Next Week’s Busy with Good Food Events
Enjoy This Discount on Green City’s Sustainable Supper
Green City Market is presenting the latest in its Sustainable Supper Series, on Monday (October 16), 6 p.m. to 9 p.m., at Split-Rail, 2500 W. Chicago Ave. in Chicago’s West Town neighborhood. And you can save $25 on your ticket!
Click the button below to go to the ticket site, then use the discount code SUSTAINABLE25 at checkout.
There will be a panel discussion providing food for thought with the delicious dinner menu. The topic is food education — instilling Good Food values in our youngest eaters. Pilot Light, the Chicago-based food education non-profit (and one of my favorite organizations) will be participating in the evening’s discussion, represented by Caitlin Arens, director of their Food Fellowship program. She will be joined by Thomas Eich from Kankakee Valley Homestead farm in Walkerton, Indiana, a Green City Market vendor.
Hear Chef Jason Hammel Talk About Lula Cafe Cookbook
If you are a Local Food Forum reader who has frequented Green City Market over the years, you have likely crossed paths with Chef Jason Hammel, a leader in our region’s farm-to-table community since he opened Logan Square’s Lula Cafe in 1999.
His success at the restaurant is now incorporated in the just-published The Lula Cafe Cookbook. And on Tuesday (October 17), you can meet Jason, hear his stories, and buy the book at an event being held at the Museum of Contemporary Art — which happens to be the location of Marisol, Jason’s newer restaurant.
The event will be held in the museum’s Edlis Neeson Theater from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Tickets are inexpensive with discounts for students, teachers and anyone 65+. Click below to buy.
Artisan Grain Collaborative’s Whiskey-Centric Meetup
The rise of Good Grain — artisan and heirloom varieties produced using sustainable and regenerative practices — is one of the biggest developments for our region’s local food ecosystem over the past decade.
You can help celebrate this at Artisan Grain Collaborative’s Midwest Mash, being held Wednesday (October 18) at Judson & Moore Distillery, located in the Rockwell on the River complex, 3057 N. Rockwell St., Building 5, from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m.
Just by coincidence, I made my first visit to Judson & Moore a few days ago (story to come soon). Focused entirely on whiskeys, it’s a place with excellent product and nice people, and they use locally produced grain!
Here’s the scoop from the event organizers:
Please join us for Midwest Mash—an evening at Judson & Moore Distillery celebrating artisan food & beverage makers supporting the Midwest grainshed. Ticket price includes live music from Jess Baldissero and Aaron Smith, Judson & Moore distillery tours, sample bites from artisan bakers and spirit samples from craft distillers. Additional cocktails from Judson & Moore and additional food from 99 Counties…
Event co-hosted by the Artisan Grain Collaborative (AGC), a network of farmers, millers, maltsters, bakers, chefs, food manufacturers, brewers, distillers, researchers, and advocates working together to promote a regenerative grainshed in the Midwest. Learn more at graincollaborative.com.
Click below for (inexpensive) tickets.
Green City Announces Indoor Market Starting 12/2
Green City Market on Friday made it official: It will again be presenting an indoor market, beginning on Saturday, December 2, at 3031 N. Rockwell St. (a couple of doors down from the Rockwell on the River complex) in the Avondale neighborhood.
This is the second year of the winter market being held at that location on Saturdays from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m., and the steady traffic at the site — even though it is located across town from the market’s outdoor locations — was enough to ensure a Year 2.
And bonus… if you shop on the late side, you can sashay over to Rockwell on the River and enjoy some of the city’s bests — barbecue at Soul & Smoke, those whiskeys at Judson & Moore, and German-style beers at Metropolitan Brewing.
It was a switch from Green City’s earlier indoor markets, which were held at Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum in Lincoln Park until COVID pandemic restrictions and then size limitations prompted the change in venue.
We’ll keep you posted about vendors and other news leading up to the December 2 opening.
Green City Market West Loop Location Change: And one more news bite from Green City Market. Its Saturday satellite market in the West Loop neighborhood will operate on S. Sangamon St. between Adams and Monroe from next Saturday (October 21) through the end of its season on November 18 — a move necessitated by maintenance activities in nearby Mary Bartelme Park, its usual location.