The Moveable Feast: Savoury Edible Event
DATE: Thursday, July 19, 2012
TIME: 6pm-9pm
LOCATION: Burnaby Art Gallery, 6344 Deer Lake Avenue Burnaby, BC
ADMISSION: By donation (recommended donation $15.00) but space is limited so you have to register with the Burnaby Art Gallery at 604-297-4422.
This summer the Burnaby Art Gallery presents The Moveable Feast, a public project by Vancouver artist Holly Schmidt. The Moveable Feast is a series of workshops, edible events, free youth programs, and a vegetable garden beside Ceperley House in Deer Lake Park. The Moveable Feast responds to the current global mobility of food in the context of rapidly dwindling food varieties.
The first edible event takes place on Thursday, July 19th from 6:00pm-9:00pm. Focused on the taste of savoury or umami, wild forager Alexander McNaughton will prepare a selection of locally sourced delicacies. The evening will traverse the depth and breadth of flavours inherent in real food, and will include a short wild plant walk where Alexander will identify the various savoury wild foods available in the local ecosystem. Come hungry!
First course: Wild mushrooms versus cultivated varieties on toast, with parma shavings and cherry wood smoked salt. The first course includes a paired taste test of wild and commercially produced mushrooms, and we will discuss the techniques involved in the identification and harvesting of wild mushrooms.
Second Course: Local field cherry tomatoes with purple and green shiso chiffonade, white apricot balsamic and high polyphenol olive oil drizzle. Think sweet field flavours combined with sharp edged bitters, the acid and bitter softened by the sweet fruit flavors in the vinegar and the olive oil.
Third Course: Pastich Paté (Hemp, grain and seed) with fresh bread and watercress tips. Think rich creamy savoury flavour with bright, spicy greens, seedy crackers offered and/or crust baguette.
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Follow Holly’s project blog and check out more information regarding upcoming programs at www.moveablefeastburnaby.ca
The Burnaby Art Gallery gratefully acknowledges the support of the British Columbia Arts Council.
