Eco-chef Bryant Terry visits Rabelais
Sunday, May 10, 2009
Join us on Sunday, May 10th at 2pm, to meet Bryant Terry, an eco chef, food justice activist, and author of Vegan Soul Kitchen: Fresh, Healthy, and Creative African-American Cuisine and (with co-author Anne Lappe) Grub, Ideas for an Urban Organic Kitchen. Terry will be signing copies of his new book.
For the past nine years Terry has worked to build a more just and sustainable food system and
Food+Farm
May 7-10, at Space Gallery
Rabelais is pleased to be a sponsor of Space Gallery’s 2nd Food+Farm, a weekend of voices and activities. We will be selling books at the events on Friday, Saturday and Sunday, and will also be hosting a book signing with Bryant Terry at our shop on at 2pm Sunday. here’s more info:
FOOD+FARM - Examining our access to sustainable food
Thursday, May 7 – Sunday, May 10th, 2009
Presented by SPACE
FoodFilms
Sunday, March 8, 2009
Maine Restaurant Week brings the launch of a new film series, FoodFilms at One Longfellow Square. We are very excited to be helping our good friends at One Longfellow and the Maine Institute of Food and Drink bring a short list of classic food films to be presented with a culinary accompaniment.
The first film will be "Big Night" the 1996 film directed by Stanley Tucci and Campbell Scott
Slow Food Writers’ Night 2009
Thursday, January 29, 2009
On Thursday, January 29th at SPACE Gallery Slow Food Portland will be hosting our Annual Writers Night for 2009. This year’s line-up of writers includes:
Anne Mendelson, author of Milk, The Surprising Story of Milk Through the Ages. Mendelson is a contributing editor at Gourmet Magazine and has written for The New York Times and Saveur. She is also the author of Stand Facing The Stove, a
Books at the Armory, NYC
January 16 & 17, 2009
Come see us at the annual Books at the 25th Street Armory book fair in New York City Friday and Saturday, January 16th and 17th. we’ll be exhibiting a selection of rare titles from the 18th through 20th centuries, including a good number of new arrivals, fresh stock unseen by others until now. Wine books, cookbooks, food literature and a bit of farming and gardening for the city dweller seeking
***EAST END HOLIDAY STROLL***
Saturday, December 6, 2008
Rabelais is proud to join our East End neighbors in celebrating the Winter Solstice season with holiday cheer. All day Saturday there will be lights, sweets, warm beverages, festive decorations, art and music. The neighborhood is overflowing with gift ideas for the holidays and Saturday will be a great day to pick some up for your loved ones. Just think about the options: you’ve got Dean’s
Island Sheep
Friday, December 5, 2008
This Friday, December 5th from 6:00 to 8:00 PM we will be hosting a reception for Russell French to celebrate his show of photographs, Island Sheep. Russell is a local photographer who focuses on food, and a founding member of Slow Food Portland. Each Spring, sheep head via boat to remote Maine islands to spend the summer feasting on salt grasses and seaweed. If you dine at Fore Street in the
MKS Knives visits Rabelais
Sunday, November 30, 2008
Join us Sunday, November 30th, from 1-3pm to meet Adam Simha, the designer and craftsman behind MKS Knives. Adam will be exhibiting and demonstrating his custom made chefs knives, and you can see for yourself what makes these knives so great. We had a chance to see these knives in the flesh (sorry) this Summer and were greatly impressed with their design, weight and handling. Adam will be
A Year of Mornings
Friday, November 7, 2008, 5-8pm
Rabelais is pleased to present the East Coast launch of the book A Year of Mornings, 3191 Miles Apart by Portland artist/author Maria Alexandra Vettese and Stephanie Congdon Barnes.
Join us Friday November 7th from 5:00 to 8:00 PM as we host a reception and book signing with the artists Vettese and Barnes.
A Year of Mornings is a book of photographic images taken by the artists everyday
A Veuve Cliquot Dinner at Evangeline
Wednesday, November 5, 2008
Rabelais is proud to celebrate the publication of The Widow Clicquot, The Story of a Champagne Empire and the Woman Who Ruled It, a new book by Tilar Mazzeo, at Evangeline on Wednesday November 5th. The Widow Clicquot is the story of the visionary young widow who built a Champagne empire, showed the world how to live with style and emerged a legend.
Rabelais is teaming with Erik Desjarlais,
