Food: Eating Your Environment UW lecture series - Seattle

Wow, some of the best food researchers and authors coming to UW in Seattle this fall--among my favorites, Marion Nestle and Gary Nabhan.
 
Food: Eating Your Environment is the UW's premier lecture series of the year. It will touch on all things food related—from field to kitchen and spanning the globe from Seattle to the deserts of Sub-Saharan Africa. Bringing public intellectuals as well as practitioners to campus, we will collectively explore the most personal yet public resource relevant in our world: food.

https://go.washington.edu/uwaa/events/2010food_lecture/details.tcl


October 5 - "Can Science and Technology Secure Global Food Resources?"
Speaker: Gebisa Ejeta - Distinguished Professor of Agronomy, Purdue University

October 12 - "The Battle Over Biofuels"
Speaker: Roz Naylor - Director, Program on Food Security and the Environment, Stanford University

October 19 - "Food Politics: Advocacy for Social Change"
Speaker: Marion Nestle - Paulette Goddard Professor, New York University

October 26 - "Eating Fish to Save the Rainforest"
Speaker: Ray Hilborn - Professor, Aquatic and Fishery Sciences, UW

November 2 - "Social Sciences, Nutrition, and The Meal" 
Speaker: Claude Fischler - Co-Director, Edgar Morin Centre, Paris

November 9 - "Feeling the Heat: Food and Famine in a Finite World"
Speaker: Cary Fowler - Executive Director, Global Crop Diversity Trust, Rome

November 16 - "Collaborative Conservation to Restore America's Wild Food Diversity"
Speaker: Gary Nabhan - Founder, Renewing America's Food Traditions (RAFT)

November 30 - "The Ecosystem as the Measure: 50 Years to Perennial Sustainability"
Speaker: Wes Jackson - Founder, The Land Institute

Eat Out for Farmers on Sept 14th

Washington Tilth Producers and local Puget Sound restaurants present... (unfortunately, no restaurants in Pierce County this year.  Maybe next year?!)
 
EAT OUT FOR FARMERS: WASHINGTON RESTAURANTS SUPPORT FARMER EDUCATION

Dining out on September 14th guarantees a contribution to Washington farmer education. Tilth Producers of Washington, a non-profit farm advocacy group, is partnering with fourteen restaurants who will donate 10% of their proceeds from Tuesday, September 14th to support Tilth Producers programming. "We are impressed and grateful with the response from restaurants," says Kelsey Maki, program assistant for Tilth Producers of Washington. "We hope the response from the public is as enthusiastic."  "I'm proud to be part of this event," says Chef Philippe Thomelin of Olivar. "I will make sure that my staff is making the evening special for every diner!"

Participating restaurants are:

Bellingham WA
Nimbus Restaurant

Port Gamble WA
Port Gamble General Store

Port Townsend WA
Bella Italia

Seattle, WA
A Caprice Kitchen
Chaco Canyon Organic Cafe
Emmer & Rye
Julia's Broadway
Julia's Wallingford
Julia's Issaquah
Nell's Restaurant
Olivar
Tilth Restaurant
 
Sequim WA
Alder Wood Bistro
 
Spokane WA
Santé Restaurant & Charcuterie
 

More information is available online at www.washingtonorganicweek.com
For more information, contact:
Kelsey Maki, Program Assistant, Tilth Producers of Washington
(206) 632-7506 - kelsey@tilthproducers.org

Seattle Chef's Collaborative presents Urban Picnic 2010

Seattle Chef's Collaborative presents Urban Picnic 2010 on Sunday, September 12, 1:00 - 4:00 pm in Seattle.  Details and tickets: http://tiny.cc/w2dhj
 
A fundraiser for Quillisascut Farm School scholarships, local chefs will prepare culturally important Northwest foods from the Renewing America's Food Traditions (RAFT) Alliance list. The RAFT motto...Eat it to save it!  11 Top Seattle chefs!  Live Entertainment! Bring the kids (10 & under free!)  Downtown Oasis! 
 
All for a Great Cause!  More about Quillisascut Farm School - http://tiny.cc/3t8xe