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Tomato/To-mah-to: Slow Food Connecticut's Heirloom Tasting Feast
Admission includes all the tomatoes you care to eat and tasting portions of these artisanal foods. Many of the farmers, producers, and chefs will also have goods for purchase; bring a cooler.
100 or so vine-ripened, organically-grown heirloom and old-fashioned hybrid varieties of tomatoes from Upper Forty Farm and Urban Oaks Organic Farm in New Britain.
Farm cheeses and fine domestic and imported extra virgin olive oils, including "Corsica" an artisanal blend created by Ken Skovron of Darien Cheese & Fine Foods. Hearth-baked organic breads by Susie and Niles Golovin of Bantam Bread Company in Bantam. Caprese Salad with Fresh Mozzarella (made while you watch) by Dino Cialfi of Peppercornís Grill in Hartford. Toasted Cornbread with Tomato Marmalade and Tomato Melon Salad with Mint, Pumpkin Seeds, and Olive Oil by Bill Taibe of Napa and Company in Stamford. Green Tomato Pie by Noel Furie and Selma Miriam of Bloodroot in Bridgeport. Fresh-Squeezed Basil Lemonade by Patty Queen of the Cottage Restaurant and Cafe in Plainville.
And mouth-watering Heirloom Tomato creations (details to follow) by Denise Appel of Zinc in New Haven/Chow in West Hartford, Jason Collin of Firebox in Hartford, and Ethan Kostbar of The Dressing Room in Westport.
Music by Gigglejuice and more!
Learn more about the Slow Food movement (but not this event) at www.slowfoodusa.org. [1] Proceeds from the tasting benefit Slow Food Connecticut a non-profit, all-volunteer, educational organization which celebrates food and wine traditions and the pleasures of the table.
Directions
From Route 9 North or South, take exit 19 (West Street, Cromwell, Route 372). Head east on 372 toward the Sunoco station, not the shopping malls. In approximately one mile pass the Daata Mart Deli. Take a left onto New Lane just before Dairy Plus. Follow New Lane past all the Seagrott greenhouses until it ends at Route 99/Main Street (there are no signs for this, however). Take a left and then quickly bear right onto Prospect Hill Road, following the sign for the Holy Apostle College with a green park area on your left. At the first stop sign, make a right onto Nooks Hill Road (Upper Forty is at 86 Nooks Hill Road). Follow Nooks Hill Road; you'll come to a stop sign just before the underpass of a railroad crossing. Go under the trellis. Upper Forty Farm is on the right approximately 2/10ths of a mile
Links:
[1] http://www.slowfoodusa.org./