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Renewing America’s Food Traditions: Saving the Continent’s Most Endangered Foods

Date:
Wednesday, April 29, 2009
Time:
6:00 PM - 8:30 PM
Event Type:
Speaker
Organizer/Author:
Julie Cummins
Email:
Phone:
415-291-3276 x106
Location Details:
Port Commission Hearing Room, Ferry Bldg., 2nd fl.
One Ferry Building
San Francisco, CA 94111

Renewing America’s Food Traditions: Saving and Savoring the Continent’s Most Endangered Foods
An Evening With Gary Paul Nabhan and Ashley Rood

Gary Paul Nabhan, writer, food and farming advocate, rural lifeways folklorist, and conservationist, may be best known for his pioneering Southwestern locavore experiment described in Coming Home to Eat.

He founded the collaborative Renewing America’s Food Traditions (RAFT) and edited the book by the same name, a journey across our continent’s 13 distinct food nations that details endangered foods and brings them to life with cultural histories, folk traditions, and recipes. Nabhan will travel from Pinyon Nut Nation to speak at the Ferry Building and will be joined by local Acorn Nation environmental advocate and sustainable agriculture activist Ashley Rood, who contributed to this book and coauthored its precursor. Together they will offer tales and photographs from the book, including success stories of renewal and revitalization of traditional foodways, and remind us how our food choices can support biodiversity and a region’s distinct culinary identity.

The presentation will take place in the Port Commission Hearing Room in the Ferry Building, and will be followed by a tasting of rare and endangered foods found at the Ferry Plaza Farmers Market.

The cost is $10.

Buy tickets here: http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/60855
Added to the calendar on Tue, Mar 24, 2009 9:34PM
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