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Field to Feast Day @ Gateway Organic Farm - March 2, 2013
Admin - Tue Feb 05, 2013 @ 10:14AM

Slow Food Tampa Bay is excited to welcome Pam Brandon, Katie Farmland and Heather McPherson, authors of Field to Feast: Recipes Celebrating Florida Farmers, Chefs and Artisans, for a discussion of the book and book signing beginning at noon on Saturday, March 2, 2013, at Gateway Organic Farm, 600 150thAve. N, Clearwater 33760. Educational opportunities and a local lunch are also being offered. Suggested donation is $8, and the cost for lunch is $10. To reserve your lunch, purchase a ticket in advance or purchase in person at the Saturday Morning Market in Saint Petersburg beginning Feb. 23.

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Noon-2:30 p.m. - Local Lunch and Education Opportunities

Box lunch featuring farm-fresh produce and other local ingredients. Prepared by Art Institute of Tampa Director Chef Michael Lynch and his Cook’s Club based on recipes from Field to Feast:

  • half of a pulled pork banh-mi sandwich*
  • tomato panzanella salad**
  • seasonal fruit
  • rosemary-pecan short bread cookie

      * double-sized panzanella salad can be substituted
    ** whole banh-mi sandwich can be substituted

Stop at one of the stations below and learn from Gateway owners Pamela and Hank Sindlinger and other experts:

  • Herb and produce growing practices
  • Bee keeping
  • Raising chickens
  • Worm farming
  • Kids’ gardening project
     

2:30 - 4:00 p.m. - Pam, Katie and Heather tell the inside story of writing Field to Feast—and, of course, they’ll sign your copy!

 

Questions? Email info@slowfoodtampabay.org

 
Foodopoly Presentation/Discussion @ Inkwood Books, Feb. 23, 2 p.m.
Admin - Mon Jan 28, 2013 @ 10:53AM
Join Slow Food Tampa Bay for a presentation and discussion of the new book "Foodopoly" by Wenonah Hauter on Saturday, Feb. 23 at 2 p.m. at Inkwood Books, 216 S Armenia Ave, Tampa. Slow Food members receive a discount on the book. 
 
Wenonah is the executive director of Food & Water Watch, the D.C.-based non-profit organization focused on sustainable agriculture, family farmers, corporate and government accountability relating to our food and water. She has worked and written extensively on food, water, energy, and environmental issues at the national, state, and local levels and owns a working farm in The Plains, Virginia. Food and Water Watch is currently involved in the multi-state "Let Me Decide" Campaign to get genetically engineered food labeled. 
 
Steve Gliessman,  Professor Emeritus of Agroecology,  UC-Santa Cruz says, "Foodopoly is a meticulously documented account of how we have lost control of our food system, as well as a roadmap for taking it back. We must respond to this call to action."
 
In "Foodopoly," she presents the shocking account of how agricultural policy, has been hijacked by lobbyists,  driving out independent farmers and food processors in favor of the likes of Cargill, Tyson, Kraft, and ConAgra. She demonstrates impacts rippling far and wide including economic stagnation in rural communities at home and famines in poor countries overseas. Wenonah presents a solution everyone needs to hear -- solving this crisis requires a complete structural shift and a grassroots movement to reshape our food system from seed to table.
 

 

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