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Slow Food’s 7th Annual Summer Feast-July 25th
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<2009 Annual Summer Feast Signature Event-July 25

This year, Slow Food is joining the National Capital Sommelier Guild at the Elmdale Lawn Bowling Club for our famous summer feast!

We will be featuring lambs roasted on an open fire with a bounty of summer fruits and vegetable, accompanied by a special wine selection.Bring flat bottomed footwear (no heels or thread) to join in a round of bowling before dinner!

Our kitchen brigade will be led by Sylvain de Margerie and will include two great gals Gay Cook, food writer and columnist, and Linda Thom, holder of the Grand Diplôme Cordon Bleu de Paris, 1984 Olympics Gold Medalist and Order of Canada, and other passionate cooks.

Our menu plan includes:

Appetizers: Fresh Corn Griddle Cakes; Lamb Hors d’Oeuvres; Tomato Saint Albert, Cumin-Coriander Mushrooms.

Main: Lamb with Cumin-Lemon Zest and Mint-Rose Petal condiments, three summer bounty salads baby potato, fresh yellow and green beans and seasonal green with secret dressings. As well as a vegetarian option (please notify us).

Cheese: a most delicious selection of ewe’s milk cheeses to complete the lamb theme, served with Peggy’s famous focaccia.

Dessert: Berries galore with fresh cream and maple sweets.

Join us on July 25th at 3PM for a game of bowling, drink and appetizer service will start around 4PM, The Elmdale Lawn Bowling Club is at 1 MacFarlane (Parkdale exit off the Queensway).

To reserve go to our website http://www.slowfoodottawa.com and for more info email slowfood@sympatico.ca or call Peggy Hall at 613-821-4426

Visit our NEW website at http://www.slowfoodottawa.com

Slow Food is good+clean+fair

We believe that the food we eat should taste good,

be produced in a clean way that does not harm the environment, animal welfare, or human health, and

that it’s producers should receive fair remuneration for their work.


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