Kallari Chocolate Cooperative Presentation

Meet the members and producers of fair trade chocolate from the Kallari Chocolate Cooperative in Ecuador for an interactive discussion on slow food, fair trade, and global production systems.

Free chocolate tasting!

Monday, March 9, 2009

4:30 pm to 6:00 pm

Memorial Union – TITU

Drumlin Farm Fundraiser Dinner

Real Food Potluck

Attention all students interested in creating a sustainable and just food system on campus – tomorrow we will bring our efforts and energies together to share a meal and discuss the future at the Real Food Potluck hosted by Slow Food UW.

When: TOMORROW, February 17th at 6:00 pm

Where: In the basement of the Crossing
1127 University Ave., Madison, Wisconsin

What to bring: A dish to share (not required). Your own plate, eating utensils, and cup (definitely required).

Who: The potluck is free and open to all. Bring your friends!

We hope to see you tomorrow!

Taste Education Series

Wine & Cheese Tasting

5-7 PM | FREE

Join us at the Momo for a complimentary Wine and Cheese tasting
from 5-7 PM

Wednesday, February 11, 2009

Free Wine & Cheese Tastings happen every 2nd and 4th Wednesdays!

Feb 9th Ferment Happy Hour: Nuts & Seeds, Weary Traveler

Hello local food lovers,

We’re going nuts for the next Ferment on Monday Feb 9th! Come join us at our new happy hour location at the Weary Traveler on Willy St. We’ll be sampling some of the many different varieties of nuts and seeds grown in Wisconsin like:

Hickory, Black Walnut, Butternuts, Sunflower seeds, Peanuts!, Hazelnuts, Flax Seed, a couple nut butters, and Chestnuts from IL. We’ll see what else we can find by Monday (or bring a sample of what you’ve found).

Stop by the Weary Traveler on Monday between 5:30-7:30pm for some good socializing and nut eatin’. We aim to be in the back half/other side of the Weary.

Don’t miss the special announcements at the end of the email…

–What is Ferment:——————————————————-

FERMENT – the local food and sustainable agriculture happy hour. This informal (and free) happy hour began in 2006 as a place for Madison area farmers, activists, cooks, students, food lovers and others who care about sustainable agriculture and local food issues to come together and socialize on a regular basis. We hope you can join us!

The next FERMENT is:

Monday, Feburary 9th, 5:30-7:30 PM

Where: Weary Traveler, 1201 Williamson St, Madison, WI http://www.thedailypage.com/theguide/venue.php?venue=1038

Who: You! Friends and family welcome.

Please feel free to pass along this announcement or have friends sign up for our gatherings/announcement list via our website.

For more information, check out our website: http://www.fermentmadison.org/

- Mrill Ingram, Mark Dohm, Amy Bruner, Heidi Busse, Anne Pfeiffer, Teresa Cuperus

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Special Announcements: REAP Food Group’s Wisconsin Homegrown Lunch project is seeking volunteers on Sundays to help cut veggies for its Snacks for Local Schools program. Please read this link for details: http://www.wisconsincooks.org/public/snackvolunteers.html

Claire Strader of Troy Community Farm won the White House Farmer competition. Congrats and read more about it: http://whitehousefarmer.com/?page_id=119

Farmers Market Breakfasts! Don’t forget about the tasty locally-source breakfasts offered every Saturday at the indoor Farmers Market. See for details: http://www.dcfm.org/

Sweatfree Campus Worker Tour

Learn about the conditions of Bucky Badger apparel factories from Honduran workers on tour

WHAT:  Sweatfree Campus Worker Tour: Honduran UW Garment Workers Speak Out

WHEN:  Tuesday, February 10, 7 pm

WHERE:  Room B130, Van Vleck Hall, UW-Madison campus

Russell Athletic, a producer of UW logo apparel, recently shuttered its Jerzees de Honduras factory in response to efforts by workers to negotiate better wages and improved working conditions, leaving 1,800 workers jobless — a violation of UW-Madison’s code of conduct for apparel producers.

Now, two workers from this factory, Norma Estela Mejia Castellano and Moises Elisias a Bovado, are coming to Madison to share their story. Join us in showing our solidarity with workers who sew our Bucky Badger clothing, and learn what you can do to support their organizing!

In the words of Norma, “people need to understand that this plan to close the factory, it is an act of vengeance. It is vengeance against us for what we have done by trying to organize a union.”

More info: http://slac.rso.wisc.edu/

Human Rights Awareness Week

Monday, February 9th:

Lives in the Balance: Human Rights and Immigration at 6pm – Memorial Union, TITU: Is Immigration and the right to work a human right? What human rights abuses to immigrants face in the United States? What is the future of immigration? An interactive panel discussion featuring a documentary filmmaker, a local social worker, and the Immigrant Workers Union. Refreshments/snacks will be served.

Wednesday, February 11th:

The Global Food Chain’s Winners and Losers at 7pm, Memorial Union, TITU

There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread. Mahatma Ghandi
Why are one in eight people hungry in the most prosperous nation in the world, in a nation that is the largest exporter of food, and that even donates large amounts of food to other countries? Refreshments and Snacks will be served in this panel discussion featuring:

John Peck, Executive Director of Family Farm Defenders
Michael Bell, author of Farming for Us All: Practical Agriculture and the Cultivation of Sustainability
Bradford Barham, an award-winning researcher of equity and efficiency in land use, and agricultural and economic development.

For more information, visit: http://www.union.wisc.edu/societyandpolitics

Slow Food Movie Night – February 5th

The CHE/Slow Food UW Movie Night this month is this week.

Join us for “Our Daily Bread.”

Bradley Memorial Building

Room 125

Thursday, February 5th, 6:30 pm

Free, with free Popcorn!

Next CHEW Meeting – February 4th

Feb. 4, 2009, 7:15pm at the Goodman Community Center:. “Culinary History of Madison’s Greenbush Neighborhood”