FALMOUTH

Kitchen tour benefits hunger program

The second annual Falmouth Kitchen Tour will be held from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Friday and Saturday.

Nine homes will be featured on the tour, which benefits Preble Street Resource Center’s Maine Hunger Initiative. The program will receive a percentage of ticket sales, and tour takers are being asked to bring nonperishable food items to the Falmouth Country Club, where the tour begins. The country club is located at One Congressional Drive.

In addition to viewing the work of Maine kitchen designers and counter-top and cabinet makers, guests will be able to sample baked goods, lobster salad cucumber canapes and other food from local caterers. Cookbook authors will be at some houses signing their books.

Tickets are $25 in advance and $30 at the door.

At 9 a.m. Saturday, food historian Sandra Oliver will present a one-hour program, “17 Things You Need to Know About Maine Food,” at the Falmouth Country Club. Tickets for that program are $10.

To order tickets for either event, go to falmouthkitchentour.eventbrite.com.

For more information, go to falmouthkitchentour.com, or call Lana Wescott at 229-3866 or Marcy Boynton at 831-0201.

KENNEBUNK

Expert to give mushroom tips

Mushroom expert Greg Marley offers a free talk on edible and medicinal mushrooms at 6:30 p.m. Oct. 11 at the Kennebunk Free Library.

Marley is the founder of Mushrooms for Health and the author of “Mushrooms for Health: Medicinal Secrets of Northeastern Fungi” and “Chanterelle Dreams, Amanita Nightmares: The Love, Lore and Mystic of Mushrooms.” He volunteers as a mushroom identification consultant to poison control centers across New England in mushroom poisoning cases.

The library is located at 112 Main St. For more information, call 985-2173.

Bistro cooking up Halloween dinner

On the Marsh Bistro, 46 Western Ave., will host a “Ghostly Prix Fixe Dinner” on Halloween night.

Guests at the Oct. 31 event are asked to dress up as their “suppressed desire.”

The dinner will cost $29.95, plus tax, gratuity and beverages.

For more information or to make reservations, call 967-2299 or email onthemarshdining@aol.com.

PORTLAND

Taste wines twice at Rosemont

Rosemont Market and Bakery will have two free wine tastings this week.

Rosemont Brighton, at 580 Brighton Ave., will host Dave Yates, assistant winemaker at California’s Jaffurs Wine Cellars, specialists in Rhone varietals.

The tasting will be from 4 to 6 p.m. Wednesday.

Then, from 4 to 6:30 p.m. Friday, the store will hold a tasting featuring only wines made from organically grown grapes. Paul Chartrand imports organic wines exclusively from France, Italy, Spain, New Zealand and Argentina, and also sells organic wines from the United States.

For more information, call 831-2553.

Washington wines at Bar Lola dinner

Bar Lola’s October wine dinner will feature wines from Milbrandt Vineyards in eastern Washington state.

The five-course dinner is $75 per person, which includes wine pairings, tax and gratuity.

For reservations, call 775-5652.

Gallery and farm present ‘Feastland’

Space Gallery is teaming up with local cooks, artists and farmers to present an evening of seasonal food, drinks, art projects and entertainment that will focus on the fall harvest.

“Feastland” will be held on Saturday at Broadturn Farm, 388 Broadturn Road, Scarborough. A round-trip shuttle will depart at 5:30 p.m. from Space, at 538 Congress St. The event costs $20, and the shuttle is $10 extra. To buy tickets and reserve a spot on the shuttle, go to brownpapertickets.com/event/278009.

– Compiled by Meredith Goad and Avery Yale Kamila, Staff Writers