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Announcing . . .
REAP's Eighth Annual
Food for Thought Festival
2006
"Just Cooking: Fresh
Thinking for the Kitchen"
Saturday, September 16, 2006
8:00
am – 1:00 pm
Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd, off the Capitol Square, Madison, WI
Parking
info from the city of Madison
Friday Night
Forum,
Friday, Sept. 15th,
7:30-9:30 pm
Room 125 Agriculture Hall, 1450 Linden Drive, UW -Madison
Map to
Agriculture Hall and closest parking options.
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.
Photo Gallery from Food
For Thought 2006
The 2006 Festival Featured:
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Keynote Speaker:
Anna
Lappé
With Frances Moore Lappé, Anna Lappé leads the
Cambridge-based Small Planet Institute, a collaborative network
for research and popular education, and the Small Planet Fund,
which has raised more than a quarter of a million dollars for
democratic social movements worldwide since 2002.
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Anna's
first book Hope’s
Edge , co-written with Frances Moore Lappé, chronicles
courageous social movements around the world addressing the root
causes of hunger and poverty. Her second book, Grub:
Ideas for an Urban Organic Kitchen, cowritten with chef
Bryant Terry, offers readers ideas and hands-on tools and menus
to create healthy lives for themselves and their communities.
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and Guest
Chef:
Mollie
Katzen
An award-winning
illustrator and designer as well as an author and
food/nutrition/cultural history scholar, Mollie Katzen is best
known as the author of the timeless classic, Moosewood
Cookbook, as well as the bestsellers, The Enchanted
Broccoli Forest, Still Life with Menu, Vegetable Heaven (winner
of the International Cookbook Revue Award for Best Vegetarian
Cookbook of the Year and a Top Finalist for the Julia Child
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With
over 5 million books in print, Ms. Katzen is listed by the New
York Times as one of the best-selling cookbook authors of all
time. Named by Health Magazine as one of the five "Women
Who Changed the Way We Eat," and personally selected by the
Dean as a founding member of the new Harvard School of Public
Health Leadership Council, Ms. Katzen holds a charter seat at
the Harvard School of Public Health Nutrition Roundtable and was
an inaugural inductee to new Natural Health Hall of Fame. She is
largely credited with moving healthful gourmet food from the
"fringe" to the center of American dinner plates.
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Informational
and interactive displays by over 60 local organizations and businesses.
