On Friday night at 6:30 — early enough that you could still make that dance party/secret supper club later on — join our editor-in-chief Gabrielle Langholtz at the Museum of the City of New York as she heads a panel on a topic dear to our hearts: local agriculture. Thanks to a group of speakers who hold many points of view on the subject, including James E. McWilliams, the author of Just Food: Where Locavores Get It Wrong and How We Can Truly Eat Responsibly, expect the discussion to range far (pun included, as per the photo above) from many typical sustainable agriculture events, where most folks see buying local as 100 percent positive.
You can get tickets for the event here, and a description of the night follows:
“The locavore revolution has chefs and home cooks alike embracing ingredients from nearby farms in the name of ecology. But the realities of New York weather means months of snow-covered fields; this time of year even farm-to-table restaurateurs can tire of apples and rutabagas. And now some scientists are defending large-scale agriculture, saying its efficiencies outweigh its transportation costs. Who’s right, and what food system should we work towards? Panelists include Peter Hoffman, chef and owner of Savoy; Gabrielle Langholtz, editor, Edible Manhattan; James E. McWilliams, author of Just Food: Where Locavores Get It Wrong and How We Can Truly Eat Responsibly (Little, Brown, 2009); David Owen, author of Green Metropolis: Why Living Smaller, Living Closer, and Driving Less Are the Keys to Sustainability (Riverhead, 2009); and Jennifer Small, owner and farmer from Flying Pigs Farm evaluate the environmental and social costs and benefits of the city’s food infrastructure. Presented in conjunction with Moveable Feast: Fresh Produce and the NYC Green Cart Program.”
