Share the Harvest Dinner

2016 Share the Harvest Dinner 

Sunday, Sept. 11 Doors open at 5:00 PM; Plating begins at 5:30 PM. 

Share Wine Lounge, 210 S. Dubuque St.

Don't miss our annual Share the Harvest dinner! This dinner is a one of a kind chef/ farmer collaborative meal created just for this one night staged at the Share Ped Mall patio.

The meal consists of a plated five-course meal featuring entrées with ingredients procured from local farmers led by Share Chef Heskeith Flavien and supported by Johns Grocery's Develin Matthews.

Ingredients from Echollective Farm, Allchin Acres, Betty's Fresh Produce, Muddy Miss Farms, Pavelka Points Meat, Onion Grove, Old Capitol Food Company and Wilson's Orchard.

Menu:

Hors d'oeuvres

Lamb meatballs, caprese skewers, polenta with olive and capers tapenade.

Salad

Mixed greens and local vegetables.

Soup

Coconut curry butternut squash soup.

Entree

Bone in pork chops, chard, fingerlings, mustard cream.

Vegetarian Entree

Tofu, local vegetables and eggplant napoleons.

Dessert

Sweet Apple Delight  

Seating on their Ped Mall Patio and inside the Share Wine Bistro. Tickets available for purchase online or make a reservation by calling (319) 325-2701 or email director@fieldtofamily.org. Cost: $50/ for 2 meal tickets; plus option to purchase a drink ticket for paired wine, cocktails and craft beer. 

The Share the Harvest Dinner is part of the 2016 Local Foods Festival events during Eat, Drink, Local Week from September 11-17, 2016, in celebration of seasonal, locally-grown foods, local farmers and culinary excellence while bringing the community together in support of a stronger local food system.

Support for the annual festival goes towards Field to Family's Local Food Finder and Farm to School programs. Local Food Finder is an online resource that connects eaters with growers. Farm to School works to teach kids where their food comes from, increase the amount of fresh, local food that students eat and increase the number of students who learn the components of a healthy and sustainable food system.

Heskeith Flavien, head chef at Share Wine and Bistro inside the Sheraton Hotel in downtown Iowa City is coordinating the Share the Harvest Dinner on Sunday, September 11 as a benefit for Field to Family. Heskeith moved from a small village in Saint Lucia in the Caribbean to Gonzales, Louisiana when he was 18. He attended the New Orleans Culinary and Hospitality Institute and later became the sous chef for Tallulah inside the Renaissance Hotel in New Orleans. Heskeith is skilled at creating delicious entrées using seasonal, fresh ingredients.