WHAT:      Cocktail hour and dinner featuring wood-fired pottery paired with wood-roasted food

WHEN:      Sunday, April 5, 2009

                                      5 – 6:30 (Pottery Preview Cocktail party)

                                      6:30 (Dinner)

WHERE:   Restaurant Alba, 610-644-4009, www.restaurantalba.com, 7 West King Street, Malvern PA

Slow Burn provides guests with a unique opportunity to experience a dinner that is influenced by fire, from preparation to presentation. The food is prepared with local and seasonal ingredients and slowly cooked over a wood fire and in the embers. Woodfired pottery is often produced from local ingredients for clay and glazes, and fired over the course of several days by continual stoking. Both methods impart the influence and spirit of the wood flame.

Slow Burn features woodfired pottery made by seven internationally recognized, regionally located ceramic artists. Guests have the unique opportunity to purchase plates, serving platters and other functional items that is displayed in conjunction with a four course meal prepared by master chef Sean Weinberg, known for his use of handcrafted, locally grown artisan foods simply prepared and cooked over a wood burning grill, at his restaurant.

Tables are set in community “farm style seating.” Plates, platters and serving dishes are on display in situ during the preview cocktail hour from 5:00 - 6:30pm. Dinner starts at 6:30. Dinner is BYOB.

• Ticket price is $85 (includes cocktails, dinner, tax, gratuity and $20 donation)
• $20 from each ticket price + 50% of sales of serving platters                                                       benefit the Chester County Buy Fresh, Buy Local Chapter

Buy Fresh Buy local (BFBL) is an educational campaign designed to raise consumer awareness about the importance of supporting local, sustainable agriculture. More people demanding locally grown food means more sustainable, viable farms! BFBL is a national campaign supported by the Food Routes Conservancy in partnership with the Pennsylvania Association for Sustainable Agriculture

Cocktail hour sponsored by: Bluecoat Gin, Victory Brewing Company, and Yellow and Blue wines.

Photos at Restaurant Alba taken by Steve Legato.

   Participants include:

	Beverly Fisher
	Jane Herold
	Pam Lau   "Feeding the Process" in Studio Potter Magazine 2006
	Dan Ody
	Willi Singleton   "Slow Clay" in Studio Potter Magazine 2006
	Jordan Taylor
	Jack Troy
Menu Antipasto Oak Smoked Salmon – Salad of Fennel & Radish Bruschetta of Grilled Chicken Livers Ember Roasted Beets, Marcona Almond Butter Grilled Sweet Peppers, Home Made Vinegar Salad of Fava Beans & Highland Farm Sheep’s Milk Cheese Primi Risotto of Grilled Wild Ramps, Parmesan Cheese Secondi Slow Roasted Birchrun Hill Farm Pork, Ash Roasted Radicchio Trevisiano, Hearthside Polenta Dolci Caramelized Chocolate Bread Pudding, Vanilla Ice Cream

                                                                  Slow Burn is a Down to Earth Event

                                                         coordinated and curated by a farmer and a potter