Fresh Sheet: Dine Out to Feed Spokane
During National Nutrition Month in March, the Greater Spokane Dietetic Association partners with Feed Spokane to present Dine Out to Feed Spokane.
Participating restaurants will make a donation to Feed Spokane when diners visit on designated days or order from special Dine Out menus.
Feed Spokane works with local restaurants to eliminate food waste and help feed the hungry. Restaurants contact the organization when they have leftover food, which is collected and distributed to local, charitable meal sites.
According to its website, Feed Spokane and its coalition of meal providers serve more than 65,000 free meals each month.
For a list of meal providers and participating restaurants, visit feedspokane.com.
Eat veggies, live longer
A pair of University of Idaho researchers interviewed a dozen centenarians about their diets and lifestyles. What they found is no surprise: fresh and fermented foods, limited meats, lots of vegetables, a little wine and leisurely meals might help people live to be 100 – or older.
SeAnne Safaii, an associate professor in UI’s Margaret Ritchie School of Family and Consumer Sciences in the College of Agricultural and Life Sciences, along with UI alumna and nutritionist Sue Linja, spent last year doing interviews and identifying foods and activities that could contribute to longevity. They conducted research in Japan, Italy, Singapore and the U.S., including Idaho, where they met with Regina Otter, Idaho Gov. Butch Otter’s 100-year-old mother.
They plan to write a book. Meantime, they’re preparing presentations, including a speech at the annual conference of the Idaho Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics in Pocatello in April.
For more information, visit uidaho.edu/boise/news/featured-stories/research/centenarians.
Havana Nights
A Moveable Feast – the themed, six-course dinner that’s part of UI’s annual Hemingway Festival – is Friday.
The dinner celebrates Ernest Hemingway’s travels in Cuba and works set there, particularly “The Old Man and the Sea,” for which he won a Pulitzer Prize in 1953. Expect a Cuban-inspired menu by Best Western Plus University Inn executive chef Marshall Baltzell as well as Cuban music and dancing. Tickets are $85. Dinner is 6 to 9 p.m. at the inn, 1516 Pullman Road in Moscow.
Buy tickets at the inn or online: marketplace.uidaho.edu.
Vietti Winemaker’s Dinner
The first dinner at Inland Pacific Kitchen, chef Jeremy and Kate Hansen’s newest restaurant, is Friday.
Slated to open in spring, IPK is located in the old Washington Cracker Co. building at 304 W. Pacific Ave. Dinner is at 6 p.m. and costs $120 per person.
Luca Currado, winemaker of the family-owned Vietti winery in Italy, is the special guest. The five-course dinner – plus passed appetizers – includes black cod, grouse, venison and dessert, all paired with Vietti wines.
Call Santé Restaurant and Charcuterie to reserve a place at the table at (509) 315-4613.