CSA - Food Events this Weekend! 1-22 to 1-24, 2010

Happy New Year!

Several food related food events going on this weekend…and of course, forward this to anyone you think would be interested.

This first one is a longshot but they’re accepting walk-in registrations and you can go for a day or the whole weekend so if anyone REALLY wants to go…
Thursday, Jan 21st to Sunday, Jan 24th
NOFA-NY Conference
Saratoga Springs, NY
For more info…
http://www.events.org/nofany-conference/cpage.aspx?e=21411



Friday, Jan 22nd

7pm

Food, Inc
Huntington Public Library
Main St
Huntington
FREE (plus “healthy” snacks…according to the library literature)

If you missed this or know of anyone who did..here’s a chance to see this must see food movie on a big screen for free! Reveals surprising and often shocking truths about what we eat, how it’s produced, and who we’ve become as a nation. It’s hosted by CSA member Dylan Skolnick of the Cinema Arts Centre.



Sunday, Jan 24th

12:30pm to 3:30pm

Green Melody Restaurant
Jericho
$20 – Healthy Planet Members, $25 – General Public
Reservations required:
Phone: 631-421-5591
Email: info@healthy-planet.org
Charge online…
http://www.healthy-planet.org/series/index.asp

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Join us for a gourmet, entirely plant based lunch at Green Melody Asian, Vegetarian Restaurant in Jericho with speaker Steve Meyrowitz, The Sproutman!

Best selling author of Wheatgrass Nature's Finest Medicine and Sprouts the Miracle Food demonstrates how simple it is to add living foods to our diet anytime of the year. Find out how to incorporate supercharged micro-greens into your everyday diet and save thousands of dollars per year on your food bill! And you'll get the science and nutrition behind these amazing foods that give them their impressive healing potential for cancer, diabetes, heart disease, and more. Enjoy many of the benefits of having a backyard garden, but in the kitchen instead and soil-free. No green thumb required.

Steve Meyerowitz was christened "Sproutman" in the 1970s because his apartment was always filled with gardens of mini-vegetables-- part of his lifetime fight against chronic allergies and asthma. After 20 years of disappointment with orthodox medicine, in just two months he became symptom-free through his use of diet, juices, and fasting. In 1980, he founded "The Sprout House", a "no-cooking" school in NYC teaching the benefits of a living foods diet. Steve is a health crusader and author of 10 books including his latest, "The Organic Food Guide: How to Shop Smarter and Eat Healthier." He has been featured on PBS, the Home Shopping Network, TV Food Network, and in Better Nutrition, Prevention, Organic Gardening and more.


2pm

What’s on Your Plate?
Cinema Arts Centre
423 Park Ave
Huntington, NY
$9 – Members, $12 – General Public (includes Reception and Cooking Workshop…family/kid friendly)
For advance tickets…get them at the Cinema Arts Centre box office during theater hours or online at…
https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/94150

This event is co-sponsored by Slow Food – Huntington which was started by CSA member Ann Rathkopf, and this film series is co-curated by suzanne j zoubeck, also a CSA member.
What's On Your Plate? follows two eleven-year-old kids as they explore their place in the food chain. With the camera as their companion, Sadie and Safiyah talk to food activists, farmers, storekeepers and families. The girls address questions regarding the origin of the food they eat, how it’s cultivated, how many miles it travels from the harvest to their plate, who prepares it, and what is done afterwards with the packaging and leftovers. They visit supermarkets, fast food chains, and school lunchrooms. But they also check into sustainable food system practices by going to farms, greenmarkets, and community-supported agriculture programs. They discover that these programs both help farmers to survive and provide affordable, locally-grown food to communities, especially to lower-income urban families. In What’s On Your Plate?, the two friends formulate sophisticated and compassionate opinions on the state of their society, and by doing so inspire hope and active engagement in others.
Following the screening of What’s on your Plate, Bhavani Jaroff, of iEat Green LLC, will be giving a “Kid Friendly” hands-on cooking workshop. In this workshop, we will all have the opportunity to make our own delicious snacks- from Nori Rolls (vegetarian sushi rolls) and Hummus, to salads and dips. Come on down for an afternoon that is sure to inspire kids in the kitchen and put a healthier spin on snack food. Bhavani Jaroff has been a natural foods chef for over 30 years and specializes in cooking for people with special dietary needs. She is responsible for the Waldorf Café, where she started a holistic lunch program for the school. She currently teaches cooking at The Viking Cooking School in Garden City and is available for private lessons in your home or hers. Check out her website… http://ieatgreen.com/
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