My friend Jack alerted me to a criminally underpublicized event tomorrow night (7 p.m. April 4) in Santa Rosa, and then I promptly forgot to blog it.
Dan Barber, the chef/proprietor of SOLE food paragon Blue Hill at Stone Barns in New York, will discuss “Sustainable Agriculture vs. Industrial Food” with Dan Imhoff, author of Food Fight: The Citizen’s Guide to a Food & Farm Bill, for Sonoma Country Day School’s Contemporary Issues Series. Clark Wolf, a food, restaurant and hospitality consultant and the head of NYU’s Department of Nutrition, Food Studies & Public Health Advisory Board, will moderate.
Looks to me like they forgot to invite someone to represent the “industrial food” side of the argument. Oops! Should be great anyhow.
Tickets are $10 in advance (707-284-3200) and $15 at the door. Location: Jackson Theater at Sonoma Country Day School, 4400 Day School Place, Santa Rosa, CA.
Background reading:
- “Amber Waves of Bland,” Dan Barber’s stirring January op-ed in the New York Times about why we should care about the Farm Bill (NYT Select subscribers only; PDF here)
- Dan Imhoff’s succinct explanation of what the Farm Bill is and how it affects you
Say cheese, please!
This Saturday (April 7) San Francisco’s CUESA is hosting a local cheese festival (mmmm!) in its teaching kitchen in the north arcade of the Ferry Building.
- 10:30-11:00 a.m.: A conversation with artisan cheesemaker Soyoung Scanlan of Andante Dairy (I had one of her goat cheeses, I think Allegro, which was voted best cheese of 2006 by Saveur and it made me swoon).
- 11 a.m.: A cooking demonstration by cheese cookbook author Laura Werlin.
- 11 a.m.-1 p.m.: The CUESA culinary staff will offer $4 cheese plates composed by Laura Werlin featuring three cheeses from the Ferry Plaza Farmers Market, or take a self-guided cheese tour.
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