Mark your calendars, make your reservations immediately, beat those cabin fever blues and join us for a Slow Food USA Ark of Taste Dinner at the Pearl Restaurant on Wednesday March 19!

6 pm for cocktails and convivial greetings…
7 pm the Chef’s 8-Course Sumptious Tasting Dinner:

First - Cape May Oysters Three Ways
Second - Nantucket Bay Scallops with Meyer Lemon Crumble and Baby Arugula
Third - Gulf of Maine Shrimp and Maine Crab Cake
Fourth - Blood Orange and Ojai Pixie Tangerine Salad with Boston Lettuce
Fifth- Yankee Farmer Bison Carpaccio with Carolina Gold Rice Grits
Sixth - Slow-Braised Red Wattle Hog with Edamame
Seventh - La Cence Petite Sirloin with Wasabi White Pepper, Green Mountain Potatoes and Garlic
Eighth - Chocolate and Kumquat Spring Roll

$55 per person includes gratuities

Pearl house wines will be available with each course in special $3 tasting pours

Call 924-5225 for advance reservations only. Limited seating - so call your reservations in soon!!!

Ben Watson, who is a board member of the Slow Food USA Ark Committee, has been working with Pearl Chef to create this special menu. He will be present to answer your questions about the Ark Project. This will be a fundraising event to enable several of our local farmers to attend this year’s Terra Madre Convention - a unique symposium bringing together over 7000 farmers, small food producers, chefs and agriculture school delegates to network for sustainable agriculture and working together towards the goal of making good, clean, fair food available to everyone!!!!

You knew were a Seacoast resident, but did you know you are also part of Clambake Nation?

The Slow Food USA initiative called RAFT (Renewing America’s Food Traditions) has organized the United States into regional ‘nations’ based on shared food histories. Within each group, convivia work together with RAFT’s seven supporting organizations to “document, restore, and celebrate” each region’s threatened foods. RAFT also encourages us to identify local foods that should be listed on Slow Food’s Ark of Taste. The Ark list exists to raise awareness of threatened foods, and encourage projects to help preserve them and revive their use. Here’s the list of foods RAFT is specifically working to support in Clambake Nation; as you’ll see, many of our members and associates are actively engaged in growing, cooking, or teaching about many of them, such as American heirloom apples, Native strawberries, and cranberry beans.