The Skinny 09.02.09 through 09.08.09
Howdy folks,
alas, so much to say, such short attention spans in the modern era…Yet another behemoth newsletter below. Enjoy!
The Skinny Pancake is thrilled to
welcome a dynamic Burlington institution to our building: The Peace & Justice Center. PJC–our new neighbors–are yet another socially-responsible business to take up residence here in the LEED-certified Lake & College building.
The following is an update from PJC’s monthly newsletter: As of September 1, 2009, the PJC will have completed our move. Our [new] space, including the store, is accessible, so we welcome our differently-abled members and friends to come in and see us, to shop in the store and to use the Center’s offerings. We will still offer a library, with a smaller selection of books, and free access to a computer and wi-fi. We also have a conference room that is available for use during Center hours—which now include being open until 8 pm on Mondays, Tuesdays, and Wednesdays.
Food Specials This Week:
Local Lasagna (Burlington): 100% local!!! A crePasta made with Gleason Whole Grain Pastry Flour. Housemade marinara sauce with local tomatoes, onions & garlic. Stuffed with local veggies including 
eggplant, zucchini, kale, broccoli, scallion, and carrots. Topped with Maplebrook farm mozzarella cheese. Served with a side salad. $9.50.
The Big Talbot***(Montpelier): Misty Knoll Turkey, Vt smoke and cure bacon, Champlain Orchards Paula Red Apples, Pete’s Green’s Spinach, Screaming Ridge onions and Boucher Family Farm Blue cheese…$9.00.
***in honor & at the request of very early Pancaker (2003), Talbot Beck, seen here. Talbot, don’t say I never do anything for you!!!!
The Localvore challenge has begun!!! Here at the SP, we have committed to conducting an audit of our food costs to determine the percentage of raw produce and value added products that we source locally AND we are challenging ourselves to providing localvores with a food special each week in September that is 100% local (allowing for Marco Polo rules as described above). In exploring this second challenge, we have begun experimenting with Gleason Whole Grain Pastry Flour. With any luck, it’ll become a permanent addition.
Want to take your own localvore challenge? Visit ww.vermontlocalvore.org/challenge/.
News Flash: PICK YOUR OWN RASPBERRIES!!!
Adam’s Berry Farm is ripe with plump raspberries. Picking berries is always a great activity with a partner, friends, kids or all alone. Travel from the epicenter of downtown to Adam’s PYO berry farm takes 10-15 minutes on 
bike…that’s extraordinary!!!
Adam writes: The fall raspberries are great! The warm days and cool nights create a rich and complex raspberry flavor that the summer raspberries never achieve. The longer ripening period also allows the sugars in the fruits to fully mature so that they reach their optimal flavor. I look forward to them every year as the final treat of summer.
Planned Parenthood of Northern New England is sponsoring a very meaningful conference on Thursday 
September 10th here in the Main Street Landing’s Performing Arts Center entitled “A Critical Link: The Environment & Women’s Health.” The subject: the dangers of everyday products found in our homes, schools & offices. Here’s the word straight from PPNNE:
“At Planned Parenthood of Northern New England (PPNNE), we feel a responsibility as a health care organization to help our patients and communities make the link between human health and the products we use in our homes, in our schools, and on our bodies. That’s why we are presenting A Critical Link: The Environment and Women’s Health conference on September 10, 2009 in Burlington, Vermont. This ground-breaking conference will feature a keynote address by ecologist, author, and cancer survivor Sandra Steingraber.
For more information on the conference and about the affects environmental contaminants have on our reproductive health, visit our blog www.good-chemistry.org.”
Capital Cash…
Buy your next crepe with your Capital City Cash! The Montpelier Skinny Pancake now accepts the local Montpelier currency. Capital City Cash is a pre-purchased gift certificate used exclusively in participating downtown Montpelier businesses. The purchase of Capital City Cash ensures your money or gift of CCC goes to support downtown businesses–like the Cake! Certificates are available in $10.00 and $25.00 denominations and are good at over 60 participating downtown businesses. By purchasing Capital City Cash, not only do you support your downtown businesses but you keep your local economy strong. For more information on Capital City Cash, visit the Montpelier Alive website at http://www.mdca.org/capital_city_cash.
Music This Week At The ‘Cake:
Thursday, 09.03.09
Dave Keller (blues)
***$5 suggested donation
www.davekeller.com./
Dave Keller is a singer/guitarist who has forged a style uniquely his own — intense and soulful, gritty and sweet. Like the best blues and soul men before him, Keller learned his art firsthand from the masters: Mighty Sam McClain, Paul Rishell, Fontella Bass, and the late great Robert Ward. Keller is a featured singer and co-writer on Living In The Light, the newest CD by legendary guitarist Ronnie Earl.
Based in Vermont, Keller’s reputation for dynamic, soul-stirring performances extends throughout New England. We are always pleased to welcome him to the Skinny Pancake in Burlington. Learn more about Dave at www.davekeller.com./ and come down Thursday September 3rd for a chance to see him live in Burlington.
Your music is just very, very beautiful.” –Ronnie Earl, renowned blues guitarist
“He’s for REAL. Y’all check him out!” –Mighty Sam McClain, deep soul legend
Friday, 09.04.09
Flood In The Fizzy Factory (electro-folk)
***$5 suggested donation
www.myspace.com/floodinthefizzyfactory
Making their second performance at the Skinny Pancake is a new invention to the Burlington music scene: Flood In the Fizzy Factory. Led by local realtor Dave Kleh, this group’s original compositions have an electronic influence, perhaps a Talking Heads flare…very curious, very creative…
Saturday, 09.05.09
Prana (alt-rock)
**$5 suggested donation
www.thebandprana.com/
On Saturday, the band Prana joins us for their second performance at the Cake. From their website, “Vermont based, all original, Prana is a multi-genre crossover, feel good band that incorporates folk, blues, jazz, funk, indie, and acoustic rock, into a unique palatable sound for the longing heart, soul and mind.”
They have headlined the Festival de Hearts Benefit Concert On The River Walk 2007 and were a prime headliner on the Vermont Showcase Stage at the 2007 and 2008 Champlain Valley Fair. The band has performed on the Late Night Saturday Show with Tim Kavanagh on WCAX TV 3 on 1/3/09 as well as live radio on WOMM-LP 105.5 FM “The Radiator”.
Check them out here www.thebandprana.com/ and at the Cake on Saturday September 5th.
In the pipeline:
Thursday, 09.10.09
Richard Edward McCormick (acoustic/progressive)
***$5 suggested donation
profile.myspace.com/richardedwardmccormick
Friday, 09.11.09
The Porters (Folk/Indi)
***$5 suggested donation
www.myspace.com/theportersmusic
Saturday, 09.12.09
Jim Osborn (original acoustic)
***$5 suggested donation
www.moosebearbuffalo.com/