Slow Food NYC – Astor Center Study -Italian Recipes for a Christmas Eve Dinner

Slow Food Event at the Astor Center in NYC: Italian recipes from a Christmas Eve dinner in Puglia.
Introductions by Rosemary Melli and Edwin Yowell.
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hi everybody think we’re about to get started if everyone will take their seats welcome to as Center my name is Kimberly KY I’m the director of programming here if you have uh any questions at all CL after class I’ll be here all night just a few quick notes before we start you all have a light box under your seat you can click it on right underneath we have a lot of wine to get there tonight so if you’re looking to examine the color or Clarity that’s a good tool for that um also the sinks on either side of you are spit sinks only by no means are you encouraged to use them but they’re there if you need them however the comes out of them is not very pable so there’s carassa filtered water around the room you get thirsty we have a lot of food to cook tonight so I will introduce the head of with New York hello how are you welcome thank you for coming um I I SL with New York City um we have about a thousand members now our mailing list between our Twitter and Facebook and all that stuff is about 7 or 8,000 people and amazing thing is I kind of recognize names I don’t recog so many names tonight which is which is great because it’s wonderful to be able to say hello but how many people are are slow food members raise your hand well some who work SL food don’t count but but the rest of you and and the rest of you you can join visit our website uh ww USA get to events like this my name is Ed I’m actually one of the leaders of SL New York City I’m also a regional governor of um slow food for the New York and New Jersey area and one of my compatriots um Rosemary Melly from uh who lives in New England and is the governor of slood New England said you should meet these people so I did I met VTO Rago and I me Rosel and um some things just sometimes come together and I think we have an excellent evening of of uh preparing an Italian meal for Christmas actually um with genuine genuine non in case you don’t have your own at home you do you have two actually we have other people to than when I when we started talking about the menu I thought what better then to get um wines from Castell Boraz on the north for fork of Life Long Island so we have Marco andar Boraz who are generously donating the wine that you’re going to enjoy tonight and um I guess I guess that’s all Rosemary do you want to introduce sure I’d love to well hi I’m Rosemary Melly and I’m the governor of the New England region of s food came down here to the big a for Thanksgiving because I’m originally from New York and my family lives in New York um but anyway um uh Ros sent uh out an email about her program cooking with nona a while ago and she sent it to a lot of the folks on the school food l and when I got it I opened it up and I looked at the show and I thought oh man this is fantastic I love this idea I love the cooking I’m Italian my grandfather comes from pulia not mola de but from another town in pulia and I just thought it was so wonderful so we corresponded we emailed we chitch and then one day I came into town and I met with Rosella and her father veto we chitchat a little bit more and they said you know we’d love to do a slow through New York City Event so I hooked them up with Ed and that’s how they’re here tonight to do this wonderful event for you I know that you love them as much as I do and we’re not going to hesitate anymore we’re going to go right to the cooking but before you do that the embracing is f but got do a little commercial um these events which we try to do about once a month and mostly at aser Center graciously host them um uh are for your enjoyment and your education and we also raise a little money and I want to tell you some of the things that we’re doing with the money that you’re you’re contributing by joining us tonight is um we slly New York City is sponsoring what will probably be the first Farm in several hundred years in Brownsville Brooklyn it’s um it sounds it sounds better in square feet it’s 10,000 square feet which is actually point2 acre but in New York City that’s going to be a pretty big farm so um we’re doing things now to raise money for uh spring planting um uh it’s vacant space and it’s been designated by the New York City Parks Department to be a farm not an ornamental Garden but a real farm and that’s our goal it’s going to be farmed by kids in um the neighborhood with adult supervision and um so you’re helping to do that we’re also supporting uh educational programs right now in four schools which involve things like Farm stands that where kids sell the produce uh cooking class and nutrition classes um uh Farm one Farm Stand is actually in Brooklyn at Auto High the kids are actually selling the produce they sell and they’re beginning to sell it to restaurants in Brooklyn so um it’s exciting stuff and you’re attending these events helps that we’re having a big cocktail party um to raise money this Thursday there are still a few tickets for sale if you go to Brown Paper Tickets www Brown Paper Tickets and um query uh paint the town green you’ll you’ll find it I invite you to join us the cocktails were being prepared by um for those of you drink cocktails um the folks from Clover Club uh DBA and also Alan Cass is the former um board of directors director of of our board of directors of slood USA is a Consulting exology in this in this daylight um is also preparing Cocktails so it’s going to be quite a nice part so now please I have a cooking h