Special Events
Friday, February 24, 2012
Special Events We Are City launches with 'A Matter of Taste'
Posted by Jim Poyser on Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 11:03 AM
- IUPUI executive chef Nate Jackson leads a discussion in the Nourish Cafe following a We Are City screening.
The documentary was called A Matter of Taste, a fascinating film that followed the ups and downs of a New York City chef.
Afterward, a panel was convened for conversation, including co-presenter Michael Kaufmann of the Health and Hospital Corporation of Indiana and special guests Becky Hostetter of Duos mobile kitchen, Cynthia Wilson of Kountry Kitchen and Neal Brown of The Libertine and Pizzology.
After this lively conversation, "action tables" were formed in Nourish Cafe at the IMA, courtesy of We Are City co-presenter Anne Laker of the IMA.
Attendees listened and mingled for well over an hour talking about food from a social justice and city-identity point of view.
Next event is a bicycle documentary, On My Own Two Wheels, in March.
With My Own Two Wheels Trailer from Jacob SB on Vimeo.
Thursday, September 15, 2011
Special Events Review: Caramel Apple Festival
Posted by Paul F. P. Pogue on Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 7:00 AM
Caramel Apple Festival, Tuttle Orchards, Sept. 10
4 stars
Autumn! Best time of year if you ask me. Boiling hot days receding into the background, not yet freezing cold, fresh fruit in the air, Halloween just around the corner and the kickoff to the holiday season. Brings out the youth in all of us.
And the Caramel Apple Festival at Greenfield's Tuttle Orchards on Saturday was the ideal way to start it all off. All the best parts of being young at Halloween time, with the added bonus of coming a few weeks early. Tuttle Orchards strikes me as a place best visited with the young in tow. (I mean, really, who else looks at a caramel apple that's Nerds on one side and Oreo cookie on the other and thinks that's a good idea? Eight-year olds, that's who. And, erm, possibly me.) It was a fine opener to the Halloween season, with the promise of cider and pumpkins on weekends to come.
First off, the build-your-own caramel apple bar. I wasn't kidding about the candy Nerds. Or sprinkles. Or Heath bar. Really, if it's sweet and you can stick it to an apple, it's probably there. Alas, it was only a one-day thing, but everything else will be around the rest of the season, like the chance to pick your own bucket of apples at 85 cents a pound, which combines family fun, fresh fruits and a price that is, quite frankly, half of what you'd pay at any local supermarket.
For maximum autumn fun, thought, the extensive children's play area comes approved by both my four-year-old and me. I loved their nicely constructed kid-sized hay-bale maze and corn-husk tunnels, and their corn maze is big but not so much so that you'll lose family members. Great fun indeed.
