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January 26: Flour Power Baker’s Workshop at CAST

Jan 17, 2023 | Flour Power, Past Events

Learn about the amazing Slow Food East End Flour Power Community and JOIN US at CAST for a Baker’s Workshop

Flour Power Baker’s Workshop at CAST

Thursday, January 26th, 2023

5:00 PM – 7:00 PM

CAST North Fork – 53930 Main Rd. Southold, NY 11971

We’ll be kicking off the launch of our Flour Program at CAST with a baker’s workshop! Join us as we host our first in-person baker gathering. You’ll learn all about this amazing program, what it takes to be a baker (no baking experience necessary), and how to bake bread. Get involved as a baker, a baker’s sponsor, or just come to chat… and taste the bread of course!
 
Everyone is welcome and we are hoping you all will become bakers and begin to provide freshly baked bread to the CAST food pantry. Our seasoned bakers will teach you all about our amazing recipe and you’ll learn all the tips and tricks necessary to get you started on your bread-baking journey.
 
This event is free to attend – but please register to help us plan properly.
RSVP HERE!

How Does Flour Power Work?

Anyone can register to bake. Simply sign-up and Slow Food East End will send you the recipe designed for 4 loaves; each baker keeps one loaf and donates three. Baking dates and all of the necessary details are listed on the Slow Food East End website under the programs tab. In addition, you will be receiving reminders for each baking cycle via email. There will be a designated drop-off point at the CAST building in Southold (when you register you will receive detailed instructions for the drop-off procedure).

We hope you’ll sign up and participate in as many baking cycles as you can. We understand how busy everyone is and all we ask is to bake when you can. 

The workshop is designed to help you get started on your baking journey. Come meet the Slow Food team and learn more about the recipe we specifically created for this program, sample some bread, and find out how you can be a volunteer to help provide freshly baked bread for families in need. 

This is a Slow Food East End and CAST Collaboration. 

Learn more about SFEE Flour Power and Sign-up to be a Baker!

January 28: Slow Food East End Fireside

Jan 13, 2023 | Past Events

Happy New Year 2023

Let’s kick off New Year the slow way

Slow Food East End Fireside 

Saturday, January 28th, 2023

1:00 pm – 3:00 pm

Quogue Wildlife Refuge – 3 Old Country Road Quogue, NY 11959

Slow down, warm up and meet up with Slow Food East End to enjoy a family-friendly afternoon at the Refuge with warm soup and cider. Find us indoors, fireside at the Charles Banks Belt Nature Center with beautiful views of the Old Ice Pond. Come meet our board members and hear more about what SFEE is doing locally. Learn about our Edible School Gardens, Chefs to School, Future of the Forks, and Flour Power programs, and how you can be involved. With your help, we can do amazing things together.
 
 
You’ll also meet leaders at the Wildlife Refuge to hear more about the important work they do too. And if you want to add an easy hike to your day, the trails are open. Family Friendly, bring the kids along!
 
 
If you have not yet been to the Refuge, you are in for a treat. The Quogue Wildlife Refuge is a 305-acre non-profit nature preserve that was founded in 1934 and is home to diverse wildlife. The preserve is open every day from sunrise to sunset you can enjoy walking seven miles of easy trails to explore diverse habitats including forests and ponds, as well as the ecologically rare Dwarf Pines in the Pine Barrens. The Nature Center is a wonderful resource featuring a variety of wildlife exhibits and a nature library. The Outdoor Wildlife Complex houses permanently injured wildlife that requires human care to survive including owls, falcons, a fox, and other native animals.
 
 
This event is free to attend – but please register to help us plan properly.
RSVP HERE!

Slow Food East End 2022: A YEAR IN REVIEW

Dec 28, 2022 | Past Events

We have done so many amazing things this year! Scroll down and take a look at all you’ve helped us achieve…

JANUARY

2022 was our first full year of the Flour Power program. To date, we have donated over 1000 loaves to the North Fork Spanish Apostolate in Riverhead. We are excited about the response and continue to add more bakers to our community. Looking ahead to rolling out this program to more food pantries in ’23. Stay tuned…
 
Better yet sign up to bake a loaf, or four… we are looking forward to meeting you at one of our new events just for our bakers.
 

FEBRUARY

As the pandemic continued to keep us physically apart, we resumed on to offer our virtual chefs series. Board member and Chef, Peter Berley, demonstrated recipes showcasing Beans and Pulses from the warmth of his home kitchen in Jamesport, which was much enjoyed by all from the warmth and safety of their own.

