<div style="text-align: center;"><font style="color: rgb(204, 102, 0);" size="6">Slow Food Feast of Fools and Friends</font> <br><span style="color: rgb(204, 102, 0); font-weight: bold;">a benefit for CounterPULSE and Shaping San Francisco...
</span><br><br><font style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);" size="4">Sunday, October 21, 6:30 p.m. until late...<br><br>Autumn Feast: Moving Foods</font><br></div><br><div style="text-align: center;">(how our cuisine came to be here and who brought it)
<br></div><br>Nothing moves us like a great meal with good friends, and this Fall Slow Food Feast of Fools and Friends will certainly do that... but we're going beyond the convivial pleasure of this great dinner to explore where the ingredients came from, not just the local farms, but where did these delightful foods originate? Who brought them to California and when, and how were those people treated? How has the migration of foods and peoples shaped our much-beloved California cuisine? Our Feast will nourish you while stimulating your palate, regale you with stories and introduce you to farmers both local and from our historic past...
<br><br><font size="2"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">We are delighted to announce that performance artists Guillermo Gomez-Peņa and Violeta Luna will be on hand to enhance our dining experience with their profound and sometimes uproarious talents.
</span> </font>We also have Willow Rosenthal of Oakland's City Slicker Farms lined up to speak, and much more still in the pipeline. <br><br>We're working on a menu that emerges from amazing Mexican ideas combined with our locally harvested fresh foods to bring you a hybrid cultural feast you will never forget! The working menu (subject to change and additions) is here:
<br><br><div style="margin-left: 40px;"><ul><li>San Francisco's own Anchor Steam beer (if you want wine feel free to byob) </li><li>Corn Pizzettas with cilantro dazzle, cherry tomatoes, chipotle black beans, cotija cheese.
</li><li>Arugula salad with roasted delicata squash wheels with roasted spiced pumpkin seeds, pomegranate seeds with a pomegranate dressing. </li><li>Roasted heirloom tomato soup with crispy tortilla strips and cotija cheese.
</li><li>(meat) Short ribs with a chili guajillo sauce or </li><li>(vegetarian) Chiles Rellenos with chili guajillo sauce </li><li>Organic, locally grown Apple pie with local organic whipped cream. </li><li>Plum wine or Hard cider.
</li></ul></div><div style="text-align: center;">The three previous Feasts have all sold out and tickets are selling fast so...<br></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.counterpulse.org/feast_w-paypal.shtml">
<font style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;" size="6">Make your reservations now!</font></a> <br>$50-100 sliding scale per person. Held at CounterPULSE, 1310 Mission Street (at 9th) in San Francisco.<br clear="all">
</div><br>-- <br><a href="http://www.chriscarlsson.com">www.chriscarlsson.com</a><br>Fall-Winter Talks 2007-08: <a href="http://www.counterpulse.org/fall-winter-talks.shtml">www.counterpulse.org/fall-winter-talks.shtml</a>
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