Slow Food Portland presents Writers Night 2009
On Thursday, January 29th at SPACE Gallery Slow Food Portland will be hosting our Annual Writers Night for 2009. This year’s line-up of writers includes:
Anne Mendelson, author of Milk, The Surprising Story of Milk Through the Ages. Mendelson is a contributing editor at Gourmet Magazine and has written for the New York Times and Saveur. She is also the author of Stand Facing The Stove, a history of The Joy of Cooking and it’s authors.
Nancy Carlisle, co-author of America’s Kitchens, an illustrated history of that beloved room. Carlisle, a graduate of Bates College, is a curator at Historic New England, the most comprehensive regional heritage organization in the country.
Sam Hayward, chef and co-owner of Fore Street restaurant. The James Beard Award-winning chef who barely needs introduction will read from his story Island Sheep, published in The Art of Eating in the Fall of ‘08.
Renier Nieuwkerk, Owner & Captain of the F/V Hannah-Jo of Kennebunk will read from his segment of Sharing The Ocean, Stories of Science, Politics and Ownership from America’s Oldest Industry, a new book from The Northwest Atlantic Marine Alliance.
And in a first for the Writers’ Night, Russell Libby, the Executive Director of MOFGA, will read some farm poetry from his new book Balance, A Late Pastoral.
As in years past, there will be sample tastes from Maine’s soil and sea contributed by local cooks, this year including seafood from the Northwest Atlantic Marine Alliance and Mead from the Maine Mead Works. Books from all the authors will be available for purchase and signing at the event.
The evening will begin at 6:30, doors will open at 6:00, at Space Gallery, 538 Congress Street in Portland. Tickets are $25, $20 for Slow Food members, and will be available at the door, or in advance at SPACE, 207 828 5600. For more information contact Don or Samantha Lindgren at 774 1044 or SPACE Gallery at www.space538.org.
The selection for the next Slow Food Portland Book Group is Molecular Gastronomy by Herve This. This is a French biochemist, who has worked for many years alongside Michelin Three-Star chef Pierre Gagnaire. In Molecular Gastronomy, This presents one hundred short chapters, each on a different aspect of food science. He includes not only what happens in the processes of cooking and baking, but what is going on in the mouth and in the brain when one is tasting and eating food. If Harold McGee’s food science classic, On Food and Cooking, sits on your shelf, or even if you’re just interested in what exactly happens to make food taste so good, this is a great book for you. The book also addresses some of the modern techniques embraced by the world’s greatest chefs, so if you are curious about these techniques and want to get a better sense of what Rob Evans, Thomas Keller, Grant Achatz,
Slow Food Portland and Rabelais Books present an evening with author, food and farming advocate, conservationist and folklorist Gary Paul Nabhan. Gary’s books include Coming Home to Eat, Renewing America’s Food TraditionsSaving and Savoring the Continent’s Most Endangered Foods, and the forthcoming Where Our Food Comes From -Retracing Nikolay Vavilov’s Quest to End Famine. The event will be held at Space Gallery, Friday, September 19th, at 7pm. $5 admission.Space Gallery is located at 538 Congress Street, Portland, ME. More information to come soon.
Slow Food Portland is very pleased to cosponsor a gathering of CSA farmers this Sunday, with the Maine Council of Churches and MOFGA. Last year the event was a tremendous success, drawing in over 350 people to meet local farmers. This year, thanks to the hard work of organizers from SFP, Mofga and MCC, the event will grow much larger. We have nearly fifty farmers lined up this Sunday, at 4 locations around the state! Here are the details:
