Imagine what I ran into today in a Costa Rican cafeteria…
… taking the coconut water craze to the next level!
Speaking of the foodieism that is oh-so-perfectly reflected in real-coconut-coconut-water – have you ever wanted to see virtually all big food and ag writers of the USA speak about their passion? Give you reading recommendations? And attempt to teach you something? If the answer to the above is yes (and how could it not?), you are in luck – because UC Berkeley’s “Edible Education 101” just got started for the 2015 semester!
The course runs from now (well, two weeks ago… you can basically catch up in one night 😉 until the end of April and will reunite names such as Michael Pollan, Mark Bittman, Raj Patel, Alice Waters, Marion Nestle… the list just never ends. This is the schedule:
PART I – “The Trouble with the Food System”
- January 26th: “A Brief History of the Modern Food System” by Michael Pollan
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February 2nd: “The Ecological Crisis as a Crisis of Agriculture” AND “Linking Farm Policy to Health Policy in the Global Economy” Garrison Sposito and Marion Nestle
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February 9th: “The Hands That Feed You” by Eric Schlosser
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March 2nd: “The Long Green Revolution” by Raj Patel with Mark Bittman
PART II – “Getting Back to the Right Food System”
- March 9th: “Mimicking Nature: Woodleaf Farm’s Ecological Design” by Carl Rosato and Helen Atthowe
- March 16th: “Of Peaches and Power: Myths, Legends, and the Mundane of Family Farming” by Mas Masumoto and Nikiko Masumoto with Robert Hass
- March 30th: “Sustainable Farming through Agroecology” by Stephen Gliessman with Mark Bittman
PART III – “Building the Food Movement”
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April 6th: “Fixing a Broken Food System: Some Ideas” by Claire Kremen
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April 13th: “Teaching Slow Food Values in a Fast Food World: Who Will Grow Tomorrow’s Food and Who Will Be Eating It?” by Alice Waters and Craig McNamara with Robert Hass
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April 20th: “With Liberty, Justice, and Sovereignty for All” by Anim Steel and Sara Mersha with Mark Bittman
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April 27th: “What’s Next for the Food Movement?” by Michael Pollan with Mark Bittman
Sounds good, right? And the best is that you don’t have to be a UC Berkeley student to participate! All lectures are available on their Youtube Channel, and on the Edible Education 101 website, along with a reading list and an archive of three semesters’ worth of videos. Seems worthwhile to check out, even if you (as me now… waah) are not a student anymore! Watch it over dinner, read it on the bus, listen to it while falling asleep (or maybe before you fall asleep 🙂 – and let me know what you think!
Thanks, I didn’t know about that. And the coconut water? What are you supposed to do with it when you’re done?
Thank you so much for linking to the Edible Education course! Even after browsing other sustainability & policy sites for hours, I found it here first. Your writing and work is appreciated and needed, so thank you for that, too. All the best to you.
Aw thank you, Sharon! That comment made my day!