MARCH

Jack Bishop from America’s Test Kitchen and his wife Lauren Chattman led our next preparation of a delicious slow food style menu in our continued Chef Series. Lauren took us through the steps of making fresh pasta using local eggs and Jack shared his kale pesto recipe. To finish the meal Lauren & Jack demonstrated yummy chocolate pots de crème, one of their favorite dessert recipes. The kale for the pesto was graciously donated by Sang Lee Farms, a Snail of Approval farm!
 
All proceeds from this event were matched by Slow Food East End and donated to support World Central Kitchen and their efforts to feed Ukrainians fleeing the war. We are grateful to everyone who attended the event and made our donation of $3,700 possible.

the pandemic continued to keep us physically apart, we resumed on to offer our virtual chefs series. Board member and Chef, Peter Berley, demonstrated recipes showcasing Beans and Pulses from the warmth of his home kitchen in Jamesport, which was much enjoyed by all from the warmth and safety of their own.

APRIL

Earth Day is near and dear to our hearts and worth a celebration.
 
On a sunny Saturday afternoon in April, the Slow Food East End community celebrated Earth Day. Educators, farmers, winemakers, and chefs gathered to feed and educate us about our local food systems and ecosystems.
 

MAY

In May, we were happy to transition from virtual events to in-person ones.
 
We made great connections with schools, teachers, and administrators to revitalize our Edible School Gardens. We owe a big thank you to our outgoing Master Farmer, Melissa Makes and we warmly welcome Maria Plitt. We are once again offering our Edible School Garden grants to worthy recipients like Southold School, Calvary Baptist Church, Butterfly Effect Project, and the SFUSA National Garden Program.
 
We are looking forward to granting up to $10K to schools in 2023.
 
 

JUNE

We held our first Slow Hour ( our version of happy hour) designed to bring the community together for casual gatherings and increase community interaction. These FREE-to-attend events, which we will be hosting again in 2023, are a chance to have great conversations and learn more about the Slow Food movement and great wine in a beautiful environment… what could be better?

SLOW HOURS

 
 

JULY

SOA awarded to Jamesport Farmstead!
 
The Snail of Approval Program is awarded to businesses that incorporate the SF ideals of good clean and fair food. Here at SFEE, we are expanding the program to be able to include businesses like farms, wineries, fish farmers, and food producers, in addition to restaurants. Currently, there are 15 businesses that have earned the award. Most recently The Halyard at Greenport and Jamesport Farmstead has been awarded. For a full list of these deserving recipients, see our website.
 
Suggestions for future nominations are always welcome and appreciated!
 
 
 

AUGUST

August saw the return of the potluck event. After a couple of years off due to Covid shutdowns, we were so happy to be able to bring back our popular potluck gathering. This year’s dinner was at the beautiful North Fork Flour Farm field with the sunset as a backdrop and a rainbow in the sky to top off this magical evening. The food was great… the company was even better.

 
 

SEPTEMBER

Our annual membership drive took place this month. We surpassed 200 memberships—our highest number ever! We are one of the largest and most active chapters in Slow Food USA. We thank all of our new members this year and look forward to working with you in 2023. We need your ideas, and hands-on help to deliver on our mission of good, clean, and fair food for everyone.
 
Reach out, get involved, be on a committee, and volunteer at our events. It takes a village — and together we can continue to have a huge positive impact on our wonderful community.
 

OCTOBER

Sour Power Harvest Festival!
 
Our inaugural sour power/harvest festival was a big success. Chef Peter Berley taught us how to make homemade sauerkraut from freshly picked cabbages. Not only did it taste amazing, but we learned that it was made with only cabbage, water, and salt. All attendees were gifted a quart of kraut two weeks later after it had fermented for a while.
 
We look forward to more fermented goodness next year… think sourdough, pickles, yogurt, kimchi, and kombucha. It’s so great when delicious food is also healthy and inexpensive!
 

NOVEMBER

We held our Annual meeting at Brick Cove and gathered with our East End community. We welcomed our new incoming board members (Stacey Isaacs and Alyson D’Anna) and paid tribute to our outgoing ones (Laura Luciano and David Chaffin) for all their contributions over the years.
 
Our week-long online auction held annually alongside our meeting was a great success. We are grateful for the amazing community response and together we raised almost $17,000!
 
The money raised through this auction is instrumental in helping carry our work forward into the coming years.
 

DECEMBER

December came so quickly and it was time for our annual holiday board meeting and celebration. We owe a big thank you to Gabriella Macari and her team at Macari Wines for hosting our event at the gorgeous Meadowlark Winery. Thanks as well to Lauren Lombardi of Love Lane market for some of the most delicious food we’ve ever tasted.
 
