This is the second of our more conversational family-style dinners at the farm. We are excited to present an evening that nourishes us with good food from the farm while engaging in a deeper community experience. Our farm manager, Marco Lam, will be facilitating the discussion along with special guest, Danielle Skov, the owner and proprietor of our amazing local bookstore, Off the Beaten Path. We have both been inspired by Barbara Kingsolver's work and what better place to discuss a book on being a locavore than over a sumptuous farm-to-table dinner!
When published in 2007, ANIMAL, VEGETABLE, MIRACLE was embraced by readers worldwide and quickly earned its place as a credo for the locavore movement. The family's chronicle of struggles and triumphs as they rooted themselves to their Appalachian farm and adopted a locally-produced diet was met with critical acclaim, spent years on bestseller lists and won the James Beard Award.
“Ten years ago, we wrote this book about our decision to get serious with eating local, more or less forsaking all others,” Barbara writes. “It was such a novel idea that we had to make up our own language for it, although the word ‘locavore’ germinated so naturally from the lexicon that it was invented simultaneously by many people at around the same time. Now it’s in the dictionary and on menus all over the place. What we’d thought of as our eccentric family notion broke out into something of a scene. I don’t mean that we created a scene—not at all—but that we happened to publish our family’s story at a moment when lots of families were ready to examine and take more control of their own food stories.”
Chef Russell will take the best of the produce and fruit off the farm and craft a sumptuous family-style meal for us as we both talk about and eat from our local food chain! Buy your book at Off the Beaten Path and read it beforehand so that we can have a strong book group!
