We will be at the Santa Barbara Wine Festival this coming Saturday at the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History. I have had the pleasure of participating in this event many times over the last couple of decades. This is the longest running and best wine festival on the central coast.
2015 Santa Barbara Wine Festival™
Saturday, June 27, 2015
2:00-5:00 PM
SWIRL, SIP, & SAVOR...wines from Central Coast premier wineries complemented with savory and sweet delectable delights at the Santa Barbara Wine Festival™. Escape for an afternoon and enjoy the refreshing ambiance of being in nature as you take pleasure in tantalizing tastings of food and wine.
I have created a new dish designed to compliment the great central coast wine varietal pinot noir. We are preparing some 1200 short rib meatballs with "poor man's truffle" also know as Trumpet de Mort (trumpets of death). They are being served on a porcini flavored mashed potato and a classic demi glace.
Join as at this great event. Tickets are going fast!
From Wikipedia:
"Craterellus cornucopioides, or horn of plenty, is an edible mushroom. It can also be known as the black chanterelle, black trumpet, trompette de la mort (French) or trumpet of the dead.
The Cornucopia, in Greek mythology, referred to the magnificent horn of the nymph Amalthea's goat (or of herself in goat form), that filled itself with whatever meat or drink its owner requested. It has become the symbol of plenty.
A possible origin for the name "trumpet of the dead" is that the growing mushrooms were seen as being played as trumpets by dead people under the ground."
