BRIEFLY.Byline: The Register-Guard Marche to feature Italian winemaker A special evening with Italian winemaker Cristina Geminiani of Fattoria Zerbina, an 81.5-acre estate in one of the prime areas of Romagna, is scheduled Wednesday at Marche Restaurant in the Fifth Street Public Market. A six-course Italian dinner will be served at 6 p.m., with one seating only. The prix fixe prix fixe n. pl. prix fixes 1. A complete meal of several courses, sometimes with choices permitted, offered by a restaurant at a fixed price. 2. A fixed price charged for such a meal. 3. menu is $55 per person and includes five Fattoria Zerbina wines: a trebbiano, three sangioveses and a dessert wine. The dinner will begin with an array of antipasti Antipasti can refer to:
n. Italian bacon that has been cured in salt and spices and then air-dried. [Italian, diminutive of pancia, belly, from Latin pantex, pantic-.] and wild mushrooms. Courses of rabbit roasted with sweet fennel sweet fennel said to remedy blindness and cataracts. [Herb Symbolism; Flora Symbolica, 164] See : Healing and grilled beef steak with balsamic balsamic (bäl·sämˑ·ik), n a substance that can soften and reduce mucus. glaze will follow. The final courses are roasted pears with blue cheese and Torta Duchessa di Parma (hazelnut meringue layered with zabaione buttercream and espresso chocolate buttercream). For reservations or more information, call 342-3612. Wine and Food Classic set for March 28-30 The McMinnville Wine and Food Classic will be held on the weekend of March 28-30 in the Ad Rutschman Ad Rutschman (October 30, 1931 – ) was a head football coach at Linfield College. He was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1998. Field House at Linfield College Linfield College is a private, four-year liberal arts college located in McMinnville, Oregon, United States, with a campus in Portland, Oregon, and an adult degree program located in eight communities throughout the state. in McMinnville. Wine and food lovers can enjoy demonstrations by guest chefs, live music and displays of gourmet foods and fine art for sale. Admission is $10. For more information, browse www.macwfc.org. Parade magazine cooks up its own `bake sale' Each year, 13 million children in the United States are hungry or at risk of hunger. That's why Parade magazine and Share Our Strength, an anti-hunger organization, will host the first Great American Bake Sale. Parade will launch the sale with a cover story on childhood hunger on April 27. The program will continue through July 22. Americans are encouraged to register at www .greatamericanbakesale.org and host a bake sale. - The Register-Guard |
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