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The Good Life w/ Anna Lappe (DIET FOR A HOT PLANET)

Warren — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 22:27:57 +0000

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April 15
Anna Lappe
DIET FOR A HOT PLANET: The Climate Crisis at the End of your Fork and What You Can Do about it

Time: 6:30 pm
Cost: $35/person (includes all appetizers
and a copy of the featured book)

Location: Tom Douglas’ Palace Ballroom
2030 5th Avenue (at Lenora), Seattle, 98121


	Anna Lappe

Beyond what we already know about “food miles” and eating locally, the global food system is a major contributor to climate change, producing as much as one third of greenhouse gas emissions. How we farm, what we eat, and how our food gets to the table all have an impact.

Anna Lappe is the coauthor of Grub, Hope’s Edge and currently host of MSN’s Practical Guide to Healthy Living, and co host of PBS’s The Endless Feast. Lappe will outline a vision of the future in which our food system does more good than harm, with six principles for an earth-friendly diet, fueled by sustainable farming.

The Good Life: books for better living events are interactive evenings of conversation with authors on tools for creating “the good life.” These events will take place at either Tom Douglas’ Palace Ballroom or the Hotel Andra Ballroom, where we will gather together to enjoy appetizers and beverages and an onstage interview of the author by Warren Etheredge of The Warren Report.

Read what Danielle Greger-Babbit says at examiner.com

Tickets for the events listed are $35 per person. Reservations are required, and can be purchased here on our website by clicking on the Brown Paper Tickets link for each event.

A copy of each author’s new book is included in the ticket price as are appetizers and bites of Theo Chocolate that evening. There will be a cash bar available.

Them’s good eats?

Warren — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 23:22:22 +0000

If Americans came with user-care manuals, the section on feeding would be reduced to a sidebar… 1) Open mouth; 2) Shovel in crap. Heck, my friends spend more time, money and consideration feeding their dog than it seems most parents do packing their kids’ lunches. Even a border collie would turn tail from Kraft Yackables.

Of course, the reason our palates are now as desensitized as once were SuperMasochist Bob Flanagan‘s genitals may well be because we’ve stopped thinking of food as a bounty and rather as a commodity. Thus, ordering chemically-laden, market-designed approximations of sustenance — such as the McRib Sandwich replete with molded “bones”! — is as natural as refueling the Escalade so one can drive the ten blocks to work daily. Even if these practices are as SICK as driving nails through one’s penis for sexual pleasure, corporate interests have successfully reframed Nutrition as a matter of personal choice and objective taste. (Dammit, it’s my right to eat like an uneducated pig!) Sorry, folks, Nutrition is a science. It may be inexact, but I can guarantee you studies prove Mexi-fries are as much an affront to your digestive tract as to Mexicans. (I’m pretty sure Pancho Villa wasn’t filling up on deformed tater-tots no matter how revolutionary either may have been.)

This summer, the encyclopedic documentary, FOOD, INC. catalogued some of the most common and grievous absurdities of America’s industrialized food fixation. Recently, I joined KUOW’s chip-craving interlocutor Jeannie Yandel, for a conversation about what other films about food are fit for our consumption. Click here to hear our talk and to download a bonus list of other devourable features.

(*I must add that KING CORN should appear on this list as well, but does not… because I forget things? Thanks to David Ward for reminding me about this provocative doc which should be ranked as high as… an elephant’s eye.*)

And, click here for The Warren Report’s podcast with Elise Pearlstein, producer of FOOD, INC. Or, here, for my talk with Michael Pollan.

Bon appetit!

The Good Life… with Nina Planck (REAL FOOD FOR MOTHER AND BABY)

Warren — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 06:18:49 +0000

Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009
NINA PLANCK
author of
REAL FOOD FOR MOTHER AND BABY

Location:
Tom Douglas’ Palace Ballroom
2100 5th Avenue, Seattle, WA 98121 (map)

Time: 6:30 p.m. • Cost: $25

Nina Planck is an expert on local food and the force behind New York City’s legendary Greenmarkets, and she transformed the way we view “traditional foods” in her first book, Real Food. When she got pregnant she found the dietary advice confusing, misleading and full of myths, so she set out to find what is actually true about feeding a pregnant mother and new baby in the most healthy and delicious way. And the facts on “real food” will surprise you.

The Good Life: books for better living series will be interactive evenings of conversation with authors on tools for creating “the good life.” These events will take place at Tom Douglas’s Palace Ballroom where we will gather together to enjoy appetizers and beverages and an onstage interview of the author by Warren Etheredge of The Warren Report; and our evenings will end with a booksigning and a bit of award winning Theo Chocolate — plus you get the featured book to take home!

Tickets for the events listed are $25 per person — yes, less than the cost of the book! A copy of each author’s new book is included in the ticket price as are appetizers and bites of Theo Chocolate that evening. There will be a cash bar available.

TO PURCHASE TICKETS
by email: contact us l by phone: 206-632-2419 l or purchase online

Book Smart: Jennifer McLagan – Fat

Aaron — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 04:20:31 +0000

Warren joins chef/author Jennifer McLagan to talk about the importance of fat, a true appreciation of butter, and why McDonald’s french fries don’t taste quite right anymore