A TASTE OF VANCOUVER ISLAND – register online
Chef: MARA JERNIGAN
Time: 6:00 – 9:00pm
Cost: $59.00 each or 2 for $99
Location: CookShop, 555 West 12th Ave, Vancouver
Date: Friday, April 1
Chef Mara Jernigan from Vancouver Island is preparing a menu that includes a number of Ark of Taste items. She also will have Vancouver Island products for sale including Balsamic Vinegar.
An accomplished Chef, Mara opened her own Field to Table cooking school, farmed, and ran a Culinary Retreat and Guesthouse at Fairburn Farm. She has been featured in publications such as Gourmet, Saveur and Travel & Leisure. She founded Vancouver Island’s Feast of Fields in 1998 and has worked since 2001 with Slow Food and currently serves as the Slow Food Canada president.
MENU:
*denotes Ark of Taste item
- Crostini with Saltspring Island truffled goat cheese
- Salad of Miner’s Lettuce* with wild oyster mushrooms, B.C. spot shrimp, and a Venturi Schulze balsamic and nodding onion* vinaigrette
- Hand made red fife wheat* cavatelli with nettles and Moonstuck white grace cheese
- Boneless Cowichan Bay farm chicken leg with bacon and Jerusalem artichokes
Rhubarb semi freddo with Saskatoon berry syrup*
