TVS Thanksgiving 2008
Feast and Raffle at Café Parizäde
November 27, 2008
11:30 am-5:00 pm
 The Triangle Vegetarian Society (TVS) will have its annual Thanksgiving feast and raffle at one of the Triangle's finest restaurants, Café Parizäde in Durham (directions are below). Parizäde has a gourmet flair for fresh ingredients with Mediterranean influences, and this will be TVS' 10th consecutive Thanksgiving there (and 15th annual Thanksgiving Feast at an area restaurant). We believe that for the fifth year in a row, we will host the country's largest vegetarian Thanksgiving. You can view or print a flyer and press release about the event - please help to spread the word.
The all-inclusive price is $23.00 for current TVS members, $26.50 for other adults, and $7.00 for children aged 5-10; children younger than 5 eat for free. Like the past two years, prepayment is required, either by paying online using a credit card or by mailing a check to TVS. Please note that we cannot provide refunds if your plans change!
Would you like to come but can't because of difficult financial circumstances? We may be able to help – please read the Payment FAQ below.
When you make your reservation, we will ask that you choose an arrival time between 11:30 am and 2:30 pm for entering the restaurant; set arrival times help ensure that the food lines move smoothly. Once you arrive at the restaurant, you are welcome to stay as long as you like until the end of the event (5:00 pm).
Please see the General FAQ and Payment FAQ for full details about the event.
You can also see a map/list of cities where our guests are coming from! Reservations
November 26 update: We are completely full for our event, and cannot take any more from the Wait List. We encourage you to visit our website next year beginning in late October for information on our 2009 event, and hope to see you then!
Menu
All food will be strictly vegan with no animal, egg or dairy products. No honey or white sugar will be used. The menu is subject to change, but we are planning the following dishes:
Fall Antipasto Buffet Table
- Cardamom pickled beets
- Raw vegetables
- Lightly steamed corn-off-the-cob w/smoked poblanos & cumin, lime juice & salt
- Quinoa salad with olives, shallots, pine nuts, sundried tomatoes, and garlic
- Stewed apples and kale with caraway
- Fall lettuces with truffle mustard dressing and capers
- Breads, crustinis & pita with Egyptian red lentil and artichoke-spinach hummuses, baba ganouj, and Brussels sprout "pâté"
- Marinated olives, spiced pecans, roasted chestnuts
Main Courses
- Lime-marinated seared seitan with peppercorns and fig glaze
- Roasted garlic olive oil mashed potatoes with chives, mushroom gravy, apple-pecan stuffing, and fresh raspberry-cranberry relish
- Braised sweet potatoes with leeks and vegan maple "butter" chutney
- Grilled baby artichokes with rosemary
- Three Sisters squash and corn with tempeh
- Oyster mushroom croquettes
- Turnip greens with pearl onions
- Carpaccio vegetale - very thinly sliced vegetables as a raw "pasta" (raw dish)
- Porcini-lentil cannelloni
- Ligurian medallion pasta with marinara sauce
- Country cornbread
- Chunky mixed vegetable and barley stew
- Creamy hemp cider leek-cabbage soup
Desserts
- Fresh seasonal fruits
- Phyllo cookies
- Pumpkin pie with pomegranate glaze
- Cherry crisp
- Ginger-apple pie with frozen coconut cream
Drinks
- Cider
- Cranberry juice
- Herbal tea
- Shade-grown coffee
Raffle
As in previous years, we will be having a generous raffle with prizes ranging from gift certificates from area businesses to cases of whole food products, fine chocolates, non-animal gardening fertilizers, and much more.
The raffle usually begins around 3:30 pm.
Directions
Café Parizäde is at 2200 W. Main Street in Durham (see a map of the location). Take the Durham Expressway (NC 147) either north from I-40, or south from I-85/15-501, and exit at Swift Avenue. At the end of the exit ramp, turn right if coming from I-40, or left if coming from I-85/15-501. At the light just ahead, turn left onto Main Street. Go through one light at Ninth Street and in 100 yards or so, turn right into the Erwin Square complex.
Photographs from Thanksgiving 2005 courtesy of Keith
Dixon of Picture Perfect
Photography and Videography Services from South Carolina, and used
with his permission. (More pictures available online.)
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