A Good-Food Evening

HI everyone,

I'll be reading from the new book on Monday. Limited edition hard cider (BelleWood Acres and Honeymoom) available. Best, Gigi 

See http://www.communityfood.coop/product/slow-food-and-nourishing-traditions-with-gigi-berardi-phd/

Slow Food and Nourishing Traditions at the downtown Community Food Co-op

with Gigi Berardi, Monday March 11 6:30-8:30

 Florence class 2013

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Florence class 2012

We're at the Bellingham Food Co-op on March 11!

Join us for local real food and beverage -- Book Fare Cafe and Bellewood Acre's finest! See
http://www.communityfood.coop/product/slow-food-and-nourishing-traditions-with-gigi-berardi-phd/
...and also: it's time to think about summer in Italy!

Welcome to our first 12 students! Six places remaining for Italy!

Italian language classes

Cooking intensives, before

departure

Florence's best pizza, Fiesole

(near the Etruscan ruins)

We are off to Italy!

This food course begins with a culinary intensive in Bellingham, also available online, then moves to Florence, Italy, where students study Italian and food culture of Italy. Students also study at the University of Florence sensory taste sciences department. Study is with Italian faculty as well as with Western professor, Gigi Berardi.

Enrollment is limited to 18. 

Program highlights:

• Experience Italian farmhouse cooking in a hands-on culinary intensive.

• Study food aesthetics and sensory taste science in the home of "Slow Food" in northern and central Italy.

• Participate in carbon-offsetting at "Inspiration Farm" in Whatcom County (optional).

Information session is Thursday, Feb. 7 at 3:00 in College Hall 137 on the WWU campus (for directions and information, see http://www.acadweb.wwu.edu/eesp/template/calendar_travel.shtml, or contact Gigi at gberardi@wwu.edu.

Optional excursion: Biodynamic and Anthroposophical study in Switzerland and Italy June 20-June23

Dornach, Switzerland excursion --  three-day study tour on biodynamic agriculture, Goethean art and science, and biodynamic foods. Tour of Ita Wegman Klinik and the Goetheanum. Lectures by molecular geneticist and anthroposophical beekeeper Johannes Wirtz (see: http://www.queenofthesun.com/2010/11/johannes-wirz-molecular-biologist-goetheanum/). Excursion serves an as introduction to Slow Food study and cooking in Italy.  See: http://www.acadweb.wwu.edu/eesp/template/studyabroad/home_florence.shtml. 

Section visits and farm work at the Goetheanum (Dornach, Switzerland)

Includes accommodation at Haus Friedwart or Begegnungszentrum in Dornach with biodynamic foods.Optional Switzerland Excursion includes:

• Lectures at the Glass Haus (Goetheanum) with Johannes Wirz

• Tour of the Goetheanum and grounds

• Visit to the Ita Wegman Klinik (Arlesheim, Switzerland)

• Hillside hikes

• Accomodations for three nights at Begegnungszentrum (Dornach, Switzerland)

• Group cooking and dining at self-catering facilities in Begegnungszentrum  (food costs, extra)

Viva Italia!

We are all about resilience thinking, cooking, shopping, eating.

Join us at the Miller Hall Collaborative Space 2-4 tomorrow (Nov. 15)! Students made beautiful posters for the Ecogastronomy course. Hope to see you there, or at an info session on the 29th. 

Europe-bound, including Switzerland this time

3-day, 3-night Switzerland excursion --  three-day study tour on biodynamic agriculture, Goethean art and science, and biodynamic foods. This excursion serves an as introduction to our work in Italy. It is available only to those students registered for the 2013 Ecogastronomy summer intensive.

Thursday, June 20 – Sunday, June 23

Additional fee (beyond the Ecogastronomy course fee): $575

Includes 

•    Section visits and farm work at the Goetheanum (Dornach, Switzerland)

•    Lectures at the Glass Haus (Goetheanum)

•    Tour of the Goetheanum and grounds

•    Visit to the Ita Wegman Klinik (Arlesheim, Switzerland)

•    Hillside hikes

•    Accomodations for three nights at Begegnungszentrum (Dornach, Switzerland)

•    Group cooking and dining at self-catering facilities in Begegnungszentrum  (food cost are extra)

Includes accommodation at Haus Friedwart or Begegnungszentrum in Dornach with biodynamic foods.

Informational Session, Monday, Oct. 29, Summer Ecogastronomy Intensive in Florence

Here's a note about the informational session on Monday, Oct. 29. 

Join us for another summer of intensive food study at WWU and in Italy -- June 17-19 (WWU, online option available) and June 23-July 7 (in Florence). Enrollment limited to 18. See http://www.acadweb.wwu.edu/eesp/summer/swissitaly/index.shtml

Optional excursions, Switzerland and Lopez Island (San Juan islands)

Informational session for this ecogastronomy intensive is Monday, Oct. 29 in CH 137,  2:30 pm....please spread the word.

Florence, Italy Faculty-led Study Abroad Info Session

When

Mon, October 29, 2:30pm – 3:30pm

Where

College Hall 137

Description

Learn more about this Faculty-led Study Abroad course in Florence, Italy. Travel with Western students and faculty while earning credit through a faculty-led study abroad program.

Participants will:

•           Study Italian language and food culture at the University of Florence’s sensory taste sciences department.

•           Learn about food aesthetics and sensory taste science in the home of northern and central Italy’s “Slow Food” movement.

•           Experience Italian farmhouse cooking in a hands-on culinary intensive.

•           Participate in carbon-offsetting at Inspiration Farm in Whatcom County (optional).

Here are some images from 2011.

And, here are some images from 2012.

...and busy September -- Whatcom Farm Tour and more slow food

 Farm Tour with Farmer Ben

...and good pies

 ...first harvest of plums

and the flock's first egg.