Sustainable Cinema at the Historic Port Orchard Theater

Sunday, August 29, 4 pm, all seats only $3!

822 Bay Street, Port Orchard, WA 98366
Info 360.850.1082 * Office 360.895.0564

Sustainable Cinema features a new environmentally‐themed documentary on the last Sunday of every month thanks to sponsorship by Kitsap County Commissioner Charlotte Garrido

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FREE Friday Night Wine Down September 10!

Drop in any time from 4-6:30 No reservations required!

Bring in a donation for the food bank (we have some suggestions HERE)

and get 6 tastes of wine and appetizers to go with them!

Wind down your week and wind up your weekend with a

Wine Tasting at Monica's!

Everyone will be entered into a drawing to win a $20 gift certificate!

You do not have to be present to win!

Come on in, enjoy great wines and a few nibbley things to go along with them.

We can't wait to see you!

Learn more about our WINES

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The Kitsap Community and Agricultural Alliance

Presents

The Second Annual Harvest Meal

Making Farmer-Chef-Community Connections

Join Us To Celebrate Sublime Local Food and The People Who Produce It

Sunday, September 19, 2010
The Student Commons Building At Olympic College
1600 Chester, Bremerton, WA

Music by Magical Strings
Buffet Style Meal Service from 1:30 – 3:30 PM

Guest speakers: Don Stuart from American Farmland Trust and

Michael Yadrick from Great Peninsula Conservancy

Enjoy the best Locally grown foods Prepared By The Peninsula’s Best Chefs, Local Beverages, Music, Local Farm & Business Displays

Enjoy the true spirit of Community Fun!

Get your tickets HERE

Single Ticket Advanced Purchase: $30.00 each

Double Ticket Advanced Purchase: $55.00 pair

Ticket Price At The Door: $40.00 each

VERY LIMITED amount of tickets offered at the door!

Last Year The Event Sold Out To Over 400 People
Purchase Your Tickets In Advance To Ensure Your Seat At The Table!

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Join Monica & Mark in Piemonte e Tuscany

8 day Italian Food & Wine Tour

October 21 - 28, 2010

We take wining, dining and traveling to extraordinary levels!

Monica & Mark partner with Doumina Whyman, The Enthusiastic Traveler, to take 18 people on a fabulous 7 night, 8 day gourmet food & wine tour of Piemonte & Tuscany

You will encounter the local people, culture, food, wine and traditions of these amazing regions as no other visitor can.

Doumina & Monica created a food and wine tour that includes exclusive meals, hands-on cooking classes, famous art, historic towns, historic churches, ancient ruins, Small Vineyard’s wineries, and so much more.

If you love food and wine, and you want to experience Italy, rather than to simply visit there, this is the trip for you. Contact Monica for more information and to get your name on the list for this amazing trip.

~Salute!

The Trip in 2010: October 21-28

We will enjoy the best culinary dishes in both of these regions as well as wines from Small Vineyard Estates. These are small production wines that are difficult to find, and we have a few of them here for you to taste in the cafe.

You will be educated first hand by the winemakers themselves, who take us under their wings, invite us into their homes and farms, and even cook for us!

This is a hand-made, intimate tour for food and wine lovers, and there is so much more to it than that!

Experience beautiful cities and hill-towns with fantastic fun guides who live in, and love, these regions. Spend the days with the local farmers pressing olives in an old mill, seeing the livestock that Tuscany is famous for, visiting family owned vineyard estates, tasting the regional cuisines and learning a little bit about the history and culture in these regions.

Journey Experiences: Details & Highlights:

Of Course Wine & Grappa Tastings!

Fun and Tasty Cooking Classes

Quality Olive Oil Tasting

Very Unique Balsamic Vinegar Tasting

Experience the famous Pecorino Cheese

Wonderful Chocolate Tasting

A tour of Slow Food University and the Wine Bank

Enjoy the most authentic meals in intimate restaurants and family homes, where you will be honored to feel like the most important of guests!

Enjoy tasting and touring our Small Vineyard Estates, and sit down to meals with our winemakers

Learn how to hand-make pasta and cheese

Be a part of an olive oil pressing with the local farmers

Tour such cities as Alba, Neive, Asti, Chianti, Cortona, & Pienza

Take great advantage of our connections to Experience things that other tourists can only dream of....

