Beauty & Balance (Hózhó) Dinner & Cocktails

822 North 6th Avenue,Phoenix AZ 85003

14 February, 2023

Description

Hózhó ... roughly translated, means beauty, balance, peace and harmony. One of the most important words in the Dinè language. Danielle Goldtooth is a mixologist, farmer, forager, and co-owner of Dii IINÀ- Food from Start to Finish. She is joined in her passion about Food Sovereignty and connecting the community through self-sustaining practices by her husband, Chef Alan Moore. Together they created a menu with ingredients sourced from Local or Indigenous Farms and Ranches in a special collaboration to showcase how Community Food Sovereignty can work. How to care for the land and having compassion for one another creates a community with the most Love. MENU welcome cocktail: plush port punch (english milk punch) first course: seared lamb loin medallions with arugula, seasonal fresh farm veg, goat cheese, juniper/sumac vinaigrette cocktail: "Wine down the Canyon": arizona white wine, citrus shrub second course: braised rabbit with red chili wojapi, mashed cassava, roasted seasonal farm veg cocktail: "The Baaad Chili"; dark rum, red chili and steamed corn steeped in sweetened goats milk third course: roasted squash on a bed of fried greens, seasonal berry gastrique, roasted carrot/garlic puree, micro greens (vegan, gluten friendly) cocktail: sumac sour: gin, sumac syrup(NAPI), arizona lemon juice. sugar, lemon zest rim fourth course: sweet potato cake with butterscotch, herbed creme anglaise, fresh berries topped with pinion pralines. cocktail: mezcal monsoon- mezcal, house-made AZ citrus cordial, bitters, lime peel, creosote branch. Featured Ranchers and Farms: * Hostile Hare (teaching people how to raise rabbits as an economical, sustainable meat source) * Sweet Meat * Lambs Market * Tiger Mountain Foundation * Summers Fruit Barn * Crow's Dairy * NAPI (Navajo Agricultural Products Industry) * Yo Bro Farms