Artisanal LA October 2010 in DTLA

Artisanal LA is a weekend-long community shopping, tasting, and learning experience showcasing the city’s finest local, sustainable and handmade edibles on Saturday and Sunday, October 23-24, in the penthouse of downtown’s historic Cooper Building.

Admission to the event ($10 pre-sale, $15 cash at the door) includes:

• Hosted beverages like Honest Tea, Dry Soda, Function and Bonadea
• Local craft beer and spirits tasting (21+)
• A one-of-a-kind tote bag for the first 1000 attendees
• Workshops and cool handmade activities
• Family friendly arts & crafts
• Great speakers and chef demos
• Giveaways and door prizes all weekend long
• Unlimited re-entry all weekend long
• DJ Bryan Davidson setting the mood
• Pitchfork’s Mud Baron giving out seedlings to inspire everyone’s inner urban farmer
• Shopping from more than 65 local craft vendors – with more being added every day
• Gift wrap hosted by Uncouth Gourmand benefiting the LA Regional Food Bank
• Partial proceeds benefit LAUSD Edible School Gardens

Support your community by shopping local! Partial proceeds benefit the LA Regional Food Bank and LA School Garden Programs.

Location: The Cooper Building, 11th Floor Penthouse
Address: 860 S Los Angeles St, Downtown LA 90014

Attendance & Tickets
Admission is $10 in advance online (tickets are available through Eventbrite) and $15 day of event at the door (cash only), capacity allowing. This is a first time event, but expected attendance is approximately 5000 over two days. To ensure attendance, buy tickets in advance online!

Baked Goods

Alice’s Stick Cookies alicesstickcookies.com
All Jarred Up alljarredup.etsy.com
Bakelab thebakelab.com
Baking Betty’s bakingbettys.com
Black Market Bakery blackmarketbakery.com
Cake Monkey Bakery cakemonkey.com
Cookie Casa cookiecasa.com
Flying Pie Man (no site available)
Gotta Have S’more GottaHavesmore.com
I Heart Pies iheartpies.com
Isabella’s Cookie Company isabellascookies.com
Marcie’s Pies jimenezfamilyfarm.com
My Delight Cupcakery mydelightcupcakery.com
Sweet Détente sweetdetente.com
Sweet Dreamery Desserts sweetdreamerydesserts.com
Tartist tartist.la
The Wilde Thistle wildethistle.com
Vici Victual twitter.com/vicivictual

Beverages

Bonadea Drinks bonadeadrinks.com

Fresh Food Café

The Oaks Gourmet theoaksgourmet.com

Chocolate/Confections

Beachy Cream: Malibu’s Natural Ice Cream beachycream.com
Butterfly Brittle butterflybrittle.com
Calabasas Candy Co. calabasascandyco.etsy.com
ChocoVivo chocovivo.com
Compartes Chocolates compartes.com/
Morning Glory Confections morninggloryconfections.com
Ococoa ococoa.com/
P.O.P. Candy   gopopcandy.com
Plush Puffs plushpuffs.com
Scoops twitter.com/scoopswestside

Coffee & Tea

Café de Leche cafedeleche.net
Sugarbird Sweets & Tea sugarbirdsweets.com

Garden

Winnetka Farms winnetkafarms.com
Woolly Pockets woollypocket.com
Silverlake Farms silverlakefarms.com

Kitchen Apparel & Accessories

Collision Ware collisionware.com
Common Thread Studio commonthreadstudio.com
Miss Fruitfly http://missfruitfly.com

Meat, Sausage & Dairy

Lindy & Grundy’s lindyandgrundy.com
Cast Iron Gourmet castirongourmet-la.com
Villebois Kitchen villeboiskitchen.com