We thank the entire volunteer board for all their hard work in 2022.
 

HERE’S TO LOOKING AT YOU 2023…

We couldn’t be more excited for what’s to come in 2023. Our all-volunteer team is continually growing. We urge you, our valued community members, to reach out, get involved, be on a committee and join us at events. We are also pleased to announce our inaugural sponsorship program for both local and nationwide businesses. Consider being a sponsor! Links below for ways on how you can support us.
 
 
We can do amazing things together.

FLOUR POWER is expanding to include CAST North Fork in Southold

Dec 12, 2022 | Blog, Flour Power, Past Events, Uncategorized

We are so excited to announce that FLOUR POWER is expanding to include CAST North Fork in Southold

Become A Member of This Amazing Baking Community
Flour Power is a Slow Food East End initiative and a way members of the community can provide home-baked loaves of bread to local food pantries. Our goal is to nourish and bring joy to people through a personal touch with hearty home-baked love. These loaves are incredibly appreciated by the recipients, so much so that the need for new bakers keeps growing and growing. The baking cycles take place every 2 weeks and each cycle provides loaves baked by the community. 
 
Since our launch in 2021, we have been providing to the North Fork Spanish Apostolate in Riverhead. We are so excited to be growing and adding CAST North Fork as a second food pantry for our bread program. 
 
How It All Started
Our chair, Pennie Schwartz, wanted to include more of the community in our work: the result was our Feed the Forks initiative, Flour Power – It’s the yeast we can do (yes we like our puns here at SFEE)
 
 
“Nothing smells and tastes like love quite like a home-baked bread,” says Pennie, “and it’s a great way to actively involve our members to create the smell, feel, and taste of bread, which nourishes the body and soul.”
 
How Does Flour Power Work?
Anyone can register to bake. Simply sign up and Slow Food East End will send you the recipe designed for 4 loaves; each baker keeps one loaf and donates three. Baking dates and all of the necessary details are listed on the Slow Food East End website and you will receive reminders for each baking cycle via email. There will be a designated drop-off point at the CAST building in Southold (when you register you will receive detailed instructions for the drop-off procedure). 
 
We hope you’ll sign up and participate in as many baking cycles as you can. We understand how busy everyone is and all we ask is to bake when you can, so please don’t let that stop you from signing up. 
 
Sign up here… we need you!
We are coming together to bake delicious and nutritious loaves for those who are in need. We invite you to join us and bake bread with us.
 
This program can only continue with the helping hands of our community. Why not give it a try? Also, if you have friends or contacts that might be interested please forward this information to them. Imagine a network of people showing care and connection through food. That is truly Slow Food!!
I'd like to bake for CAST North Fork

Giving Tuesday 2022

Nov 29, 2022 | Past Events

We hope you enjoyed your Thanksgiving the “slow” way. Celebrating the holidays with a thoughtfully prepared meal made with products from your local farmers/food producers and enjoying it around a table filled with loved ones over laughter and lively conversation.

During this giving season, our goal is to raise critical funds to continue and expand our Feed the Forks initiatives around “Good, Clean, and Fair Food” for all on the East End. This Giving Tuesday we invite you to make a tax-deductible contribution to Slow Food East End to help support our active programs including Flour Power, School Gardens, Snail of Approval, and Resilience Grants.

Thanks to the help of generous donors and sponsors like YOU, Slow Food East End is able to help local food farmers, producers, and food pantries struggling due to the pandemic.

SFEE is an entirely volunteer-run nonprofit organization and all contributions are tax-deductible through our affiliation with Slow Food USA, a 501(c)3 nonprofit, tax-exempt organization.

We are grateful for your continued support to keep growing our impact!

 

DONATE NOW!

Thank You to Our Donors for Feed the Forks Silent Auction 2022

Nov 11, 2022 | Past Events

Thank you to everyone who placed a big, helped spread the word, and all the ways in which everyone gave their support. We are grateful for the amazing community response and together we raised almost $17,000 via our online auction! The money raised through this auction is instrumental in helping carry our work forward into the coming years.

We are Slow Food and we are so grateful to all the generous donors, listed below, who made our annual Feed the Forks auction possible! Slow Food East End is also grateful to have the support of a highly motivated community. With your help, we raised funds to do more good work on the East End in 2023. Slow Food East End works to develop programming partnerships with like-minded organizations to create a more robust food web that is environmentally sustainable, preserves cultural traditions, and celebrates the joys and justice around food that is produced to be good, clean, and fair for all.

Al Goldberg
Cookie & Mike Slade
Randi D Schneider, physcotherapy