From zuiker at gmail.com Sun Sep 6 20:45:33 2009 From: zuiker at gmail.com (Anton Zuiker) Date: Sun, 6 Sep 2009 16:45:33 -0400 Subject: [BlogTogether] The Long Table dinner at 3CUPS Sept 20 Message-ID: Friends, Erin and I write to invite you to the inaugural event of The Long Table, an initiative to promote good food, good place and good conversation. Throughout the years, our experiences at family holiday meals, Vanuatu village "kakais", restaurant farmers dinners and impromptu tea parties have fostered in us both a strong desire to gather with friends, enjoy a good meal and engage in long, leisurely conversation. It's in the sharing of food and stories and place that the bonds of family and community grow strongest, we have learned. Our new home in Carrboro will be one place for us to set a Long Table to share a meal with you. We also want to encourage the Long Table lifestyle locally and nationally -- we'll support locavore events, plan a few of our own, blog about regional sustainable agriculture and plug into national organizations with similar missions. We're kicking off this initiative on Sat, Sept 20 from 5pm-8pm at 3CUPS in Chapel Hill. Hich Elbetri, chef-owner of Sandwhich, and his mother, Naima Elbetri will prepare an authentic Moroccan meal, Badi Bradley of 3CUPS will choose the wine, and Erin and I will get the conversation started with a story or two. Tickets are $35 per person. Reserve your space by emailing or calling Anton (numbers below). We do hope you'll be able to join us for this meal. Read about the inspiration for The Long Table at http://mistersugar.com/article/4559/the-long-table. The food blogging event with Michael Ruhlman at Piedmont two years ago was another precursor. Twitter updates will be posted to @thelongtable. And speaking of storytelling, The Monti is a Triangle-based storytelling initiative. Don't miss its season opener on Sept 19th. See http://themonti.org/ for details. Anton --------------------------------------------- Anton Zuiker Editor, journalist & weblogger http://mistersugar.com zuiker at gmail.com 919.724.4220 ---------------------------------------------