The Feast! and Spam Museum Bus Trip

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Event Details

Join us Saturday, November 4th for a tour of the Spam Museum, lunch at Forager Brewery (where they use locally sourced foods), attending the Feast! Local Foods Marketplace (sampling unique artisan-crafted cheese, jam, sauces, and more), and shopping at the People's Food Co-op (formed by the people to provide themselves with high quality, low cost, and minimally processed food). Some of the items at the Feast! are able to be purchased at the People's Food Co-op. We will start the day leaving the Ashley Furniture/Harbor Freight parking lot in Mason City at 9:00 am and end the day back there no later than 6:30 pm. Tickets for AgVA members are $15/person and Non-AgVA members $20/person. Lunch and the cost of admission are provided in the price of your ticket.

Agenda

Loading Bus & Spam Museum

Forager Brewery

Feast! Local Foods Marketplace

People's Food Co-op

Bus Ride & Arrival in Mason City

8

^45AM

Loading Bus

9

^00AM

10

^00AM

Bus Ride to Spam Museum

10

^00AM

11

^00AM

Spam Museum Tour

Feast! Sampling

ENJOY SAMPLING

Unique artisan-crafted cheese, jam, sauces and more.

Stock up on your favorites, and discover fantastic finds for holiday gifts for foodies.

Great finds to include in Thanksgiving gatherings!

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Craft Alcohol Sampling*

Back by popular demand, we're featuring distilleries that work with local grain growers to produce unique, flavorful #graintoglass spirits.

*Includes a commemorative sampling glass to take home

plus the ability to purchase up to six items.

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Feast - Cooking Demos

1:00 PM

Shari Mukherjee

a.k.a. Spiced Up Mom Blog writer, Cooking/baking teacher, MasterChef Season 10 Top 6 Contestant

Shari Mukherjee is a self-taught home-chef, baker, and food blogger with a passion for both savory and sweet recipe development. She enjoys tinkering with her camera and learning to photograph the food she creates as well as working as a freelance food photographer/recipe developer for brands/clients and her blog, Spiced Up Mom. Shari went from "kitchen zero" and not knowing anything about cooking to competing on FOX's hit show: MasterChef. She has had the privilege of cooking for and learning from some incredible, world-renowned chefs including Gordon Ramsay, Grant Achatz, Iron Chef Morimoto, Alton Brown, Andrew Zimmern, and others--even earning a trip to London to cook in Chef Ramsay's 3 Michelin Star restaurant: Restaurant Gordon Ramsay. She hopes her story can inspire others—no matter where they're starting—to get into the kitchen and start learning.

2:00 PM

Sammi Loo

Ootori Sushi, Mezza9 Cafe & Desserts, Bebap Korean Eats & 1928 Cocktails & Bites

Cooking and making delicious food is my passion.

3:00 PM

Tiffany Alexandria

ChooChoo-ca-Chew

Tiffany says she would much rather be in what she calls "hole-in-the-wall places" than fancy restaurants. She loves local and genuine, something she traces to her Asian heritage. Through her business, CHOOCHOO-ca-CHEW, she's giving people insight into what her native Taiwanese cuisine and culture are all about.

One of the things she delights and specializes in is re-creating authentic recipes with ingredients from local farmers. In fact, she devotes much of her time to promoting the southeast Minnesota region. Tiffany is all about local and seasonal ingredients, and making food from scratch. She's also a whizz with food photography shares her talent and enthusiasm through her social media channels @choochoocachew.

People's Food Co-op

Our History – Cooperation Among Cooperatives

The People's Food Co-op we know now was created by several thousand courageous co-op members in Rochester, MN, and La Crosse, WI. In 2011 these people took a great risk and voted to merge their two co-ops into one large organization to serve a dynamic, educated, growing community. On January 2, 2012, the consolidation became official, and the stage was set for development of a new Rochester store. In the first year our combined sales exceeded $16 million. The next was a year of integration and preparation for relocation and expansion of the Rochester facility. When "new store" operations grew Rochester sales by 90% in year one, it became clear that together, our stores were serving the community's needs very well.

PFC is now powered by 11,600 owners and has sales approaching $22 million. Our stores are respected as true assets in downtown La Crosse and Rochester. PFC is widely recognized as a thriving business bringing people together to build a more sustainable community. Type here the content of the page or click on some items in the Common Objects-section to add more images, titles and texts to your page

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AgVA Member Ticket

Bus Trip - Spam Museum, Forager Brewery, The Feast! Local Foods Marketplace, and People's Food Co-op. Saturday, November 4th. The bus fee, lunch, and admission fees are paid for in your ticket price.

$15.-

Non Member Ticket

Bus Trip - Spam Museum, Forager Brewery, The Feast! Local Foods Marketplace, and People's Food Co-op. Saturday, November 4th. The bus fee, lunch, and admission fees are paid for in your ticket price.

$20.-