Non-Profit

Mud Baron mudbaron.com
Slow Food Los Angeles  slowfoodla.com

Oil, Vinegar, Pantry

Akasha Restaurant, Bar & Bakery akasharestaurant.com
All Spice Café allspicecafe.com
Backwards Bee Keepers backwardsbeekeepers.com
Chicks With Knives’ Perishable Pickle Shop   perishablepickle.com
Domenico’s Foods domenicosfoods.com
Global Gardens globalgardensonline.com
Jammies Jams jammiesjams.com
Jenkins Jellies jenkinsjellies.com
Lemon Bird Handmade Jams lemonbirddesign.com
Marche Noir marchenoirfoods.com
Mozambique Spices mozambiqueoc.com
San Angel Mole sanangelmole.com
Sauce Goddess Gourmet saucegoddess.com
SoNo Trading Company sonotrading.com
That’s A Nice thatsanice.com
The Olive Press theolivepress.com
The Unforgettables unforgettablefoods.com

Produce

Farm Fresh To You farmfreshtoyou.com
Farmscape Gardens farmscapegardens.com

Beer & Spirits

Eagle Rock Brewery eaglerockbrewery.com
Tru Organic Spirits greenbar.biz

Vegan

Rawk – N – Roll   RawknRollCuisine.com

Schedule · Saturday, October 23rd ·

12p: Chef Jonathan Rollo, Greenleaf Gourmet Chop Shop
Using Local and Seasonal Produce (Demo)

1p: Woolly Pockets
Simple One Container Kitchen Herb Gardens (Workshop)

1p: Backward Bee Collective
Local Beekeeping with Backward Beekeepers including Feral Bee (Panel)

2p: Chef James Overbaugh, The Peninsula Hotel
Growing and Cooking with Artisanal Pumpkins (Demo)

3p: Christopher Klapp & Chef Ben Bailly, Petrossian Caviar
Sustainable Caviar (Demo and Tasting)

4p: Lindy & Grundy, Heritage Meats and Home Butchering
w/ Marissa Guggianna, Author of Primal Cuts  (Demo, Tasting, Raffle)

5p: Laura McIntosh, Host “Bringing It Home”
The Difference Between Sustainable & Organic: What’s More Important?

All Day: Common Thread Studio
Hand Sewn Egg Cozies (Workshop 12-2p & 3-5p )

All Day: Pumpkin Crafts for Kids (Craft)

Schedule · Sunday, October 24th ·

12p: Chef Joseph Gillard, Napa Valley Grille
Biodynamic Wine Pairings (Demo and Tasting)

1p: Geri Miller, Mar’Sel
Garden Cocktail Infusions (Demo and Tasting)

1p: Sarah Spitz & Julie Strnad, LA County Master Gardeners
Urban Container Gardening: Anything That Grows in the Ground, Grows in a Pot (Workshop)

2p: Suzanne Griswold & Rachael Narins, Chicks with Knives’
Perishable Pickle Shop: Pickling 101 (Demo and Tasting)

3p: Craft Beer Panel
Eagle Rock Brewery & Local LA Brewers TBA
Moderated by The Beer Chicks (Panel and Tasting)

4p: Lindy & Grundy, Heritage Meats and Home Butchering
(Demo, Tasting, Raffle)

5p: Josh Simon, Function Drinks
Growing a Local Food Biz in LA (Speaker)

All Day: Common Thread Studio
Hand Sewn Egg Cozies  (Workshop 12-2p & 2-5p)

All Day: Pumpkin Crafts for Kids (Craft)

Note: There’s more to be added to the schedule including Evan Kleiman and KCRW’s Good Food hosting a workshop (topic and guests TBA) as well as a number of authors signing their books.

Bonadea Beverages, City of Los Angeles’ Office of the Mayor, DineLA, Dry Soda, Eagle Rock Brewery, Function Drinks, Green Bar Collective, The Healthy Voyager, Honest Tea, KCRW’s Good Food, Mud Baron, POM, Slow Food Movement Los Angeles, Whole Foods Market 3rd & Fairfax, Woolly Pockets and Your Daily Thread (who will be hosting the lounge area).