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Thursday, December 4, 2008
Michael Pollen to Headline at Georgia Organics Conference
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Anyone who reads the NYT or has read “Omnivore’s Dilemma” knows that Michael Pollen rocks.
The author, and Knight Professor of Science and Environmental Journalism at the University of California-Berkeley, has been one of the country’s biggest proponents of the Slow Food movement and an advocate for sustainability for years. And now, he’ll be in Atlanta this spring to headline Georgia Organics 12th Annual Conference and Trade Show, which takes place March 20 and 21 at Agnes Scott College.
I heard him speak at a chefs’ conference I attended at CIA several years back. Not only is he a genius, he’s an affable and funny speaker. And he has a lot to say about what we eat: along with chef Alice Waters, he is perhaps the greatest environmental food thinker of our time. His philosophy stems around the notion that how and what we eat is our most intimate connection to the natural world. He maintains that modern agribusiness and industrial farming practices sever that connection dramatically. In short, he’s my big fat hero. I can’t gush enough.
If you’d like to attend the conference, sign up early: preference will be given to Organics’ members, and the event is likely to sell out. Go to Georgia Organics for more information.
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