HotBytes is one of the sponsors of this annual event, which offers an outstanding dinner for an outstanding food-related cause. Check it out (full news release below) and get your tickets early while they're still available.
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Food Literacy Project to Host Field-to-Fork Dinner
Local residents can help connect Louisville’s youth to healthy, sustainable food and enjoy a delicious, seasonal meal at the Field-to-Fork Dinner for the Food Literacy Project at 7 p.m. on October 14.
The elegant, five-course meal, sponsored by Foxhollow Farm, Vivid Impact, Louisvillehotbytes.com, Horseshoe Bend Winery and Vineyard, Limbwalker Tree Service, and the Arthur K. Smith Family Foundation, will take place at Theater Square Marketplace at 651 South 4th Street. Some of Louisville's top chefs will be paired with local farmers to source the best ingredients of the harvest season. The meal will feature the cuisine of:
Chef Dallas McGarity – Theater Square Marketplace
Chef Shelly Yoder – Corbett’s, An American Place
Chef Michael Hargrove – American Culinary Federation-Kentucky Chapter
Chef Mark Williams – Brown-Forman Bourbon Street Café
Chef Jim Whaley – Consultant for JCPS and Grasshoppers Distribution
Chef Erica Parker – The Comfy Cow
Chef Dan Thomas – JCPS At Your Service Catering
Seasonal ingredients will be provided by Field Day Family Farm at Oxmoor, the 8-acre eastern Louisville farm that plays host to the Food Literacy Project, along with Fiedler Family Farms, Grateful Greens, Harned Ranch Beef Co., Foxhollow Farm, Burton’s Maplewood Farm, Grasshoppers Distribution, and Horseshoe Bend Winery and Vineyard.
Proceeds from the Field-to-Fork Dinner will support the Food Literacy Project’s experiential education program at Oxmoor Farm, including development of a new learning center which will enable this small non-profit organization to better serve youth in the seasons to come.
“Just as farmers, the Food Literacy Project relies on tools – hoes, shovels and rakes, but also learning centers, outdoor teaching kitchens, and people with a passion for the land – to build on the foundation of our mission,” said Executive Director Carol Gundersen. “It is tools like these that produce a successful harvest. For us, the final product is young people who have a new and meaningful connection with healthy food and the land.”
Advance tickets are required for the event, and are for sale until October 8th. Tickets are $85 each and include passed appetizers and a five-course dinner, with paired wines during the seated courses. Visit http://www.foodliteracyproject.com for online purchase, or to pay by cash or check, please call 502-491-0072. There is a vegetarian option for this dinner which must be requested at the time of ticket purchase.
About the Food Literacy Project: The Food Literacy Project’s mission is to inspire a new generation of people to build relationships with healthy food, farming and the land. Established in 2006, the Food Literacy Project targets low-income youth with an increased risk of diet-related illness due to poor nutrition and inactivity. In 2011, the Food Literacy Project invited over 3,000 children to become participants in a sustainable food system – by planting, weeding, harvesting, exploring, smelling, tasting and cooking food during their Field-to-Fork experience. For more information, visit http://www.foodliteracyproject.org.
