Pop into the Cork and Keg Festival
Pop the cork. Tap that keg.
Friday is the annual Cork and Keg Festival at the Mirabeau Park Hotel and Convention Center, 1100 N. Sullivan Road. There will be more than 100 wines and 30 beers from the Inland Northwest and beyond.
Students of the Inland Northwest Culinary Academy will prepare hors d’oeuvres. Wines will be available for purchase at discounted prices.
The festivities begin Friday at 7 p.m. and end at 10. Tickets are $40 per person. Here’s where you can buy a ticket using cash or checks: Rosauers in Spokane; Huckleberry’s, 926 S. Monroe St.; Vino! A Wine Shop, 222 S. Washington St.; and Williams Seafood Market and Wines, 10627 E. Sprague Ave.
Credit card ticket orders can be made by phone at (509) 467-7744.
Huckleberry’s switches to organic beef
Huckleberry’s Natural Market will now sell only organic beef.
Huckleberry’s meat department manager Mike Mohr says they switched to Dakota Beef because it is 100 percent organic.
“Natural” beef cannot contain any artificial flavoring or coloring, chemical preservatives or synthetic products. However, it does not cover growing techniques, restrictions on feed, veterinary care or growth stimulants, according to a news release.
A Dakota Beef representative will be at Huckleberry’s, 926 S. Monroe St., on Saturday from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. He will grill organic beef samples and provide cooking tips and recipes.
For Dakota Beef’s recipe for Beef Sirloin Kebabs with Roasted Red Pepper Dipping Sauce go to the Fresh Sheet blog at spokesmanreview.com/ blog/freshsheet.
Slow Food serves up fundraiser
Three legal vices will be paired at a fundraiser next Wednesday for Slow Food Spokane River.
“Another Delicious T3 for Spokane” will include tastings from Spokane’s Townshend Cellar, Seattle’s Theo Chocolate, which roasts fair-trade and organic cocoa beans, and coffee from Spokane’s Thomas Hammer Coffee.
The fundraiser is $30 for Slow Food members and $40 for others. It will be held from 6 to 9 p.m. at Thomas Hammer Coffee, 210 W. Pacific Ave.
Make a reservation by Friday by sending an e-mail to sf.spokaneriver@gmail.com.