SOLD OUT: Kitchen Table Dinner with Chef Luis Mayorga: Tex-Mex Passed Down through the Generations!
SOLD OUT: Kitchen Table Dinner with Chef Luis Mayorga: Tex-Mex Passed Down through the Generations!
Help us kick off 2024's Kitchen Table Dinner Series in style on Saturday, January 27th, with the culinary team from Casa Alejo!
Join us at Apple Seeds for a vibrant culinary journey, skillfully merging the best of Tex-Mex cuisine with the rich tapestry of a taqueria lifestyle. The Mayorga family is passionate about creating an experience as inviting and flavorful as a cherished family dinner, and will share their treasured recipes -- dishes infused with love, warmth, and the bonds of kinship.
Featured Chef - Chef Luis Mayorga, along with Julio Gomez and extended family, have together created Casa Alejo in Springdale, AR, which is named after their beloved grandfather and offers an authentic and unforgettable Mexican dining experience.
Being raised in a large family operating multiple restaurants, Luis was inspired to study cooking at Le Cordon Bleu in Orlando, FL. Though he spent years learning methods and tastes from professionals, it was his mother's kitchen that inspired him most. Growing up, he would watch her spend hours and sometimes days in the kitchen in preparation for a family meal. It was her long labor of blending spices, layering a taste profile, and slow intentional cooking process that lent the most impact to his own cooking. After perfecting each element to be just right and taste 'exactly like Mom's' , it's plated with beauty and creativity allowing your eyes to sample the richness of family before tasting it's heart.
About the Kitchen Table Dinner Series -- Born out of a desire to build a community around great food, Apple Seeds' Kitchen Table Dinner series is designed to recreate the feeling of gathering around a dear friend's table. These dinners aim to bridge the gap often felt between the chef and diners in a typical dining environment, thereby creating a deeper connection to the food on the plate. Through intentional procurement of local, seasonal ingredients, the transparent preparation of the meal, and storytelling by the chef, each plate is transformed from food into an unforgettable dining experience.
Event Details:
SATURDAY, JANUARY 27th, 2024
5:30-6:30 PM
Cocktail hour: Enjoy watching meal preparations or mingle in the garden.
6:30-8 PM
Multi-course dinner: Your chef will create a fresh meal with elements from the garden. Enjoy the food, farm & company.
The dinner takes place in the Apple Seeds Teaching Kitchen on the Teaching Farm.
Seating for this event will be indoors These dinners are rain or shine. All Kitchen Table Dinner series events are fundraisers with limited seating; we cannot offer refunds for tickets purchased. If weather permits outdoor seating, we will open up more tickets the week before the event, so be sure to add yourself to the waitlist even if the tickets are sold out!
Your participation in Apple Seeds' events supports our mission to inspire healthy living through garden-based education for students around Northwest Arkansas and beyond!
Seating is limited. Please keep in mind that these events sell out. We are unable to offer refunds for this fundraiser.
Please contact mary@appleseedsnwa.org if you have any dietary restrictions or a vegetarian request.
Please arrive at 5:30 pm for cocktails. Dinner will be served at 6:30 pm.
The dinner takes place in the Teaching Kitchen, located at the Apple Seeds Teaching Farm in Gulley Park, Fayetteville.
Parking is available in the Gulley Park parking lot off of Old Wire Road. From there it's a short walk north to the gates of the Apple Seeds Teaching Farm. For drop-offs only, the address is 2648 N. Old Wire Road. Please note that there is no parking available in the driveway.
The Kitchen Table benefits Apple Seeds’ programs.
Apple Seeds is an education nonprofit based in Fayetteville, AR. For more than 15 years, Apple Seeds has been serving Northwest Arkansas. In that time, the organization has made great strides, positively impacting healthy eating in our community—student surveys show improved attitudes toward healthy food and heightened knowledge of nutrition. Apple Seeds provides a variety of programs, including Farm Lab, Farm to Table cooking classes, Cooking in the Schools, Food Ambassador, summer camps and school garden workshops. For more information visit www.appleseedsnwa.org