Hi Everybody,

I’m getting really excited about this Sundays LI Food and Film Feast, co-sponsored by Slow Food North Shore and The Cinema Arts Centre! It has become an annual celebration of our local, sustainable, food movement;? short documentary films paired with the featured food and guest speaker. An enchanted evening, not to be missed! Please purchase your tickets online, because we sold out last year, and had so many disappointed folks at the door.

We’re also busy planning the upcoming Long Island Food Conference, for April 25th at Hofstra University. Stephen Ritz, from the Green Bronx Machine, will be our keynote speaker, and we have dozens of panels and workshops scheduled throughout the day. I’ll be moderating a panel on “How Chef’s Influence the Marketplace” and giving a? workshop on “Getting Dinner on the Table”. Please save the date, spread the word, and get your tickets early!

Last night, I attended Food and Water Watch’s screening of Genetic Roulette: The Gamble of Our Lives, at the UU Congregation at Shelter Rock. This was not the first time I saw the film, yet my blood was still boiling. I get so disgusted every time I think of the revolving door that takes place in Washington, between the EPA, the FDA, the USDA and the Bio-tech companies like Monsanto, DuPont and Dow Chemical. The revolving door scenario also exists with the Big Pharma Companies, the Oil and Gas Companies, the Meat and Poultry Companies, the Grocery Manufacturing Companies, and even the Frozen Food Companies. We need to acknowledge that we can’t wait for our government to fix things, because they have too much money at stake. We need to make them feel it in their pockets, and the only way to do that is to grow this good food movement and to stop purchasing the GMO products, the processed foods, the anti-biotic and hormone infused meats, and the junk foods. We need to recognize the connection between the bad food, the dirty environment, food justice, global warming, the economy, and the health of our nation and its people, and we need to divest from any companies that add to the problem. If you haven’t seen this film yet, you can watch it online for free. It is a MUST See!

This week, my guest on the Progressive Radio Network is Chef Pierre Thiam, the restauranteur and owner of Pierre Thiam Catering. Chef Pierre was raised in Senegal, and brings the robust and ethnic flavors of Africa into his contemporary creations. He opened his first restaurant, Yolele, in Brooklyn in 2001, and his second restaurant in Clinton Hill in 2004. Currently, in addition to running his catering company, Chef Pierre lectures and teaches classes at the Institute for Culinary Education, The French Culinary Institute and the Natural Gourmet Institute. Please join me on Thursday, for what promises to be a great show!

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With love and gratitude,

Bhavani