Notes from Monday

Monday, February 22, 2010 Meeting Summary:

Many things were discussed Monday, many of which appear to be running full steam into viable events and activities!

Joan D. volunteered to take the lead on getting information for a table at the Schenectady Greenmarket. I believe that currently there has been some e-mails sent and replied too, will definitely have more to tell this coming Monday.

Katie was volunteered to help steer us in the right directions for educating daycare parents. We now have some contacts in the school to help get us moving in the right direction and hopefully into the Gateway building.

More discussions involving screening the feature length documentary "Food Inc." and the who's and what's and when's. Nothing solid yet. Feedback from students on this matter would be appreciated. Yays? Nays? Other related ideas and suggestions would be great, as well.

Ideas were brainstormed for writing an article for the Binnekill involving a local, seasonal ingredient and corresponding recipe. Greg is writing it and it sounds like it's going to be delicious. Keep your eye out for it.

Until next Monday, everyone. Hope to see you there!
~Jessica
The Talkative Snail

Message from the Head Snail

The following is an e-mail sent out by the SlowFood SCCC President, Gregory Kern.

[...]For those of you who have not been to the meetings in a while, we are starting to get things under way. We have elected officers for this semester, they are as follows:

Gregory Kern, President
Katie Eagan, Vice President
Joan Dembinski, Treasurer
Justin Stearns, Secretary
Jessica Hill, Communications

For the time being, we have settled on Mondays at 2:00pm as a weekly meeting time. This will remain the same until we hear from more people about their schedules and when may be a better time.

Recently we have been discussing future activities so we can submit a budget request. Some of the things that we have discussed doing are:

1. Running a table at the Schenectady Green Market on Sunday afternoons. This would be an information table for Slow Foods, and hopefully eventually we would be doing demos for people at the green market and discussing foods available there and how to pick them and prepare them.
2. Farm visit(s)
3. Starting a school garden in the Biology department, growing herbs and possibly micro greens.
4. Holding a screening of the feature documentary, Food Inc.
5. Possibly working with the schools daycare to educate children about food.
6. Figuring out a way to have free cooking classes. A way that we may be able to get this going is to simply record a video of the preparation of a food, and post it on a web site or blog. This could be a first step towards conducting actual classes.
7. I am planning on talking to the 'powers that be' to see if we can have a monthly column in the Binnekill newspaper talking about club-going-ons and have a recipe that uses a locally produced, seasonal ingredient that stays in line with slow foods mentality of good, fair, sustainable food. This would help our students and faculty know what is fresh and local, where to get it, and how to prepare it.

The forum is open people, any comments, ideas, or well...anything at all please talk to me or any of the other officers. Attendance at the meetings has been low lately, and hopefully now that we are planning on doing some stuff we will see more people more often. Remember, our WEEKLY meeting time is 2:00 on Monday afternoons in the conference room between the culinary department locker rooms.

See you then
Gregory Kern

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