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| Baby it's cold out! Ciao from your Local Goodie, Panzanella! After a mostly-warm winter, we are being treated to some serious weather. Bundle up, take your vitamins, and try a warming, comforting, new pasta dish on our Lunch menu. The lasagna, with ricotta, roasted tomato, zucchini and spinach is just right - very satisfying, but not the heavy stuff that sometimes goes by the same name. We also have a list of five special drinks to celebrate Valentine's Day. A "Rosy Rum Cosmo", a Cosmopolitan made with rum instead of vodka, may induce a touch of spring fever. The "Valentini", is all pink and beautiful - Frangelico, white crème de cacao, a little bit of cream, and a splash of grenadine, perfectly delicious before your meal or at the end. Terra Madre 2006! On January 21st, a cold, rainy Sunday, a good many people you'd recognize braved the weather to attend a presentation at The Century Center, and nearly filled the Community Room. More |
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 A group of local farmers and friends had organized this gathering to tell the community about their experiences at Terra Madre 2006, last October, in Turin, Italy. Terra Madre 2006 focused on 3 key areas: NETWORKS: specifically, strengthening the network of food communities, cooks and universities and establishing communication channels within this network; AGRO-ECOLOGY: agriculture that respects the environment; MARKET ACCESS: finding new outlets for small-scale producers, who face crushing competition from industrial producers and distribution, through associations and cooperatives and collaboration with cooks and universities. (The statement of objectives above was excerpted from the Terra Madre website.) The panel of eight showed slides to illustrate just how amazing the event was. Their individual presentations, and the discussion that followed was inspiring and heartening. Within 2 hours, concerns and ideas were raised that touched on many subjects, too complex and numerous to go into here. But, we hope that you'll visit the links provided below, and that you may also be energized by the remarkable people and the thoughtfulness of this movement. |
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| Read more about Slow Food here. | |||
| Events: February Wine Dinner! | |||
 The Wines of South AfricaMonday, February 19, 7-9:30 pm South Africa ranks as the world's seventh largest wine producer. As anti-apartheid sanctions were lifted in the early 1990s the industry found itself more competitive at the bottom end of the market than at the top. Denied the rigors and rewards of international competition for so long, the Cape wine industry is now springing to catch up with "new world" excellence, innovation and aggressive marketing. You can expect an interesting mix of old world and new world styles in these unique wines from South Africa's famous Cape. We welcome Olivier Lotterie from Vineyard Brands Imports to guide us on a tasting tour of this exciting wine producing region. Plenty of delicious food prepared by Panzanella's chef, Chris Capron, will be served. Our next Wine Dinner will be held on Monday, March 19, 2007, and will feature The Wines of Tuscany. Wine Dinner tickets cost $40 per person. Please purchase tickets in advance at Panzanella or the Customer Service Desk at Weaver Street Market in Carrboro. |
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 Current Exhibit: On January 8th, we installed a new art exhibit, and are very pleased to be showing the work of Jenifer Padilla through Monday, March 12. Padilla draws from her dynamic surroundings and steadied observations to elicit, at once, movement and delicacy in her still-life paintings. Padilla's paintings are informed by her craftsmanship in a variety of other media: "I use my photography, sketches, Xerox, and 8mm film for reference in the making of my paintings," says Padilla. With this approach, Padilla's paintings transcend the still-life medium.
Recently, Padilla moved her studio to Archer Graphics in Carrboro, North Carolina where she shares space with four other artists. The large glass bay doors of the old auto repair shop allow light to flood her studio. Padilla stands at her easel centered on the oil-stained concrete once inhabited by craftsmen of a different sort. The previous life of the space, the abundance of natural light and vintage character of the Mid-Century Modern building have all inspired Padilla to employ new color and line in her work. "My work is directly influenced by my surroundings, my travel experiences and by food - especially the delicate shapes, textures and colors of fruit, the mark of graffiti and tag art, the shapes and lines created by cityscapes, mass transit and the trains that pass by." Most recently, Padilla traveled to Barcelona where she studied with world-renowned Spanish artists Tom Carr and Carmen Miguel. Of her journey, Padilla exclaims, "Barcelona was the most artistic and inspiring city I have ever been too. I was amazed and inspired by all the incredible graffiti, museums, public art, architecture, mass transit, oceans, design, city planning, performance art and landscape." A native of Chapel Hill, Padilla is a graduate of North Carolina State University College of Design and has studied at the California College of Arts and Crafts in San Francisco, Scuola Internazionale di Grafica in Venice, Italy and La Llotja Escola d'Art in Barcelona, Spain. |
| View more of Padilla's work here. |