Fair Food Matters looks for support underground

They don't know where they are eating, they don't know what they will be served, but adventurous diners are seeing that as a plus. Just three days after Fair Food Matters announced a Blind Pig Supper the $100 per person tickets were nearly sold out.  And at deadline March 21 only six seats were left.

 

Local chefs Robb Hammond and Matt Millar will use in the six-course meal as many local ingredients as they can, considering the season. Cody Kresta, Food Dance, Lawton Ridge Winery, The People’s Food Co-op, Two Birds Artisan Spirits, and Water Street Coffee Joint are sponsoring the supper and everything served is donated. 

 

Underground dinners have taken place in other communities, but organizers say they are not aware of it being tried in Kalamazoo and they were not sure what to expect, so the runaway popularity of the event has been a pleasant surprise.

 

"We were looking for something fun and then we decided we could make it a fundraiser, too," says Lucy Bland, of Fair Food Matters. (Donations on top of the ticket price were also accepted as part of this first-time fund raiser for the advocates of  local, sustainable food and food justice.)

 

Diners will not learn where the dinner will be until a few hours before the 7 p.m. March 23 event. Only 28 seats were made available. And only those participating in the event will know its location.

 

Somewhere in Kalamazoo.