Seattle Food Events Calendar Highlights Jul 11 - Jul 17

Looking for Food Events? As of January, 2009, please see my new site: www.FreshPickedSeattle.com!

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So much going on!  Too much to fit into the highlights!  Be sure to look at the Seattle Food Events Calendar for details and contacts for below highlights and even more stuff to do, she said ominously.  Seattle foodie season is in full effect.  I hope you have been stretching out your stomach like a competitive eater in preparation.

THIS WEEK

Friday, Jul 11:

• Today is National Rainier Cherry Day.  The P-I says there will be a free cherry giveaway at Westlake Center from 10am to 1pm.  With "Northwest Cherry Girls" in red gingham skirts.  (More of a Bing fan?  The P-I also lists some restaurants with special cherry dishes through the season - scroll to bottom of this article.)
• West Seattle Summer Fest starts.  Runs through Sunday.

Saturday, Jul 12:

• Have you been wondering how to become the object of one of my crushes?  It's easy: become a chef.  Learn how at the South Seattle Community College's Culinary Arts Program Open House for info on their programs.  Warning (or perhaps challenge) for the olds, like me: Anthony Bourdain says if you are over 30, it's too late to fulfill your dream of becoming a professional chef.  Are you going to let him have the last word?  9:30am.
• Get out of town and head to Carnation for the Helping Hands Kick-Off Work Party at Full Circle Farms.  Help with stream restoration under the Salmon-Safe Certification program. 10am.
• FREE! Berry Spectacular at University District Farmer's Market.  Celebrate the market's 15th Anniversary with free berry shortcake and samples.  Live bluegrass and free gifts.  10am.
• Chinatown-International District Summer Festival.  11am-8pm.
• "The night before or on Bastille Day, July 14, the firemen of each city and village are hosts of their 'Bal des pompiers' which often includes live music and partying in the streets. In Seattle, the Bal de Pompiers will be held on July 12 at Fisher Pavilion Program: Dinner prepared by the French Chef, Thierry Rautureau, also known as Seattle's Chef In The Hat!" 6pm to 12am.

Sunday, Jul 13:

• Bastille Day Festival at Seattle Center. 11am-6pm.
• Seattle Luxury Chocolate Salon: "Discover, savor & taste some of the finest chocolatiers & confectioners in North America."  Samples and events included in entry fee.  11am-5pm.
• FREE! Seasonal Fruit Sampling and/or Cooking Demo with Market Ingredients at the Broadway Farmers Market. 12pm-1pm.
• FREE! Summer Sunday Chef Demonstrations at Pike Place Market: Chef Robin Leventhal of Crave.  Starts at 12pm.
• "Burning Beast will host ticketed guests at Smoke Farm for a feast of medieval proportions. As many as eight cooking teams have been challenged to master one of six specified animals, whole or in parts, using fire, earth, steel and little else. Participating are many of Seattle’s most notable chefs, including; Dylan Giordan (Serafina), Maria Hines (Tilth) Angie Roberts (Boka), Nick Albrecht (Brasa), Matt Dillon (Sitka and Spruce), Garret Abel (DeLaurenti), Dustin Ronspies (Art of the Table), Gabriel Claycamp (Culinary Communion), Ron and Larry Jones (Jones Glassworks)."  Starts at 4pm, goes overnight.

Tuesday, Jul 15:

• Nothing happens on Tuesdays!
• Except: It's Gummi Worm Day! 

Wednesday, Jul 16:

• Vegetarians of WA have their monthly buffet.  6:30pm.
• FREE! Cooking Demo at Wallingford Farmers Market by Lesa Sullivan, of LesaCooks.com.  She is a personal chef and oh my gosh it's
• National Personal Chef Day!

Thursday, Jul 17:

• Learn about Keeping Chickens in the City at the Fremont Public Library.  That's LEARN at the library, not keep the chickens at the library.  I mean I guess you could try.  5:30pm.
• As of today, Friday, Jul 11, reservations still available for Farestart Guest Chef Night - Chef Darin Leonardson of Toscano.

COMING UP

• Don't ruin your appetite!  Bite of Seattle starts on Friday, Jul 18!
• FareStart: As of Jul 11, space still available for Chef David Olson of Bis on Main (Jul 24) and Chef Seth Caswell of Stumbling Goat (Leslie's birthday, aka Jul 31), and others.
• Sunday Supper at TASTE at SAM on Sunday, Aug 3.  Featuring Lummi Island Wild.  "The five-course dinner showcases reefnet caught wild salmon from Lummi Island Wild, located off the Straight of Georgia on Northern Washington’s Lummi Island."  Contact TASTE for reservations.  5:30pm.

Comments

[Heather]

Gummy worms get a day?!