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Tuesday, January 26, 2010
Events: Happy hour for HOPE market, Austin Tea Geeks
From Valentine’s Day cookies to tea, there are several events coming up quickly that you’ll want to know about:
Tonight, Austin Tea Geeks, a group organized by Sumina Bhatti (aka @sumina) earlier this month to explore all the best of Austin tea, will meet tonight at 6 p.m. at Jade Tea Leaves. Join the group to find out where the next tea tasting will be held.
The HOPE Farmer’s Market, which takes place every Sunday from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. at 414 Waller St. in East Austin, is hosting a happy hour on Feb. 18 to benefit the market. From 6 to 9 p.m. at the studio/market/gallery just east of Progress Coffee on East Fifth Street, enjoy food from Eddie V’s, La Condesa and East Side Showroom, cocktails made with Dripping Springs Vodka and Treaty Oak Rum, wine from Pedernales Cellars, music and art. A suggestion donation of $10 will be collected at the door.
Learn how to make sugar cookies for your Valentine at a class from 7 to 9 p.m. on Feb. 7, at Sugar Mama’s Bakeshop, 1905 S. First St. This will be the store’s first class, and it will surely sell out, so get your tickets ($55) early by calling 448-3727 or e-mailing Olivia@SugarMamasBakeshop.com.
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Hot Links: El Bulli to close for 2 years, Burger King pops a top, Helvetica cookies
El Bulli, chef Ferran Adria’s infamously hard-to-get-into restaurant in Northeastern Spain, will be closed for at least two years, the New York Times reports. Adria apparently needs a sabbatical to come up with new things to wow the food world with.
Former Gourmet editor Ruth Reichl’s book “Garlic and Sapphires” is headed for the big screen, reports the LA Times. Catherine Keener is the early favorite among fans to play Reichl as a NY Dining critic, er “chef [who] tries to balance her career with writing a book, motherhood and divorce.” Anyone who knows Reichl’s story or has read the book will note that there are many things wrong with that synopsis from IMDB, but hopefully Hollywood won’t screw this one up.
Not like you could walk down the aisle in it, but an Icelandic artist created this wedding dress out of cake. The gown is impressive, but I can’t believe the detail it took to create that intricate cake.
A Houston-area woman plans out her meals a year in advance, leaving just two days a month for leftovers and stocking up on bulk ingredients like meat. A noble effort, indeed, but it takes a certain person to stick to a schedule like that. That person is not me.
Design geeks fell for Helvetica, a movie about the world’s most popular font, and now a graphic designer for America’ Test Kitchen has created these cute Helvetica cookie cutters. (I have a feeling her bosses are too square to turn these products into the massive-selling kitchenware they could become.)
Mark Bittman tells us about a 17th century clock that used spices to help people tell time in the dark.
A New York restaurant now offers a baby food menu of made-to-order purees. At $8.95 a serving, I can’t believe the kitchen can afford to spend 45 minutes steaming and pureeing food for a small child who will, no doubt, eat two bites and then start crying for Cheerios. Only in New York…
A Burger King in South Beach will be the first to sell beer next month. USA Today reports that the chain plans to open a Whopper Bar that will sell Anheuser-Busch and MillerCoors beers. “You can have America’s favorite beers with America’s favorite burger,” Burger King’s president says. Um, something like that.
Target has become one of the first big retailers to pledge to stop selling farmed salmon.
Photos from the CBC and Beverly Hsu.
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Bake sale to raise money for Haiti relief efforts
UPDATE: Stephanie reports on her blog that the bake sale raised enough money to provide 2880 vegan meals to Haitians in need.
Impromptu fundraising projects for the earthquake-devastated Haiti have popped up all over town in the past 10 days, and on Saturday, vegan bakers are going to be selling baked goods from noon to 4 p.m. at Ten Thousand Villages,
1317 S. Congress Ave., to raise money for the relief efforts.
Austin blogger Stephanie Bogdanich, who write the blog, Lazy Smurf’s Guide to Life, has rounded up fellow vegan bakers to bake and sell treats. The Austin event is just one of many inspired by Isa Chandra Moskowitz, who sent out a call on Post Punk Kitchen for vegan bakers to do what they could to help people in Haiti. The money raised will to go Food for Life.
Here’s a link to the Facebook event page for details about the fundraiser.
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