Vermont Fresh Network hold 14th annual forum
Richmond, VT: The Vermont Fresh Network (VFN) will host its annual Forum at Shelburne Farms' Coach Barn on Sunday, August 8. This year's theme, Conversations about Food and Culture, celebrates American's relationship with food: past, present and future. Author and editor Judith Jones and food journalist and cookbook author Marian Burros are this year's keynote speakers.
Jones is senior editor and vice president at Alfred A Knopf. She may be best known in food circles for championing and publishing Julia Child's Mastering the Art of French Cooking. She is responsible for bringing such the works of such culinary luminaries as Marcella Hazan, Jacques Pepin, Joan Nathan, Marion Cunningham, and Madhur Jaffrey to the American public. She is the 2006 recipient of the James Beard Foundation (JBF) Lifetime Achievement award, and the author of The Tenth Muse: My Life in Food, and the 2010 JBF-nominated The Pleasures of Cooking for One.
Burros is a veteran New York Times food writer and columnist who has authored 13 cookbooks, including Cooking for Comfort, which will be released in print in July 2010. In her 35 years of food reporting, she has written extensively about organic, local, and sustainable food and agriculture. She was the first journalist to interview First Lady Michelle Obama upon her launch of the White House organic garden in March of 2009.
Following their presentation, enjoy a grazing dinner highlighting Vermont's identity as an agricultural state and the farmer-chef partnerships that enrich communities across the Green Mountain State. The dinner is prepared by over 20 of Vermont's finest chefs and features agricultural bounty grown and raised by their VFN farmer partners. Optional workshops conducted by food authorities, chefs and growers will be held earlier in the day. This year's workshop topics are Demystifying the Art
of Charcuterie and Pairing the Flavors of the Vermont's Bountiful Harvest. More details on the workshops can be found on the VFN website at www.VermontFresh.net.
