P.O.V.

Be sure to catch Food, Inc. on PBS tonight!

P.O.V.

“Food, Inc.” Authors Eric Schlosser and Michael Pollan offer insight into the food industry in America, including how food is produced.

Uncommon Ground Green Room Session

This is absolutely my favourite restaurant in Chicago, and they’re hosting a green room session!

Uncommon Ground is hosting a Green Room Session this Thursday on Urban Ag and Sustainable Food Systems. In addition to Purple Asparagus, meet representatives from The Center for Urban Transformation, Chicago Botanic Garden, Chicago Honey Co-Op, Growing Home, Purple Asparagus, Slow Food Chicago, WeFarm America,NeighborSpace, Food Animal Concerns Trust (FACT), Growing Power, Inc., Illinois Local Food & Farms Coalition, UrbanPonics LLC and Angelic Organics Learning Center.

There will be mingling and networking from 6-7pm and then a short speech from each of the organizations.

Executive Chef Brian Millman will be preparing complimentary appetizers featuring the products of a local farmer or producer. We will also be offering our specially pricedeco-cocktail, “The Agripolitan”, featuring organic and local ingredients which is helping to fund The Chicago Rarities Orchard Project (CROP) dedicated to planting orchards in Chicago.

Uncommon Ground
1401 W. Devon Ave.
Chicago, IL 60660
April 8, 6-8pm

Michael Pollan. Live.

This is the single most amazing opportunity ever.  If you’re in the area and can afford it, I suggest that you make every effort to go.  If you are not in the area, but can still afford it, I suggest you go anyway, since the food at Zingerman’s is the best in all the land, and you can stop by their store and buy everything.  I mean it.  Everything.
If you are not in the area and cannot afford it, I suggest you purchase a false mustache and a monocle and sit toward the back. Just go.

April 11, 2010
6:00 pm	to	8:00 pm

A Fundraiser for the Ann Arbor Local Food Revolution

5:30pm—private reception | 6pm—conversation and book signing

$500 – includes: • Private Reception with Michael Pollan • Conversation & Book Signing • Package of Chris Bedford’s DVD’s & • Pollan’s 3 books.

$150 – includes: Conversation & Book Signing

Join bestselling author and food visionary, Michael Pollan, at Zingerman’s Roadhouse for an intimate conversation about the revolution in food and farming underway in the United States. He will present a unique personal view of the forces behind the current headlines dealing with food and health. Part of the evening’s conversation will be based on questions from the audience.
Proceeds from this fundraiser will support Ann Arbor’s Homegrown Festival and the Edible Avalon Project: a community garden program supporting low income residents in Washtenaw County in growing their own organic food. The event will also support the work of the Center for Economic Security in making “Growing Health,” a film illuminating the connections between healthy living, soil, and reduction in chronic disease.
Chef Alex Young will prepare a delicious selection of appetizers for the reception, using ingredients from his own Cornman Farms.

Reserve your seat

2010 Boston Restaurant Week

Restaurant Week is the best way for everyone to experience some of the new and exciting places they have never been before. Some of the restaurants are too expensive for some of us including ME!!! But for $20 you can have a nice 3-course lunch or $33 for a nice 3-course dinner.

The list of the participated restaurants are listed HERE

March 14-19 & 21-26, 2010

Restaurant Week Boston® is brought to you by the Greater Boston Convention & Visitors Bureau and American Express. Twice a year in March and again in August area restaurants design special 3-course prix fixe menus for lunch and dinner. A 2-course lighter lunch was initiated in 2009.

March 2010 celebrates the 5th anniversary of Winter Restaurant Week Boston® when restaurants will be serving the prix fixe meals guaranteed to chase away the winter blues from Sunday, March 14 through Friday, March 19 and Sunday, March 21 through Friday, March 26, 2010. Diners will enjoy 2-course lunches for $15.10, 3-course lunches for $20.10 and 3-course dinners for $33.10 throughout Boston, Cambridge, the suburbs and beyond.

Prices are per person and exclude beverages, tax and gratuities.

Diners can choose from old favorites to the latest culinary hot spots, from nationally known chain restaurants to local chef owned bistros, from Asian or Argentinean fare to French, Italian, tapas and sushi, from the award-winning restaurants of Boston and Cambridge to the gourmet gems in the suburbs north, west and south of the city.