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FOOD INNOVATION CENTER SHOWCASE
Sassafras would like to invite everyone to a very special free event tomorrow night (Tuesday 7/29) at the Food Innovation Center. This is the culmination of a 12-week entrepreneur workshop Sassafras has been participating in as part of the Getting Your Recipe to Market program:

“Time-to-Market: A Showcase of Local Foods is an opportunity for the public to meet and support local food business entrepreneurs in their first steps to bring their commercial ready product to the retail market. This twice a year mini-trade show is a showcase of products developed by food entrepreneurs enrolled in the Getting Your Recipe to Market workshop, and is presented by the Portland Community College, Small Business Development Center; the Oregon State University, Food Innovation Center Experiment Station; and the locally-owned New Seasons Market.”

Tomorrow’s event is a great way to sample innovative (and tasty) new local food products and meet some of Portland’s newest food entrepreneurs. In addition, New Seasons will choose one winning entrepreneur’s products for as a new product for sale at New Seasons Market stores.

As part of the workshop, Sassafras developed and is pleased to announce the debut of Sassafras Kitchen – a retail line of our signature tomato pies, sunchoke relish and other delightful Southern foods. That’s right, if New Seasons chooses us, you’ll soon be able to buy Sassafras Kitchen foods at New Seasons Market stores.

It’s going to be an exciting night. Hope to see you there!

Time-to-Market: A Showcase of Local Foods
6:00 – 9:00 p.m., Tuesday, June 30, 2009,
Food Innovation Center (1207 NW Naito Parkway, Portland, OR)
For more information contact John Henry Wells at 503-407-6959.

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OUR RECIPE CONTEST WINNERS!
Thanks to all who participated in our first ever Sassafras Recipe Contest. We received some terrific submissions. Who knew you all were such passionate and talented cooks?

The Sassafras Team got together and a chose Deane Tibbets for her wonderful Dot’s Cornbread Dressing recipe. In addition, we so inspired by Michael Arnovitz’s submission of a Hummingbird Cake recipe that we are awarding him as runner up with a free jar of sunchoke relish. We’ll post both recipes here later this week, but in the meantime you can check out the winning recipes and the other recipe contest submittals here.

Thanks everyone! See you tomorrow night!