Wine Dinner to Benefit Slow Food Chicago

Candid Wines, Kinnikinnick Farm and Osteria Via Stato present:

A Summer's Eve Dinner to Benefit Slow Food Chicago

Sunday, August 23, 2009
5:30pm Reception
6:00pm Dinner

$35 per person

Osteria Via Stato will hold "A Summer's Eve Dinner" featuring a seasonal menu by Chef David DiGregorio and wine pairings by Candid Wines. Communal, convivial table seatings will highlight Slow Food's "come to the table" mentality. The "Summer Eve's Dinner" benefits Slow Food Chicago and kicks-off tomato season.

David Cleverdon from Kinnikinnick Farm, a 40 acre certified organic Market Garden in Caledonia, Illinois, will speak briefly about growing tomatoes and will also sample tomatoes at different stages of peakness. Slow Food Chicago and Candid Wine's upcoming TomatoFest: BLT Series will also be discussed.

This dinner has limited seating. Please reserve your seat through Allison Gallese at Osteria Via Stato, 312-642-8450. Tax and gratuity not included.

The Menu

Passed Hors D’Oeuvres

Mini BLT with Applewood Smoked Bacon

Roman-Style Pizza with Eggplant , Fontina and Oven Dried Tomatoes

Baconcello

Bacon-infused Vodka

Antipasti

Caprese with Fresh Tomatoes and Hand-Pulled Mozzarella

Panzanella Salad with Farmer’s Market Vegetables

Housemade Tomato Foccacia

Secondi

Tagliatelle with Tomatoes, Garlic and Fresh Basil

Slagel Farms Pork Tenderloin with Local Bacon, Onions, Peppers and Balsamic

Dessert

Almond Cake with Local Peaches and Raspberries; Housemade Vanilla Gelato

Slow Food USA envisions a future food system that is based on the principles of high quality and taste, environmental sustainability, and social justice – in essence, a food system that is good, clean and fair. We seek to catalyze a broad cultural shift away from the destructive effects of an industrial food system and fast life; toward the regenerative cultural, social and economic benefits of a sustainable food system, regional food traditions, the pleasures of the table, and a slower and more harmonious rhythm of life.

Osteria Via Stato
620 North State
Chicago, Illinois 60654
www.osteriaviastato.com
312-642-8450
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