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Nicky USA's 7th
WILD ABOUT GAME & WINE CELEBRATION

Sunday, October 14, 2007
11 a.m. to 4 p.m. at The Resort at the Mountain, Welches, Oregon

Join us for this wild and exciting day, as the Pacific Northwest’s top chefs join Nicky USA's Geoff Latham and The Resort at The Mountain in the highlands of Mt. Hood for a day-long celebration of some of the world’s finest wild game and poultry.

Nicky USA, the region’s leading distributor and processor of game birds and meats, will once again celebrate the region’s local bounty at the 7th annual Wild About Game event. This exciting event will include chef cooking demonstrations featuring rabbit, venison, squab and other game, as well as a culinary marketplace showcasing Pacific Northwest food and wine. The day culminates in a Wild Game Buffet from 4:30PM - 8:00PM prepared by The Resort at The Mountain's Executive Chef Dale Rasmussen.

The Buffet menu will feature Pinot Braised Squab, Roast Pheasant in Herbed Crepes, Duck Legs Confit, Grilled Skewered Quail, Anderson Ranch Lamb Osso Bucco, Grilled Strawberry Mountain Flank Steak, Snake River Farms Kurobuta Baby Back Ribs, Carved Stangel Buffalo Rib-eye, Carved Wapiti Elk Loins, Carved Nueskešs Spiral Sliced ham & Nicky Farms Wild Game Sausage.

Tickets to the day event are $20 per person and include entrance to the chef demonstrations and the culinary marketplace. The Wild Game Buffet is $50 per person, not including beverages. For tickets to both Wild About Game and the Wild Game Buffet, please call The Resort at the Mountain at 503-622-3101 (Portland, Oregon area) or 1-800-669-7666 (outside Portland).

Wild About Game is great for the food enthusiast, as well as restaurant professionals who want to learn new methods of cooking and serving game from some of the leading chefs in the Pacific Northwest, including the 2007 James Beard award-winning chef, Johnathan Sundstrom from Lark.

Wild About Game Demonstration Schedule ~

12:00 PM - Nicky USA Rabbit Cooking Demo, Gabriel Rucker, Le Pigeon
1:00 PM - Cervena Venison Cooking Demo, Joseba Jimenez de Jimenez, Harvest Vine
2:00 PM - Air-chilled Muscovy Hen Cooking Demo, Scott Dolich, Park Kitchen
3:00 PM - MacFarlane Pheasant Cooking Demo, Johnathan Sundstrom, Lark

Wild About Game Participating Chefs ~

  • Gabriel Rucker from Le Pigeon, chosen one of the 2007 Best New Chefs for Food and Wine Magazine
  • Scott Dolich from Park Kitchen, a 2004 Best New Chef for Food and Wine Magazine and a 2007 James Beard Nominee
  • Johnathan Sundstrom from Lark in Seattle, and winner of the 2007 James Beard Award for Best Chef: Pacific NW
  • Joseba Jiménez de Jiménez from Harvest Vine in Seattle, a James Beard nominee for three years

Culinary Marketplace ~

Featuring tastings and items from Nicky USA purveyors including Palmetto Squab, MacFarlane Pheasant, Grimaud Farms Guinea Hen and Muscovy Duck, Duncan Cervena Wapiti Elk, Nicky Oregon Fallow Venison, Stangel Buffalo, Snake River Farms Kobe Beef, Strawberry Mountain Beef, Salumi Artisan Cured Meats, as well as Oregon and Washington wines and artisan cheese.

Join us for this wild, creative and fun event - Call The Resort at the Mountain at 503-622-3101 or 1-800-669-7666 for your tickets now!

Nicky USA, Inc., 223 SE 3rd Avenue, Portland, Oregon 97214

info@nickyusa.com ~ 1-800-469-4162 ~  www.nickyusa.com