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Providence gets a new super-secret supper club, opening May 2. Now you know.

Have you read about underground restaurants, the super-secret supper clubs that appear like magic, sell out dinners before anyone even knows about them, and feature local chefs cutting loose from their restaurant gigs to create fabulous food with local ingredients?

Well, the secret's out!

Beginning on May 2, Rhode Island can boast its very own underground supper club, in a private home 10 minutes from Providence:

3 Chefs' Collective

The opening night dinner ($65 per person; 16 seats) features a menu filled with local ingredients and an adventurous spirit:

• Roasted Red Pepper & Fennel Soup with Sambucca Cream
• Jeweled Beet Carpaccio with Narragansett Creamery Goat Cheese & Orange Supremes
• 3 Little Fish | Fried with Housemade Tartar Sauce | Smoked with Apple Manchego Salad | On Toasts with a 25 Minute Egg
• Spring Lamb with a Pistachio Crust, Carrot Ginger Crème Fraiche, Wilted Watercress and Potato Rosti
• “Milk and Cookies”

Make your reservations on the 3 Chefs web site here: http://3chefscollective.weebly.com/how-to.html.

If you can't make it to the first dinner, be sure to sign up for the mailing list to find out when and where the next one will be.

Now, how cool is that?

South Boston Grows, and you can help

Join Share Our Strength's Operation Frontline on Saturday, May 15, 11 am until 3 pm, for a family-friendly day of gardening.

South Boston Grows aims to improve community green space and to increase knowledge of growing edible plans, with the long-term goal of increasing access and exposure to and intake of fresh fruits, vegetables, and herbs among under-served populations in South Boston.

This promises to be a very fun day of planting and gardening! 

· Children are welcome. (all children must be accompanied by a parent/guardian)
· We will be planting and gardening rain or shine!
· Let us know if you can bring your own work gloves.
· Lunch will be provided (we will try to accommodate dietary restrictions).

The service site is at 70 Devine Way, South Boston.

Street parking is available and the Andrew T stop is only a 5 minute walk.

RSVP by May 1 to Tony at [email protected] or 617-774-1326. Please call if you have questions.

 
 

Cooking, Carioca style

Registration is now open for my new cooking class offered for Spring 2010 by Rhode Island School of Design: a morning of Brazilian cooking, here in the Ninecooks kitchen!

For more information and course description, click here.

Thanks to all who are trying to register for The Edible Art of Cookie Decorating, our special Drop In & Decorate® event at RISD. I know it has been a frustrating process, but please keep trying. We will be able to take walk-ins on the day of the event, but it helps if you pre-register so we know how many people are coming.

Please email to me (lydia AT ninecooks DOT com) if you need help with the process.

Do you have $5 and 3 hours?

You do.

You know you do.

So please take that $5, and register today for The Edible Art of Cookie Decorating -- a benefit for the RI Community Food Bank's Kids Cafe program, on Saturday, January 30, 2010, 1-4 pm, on the RISD campus in downtown Providence.

The event is a first-time collaboration between Drop In & Decorate, RISD Dining and Catering, and the Food Bank.

Our goal is to decorate and donate 1,000 cookies to more than 500 low-income Rhode Island school children for Valentine's Day.

No experience necessary; practice cookies will be available. There will also be recipes and cookies for participants to take home. Inside- or outside-the-lines decorating welcome! And we have a fabulous door prize: a baker's dozen cookie cutters, generously donated by Ann Clark Ltd. of Vermont.

This event is family friendly; children must be accompanied by an adult aged 18 or over, and adults and children must register separately.

Cookies and icing generously donated by RISD Dining and Catering.

The $5 registration fee will help pay for decorating supplies, and if this will be your first Drop In & Decorate® event, we'll teach you how to do what we do.

Please sign up for this wonderful event, generously hosted by RISD, and bring your friends and family, too. Let's make some kids happy for Valentines Day!

HOW TO REGISTER for this event (course # 2010/CW-CULIN-0143-01)

1. online: http://www.risd.edu/pdf/applications/ce_regform_spring10.pdf

2. by phone: Registration phone lines are limited. You may have to wait or redial before getting through, so we encourage you to register by the methods listed above. If you do choose to register by phone, please fill out the registration form in advance and have your MasterCard/VISA number ready. Note: A registration fee is assessed for registrations made by phone. Call 401 454-6209 during these hours: Monday-Thursday, 10am-5pm; Friday, 10am-3pm.

3. at the door on the day of the event (but it will really help us plan if you can register in advance).

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