Say yess to bacon. And all-you-can-eat cereal cartoon parties.

say yess to bacon day

Help Paul Shufelt raise $30,000 for YESS (Youth Emergency Shelter Society) at the 8th annual Bacon Day, Saturday, September 16 at The Workshop Eatery. Expect a pig roast, several bacon-inspired courses and drinks, a DJ and Andrew Cowan, chef and co-owner of Northern Chicken, is back to compete in the Bacon Dessert Cook Off. TIX: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/bacon-day-2017-tickets-35827541140?aff=ehomecard

Bacon Day 2017
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all-you-can-eat-cereal cartoon party

Saturday, September 9 is the first Saturday Morning All-You-Can-Eat-Cereal Cartoon Party of the season at Metro Cinema. Wear your pjs and enjoy cartoons from the 40’s to the 80’s and all the retro cereal you can eat. Adults $16; student/senior,$14; child 12 & under, $12, http://www.metrocinema.org.

Cartoon Cereal Party

mad for mushrooms?

The Mushroom Walk, Cook and Eat is sold out, but there are tons of other funghilcious things to do during the Sorrentino’s Mushroom Festival, such as cooking classes throughout September and a fabulous array of wine dinners starting Thursday, September 14, with BC’s Savard Vines with chef Alberto Alboreggia at Sorrentino’s Stony Plain, $95 ++. See the full schedule and make reservations at https://www.sorrentinos.com.

Sorrentinos Mushroom Harvest

explore fear and science at food evolution

It is much easier to sell fear than it is science is the premise of Food Evolution. Using genetically modified foods as its entry point, the film explores how easily fear and misinformation can overwhelm objective, evidence-based analysis, Tuesday, September 12m 6:30pm at Metro Cinema. There is a free panel discussion after the screening presented by the UofA Faculty of Agricultural, Life & Environmental Science.

Food Evolution

enjoy the salad weather

The potatoes this season are stellar. I have been buying delish fingerlings at Erdmann’s in the downtown market. When you get tired of eating them roasted with salt and thyme, make a salad with Parma ham and the second round of radishes popping up in gardens now.

Fingerling Potatoes