Meeting Updates (Oct 17, 2007)

Slow Food Carleton Convivium Meeting Agenda

October 17, 2007 Wednesday

Whole Group

1. Guest Chef

a. Review: Please complete the poem

b. Plan: every other Saturday but not on Oct 27th because of Halloween Iron Chef

 

2. Upcoming Events

-Oct 21st, SUN 11am: Meet John Schwartz, a former professor at Carleton and an active member of Slow Food in Italy, at the Dacie’s Brunch

- Oct 27th, SAT: Halloween Iron Chef Competition at Culinary house

*budget of $70 (Xiaozhou, Khanh)

2 teams consist of 3 people will compete

5pm start cooking, 6:30pm judging

Judges: Iris Yin, Vanessa Garver, Bethany Saperstein

Prize: Iron chef costume for Halloween (saeyoon)

*need advertising (Rachel, Bethany)

- Nov 3-4^th, SAT-SUN: Twin Cities Chocolate Extravaganza

http://www.mspchocolateshow.com/default.html

we will cover the ticket price for the first 20 people who sign-up ($16*20= $320 at group price)

*budget proposal (Xiaozhou)

-Winter term: Chocolate Tasting events, Cooking Demonstration (Martha)
-Spring term: Benefit Dinner, Slow Food Nation

 

3. Guests from St. Olaf

a. Martha & Nicole

 

4. Updates

a. Book list and benefit dinner as a chance to increase more academic interest in food

b. others: New core member-Anne Czernek

 

Small Group

1. Slow Food Nation Fund-raising (Bethany, Hilary)

a. International Festival Cookbook

*need advertising (Rachel, Bethany)

b. Food Sale

c. Northfield

 

2. Book List (Rachel, Steph)

book-list.doc

3. List of Speakers and Guest for Benefit Dinner (Zoe, Tricia)

 

Please give $5 to xiaozhou if you have not for the membership card.

Come to the next meeting with updates from the projects you are working on. also you can always post it on our blog.