Brooklyn Food Coalition Benefit Dinner

Thursday, April 2
Admission: $40 Three Course Dinner
Showtime: 7:30pm
reservations are recommended

Come join Monkeytown and The Brooklyn Food Coalition for a night of amazingly creative food: A three course dinner for your enjoyment and a chance to support a growing effort. Proceeds will benefit The Brooklyn Food Conference, a grassroots event for a just, sustainable, healthy, and delicious food system and the newly formed coalition.

About the Brooklyn Food Conference:

BROOKLYN, NEW YORK – Rising grocery bills, food riots, and childhood obesity - Food hits home. Food activists, local farmers, health advocates, academics, union leaders and restaurateurs will gather this day with concerned citizens to discuss the changes and challenges in our global food economy and how it impacts our communities. Workshops and speeches will provide education and networking opportunities for individuals to get involved to improve our diet, health and environment.

Already, there are a lot of fun events planned like a New Orleans-style parade featuring massive puppets! Workshops, food demos, and kids’ activities and food and lots of it: lunch, dinner, and a dance. The conference will be FREE to all participants.

There will also be well-known activists and writers like Dan Barber, executive chef and owner of Blue Hill Restaurant, Anna Lappé, author of Grub: Ideas for an Urban Organic Kitchen, Raj Patel author of Stuffed and Starved: The Hidden Battle for the World Food System and LaDonna Redmond, head of the Institute of Community Resource Development in Chicago.

The Menu
First:

shaved fennel salad
feta, crisp chickpeas, lemon, olive oil

lamb bourguignon
braised beluga lentils, truffled mushroom cream

tuna spanakopita
phyllo, spinach, kalamatas, herbed tomato puree

Second:

seitan meatballs
eggplant puree, purple olives,roasted tomato panzanella

rosemary brined pork chop
goat cheese polenta, spring carrot slaw, fig & habanero jus, crispy ear

serrano ham wrapped ahi tuna
grilled asparagus, ramp-potato mash, roasted garlic emulsion

Dessert:

orange yogurt cake
local berries, fresh mint sorbet

grapefruit panna cotta
ginger soup, vanilla poached grapefruit