At the second annual
Market Mash-Up at the Peachtree Road Farmers Market on Saturday,
October 15, you'll benefit from a 10-team draft uniting farmers and purveyors
of locally made food. From 9 a.m. to noon, guests will sample tempting
dishes from teams you've surely heard of, such as Spotted Trotter, Red Queen
Tarts, Indian Ridge, Hope's Gardens, Riverview Farms, H&F Bread, Greenleaf
Farms and more. Two hundred and fifty tasting tickets are available and
will be for sale at $5 each (buys tasting of all 10 dishes) starting at 9 a.m.
Tasting runs from 10-11 a.m. or until sold out. Guests fork up
samples, vote for favorites and pick up recipes of the Mash-Up dishes. Celebrity
judges will choose a victor among the 10 teams. This year's judges
include Kim Severson, Atlanta bureau chief of The New York Times and
author of Spoon Fed; Christiane Lauterbach, dining critic forAtlanta magazine
and Knife & Fork; Jennifer Zyman, editor of The Blissful Glutton
and Eater Atlanta; and Emily Smith, CNN Eatocracy
contributor.
More than 50 silent
auction items will be up for bid that morning. The event pays forward,
helping fund the market's 2012 city permit fees and city-required police
officer. The PRFM is the largest producer-only market in metro Atlanta,
meaning that everything at the market has been grown, raised or made by the
seller and ensuring fair prices for both vendor and consumer. Lauren Carey, PRFM manager, sums it up, "Accessibility to
fresh local produce is a gift; it means so much more to shake the hand of the
farmer that grew the vegetables on your dinner plate."
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