Chef Hari Pulapaka of DeLand’s Cress Restaurant (according to surveys collected by Zagat, the No. 1 restaurant in the Orlando area) is gathering data about Central Floridians’ attitudes to sustainable sourcing in the local food system. (We think businesses like this are a good start.) He’s hoping you’ll take this three-question survey: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/ourfoodsystem If...
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Saturday, April 6 – Local Orlando Restaurant Chefs and Their Recipes 2 p.m. Orange County Library, Herndon Branch 4324 E. Colonial Drive 407-835-7323 ocls.info free Ricky Ly of TastyChomps is one of our favorite hustlers. The UCF grad has turned something most of us have – a deep enjoyment of eating out – into...
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The 20 images are part of a PowerPoint presentation that can be about any topic of the presenters’ choosing, and this version includes anything from Alexa Eastwood’s “Becoming a Savage” to Evan Miga’s “The Most Interesting Person I Know” to “Local Food and the Artisan Economy” by John Rife.
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Ly’s foodie guide also features sections detailing area farmers’ markets, date night suggestions and food truck fare, while finishing with a collection of recipes from local restaurant chefs.
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Celebrating the hard work of our local gardeners, farmers, entrepreneurs and nonprofits, the Winter Park Harvest Festival provides a venue for community food producers to come together with the public, sell their homegrown goods and give helpful hints for growing their own grub.
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Shoppers will get a chance to meet the faces behind their food, as 15 of Homegrown’s producers will be on hand at the event.
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Let's hope your seasoned food-truck noshing leads to a victory for your favorite.
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Our local chapter of Slow Food is hosting a happy hour social/membership mixer 6-8pm tonight at the craft beer wonderland that is Redlight Redlight (745 Bennett Road). Stop by and find out more about Slow Food’s mission—”good, clean, fair food for all”—i.e., local food, sustainable growing and prep practices, preservation of heritage foodways (and other...
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Empowering communities across America to show off the ways in which they are standing up for real food.
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Saturday, Nov. 19- Sunday, Nov. 20 Winter Park Harvest Festival As the final garnish for Slow Food Orlando’s Eat Local Week (read “Local heroes,” Oct. 6), this fest stirs the locavore pot with Saturday’s Harvest Conference with Slow Money founder Woody Tasch and a garden-side Farm to Table Dinner starring chefs from the Ravenous...
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