Wednesday, April 1, 2009

Moveable Feast showcases collaboration between local chefs and farmers

Every first Tuesday of the month, Moveable Feast showcases a farmer from the Ferry Plaza Farmers Market and two local chefs. There are five remaining multi-course, seasonal dinners out of a series of six. The first event took place on March 3rd at Luce in the InterContinental San Francisco, hosted by Luce's executive chef Dominique Crenn and Chris Krenner, formerly of Slow Club and Serpentine. They showed early spring produce from Louis Iacopi of Iacopi Farms.

On April 7th, One Market's executive chef Mark Dommen and Lark Creek Inn's executive chef Erica Holland-Toll will combine talents at One Market, highlighting farmer David Retsky of County Line Harvest.

On May 5th, Bruce Hill, executive chef of Picco and Bix, will team up with Ame executive chef Greg Dunmore and David Evans of Marin Sun Farms at Picco in Larkspur.

On June 2nd, executive chef Mark Sullivan of Spruce and guest chef Loretta Keller of Coco500 and The Moss Room will join Kristie Knoll of Knoll Farms at Spruce.

On July 7th, executive chef Mourad Lahlou of Aziza and James Syhabout, formerly Chef de Cuisine of Manresa and soon to open Commis, will focus on farmer Jesse Kuhn's produce from Marin Roots at Aziza.

The final dinner will take place on August 4th at Americano with its own executive chef Paul Arensam and Incanto's guest executive chef Chris Cosentino, featuring Joel Schirmer of Dirty Girl Produce.

Tickets for each event are $80/person, $100/person with wine. A percentage of each ticket will benefit CUESA, the Center for Urban Education About Sustainable Agriculture, operator of the Ferry Plaza Farmers Market. All dinners start at 7pm. Purchase tickets here.

For more info: Ferry Plaza Farmers Market

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