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Festival Schedule
Theme: "Nourishing the Future: Food and Our Children"

Saturday, September 21, 2002
8:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.
Martin Luther King, Jr. Blvd., just off the Capitol Square
Madison, Wisconsin
Parking info from the city of Madison

(The Food for Thought Forum is the night before) 

On the Plaza

Booths of more than 50 organizations and businesses promoting and/or selling local and sustainably grown food.

8:30 a.m. to 10:00 a.m. Booksigning with Alice Waters, chef and author of Chez Panisse Fruit, Chez Panisse Vegetables, Chez Panisse Café Cookbook, Fanny at Chez Panisse (a children’s cookbook)…to name a few.  

Main Tent

9:00 a.m. Cooking demonstration by chef Rafe Montello of “We’re Cooking Now,” Look Who’s Cooking Recipe Contest Winning Kids Recipe (food sampling)

9:30 a.m. Prize Winners announcement, Look Who’s Cooking Recipe Contest

9:45 a.m. Cooking demonstration of Look Who’s Cooking Recipe Contest Grand Prize Winning Recipe by chef/instructor Paul Short of MATC’s Culinary Trades (food sampling) 

10:05 quick demo of "Mint-ato" with Terese Allen and Emma Conover-Crockett

10:30 a.m. Keynote Speech titled, “The Ethics of Eating,” presented by Alice Waters, award-winning chef of Berkeley’s Chez Panisse and Edible Schoolyard pioneer. Followed by Alice Waters food presentation.

Music Tent 

9:30 a.m. Leahy’s Luck, Irish band

10:30 a.m. Joe Kimmel and Doug Brown, folk singers

11:30 a.m. Leahy’s Luck, Irish band

Kids’ Performance Tent (Starting at 8:00 a.m.)

8:00 a.m. Dadawah, high-energy drum, dance and song group (music from Mali and Guinea)  

9:00 a.m. Children’s Street Theatre: “Why the sky is so far away?” (African Folktale performed w/ Dadawah)

10:00 a.m. Quann Park Garden Sing-a-long

11:00 a.m. Rich Baumann, folk singer

12:00 noon. Hmong Dance Troup (dance/skit)

Kids’ Activity Tent

9-10 a.m. Children’s Museum project (planting herb seedlings)

11:30 a.m. -12:30 p.m. Tortilla making

Other activities are ongoing:  
*Face painting 
* 24 carrot necklaces (make your own edible necklace) 
* Chickens on a leash (receive a chicken wrangler badge for successful wrangling) 
* Chalk mural 
* Interactive display – Name that Vegetable 
* Food related works of art 
* Bean bag toss

 



If you'd like to get involved please see our volunteer opportunities or sponsor pages,
 or contact Chris Rietz at crietz@execpc.com or Lori Compas at lori@hartcreek.com.

The Food for Thought Festival is coordinated by REAP.