Category: Events

Few as they are, here is a list of events taking place this week:
Tuesday — The 69th Annual Maine Agricultural Trades Show is taking place Tuesday through Thursday at the Augusta Civic Center.
Wednesday — RSVP is holding a wine tasting.
Saturday — the Scarborough Wine Outlet is holding a wine tasting.
For more information on these and other upcoming food happenings in the area, visit the event calendar.
If you are holding a food event this week that’s not listed above, publicize it by adding it as a comment to this post.

The Portland Daily Sun has a report on a United Way program taking place on Friday to educate immigrants about “avoiding unhealthy foods, how-to’s on using kitchen appliances and even an explanation on following a recipe”

The 90-minute forums will be held at 9 a.m. and 3 p.m. at United Way headquarters at 400 Congress St. The morning session will focus on adult nutrition while the afternoon session will center around adolescent and teenage nutrition. Both events are free and open to the public.

There’s a report in this week’s Portland Phoenix about the Of Farms and Fables collaborative effort between farmers and theater to “foster a civic conversation about local agriculture, farming, and the future of small family farms in Maine.”

Over 12 weeks starting in May, Open Waters will bring three artists to three Maine farms — Wm. H. Jordan Farm of Cape Elizabeth, Broadturn Farm of Scarborough, and Benson Farm of Gorham — for residencies that will engage artists in farm work and farm workers in acting and storytelling. The cultural exchange will culminate in the summer of 2011 with an outdoor performance by both theater artists and farm workers, which will draw its audience into a conversation about our land, agriculture and food, those so basic and so sublime elements of how we live.

For those of you looking for a food/theater fix now check out this month’s “psychogeographic dinner theater” taking place at The Whitney Art Works.

According to a Press Herald news update, Anthony Bourdain was in town on Saturday. His Portland eating itinerary included J’s Oyster Bar (see photo) and Street & Co.

[J’s bartender Sandy] D’Alfonso said Bourdain sampled the restaurant’s steamed clams, oysters and mussels. Bourdain’s crew “interviewed him, and he had someone with him who lived in the area,” D’Alfonso said. “They interviewed a couple of the people that work here. He had a good visit as far as I could tell.”

Bourdain’s camera “crew told the staff at J’s that the Portland episode [of the TV show] would be on in April”.

For a first-hand account you can listen in to the Dining With the Duleys radio show on WMPG on Tuesday night at 7:30.

Wednesday— Black Tie Bistro is teaching a cooking class.
Thursday—Sea Glass Restaurant is holding a 5-course dinner featuring wines from the Cellardoor Winery.
Friday— opening night of the Dual Site “psychogeographic dinner theater” taking place at Whitney Art Works.
Saturday—Leroux Kitchen is holding a wine tasting, the next pick-up for the winter farmers’ market will be in Deering Oaks Park, and there’s a Jam Workshop taking place at Wolfe Neck Farm.
For more information on these and other upcoming food happenings in the area, visit the event calendar.
If you are holding a food event this week that’s not listed above, publicize it by adding it as a comment to this post.

The Maine Ambassadors of Food & Drink are teaming up with the Culinary Arts department at SMCC to offer a four week program (see page 6) on “the historical and cultural factors that affect what Maine grows and produces to eat and drink.” The class takes place Tuesday nights in February and will cost $275.

There’s a pair of late additions to the calendar for New Year’s Eve that I came across in this week’s Portland Phoenix:

• Maria’s is serving a 4-course prix fixe dinner for $48.
• The Museum of African Culture is holding an Ethiopian Coffee Ceremony Thursday night at 6:30. $10.

Monday—Maine Ambassadors of Food and Drink are running the weekly Foodie Trivia Contest at Bull Feeney’s.
Tuesday—there will be a wine tasting at Browne Trading.
Wednesday—pick-up for the Winter Farmers’ Market is taking place in Monument Square.
Thursday—New Year’s Eve dinners are taking place at Bar Lola, Cinque Terre, Eastland Park Hotel, Emilitsa, Evangeline, Five Fifty-Five, Frog and Turtle, Grace, Inn by the Sea, Shima, The Salt Exchange, Twenty Milk Street, Vignola.
Friday—First Friday Art Walk is taking place and there will be a wine tasting at the West End Deli.
For more information on these and other upcoming food happenings in the area, visit the event calendar.
If you are holding a local area food event this week that’s not listed above, publicize it by adding it as a comment to this post.

PortlandTown has posted a set of photos from last week’s Feast of the Seven Fishes dinner at Cinque Terre.

Monday—PortlandTaps.com has organized a Solstice Pub Crawl. the Maine Ambassadors of Food and Drink are running the weekly Foodie Trivia Contest at Bull Feeney’s, and Stephen Lanzalotta is teaching a cooking class.

Tuesday—Port Sports is facilitating a second Mead Crawl. The event starts with a tour at Maine Mead Works, wends it way through the city and ends up at Novare Res.

Thursday—Cinque Terre is serving a traditional Italian Feast of the Seven Fishes dinner on Christmas Eve. There’s also a Christmas Eve dinner taking place at Grace.

For more information on these and other upcoming food happenings in the area, visit the event calendar.

If you are holding a local area food event this week that’s not listed above, publicize it by adding it as a comment to this post.