My lips are still smacking over the new foods we tasted at last night’s incredible Slow Food Edmonton’s Northern Foods Tasting. Davis Strait shrimp, Rankin Inlet Char Lox on Edmonton’s Tree Stone Bakery’s pizza, “pipsi” (dried, smoked char), muskox jerky, “mikku” (dried caribou meat), lightly cooked pickerel, dried ruby-red apple chips, muskox carpaccio and Grana cheese on baguette rounds, incredibly tender caribou loin chops, muskox jerky, mu-shu caribou, muskox tartar and a dish created especially for last night’s event: Alleyox Stew - a muskox stew made with Edmonton’s Alley Kat beer. The full menu is below.

Thanks to Steve and Twyla, and their adorable kids (the evening’s waitstaff and press photographers)! They opened their house to 40 of us foodies and put on an uforgettable spread of food and drink. It was also a great opportunity to get to know newer members of our group. In fact, I was so busy eating, chatting and drinking to get a lot of photos. Hopefully other Slow Food Edmonton members can add to these photos.

Slow Food Edmonton’s Northern Food Night Menu
 
Caribou (All From Kivalliq Region)
        Mu Shu Caribou
        Mikku (Dried Caribou)
        Smokies
        Cumin scented meatballs with minted yogurt
        French Rack Roasted
Arctic Char
        Pipsi (partially cooked)
        Lox Pizza (From Iqaluit) on Treestone Pizza dough and horseradish sauce
        Lox on Pumpernickel (From Rankin Inlet) with mustard dill sauce
        Cedar Planked BBQ
        Chowder
Muskox (From Victoria Island)
        Tartar
        Carpaccio with parmesan cheese and truffle oil
        Alleyox Stew  (with two kinds of Alleykat beer!)
Shrimp (From Davis Strait/Pangnirtung)
        Just as nature intended them, unadorned
Jerky
        Muskox
        Caribou
Pickerel (From the Great Slave Region)
        Back Eddy Pan Fried
Chocolate
        Various with Arctic Plants and Berries
Tea
        Various from Arctic Plants
 
Products were sourced by Steve and Twyla from:
 
Kitikmeot Foods (Cambridge Bay, Nunavut)
       Musk Ox
       Char
 
Kivalliq Foods (Rankin Inlet, Nunavut)
       Caribou
       Char

Jennifer CK

Event Name: Northern Food Night
Date: March 25, 2006
Time: 7:00pm
Hosted by: Steve Cooper & Twyla Campbell

MARCH 21, 2006 UPDATE: Thanks to an overwhelming response, this event is sold out! The tasting menu will include Muskox tenderloin, muskox jerky and char chowder from Cambridge Bay (Victoria Island). The High Arctic Char is ready for the BBQ and Bill Laws has supplied us with Back Eddy spice to season our dishes. Shrimp from Davis Strait along with char lox from Iqaluit has arrived and the Caribou roast along with a small sample of mikku (dried caribou meat) awaits us at the airport. Pickerel and whitefish are en route and a supply of tea and chocolate produced from native NWT ingredients has been secured. This should prove to be a fantastic opportunity to experience culinary delights from our Northern producers. We’re looking forward to it!

Cost: Sorry…SOLD OUT

R.S.V.P: By March 18, 2006 - email Steve at coopbell “at” shaw “dot” ca
You can also call Steve at 780-464-7477

Attendance: First come, first served, with preference will be given to
Slow Food Edmonton members. To take advantage of this preference you must
indicate yourintention to attend by March 18, 2006. Thereafter
we will fill the 40 spots with non-members. If there are guests that
you would like to bring along that are not yet Slow Food members,
please indicate that in your e-mail.

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Northern food producers are little known outside of the North except
with specialty food wholesalers, retailers and restaurants. I hope
that by showcasing some of the products fromthe Northwest Territories
and Nunavut we can better educate first our group and thereafter the
South more generally about what is available.
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There was a Website Training meeting for members interested in learning how to add information to this web site on Thursday, March 9th at 7:30pm. It was a great success!

Jerry Kitt, is the guest of honour at the Terra Madre dinner, Friday May 3, at Culina, 9914 89 Avenue. Time TBA.

Cost: $50.00 per person, inclusive.

Owner/chef and Slow Food Edmonton member Brad Lazarenko has arranged a three-course dinner with wine, tax and gratuity included, featuring Jerry’s delicious pork.

Jerry Kitt and family operate First Nature Farms, a certified organic producer of chicken, turkey, pork and bison located near Goodfare in the northwest part of the province.

Jerry was one of three Alberta farmers who attended Terra Madre in 2004. He will tell us about what’s new on his farm in Goodfare, the Terra Madre experience and his lived-in philosophy of farming, and life.

We’re thrilled that Jerry can make time to have dinner with us. Call Mary to save your place at the table, at 431-1802.

Call soon! There’s only room for 12.

For information on the last Terra Madre, see: http://www.terramadre2006.org/