Events | Let's Talk About Food
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- Small Footprint, Big Flavor: A Dinner of Sustainable Grass-Fed Meats (Lecture)
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Some people proclaim that free-range, grass-fed animals taste differently from conventionally produced meats and that once you try sustainable meats you won't want to go back.
Join us at Le Cordon Bleu College of Culinary Arts Boston at 215 First Street in Cambridge as special guest chefs showcase ... (details).
With: Michael Scelfo, executive chef, Russell House Tavern; Theo Weening, global meat coordinator, Whole Foods Market; Chefs from Le Cordon Bleu College of Culinary Arts Boston.
This presentation is part of the ongoing series Let's Talk About Food.
March 09, 2012
- Meaty Matters (Lecture)
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Join us in the Gordon Current Science & Technology Center prior to the screening of the new documentary film, American Meat, as each of the individual panelists is interviewed in depth on the subject of sustainable meat agriculture and production. Discover the real difference between organic foods and ... (details).
With: Jonathan D. Kemp, president, FoodEx/Organic Renaissance Food Exchange, New Bedford, MA; Dan Mandich, owner, Westminster Meats, Westminster Station, VT; Danielle Nierenberg, senior researcher and director, Nourishing the Planet Program, Worldwatch Institute; Theo Weening, global meat coordinator, Whole Foods Market; Nick Zigelbaum, livestock manager, Siena Farms, Sudbury, MA.
This presentation is part of the ongoing series Let's Talk About Food.
March 10, 2012
- Food on Film Presents American Meat (Lecture)
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This new documentary chronicles America's grassroots revolution in sustainable meat production. The film, an official selection of Food Day 2011, explains our current industrial meat system and shows the feedlots and confinement operations, not through hidden cameras but through the eyes of the farmers who live and work there ... (details).
With: Jonathan D. Kemp, president, FoodEx/Organic Renaissance Food Exchange, New Bedford, MA; Dan Mandich, owner, Westminster Meats, Westminster Station, VT; Danielle Nierenberg, senior researcher and director, Nourishing the Planet Program, Worldwatch Institute; Theo Weening, global meat coordinator, Whole Foods Market; Nick Zigelbaum, livestock manager, Siena Farms, Sudbury, MA.
This presentation is part of the ongoing series Let's Talk About Food.
March 10, 2012
- Let's Talk About Sustainable Seafood (Forum)
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Seafood is increasingly important to the human diet, but is the future of this protein source at risk? A crash course in "Seafood 101" shares a number of informed perspectives on threats to fish stocks and to marine ecosystems in the context of the New England economy. Consider the complexities and tradeoffs ... (details).
This presentation is part of the ongoing series Let's Talk About Food.
April 29, 2012
