Everybody’s Irish

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ach month, Holly Hill Inn hosts a

Culinary Adventure Series. Chef Quita

schedules a special, culturally unique

dinner that is designed to be a little less for-

mal than her normal menu and usually based

upon a geographic area or country. On

March 16, enjoy Donna Hecker ’s Irish Castle

Banquet: Elegant Foods from the Emerald

Isle. 7pm. Cost is $35, which includes tax,

gratuity and non-alcoholic beverage. Holly

Hill is located at 426 North Winter Street,

Midway. Call for Reservations.

‘Old Friends’

Chrisman Mill Vineyards and Winery

has created a new wine label series to help

raise money for the Old Friends thorough-

bred retirement farm. The Old Friends label

will be launched Thursday, March 15th at the

Liquor Barns located in Lexington and

Louisville. In celebration of this release, there

will be a Wine Tasting on Saturday, at Liquor

Barn, Hamburg location from 4pm to 8pm.

“Old Friend is a wonderful organization

that rescues and cares for retired racehorses,"

said Denise Nelson owner of Chrisman Mill.

“We wanted to do something to help them

raise funds, so we created a Old Friends

series of labels to tell the story of the organi-

zation." This ongoing promotion will feature

new labels of horses and artists four times a

year to generate funds for the Old Friends

thoroughbred retirement farm.

Old Friends began as a retirement and

rescue facility for pensioned Thoroughbreds,

but the death of Ferdinand in a slaughter-

house in Japan in 2002 spurred Old Friends’

focus on the at risk racehorses. Old Friends

now focuses on rescuing horses whose racing

and breeding careers had come to an end, and

provide them with a dignified retirement.

Old Friends is located on US 62 south of

Georgetown. Visitors are welcome to the

farm to visit the twenty-four retired athletes

currently in residence.

Dream up Dinner and Donate

to LexArts

From March 15 to April 15, Dream

Dinners will donate to LexArts—$10 for each

meal assembly session of 36 to 71 servings,

and $20 for each session of 72 servings or

more. You can visit Dream Dinners at the cor-

ner of Codell Drive and Todds Road.

Meet the Winemaker

Meet Milla Handley, owner and wine-

maker of California’s Handley Cellars, at

Holly Hill Inn’s Meet the Winemaker dinner

6:30pm Tuesday, March 20. Handley, a pio-

neer among women winemakers, started

Handley Cellars in 1982. The small produc-

tion winery in the Anderson Valley has a

legacy of producing award-winning wines.

Cost is $45. Space is limited; for reservations,

call 859.846.4732.

In Slow Food News

Saturday, March 24th, 1pm there will be

a Slow Fish Sustainable Seafood Cooking

Class at Wild Oats Market, Louisville. On

Saturday, March 31st, 6:30pm, there will be

the March of the Chefs Slow Food Nation

fundraising event, Earth and Spirit Center,

Louisville. For Info on Slow Food Bluegrass,

call 502.303.3760. ¦

Email upcoming food events to

editor@aceweekly.com.

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