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Locavore Literary Festival
Center for Environment & Society
March 25-26, 2011
The first ever Chestertown Locavore Lit Fest celebrated local food and cooking with a smorgasbord of food journalists and writers talking about agriculture, fishing, recipes and the joys of healthy eating.
Locavore Literary Festival | Lierre Keith Lecture
Enlarge photos by Shane Brill '03.
A special local foods lunch inspired by the speakers was offered in the Main Dining Hall of Hodson Hall Commons.
Author Lierre Keith signs a copy of The Vegetarian Myth: Food, Justice, and Sustainability for Aundra Weissert '08.
Six local farms contributed food to the "locavore" meal. Watch a video with students and faculty who explain how local foods are essential to the sustainability movement.
Event coordinator Andy Goddard '73, a Green Irene Eco Consultant, introduces food writer panelists at the Bookplate in Chestertown.
Food bloggers Tara Holste '07 (Fish in the Water), Aundra Weissert '08 (Fit for Life), and Chestertown Spy writer and Master Gardener Nancy Robson recount how they discovered their passions for local food.
Lucie Snodgrass, author of Dishing Up Maryland: 150 Recipes From the Alleghenies to the Chesapeake Bay shared what she learned by visiting farms, vineyards and oyster ranches across the state.
Assistant Professor of Anthropology Bill Schindler gets his copy of Dishing Up Maryland signed by Lucie Snodgrass.
NPR Food Commentator Bonny Wolf spoke about wild foods at The Compleat Bookseller.
Bonny Wolf signs a copy of her book Talking with My Mouth Full.
Center for Environment & Society Director John Seidel introduces author Paul Greenburg at Parish Hall of Emmanuel Church.
Paul Greenberg, author of the best-selling Four Fish: The Future of the Last Wild Food, described how our love of seafood has influenced the history of four species of fish.