Enough Local Food for everyone?: Take a really good look.

Saturday,  January 14th, 2011
(Second Saturday of every month)

EarthSave Louisville will be hosting our monthly potluck event at the United Crescent Hill Ministries located at 150 State Street (on Frankfort Ave). Use the parking lot and on-street parking. Look for the EarthSave banners.

EarthSave Louisville's Phytophile* Potluck-- Saturday, NOVEMBER 12th, 6-8 p.m.
Come for the food; stay for the inspiration.
* Phytophile: Plant-loving

6 p.m. POTLUCK: Bring a plant-based dish (cooked or raw) , your recipe to share, and your own utensils/plates.  The serving table is always "The Bomb". Make every effort to avoid dairy, eggs and the usual cast of animalistic foods; replacements/substitutions are easy if one makes the effort.

7 p.m. PROGRAM: Our presentation this month will be given by a recent graduate from KSU, Terrell Holder, who is a bonified Environmental Sciences Masters graduate. Among many projects and learning opportunities that he will be sharing, Terrell developed a model to see if the Ohio Valley can really go local with its food-- and provides a rationale for why we would even ask this question. As an asset, Terrell is unafraid to talk about petroleum's inevitability as a dwindling cheap energy stock. Stark vegetarian implications are prominent in his regio-specific quantitative analysis.
You will learn something if you attend--so come! He will be the well-spring and we will be the sponge. Expect to get inspired and challenged...When things are working--let's get even better...and when other things are not working, let's challenge ourselves to overcome and reconnoiter. Please come and see!-- and make plans to invite friends/relatives.
Announcements will be given (pertaining to healthy food and behavior change), and a general ruckus and melee may result from raffling with a high-win ratio.

8 p.m.-10 p.m. MIX, MINGLE and MUSIC:
-- Immediately after the speaker, we gently coax people to intermix and generally socialize about the meal and foodism in general. Networking will guide your evening.
-- Tons of on-topic books for perusal are naturally in the Reader's Corner; discussions and plans for the next Book Study Club are part of the conversation if you bring it up.
-- Guitars and piano jamming in the mainroom.
-- Discussing of future Earthsave "You know we oughta..." topics in the kitchen during clean up.
-- Afterparties can always be held at the Zen Tea House (2246 Frankfort Ave) just up the street; they offer complementary tea tastings and are open until 10pm--Let's make it a habit!

LOCATION: the United Crescent Hill Ministries located at 150 State Street (on Frankfort Ave). (This is very close to I-64 and the bus line; if transportation is an issue, contact Earthsave Louisville to arrange a $1 ride service/car pool connection.)

2011 Per Person Suggested Cost:   $3 with a dish to share or $8 without a dish to share   Kids under 5 are free. Bring a complete place-setting with utensils for a price reduction of $1 per person  

EVERYTHING ALWAYS OPEN TO THE PUBLIC, ABSOLUTELY! If you bring food and this is your first time, please call ahead for a brief orientation and perfuctory but mandatory invitation (502 299 9520).

January 14th Cooking Class

African Chili - Not Just For A Bowl!

Taught by Doug Scott (Kilimanjaro Foods)

Doug Scott, Product Development Chef at our local Kilimanjaro Foods, is going to present some interesting ways to make and use chili that you as attendee to this class will find exciting. Their website is http://www.kfoodsinc.com and here's the Recipe for their success:

1 Seasoned Restaurant Owner
1 Enthusiastic Entrepreneur
1 Creative Chef
1 Delicious Recipe
1 Awesome Idea

They are tireless in efforts to develop new product recipes--why not learn their secrets of personal and culinary success! This fancy QR code takes you to their food contests page on Facebook and provides more information to peruse and glean from.

This month's feature emphasis: styles, types, and redux reuses for big ideas in chili:

African Chili - Not Just For A Bowl!

Come and hear all about it. Class starts at 4:00pm on Saturday, December 10th at the United Crescent Hill Ministry kitchen (150 State Street, LVL, across the street from the School for the Blind). Priced to encourage your enthusiastic participation--free! As always, our chef will be explaining, demonstrating, answering questions and engaging all participants about healthful recipes--helping us fuse the tasty, economical and healthy into beautiful creations. Come and see the marvel! Change starts from messing with things in the kitchen indeed! From beginners to experts --all have a place by the cooking hearth. Please bring your friends; they might thank you!

Our guarantee:
This class is to demonstrate fairly easy, healthy, practical, and mind-expanding concepts. Prepare to be inspired. See this! Come every month from 4:00 pm to 5:30 pm to watch and learn from a rotating line of proficient cooks that can show you how to be successful, healthy, and savvy in the kitchen on a budget with little or no incoming skills, while maintaining a fully-plant-based diet--whether cooking for 6 or alone. This event is free, open to the public and awesome (A $1 fee for food expenses is optional). There's always a place for those who want to learn.

"Hey, good lookin'; What ya got cookin'?"

RSVP to 502.299.9520 or louisville@earthsave.org
It's guaranteed to be easy, healthy, and mind-expanding. Prepare to be inspired. See this!

Video from a past demonstration cooking event.