2009 Food for Thought Festival
The 2009 Food for Thought Festival
Saturday, September 26 2009
8:00 am-1:30 pm, Madison, Wisconsin
on Martin Luthur King Jr. Blvd.
with special guest speaker,
Michael Pollan
The annual Food for Thought Festival is a fun, festive forum that explores and celebrates our many opportunties to eat more pleasurably, healthfully and sustainably.
Events at the Festival include
• Informational and interactive displays
• The Food for Thought Recipe Contest
• Speakers and Presentations
• Cooking Demonstrations
• Live Music, Kid's Activities, Animals, Great Food, and More!
At the annual Food for Thought Festival you will
• See, taste, and smell the pleasures of locally produced food,
• Meet members of your community,
• Learn what you can to support small family farms, eat healthily and protect the environment,
• Have fun!
Michael Pollan is the author, most recently, of In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto. His previous book, The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals (2006), was named one of the ten best books of 2006 by the New York Times and the Washington Post. It also won the California Book Award, the Northern California Book Award, the James Beard Award for best food writing, and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award.
He is also the author of The Botany of Desire: A Plant’s-Eye View of the World (2001); A Place of My Own (1997); and Second Nature (1991). A contributing writer to the New York Times Magazine, Pollan is the recipient of numerous journalistic awards, including the James Beard Award for best magazine series in 2003 and the Reuters-I.U.C.N. 2000 Global Award for Environmental Journalism. Pollan served for many years as executive editor of Harper’s Magazine and is now the Knight Professor of Science and Environmental Journalism at UC Berkeley. His articles have been anthologized in Best American Science Writing (2004); Best American Essays (1990 and 2003) and the Norton Book of Nature Writing.
The Food for Thought Festival is free and open to the public.
Mr. Pollan will be speaking in the speakers tent at the festival at 10:00 am.
Seating for Michael's Saturday festival talk will be limited as space allows.
Michael Pollan's appearance is made possible in partnership with The Center for the Humanities, Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation; the Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies; the Center for Culture, History, and Environment (CHE); the Wisconsin Initiative for Science Literacy; the Bradshaw-Knight Foundation; UW-Madison Libraries; the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences.
Michael Pollan will be on campus for a series of major events September 24-26 including a lecture on Thursday, September 24, 7PM, Kohl Center and a panel discussion on Friday, September 25, 3:30 PM, Wisconsin Union Theater.
There are no tickets needed for these events, they are FREE and open to the public
Visit www.humanities.wisc.edu/pollan.html for more information.
Sponsors
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Major Sponsors
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Contributing Sponsors
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Supporting Sponsors
| Johnson Block and Company Madison Area CSA Coalition MATC--Center for Business and Applied Arts Organic Valley Family of Farms Physicians Plus Insurance Corp St. Mary's Hospital Wisconsin Cheese Originals |
With Support and In Kind Contributions From
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