Here comes Livestock 2!

Last Wednesday over 50 people crammed into the kitchen at the International Culinary School to observe as Adam Sappington from the Country Cat Dinnerhouse and Bar skillfully demonstrated his butchery prowess.  Writers including B.T. Shaw, Emily Chenoweth and Joe Strecket shared their experiences with eating (or not eating) meat.  Heartfelt and emotional testimonials about their relationships to animals, meat, and death were accentuated with the tearing of flesh and sawing of bone.  Cameras trained on Adam’s work were directed to two video screens for a close up look at the action.

November 11th gives us the second installment of Livestock featuring Cathy Whims of Nostrana and wine from Big Table Farm and Montinore Estate.  More information is provided below, but first let’s take a peek at some photos!

Portland, OR – Watershed Culinary Productions, in collaboration with Camas Davis, food writer and founder of the soon-to-be-launched Portland Meat Collective, is pleased to present the first ever Livestock, an urban conversation designed to explore the literary and literal aspects of killing our dinner.

“Our goal is to produce an educational experience that brings the discussions happening around food safety and animal welfare to life in a thoughtful, and poetic way,” says Lisa Donoughe, executive producer of Livestock and Director of Watershed Communications.

Livestock 2 will be held on Wednesday, November 11th, from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. at the International Culinary School at the Art Institute of Portland, 34 NW 8th Ave Portland, OR 97209.

Tickets are SOLD OUT with $10 from every ticket sold going to Friends of Family Farmers, an organization working to promote and protect socially responsible agriculture in Oregon.

Readers November 11th
Langdon Cook was a senior book editor at Amazon.com before leaving the corporate world in 2004 to live in a cabin off the grid with his wife and son. Now a freelance writer and blogger, Cook has written for Gray’s Sporting Journal, Outside, Fly Fisherman, The Stranger, Seattle Metropolitan, Northwest Palate, and numerous other publications. Fat of the Land: Adventures of a 21st Century Forager is his first book. In his prime as a meat-eater, he was known to take down a King Arthur’s cut of roast beast post-haste, but more recently he has switched to the Milady’s cut, which earns raised eyebrows ’round the round table. Cook lives in Seattle, WA, with his wife, poet Martha Silano, and their two children.

Anna Sachse is a freelance writer who has covered everything from high-end travel and food, to health, beauty, weddings, politics and Hollywood for the likes of the L.A. Times Magazine, Portland Monthly, and McSweeney’s, among other publications. In addition, she is working on both a wedding planner for women who aren’t lame, and a novel.  Many of her stories, as well as her novel, are based on the five years she spent working as a waiter and cocktail server in a high end Hollywood nightclub—the kind of establishment where customers could, and did, attempt to trade cocaine for beef carpaccio. Upon “winning” the audition that landed her this coveted waitressing job, she was forbidden to tell the customers that she was a vegetarian.
She is now openly vegetarian and lives in Portland with her husband, Chris, who eats tongue burritos and tripe.

Rob Newton, a recent transplant from New York City, has worked in publishing, television, theater, interior design, porn, child wrangling and other more or lesser-esteemed endeavors. His de-formative years were spent outside Puyallup, Washington, to wit his love of timber and his aversion to second cousins once removed. Rob’s newest works, Dirty Bomb and Happy Talk will premier at Portland’s Fertile Ground Festival, January 22 through February 2, where butchery of another variety will no doubt ensue.

Call 503-827-6564 for more information.  Ask for Mike.