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Announcing . . .
REAP's Seventh Annual
Food for Thought Festival
"Eating Well, Being Well."
Saturday, September
17, 2005 8:00
am – 1:00 pm
Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd, off the Capitol Square, Madison, WI
with the Friday Night Forum,
Friday, Sept. 16th, 7:30-9:30 pm
UW Health Sciences Learning Center, Madison, WI (*new
location!*)
and enjoy locals foods
at area restaurants at the first Food for Thought
Local
Night Out,
Wednesday, Sept. 14th.
Click
Here to see photos from Food for Thought 2005!
The
annual Food for Thought Festival is a fun, festive forum
that explores and celebrates our many opportunities to eat more
pleasurably, healthfully and sustainably.
This year's theme, "Eating Well, Being Well" will address how
our food choices effect the health of our bodies as well as the health
of our community and the environment.
Featuring:
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Keynote Speaker:
Joan Dye
Gussow
Author of This
Organic Life: Confessions of a Suburban Homesteader.
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Dr. Joan Dye Gussow is
Mary Swartz Rose
Professor emerita and former chair of the Nutrition Education
Program at Teachers College, Columbia University, where she still
teaches every fall. She
currently chairs the board of Just Food, serves on the
Board of the Sustainability Fund, on the Stone Barns Advisory
Committee, on the Advisory Board of the “Soul Food” project
(the Harlem CSA project) and as a member of the Roots of Change
Council. She is also
on the Board of the Frontera Farmer Foundation and a
member of the Board of Overseers of the Chefs' Collaborative.
Dr. Gussow will deliver the keynote speech at the Friday night
Forum and will also address the audience on Saturday at the
Festival.
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and Guest
Chef:
Odessa Piper
Odessa is well known in her
Madison community as the founder, chef and owner of L'Etoile
Restaurant from 1976 through the spring of this year. Odessa
first moved
to Madison in 1969,
where she helped her former mentor,
JoAnna Guthrie,
open a restaurant called the Ovens of Brittany. Through working
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the Wisconsin countryside, she gained a
new awareness and appreciation of the exceptional
quality and diversity of the region's foods.
These foods, and the farmers who grow them, have
inspired her to create menus for
over 30 years that celebrate each season's bounty.
Odessa was the 2001 recipient of the
prestigious James Beard Foundation Award for Best Chef - Midwest.
Her talents have been featured in Gourmet, Sierra Magazine, Bon
Appetit, Food & Wine, Wine Spectator, New York Times,
Wisconsin Trails, Wisconsin State Journal, Wisconsin Public
Radio, National Public Radio and National Public Television.
Odessa will join Joan Dye Gussow in a panel discussion at the
Friday night Forum and will conduct a cooking demonstration on
Saturday at the Festival. |
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Informational
and interactive displays by over 60 local organizations and businesses.
Keep Checking this site for details of activities!
