Newsletter 19-Aug-2020

Your Monthly Newsletter

August 19, 2020

What's Cooking

UPCOMING EVENTS

  • Summer Wine Sips outdoors at the home of Ellen Gitelman in Sudbury: August 27
  • Eat Up at Forge & Vine: September 2
  • Virtual Opening Meeting: September 21

MEMBER NEWS & IDEAS

  • 2020-2021 Membership Renewals
  • Member Recipes of the Month
  • How to Help People Facing Food Insecurity

PARTNER NEWS

  • Belmont World Film Summer Film Feast Final Film: August 17-24
  • Support New England Cheesemakers at The Cheese Shop in Concord

EVENTS IN THE WORKS

  • Know Your Cuts of Beef

Mexican Cooking Demonstration with the Women Owners of Villa Mexico Cafe

Upcoming Events

 

Summer Wine Sips Salon
Thursday, August 27
5:30-7:00 PM

Outdoors at the home of Ellen Gitelman in Sudbury
Cost: $15
Capacity: 7

 

If you participated in the World Wine Regions salons given by member Ellen Gitelman in June, then you learned a lot about the world's wines without ever drinking a drop! In this program, you'll have a chance to actually drink some wines that are suited to summer sipping, before the season comes to an end. Participation in the World Wine's Regions salon not required!

Join Ellen in her backyard to enjoy a variety of summer wines that you can enjoy this summer and in summers to come! Both wine and light snacks that pair well with the wines will be served. If you have a particular wine you'd like to try, please indicate that in the sign up.

All glassware will be sterilized and all wines will be poured by Ellen, plus social distancing will be observed.

 

Late Lunch/Early Dinner
at Forge & Vine Eat Up!

Wednesday, September 2

4:00 PM

Forge & Vine, 126 Main Street, Groton

Join Guild member Isabel Chesak for a socially-distanced late lunch (or early dinner, depending on your point of view) outdoors at the charming Forge & Vine Restaurant located steps away from the Groton Inn with gorgeous views of the cows grazing on pastoral Gibbet Hill. Drawing inspiration from the region’s history and natural surroundings, Forge & Vine features an eight-foot wood fired grill as its centerpiece.

Check out their menu at www.forgeandvine.com.

 

Virtual Opening Meeting:
Virgin Territory: Everything you
always wanted to know about
olive oil, but were afraid to ask!

Featuring Cookbook Author
Nancy Harmon Jenkins

Monday, September 21, 7:30 PM
Via Zoom

The featured speaker at our virtual opening meeting will be Nancy Harmon Jenkins, an authority on Mediterranean cuisines, the Mediterranean diet and its consequences for good health, extra-virgin olive oil, and (to her own surprise) ancient Egyptian maritime technology.

Nancy will talk all about olive oil: how it's made, why it's so expensive, why it's fundamental to any great Mediterranean cooking, why it helps maintain a healthy lifestyle (and resistance to the other bugs), and how to choose it and use it.

She is the author of eight cookbooks, including Virgin Territory: Exploring the World of Olive Oil and The Four Seasons of Pasta, a collaboration with her daughter Sara Jenkins, chef at Nina June in Camden, Maine.

In order to participate in the Virtual Opening Meeting, you must renew your Guild membership for 2020-21. Use the sign-up button below after you renew!

Member News & Ideas

Member Recipes of the Month

 

 

We are pleased to present a new section of our newsletter devoted to recipes contributed by our members. If you have a recipe you'd like us to share, please submit to cgne.communications@gmail.com.

Before summer ends we are starting off this new tradition with two of Judi Kotanchik's signature recipes: blueberry cornbread and lime basil sorbet, which she made for our ice cream Let's Dish You can download them both here.

How to Help Those Facing Food Insecurity

Maybe you are already helping as much as you can, but if you have a few spare moments, Eater.com has published a pretty comprehensive list of both local and national organizations addressing food insecurity (we could have published our own list, but this is truly the best we've seen).

Read about local organizations you can help here.

Read about national organizations you can help here.

Partner Culinary News & Events

Belmont World Film's Summer
Film Feast:
A TASTE OF SKY

Virtual Film Screening:
August 17-24
Free Zoom Discussion:
Monday, August 24, 7:30 PM

Learn about Gustu, a fine-dining restaurant and cooking school founded by Noma Restaurant co-founder and Danish culinary entrepreneur Claus Meyer as a training ground for Bolivia’s impoverished youth. Under Meyer, these aspiring young chefs work toward a better future. The concept kickstarted a gastronomic revolution in the country's capital of La Paz, similar to what Noma did for Scandinavia. A celebration of the art of gastronomy, as well as an inspiring story of resilience and mentorship.

Support New England Cheese
Makers at The Cheese Shop

The COVID crisis is devastating the American artisan cheese industry, from family dairy farms to cheesemakers, distributors, restaurants and retailers.

Thanks to the Guild's partner, The Cheese Shop in Concord, you can enjoy several top local cheeses, while helping to support New England cheesemakers just by purchasing the shop's Victory Cheese box. This month's box includes:

  • Hooligan "stinky" cheese
  • Bloomsday cheddary hard cheese
  • Corner Stone cultured cheese made in Vermont and Pennsylvania
  • CaPeachios Artisan Crackers from Massachusetts
  • Wild blueberry jam from Turtle Creek Farm in Maine

Store Pickup: $65.00
Shipping within New England: +$15.00

Order by phone at 978-369-5778 or online.