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Winter 2014
Events
February 7 (Friday)
Do New Yorkers Have the Right to Know How Their Food is Produced?
Event Description: Slow Food NYC is holding its inaugural
Food & Farm Policy Roundtable on Friday, February 7th to discuss the rights New York citizens have as consumers when it comes to knowing how their food is produced. We will take on thorny issues, such as GMO labeling and the use of antibiotics in food
animals.
Consumer Reports director of Consumer Safety and Sustainability, Dr. Urvashi Rangan, and Campaign Director for GMO Free NY, Stacie Orell, will begin the discussion. We have invited a number of other experts. Stay tuned for further announcements on additional
speakers.
Speakers:
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Stacie Orell, Campaign Director, GMO Free NY
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Urvashi Rangan, Ph.D., Director, Consumer Safety and Sustainability,Consumer
Reports
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Kim Kessler, former NYC Food Policy Coordinator, currently Policy and
Special Programs Director for the UCLA School of Law Resnick Program for Food Law Policy
This event is FREE and open to everyone and includes a tasting of wine from Moore Brothers.
We hope to see you there.
Location: Moore Brothers Wine Company - 33 East 20th St (btn B'way & Park Ave); Manhattan [Site]
Time: 6:30pm to 8:00pm
February 19 (Wednesday)
SFNYC Book Club -
Growing a Feast by Kurt Timmermeister
Event Description: Join author
Kurt Timmermeister and Slow Food NYC at Jimmy's No. 43 for a reading, discussion, and book signing of his newly released book,
Growing a Feast.
A small-scale farmer on a dairy farm, Timmermeister tells the story of how he prepared a single marvelous farm-to-table meal using only the bounty that his farm provides — a two-year chronicle beginning with the birth of the calf whose milk will eventually
be made into cheese and ending with the final course of coffee and butter cookies. Along the way we meet Leda, who trades onion seedlings for Kurt's cheese; Michiko, who forages the white chanterelles for the antipasti course; and Bill, whose large, thin-skinned
tomatoes will form the basis of the tomato upside-down cake. Rich in detail, resonant in story,
Growing a Feast depicts the effort behind every meal, the farm that comes before every table.
Author Kurt Timmermeister ran his own Seattle-based cafes before buying a four-acre plot of land on Vashon Island in Washington's Puget Sound, an experience he recounted in his first book,
Growing a Farmer. Now 13 acres, Kurtwood Farms specializes in producing farmstead artisan cheeses.
This event is free and open to everyone. Free samples of cheese from Kurtwood Farm will be provided. Proceeds from book sales will benefit Slow Food NYC programs, including
Urban Harvest, our educational program for children. We hope to see you there.
Location: Jimmy's No. 43 - 43 E. 7th Street (btn 2nd Ave & 3rd Ave); Manhattan [Site]
Time: 7:00pm to 9:00pm
February 24 (Monday)
The Brooklyn Slur - Hunter's
Event Description: It's the Slow Food NYC monthly Happy Hour! It's fun, social, and informal. But it's also your opportunity
to talk to the leadership of Slow Food NYC and let us know what you think. Got a
great idea for an event? Looking for ways to get involved? Want to
learn more about Slow Food? Just looking to have a relaxing drink with other "Slow" minded people? The Slur is your opportunity -
free and open to everyone.
Hunter's, in Cobble Hill, Brooklyn, pairs an unpretentious, cozy setting (exposed brick walls, big marble bar) and a straightforward menu with enough subtlety and refinement to satisfy any discerning foodie. Their cuisine blends New American, French,
and Italian influences and their focused menu changes seasonally, in order to highlight of-the-moment produce and game. With starters including a cheese board from neighbor Stinky Bklyn, house-made pastas, and mains like organic roasted chicken, Hunter's is
the kind of Slow Food-friendly restaurant that every neighborhood should have. Even their cocktail menu — creatively named with drinks like the "Katniss Everdeen" and the "Honey Badger" — features local spirits makers like
Brooklyn Gin and Brooklyn Republic Vodka.
We hope to see you there.
HuntersBrooklyn.com
Location: Hunter's - 213 Smith St. (btn Baltic & Butler); Brooklyn [Site]
Time: 7:00pm to 9:00pm
Your Food
Your Fight
The Farm Bill Everyone Can Hate
After a long and painful process, that included the unprecedented expiration of the last Farm Bill with no successor, we finally
are a presidential signature away from a comprehensive Farm Bill that, at best, is bitter sweet — accomplishing some and failing on much.
Read the full article at:
www.slowfoodnyc.org/blog/slow_food_nyc/2014/02/06/farm_bill_everyone_can_hate
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