The Ida and Cecil Green Faculty Club was founded in 1988 to provide a place in a central location for colleagues and the community to socialize and intellectualize over superb food in a casual atmosphere at the University of California San Diego. The Club offers a variety of desirable and inviting accommodations, including two distinct banquet venues, a landscaped courtyard, enclosed patio, and six private meeting rooms. The Faculty Club is able to accommodate various events including weddings, bar/bat mitzvahs, holiday parties, birthday celebrations, retirement parties, and more. Let our enthusiastic and obliging staff provide you with expert assistance in all phases of planning, preparing, and servicing your important event.
The Creative Process of Chocolate Making
Featuring Michael Antonorsi, ’85 bioengineering,
Co-founder, Chuao Chocolatier
Wednesday, September 22
6:00—8:00PM
The UCSD Faculty Club and the Alumni Association are
working together to bring you a night of chocolate delights
and great wines. Join Chef Michael Antonorsi of Chuao Chocolatier on a journey through the creative process of chocolate making. He, along with your nose and taste buds, will guide you through the art of flavor fusion with one goal in mind: to arouse your senses with uniquely delicious chocolate experiences. Learn how Chef Michael's mix of savory ingredients, exotic spices, highly-prized Venezuelan chocolate, and endless imagination has become Chuao Chocolatier's recipe for success.
The evening will start off with light refreshments at 6pm followed by a program introducing Chef Antonorsi and ending with a chocolate-tasting from Chuao Chocolatier with specialty wine pairings.
$25.00 per person inclusive of service & sales tax
San Diego Italian Film Festival
featuring food, flicks and fun
Friday, October 1, 2010
6pm -9pm
The UCSD Faculty Club and the San Diego Italian Film Festival are teaming up for a great time alla italiana – Food and Film on Friday Oct. 1, 6 p.m. Everyone’s invited, cost for this special night is only $25 (all inclusive).
For reservations please call (858) 534-0876. Advance payments required.
The San Diego Italian Film Festival will show four fabulous short films all based on food, some documenting what Italians do to nourish body and spirit, some playing with Italian food myths. And the Faculty Club will be serving up a marvelous Italian menu dedicated to this series of four shorts.
These four shorts originally drew an overflow crowd at the SDIFF CineCucina event in May. The UCSD Faculty Club is pleased to bring them to campus as a feast for the spirit and the taste buds.
One of the documentaries, a gorgeous and rare color report from the 1950’s by Vittorio De Seta, shows traditional cheese-making in Sardinia. One documentary gives us a cautionary tale from an older Italian farmer and very simply underscores the interconnectedness of all living things. And then there are two sly and brilliant tales about food, love and the intricacies of the senses when faced with lush Italian beauty, especially in Belly Buttons, Hot Peppers, and men and women intertwined in love, flavors and each other.
The San Diego Italian Film Festival is a 501 (c) 3 non-profit dedicated to making San Diego a high spot for Italian culture. Its 2010 festival begins with a members-only party in October, great food and wine, and continues with two weeks of stunning Italian movies, concerts, and parties. Learn more about the festival and become a member by visiting the website: www.sandiegoitalianfilmfestival.com
Wines and Foods of Provence
Reserve now
Friday October 22, 2010
6pm - 9pm
Join Richard Somerville and colleagues for an evening of food and wine as we visit and taste the flavors of the best that Provence, France has to offer. A gourmet feast with perfectly matched wines will be served on October 22.
The evening begins at 6pm and the cost is $50 for members and $60 for guests (all inclusive). Don’t miss this special event! To make your reservation call (858) 534-0876.
More information to follow in our October Newsletter.
le Menu
Pissaladiere
Eggplant Caviar in Red & White Endive
Bouillabaisse
Duck Breast with Caramelized Onion & Green Peppercorn Sauce
Cheese Course
Etorki ~ Roquefort ~ Aged St. Andre
Julia Child’s Ginger Bread Cake with Chantilly Cream
Summer Art Exhibit: FLORAL by Natalie Desjarlais & Paul Shilling
July1-Sept 15
Opening Reception July 1 5pm-7pm Club Members Invited
“Floral” is appropriately the title of our summer exhibit. It features two artists who are both passionate about the representation of flowers. One of the artists is a painter attracted by photography, while the other displays a painterly vision in his photography. The mutual juxtaposition of their artwork proves exquisitely titillating. Their works will be on display all summer.
Natalie Desjarlais was born in the Ukraine and recently moved to the US. She is a floral artist who works in variety of media including oil painting and colored pencil, but has recently concentrated on working with oil on canvas. Natalie is known for her vibrant colors, a high level of detail and a strong contrast between light and dark. She took art lessons from internationally known artist Meir Natif in Israel. There she created the first work that she would term "art" on a professional level. Much of her work still resides in private collections in Europe, Israel and the Ukraine.
Paul Shilling is a Research Scientist in the Psychiatry Department at UCSD investigating the brain mechanisms underlying schizophrenia. He developed his passion for photography as a graduate student and found that this art form perfectly complemented the highly logical thinking used in his research. Paul provides novel perspectives as he specializes in nature photography, especially macro images of flowers, butterflies and animals. He has exhibited his award winning photography in local shows and competitions and four of his images have been published in the book, San Diego’s North County Coast: A Photographic Portrait.