Relax, enjoy, and let us guide you on this special journey. 

3 nights in Neive; 4 nights in Cortona

 Travel with a small group for a more intimate experience - limited to 18 people

All breakfasts and one Big Feast everyday with wine, of course!

Enjoy education through experience when it comes to the importance of Fabulous food, excellent wine, local customs and cultures, and be changed for the better, forever!

Check out the detailed itinerary HERE

18 travelers - 2995.00  per person  (so tell your friends!)

15 travelers - 3175.00  per person

10 travelers - 3440.00  per person

In the unlikely event that some outings may change, replacement outings will be of equal quality.

Includes:

*Everything listed in the itinerary while we are with Doumina

*Lodging

*Ground transportation

*Guided tours

*Every breakfast and at least one main meal, every day, as well as the many foods involved in the various tastings.

*Wine tastings

*Vinegar tasting

*Olive oil tasting

*Admission fees

*Cooking classes

*Doumina’s priceless expertise and carefully nurtured relationships

*Precious company and entertainment provided by the people of Italy, who will stay in your hearts and minds forever.

Does not include:

*Airfare

*Transportation to Alba

*Transportation from Cortona

*Single Supplement Fee (If requested, 675.00. Otherwise you may be placed in a shared space. Ask for details)

*Occasional supplemental meals

*Travel for personal errands/meals/shopping while on the tour.

Doumina can help arrange:

*All other transportation

*Ideas for other destinations

*A package that would include round trip airfare from here to Roma and 2 nights accommodations and guided tours in Roma, with group pricing based on how many of us want to add this on.

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Local Art in the Café-Ongoing

Come in and check it out!

We were so completely honored and surprised in 2008 when you voted us one of the Best Art Galleries in Central Kitsap! We took third place to two actual art galleries and we just think that is completely fabulous!!

Team Bakery is proud to present local artists and authors for our community to enjoy so thank you for showing us that you love how we do that!

Upstairs we have the beautiful woodworks of Margurite Wagner. Inspired by the beauty of the Pacific Northwest, the artist transforms reclaimed lumber striving to preserve the beauty of nature in each unique work. As a child Marguerite would watch her father build furniture and other small items for use in their home. In the subsequent years she created within many mediums from paint to photography; completed business and fine arts degrees; and excelled in the corporate world. In the late 1980's she inherited some of her father's tools and rediscovered her passion for wood. She quickly discovered the beauty that could be found in "scrap" as she taught herself to use hand and power tools. Her creativity took hold and Marguerite found herself bringing home unique pieces of lumber "just because". A true "reverse woodworker", she rarely works from a plan - she lets the raw piece of lumber evolve into its ultimate state.

In the stairwell we have some wonderful works by kids at Kitsap Art School of the Arts You will be very impressed by these kids and their talents!

We also have some beautiful jewelry displayed and for sale upstairs. Debra Saldivar, of Luna Azul Designs won 'Best of Show' at the September 2008 Art Walk, and we love having her beautiful beading techniques, wire work and metal-smithing for you to admire, or better yet to take home and wear!

Downstairs enjoy the mixed media/watercolors by Janet Hayford and Deanna Hansen. These ladies are two of our favorite customers and favorite artists, and they have adorned our walls with beautiful seasonal scenes.

Chris Hughes of Harmony Artworks has crafted the dream catchers that are in the windows, both upstairs and down.

We also have books by local authors:

Columnist Sally Santana, Poet Elizabeth Ellen, Novelists Wally Carlson, Sarah Nilson,Natalie Newport, and Chefs Roberto Russo and Jeremy McLauchlan all have signed copies of their books for sale and they all make great gifts!

NEXT ART WALK: Friday June 18, 6-8 pm     

Featurine Margurite Wagner's Woodworking (see above for more info)

For the first time the Art Walk will also feature a car show! If you want to enter the show contact Sammie over at McGregor & Company: 360 698 5388

As always: You bring donations* for the CK Food Bank and our less fortunate neighbors, and you get a cookie and/or a taste of our house wines!

*Preferred donations include:

Non-perishable food items, sleeping bags, blankets, warm clothing, Backpacks, pre-paid gas cards, travel sized toiletries, pre-paid phone cards, grocery store gift cards, and money so that we can buy the things our neighbors need most.

And of course our coffee is complimentary for everyone.