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In Defense of Cheese

September 29th, 2009 Katie S.

The Lakeview Branch co-hosted an In Defense of Food book discussion and community potluck at Troy Gardens on Wednesday, September 23rd.
Thirteen hungry people had lovely weather to eat and discuss food at Troy Gardens, on Madison’s North side.  Claire Strader, farmer for Troy Community Farm, brought her personal perspective as an urban organic farmer - and some of the best hummus and carrots ever eaten.  Warm bread filled with herbs grown within a stone’s throw of the potluck site was served.

Kitchen gardeners, cooks, a school food service worker, a new dad with a degree in soil science, and an urban forager concluded there are no easy answers to a complex of food-related issues that include the pros and cons of industrial organic farms, home-cooking as a lost art, food pantries with their special requirements for longer shelf life and low cost and the ‘can local ever trump organic?’ question.

Local food writer Vesna Vuynovich Kovach wore a t-shirt to the book discussion and potluck featuring this clever cheese graphic, and got author Michael Pollan to sign it at the Go Big Read event at the Kohl Center on Thursday night.

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