Julia and I were fortunate enough to find ourselves invited last Sunday night to the second annual Rogue Valley Farm To School fundraising dinner at New Sammy’s Cowboy Bistro in Talent. It may have helped that I donated one of the wines for the dinner, but it seemed like we got the best end of the bargain by being seated at the bar and getting to enjoy an astounding meal. The food alone would require pages to describe, starting with an extraordinary array of tapas, moving to an elaborate paella, a cheese course and chocolate-cinnamon olive-oil cake with homemade almond ice cream for dessert. Perhaps best of all was the fact that every dime of the proceeds went to an extremely worthy cause, the above mentioned RVFarm2School, which provides locally-grown food to school cafeterias. Even the very gracious servers donated their tips.
Thank you, Tracy Harding, for including my wine, and thanks to all the staff and volunteers at New Sammy’s that night for your hard work. We had a ball!