| 2003
marks the second year of From Field to Family, an annual
festival dedicated to drawing stronger connections between the
Iowa City community and its farmers. Our inaugural event in
2002 drew hundreds of people to see the local chefs and farmers
with celebrities like cookbook author Deborah Madison and Splendid
Table host Lynn Rossetto Kasper.
This year we are very
proud to welcome two more special guests to Iowa City.
 Gary Paul
Nabhan is Director of the Center
for Sustainable Environments at Northern Arizona University,
author of Coming Home to Eat and 16 other books, and a Slow
Food Convivium leader in Alta Arizona.
 Kent
Whealy is the founder of
the famous Seed
Savers Exchange in Decorah, Iowa. He is the
author and editor of several books on preserving and
protecting heirloom seed varieties, and is a member of Slow
Food Iowa.
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EVENT SCHEDULE BELOW
PLEASE BE SURE TO VISIT AND THANK OUR
SPONSORS!!
Out of town guests: Please call our official B&B
for reservations that weekend: The
Golden Haug: 517 East Washington Street, 319.354.4284
For a printer friendly version of the schedule,
click here
Thursday
September 11th
Benefit
Culinary
Walk
5:00-9:00pm, Downtown
Iowa City
Seven
food establishments work their magic with the bright flavors of
locally produced food. Enjoy
the delicious results as you stroll the stations in downtown Iowa
City. Each plate will be unique and will reflect the skill of the
chef and the fresh local foods of the season.
Participating
restaurants: Atlas World Grill, Devotay,
Iowa Memorial Union
Catering, Motley Cow Café, New Pioneer
Co-op, 126 and The Red
Avocado.
ADVANCE
TICKETS ONLY! Tickets will be available at New Pioneer Co-op
@ $35 per person. Proceeds benefit Field to Family,
Table to Table and Slow Food Iowa.
Friday
September 12th
The
Politics of Food
Book
Signing
by Gary Nabhan, Sept. 12 noon to 1 pm, IC New Pioneer Co-op
Gary
Nabhan is director of the Center for Sustainable Environments at
NAU. Director of the
Center for
Sustainable Environments at Northern Arizona University,
author of Coming Home to Eat and 16 other books, and a Slow Food
Convivium leader in Alta Arizona.
Come meet Gary, whose books reveal him to be a humorous person and
an original, even daring, thinker.
New Pioneer Co-op is located at Washington and Van Buren
streets in IC. Free.
Panel Discussion,
6:00-7:30pm 10 S. Gilbert Street, Lower Level
Join
us for a spirited panel discussion “How Does Politics Impact
Local and Sustainable Food Production?”
The Panel will
include author Gary Paul Nabhan,
who wrote Coming Home to
Eat, Singing the Turtle to Sea several other books; Kent Whealy,
who with wife Diane founded the
Seed
Savers Exchange,
dedicated to preserving heirloom plant varieties and to
protecting the genetic integrity of our food. David
Burt, co-owner and executive chef at The
Red Avocado, an Iowa City restaurant serving organic
vegetarian fare and Francis
Thicke, owner of Radiance Dairy, an organic dairy farm
in Fairfield, Iowa
will also serve on the panel. Chef
Kurt Michael Friese, Director of Slow Food Iowa and
Chef Owner of Devotay will moderate. A
reception featuring locally produced foods will follow. Free and
open to all.
Book
Reading and Signing, 8:00-9:00pm, 10 S. Gilbert Street, Lower
level
Gary
Paul Nabhan will read excerpts from his books, Coming Home to Eat
and Singing the Turtles to Sea in the lower level of 10
South Gilbert Street in Downtown Iowa City.
All are welcome, admission FREE!
Saturday
September 13th
Cooking
Demos
9:00am-12:00
noon, Chauncey Swan Park
(next
to The Farmer’s market)
Come
to see and taste what our great local chefs can create with locally grown and
produced foods.
~
9:00 am: Eta Burken of Bon Vivant Culinary Arts (Coralville)
~
10:00 am: David Zaghloulof of Café Z (Iowa City)
~11:00
am: Soleil
Banguid of Africa N'Zungu (Iowa City)
Admission
is free!
Local
Farm Tour
Fae Ridge Farm,
5140 Rapid Creek Road, Iowa City, 1:00-3:00 pm
Local
Certified Organic grower Janette Ryan-Busch will open her farm and
craft shop to visitors from 1 to 3pm and give a short talk on The Connections
Between The Farm and The Community at 1:30 pm
Free
and open to all
Szathmary
Collection of Rare Cookbooks:
"Much
More than Recipes!"
A Tasty Afternoon with
--
Chef Louis
Szathmary's Books
Culinary Books from Seven Centuries
Culinary Manuscripts
Carving Books
Cannibalism
Culinary Fiction
Culinary Mysteries
Culinary Ephemera
Culinary Arts
Iowa Szathmary Culinary Arts Series
Culinary Tidbits
A
portion of the unique worldwide collection of Chef Louis Szathmary
is housed in the University of Iowa. Come see highlights of this exceptional
collection of culinary texts dating back to 1499 and numbering
over 15,000 on display at the 2nd Floor Main Conference
Room in the University of Iowa Library (South End) from
2:30pm-4:30pm
Free
and open to all.
Benefit
Slow
Food Harvest Dinner
Jordan Creek Bison
Ranch, 6:00-10:00 pm
Join
us for a delicious and satisfying barbecue of Smoked Niman Ranch
Pork and Jordan Creek Bison prepared by Chef Kurt Michael Friese
of Devotay. The vegetarian option will be prepared by Chef David
Burt of The Red
Avocado; dessert by Chef Eta Burken of Bon Vivant Culinary Arts.
Beers by Stone City Brewing of Solon and
Goose Island Brewery of
Chicago. Coffee by local Roaster Café
Del Sol of Iowa City
Guest
Speakers:
Naturalist
Gary Paul Nabhan will discuss A Sense of Place: Eating Locally
Means Investing In and Tasting Your Homeland
Seed Savers Exchange Founder Kent Whealy
will discuss: The Future of the Heirloom Seed Movement
ADVANCE
TICKETS ONLY! Tickets will be
available at New Pioneer Co-op. $50 per person, $270
for a group of 6. Proceeds benefit Field to Family, Table to Table
and Slow Food Iowa.
Sunday
September 14th
Wild
Mushroom Foray
Hickory
Hill Park, 9am
Come
for a wild mushroom foray at Hickory Hill Park (Bloomington St.
entrance) Sunday, September 14 at 9 am with noted mycologists Dean
Abel and Damian Pieper. If the weather cooperates, there should be
an interesting variety of mushrooms out. We hope to gather and
identify edible wild mushrooms. The edible fungus will be
identified and displayed on a table at the Coralville New Pioneer
Co-op Mezzanine after 11:30 am. Free
and open to all.
Open
House
The New Pioneer Co-op, 1101 2nd Avenue,
Coralville
11:00am-2:00pm
A
chance to gather in the spirit of From Field to Family. Meet some
of the sponsors and participants of this year’s event in the
mezzanine of the Coralville Co-op.
Refreshments by local
chefs, Café del Sol Coffee, Organic Wine
Sampling, information tables.
Free
and open to all
From field to family - A Culinary Celebration of Community
