North Shore Bloggers Consortium Weekend Picks

Written by Heather Atwood on September 29th, 2010

Weekend Picks

Boston Local Food Festival

Healthy Local Food for All by Sustainable Business Network of Greater Boston

FREE Admission! Saturday, October 2nd from 11am – 5pmBring your water bottle, reusable shopping bag and something from your garden to donate to Crop Share!

Rockport Music Presents:

Monday, October 4 at 7:30 pm
Jon Lee, piano
Dirk Hillyer, lecturer
Lecture and performance for solo piano: Stravinsky, “Firebird”; 100th anniversary of the first performance.
Free and open to the public; no reservations required; general admission seating.

Please join American Farmland Trust
For an exclusive
Dine Out for Farms™
Complimentary three-course tasting dinner showcasing local farms

Graciously sponsored by
The Market Restaurant on Lobster Cove

Speakers include:
Cris Coffin, New England Director,
American Farmland Trust
Nico Monday and Amelia O’Reilly, Chefs

Thursday, October 7, 5:30 p.m.
The Market on Lobster Cove
33 River Road
Gloucester, MA

RSVP and more information available from:
Jennifer Morrill, jmorrill@farmland.org
Seating is limited, RSVP is required

Jennifer Morrill
Director of Media Relations
American Farmland Trust
1200 18th St., NW STE 800
Washington, DC 20036
(202) 378-1255
jmorrill@farmland.org
www.farmland.org
Saving the Land that Sustains Us

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Tags: American Farmland Trust, Boston Local Food Festival, Dine Out for Farms, Enric Rovira, Harvard SEAS, Rockport Chamber Music, Stravinsky's Firebird, The Market Restaurant

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http://www.ToilTroubleStyle.com Ana

Hi, I just found your blog through Julie's! I live/blog in Salem and am really excited about following the NSBC. It's great to be able to see this area through other people's eyes, and Rockport is definitely one of my favorite places!
Heatheraa

Thanks, Ana! – and I just found Julie's, which I love.

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Everyone cooked in my family, even my brothers. We subscribed to Gourmet Magazine and hungrily read the articles about what people in little French villages were having for supper, and then my mother and I tried to recreate them ourselves.

My academic background is in painting and writing, but I waitressed at Jasper’s and Hammersly’s Bistro in the 1980’s, when dining in Boston was just becoming exciting, and the people in it - waitstaff and kitchen staff - were like a small university of students and faculty. Everyone knew each other, ate in each other’s restaurants, and were aware that dining in Boston had just turned a corner, inspired by youth, global awareness - these were chefs who had traveled to Europe - and new respect for American ingredients. It was a wonderful community of people who cared about all sorts of good food and wines. Because they cared about these arts, they also cared about growing food, preserving space for it to grow, preserving the lifestyles of people who grow it. We were all beginning to understand that caring about what was served on a plate was to care about the bigger picture.

Married, the mother of two daughters, I now live in Rockport, Ma. My daughters cook. Everyone in our house welcomes a new cookbook for the dinner and dessert possibilities it might offer, which really means the possibility of changing our lives just a little, pretending we live in a little French village for a night. Isn’t that what food does, too - a little bit of theater every single day? “What are we having for dinner tonight?” is really the question of “What is the performance tonight? Where are we traveling? Who will we be?”

I write a column called “Food for Thought” for The Gloucester Daily Times. In it and on this blog, I’m always looking for the possibility food offers for transformation and I’m looking for those wonderful communities of all kinds who care about preparing a great dish, setting a beautiful table, drinking a good glass of wine, and then having a great conversation.
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