A foodie day from start to finish
Mid week last week (yes, I will admit my blog postings are not quite keeping up with my real life occurrences) was a solid day of participating in the local food scene, and further opening my eyes to even more of the issues that face our food security, our health, and our agriculture. It was truly inspiring in every sense of the word.
First, a fellow food blogger and I visited the season opener of the Main Street Farmers Market. A seriously central location (Main and Terminal, in front of the Greyhound station), and certainly no lack of vendors with local produce and crafts; I was impressed. We both intended to simply check it out, but that all ended as soon as we saw cake; fluffy, delicious cake. We ate cake, bought produce and Mammoth Sunflower plants, and had to drop everything off at our respective houses before heading to the next spot. Oh, and we went reusable bag-less. Dumb. Thank you Vancity for helping us out with this, made carrying all that produce home much easier.
Next we stopped in at Chill Winston for a quick bite of Ahi Tuna Salad, Ginger Tofu Rice bowl, and a glass of Joie Noble Blend. Yum! We had hoped for a seat on the patio, but apparently on a sunny mid-week at 5.30pm everyone else had the same idea.
The final stop of the evening was at the UBC Robson Square Campus to see a film screening of the documentary FRESH. Literally straight out of Michael Pollan’s talk about his book In Defense of Food this past weekend at UBC Farm (photos from that coming tomorrow), we heard from Pollan along with others including farmers/promoters of local, non-antibiotic/hormone/pesticide farming Will Allen, Joel Salatin, George Naylor and Diana Endicott in this documentary by ana Sofia joanes. Sending a message about our food system, it’s production methods it’s premise drove home the important that we have to, and can make a difference by, voting with our forks for local food and the farmers who grow it. A great line from the film that has stuck with me since seeing it is “Food is at the foundation, but it’s really about life.” Well said Mr. Allen.
Tags: ana Sofia joanes, Chill Winston, FRESH the movie, Main Street Farmers Market, vancouver farmers markets
June 15th, 2009 at 3:43 pm
Three cheers for cake! And scapes. Last week was full of garlic scape-y fun. I hope they have more this week, because I have more experiments to do.
June 15th, 2009 at 5:13 pm
What a day! Thank you for blogging about it and sharing it with us. What does the food scientist in you think about Michael Pollan? This is NOT a loaded question, but a sincere one! I have noticed that scientists think differently about topics than nonscientists.
June 15th, 2009 at 5:14 pm
The food scientist question was for Eagranie of course!
June 15th, 2009 at 10:51 pm
Hmm ok food scientist Eagranie…what DO you think of Michael Pollan? Now I’m curious!