hotmail.com