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iEat Green M/C’s The Food and Film Feast; Interviews Ben Simon from the Food Recovery Network

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IMG_3426Wow! What a weekend! The Slow Food Board members and myself came together to cook a feast for the more than 100 guests at the 2015 LI Food and Film Feast. It was a huge success! We screened 9 short documentaries, had 10 speakers, and served an organic, multi coursed dinner, beginning with beer, wine and kombucha, and ending with locally roasted, fair trade Ethiopian Coffee and Carrot Cake. In between, we served Bad Ass Organic’s Kimchi Slaws, locally produced Barry’s Tempeh, iEat Green’s Onion Rye Bread, using the wheat that was grown out east on Amber Waves Farm, along with Seafood Chowder made from fish caught that morning by Fisherman Phil Karlin. Of course we had Vegetarian, Vegan and Gluten Free options for everything! The main courses were a Saag Paneer, made with tofu instead of cheese, and a Vegan Shepherds Pie. The evening satisfied all of the senses, and our guests left feeling satiated, connected, and a part of the Slow Food Movement! I always feel renewed and re-energized in my commitment to sharing the Slow Food message after a successful event like that! Please join the Slow Food North Shore Chapter, so that we can continue to bring great events like this to our community!IMG_3508

I couldn’t help being taken aback this week, when I read Mark Bittman’s piece in the NY Times, Stop Making Us Guinea Pigs, about the use of GMO’s. While I completely agree with him, last year when I interviewed him on my radio show, he gave me a hard time for focusing on GMO’s, and went as far as saying he didn’t think they were a problem! I would like to think that my interview with him helped to change his mind! Either way, I am glad he has seen the light, and will now help to spread the word about the dangers of approving genetically modified organisms without first proving they are safe. And if we are the guinea pigs, and have been a part of a huge experiment on GMO safety, I think we can clearly see that the increase in cancers, digestive disorders, inflammatory diseases, auto-immune diseases, autism and depression can be linked to the time when they started altering our foods without our knowledge and that the experiment should end now!

This week, on the Progressive Radio Network, I am very excited to bring back Ben Simon, the founder of Food Recovery Network. I first met Ben in February, at the Food Tank Summit in DC, and was moved by his passion and commitment to food recovery and the problem of food waste. At the time, he joined me for a mini interview from the Summit, but there was so much more we needed to discuss, that I knew then, I would need to bring him back for the full hour. While a student at the University of Maryland, Ben was shocked by the amount of food that was being wasted, and he knew the same situation existed in universities across the country, so he set out to do something about it. please join me to see an example of what one passionate person can do to change the world!

 

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