Mother’s Day weekend events @ Pastaworks

While you stroll the boulevard and take in the sun this coming weekend, please plan to stop in the Hawthorne store and treat yourselves and mom to a taste or three of some of Portland’s best—Sahagun Handmade Chocolates, Extracto Coffee and Miss Zumstein’s Desserts. And, meet the author of Pure Beef: An Essential Guide to Artisan Meat!

We first met Sahagun owner and chocolate maker Elizabeth Montes years ago at the Portland Farmers Market. We have been fans ever since. As Elizabeth states,” At Sahagun, we focus on the delicious, the unique, the new. We follow our imaginations for the pure and the exciting. We respect the ingredients we have to work with and strive to unlock different aspects of their nature.”

Chris and Celeste Brady’s Extracto Coffee is now Pastaworks best selling coffee. Peter starts his day with a cappuccino or two made with Extracto’s Eleven of Spades and finishes his coffee consumption with an espresso from the same blend late in the afternoon. After tasting Extracto’s offerings you’ll be hooked, too.

Miss Zumstein makes some of our favorite sweet things, from cookies and bars to tarts and cakes. For Mother’s Day, Miss Z will sample an array of delectable sweeties guaranteed to be the perfect end to a festive meal.

Meet Lynne Curry, author of Pure Beef: An Essential Guide to Artisan Meat
With all of these new choices of artisan beef on the market — including natural, organic, and grassfed — Lynne Curry’s Pure Beef: An Essential Guide to Artisan Meat with Recipes for Every Cut answers home cooks’ pressing questions: Which beef should I buy? Where can I buy it? How should I cook it? A groundbreaking guide to artisan beef, this cookbook features charts and tutorials, plus many recipes for a delicious ranch-to-table dining experience. Pure Beef is the most up-to-date cookbook that addresses the natural and grassfed beef trend, the fastest growing market segment in the $75 billion cattle industry.

Lynne’s visit is hosted by Pastaworks and co-sponsored by Powell’s Home and Garden Bookstore and Ecotrust/Edible Portland.

Saturday, May 12, 2-4PM at the Hawthorne store.