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Foodways Texas to host symposium in March on preserving food culture
The nonprofit is hosting a three-day conference March 23 through 25 at various locations around Austin to talk about all the ways that we are preserving — both figuratively and literally — the bounty of Texas food. “We’ll talk about preservation in our pastures, on our farms, in our kitchens, and in the stories we tell around the dinner table,” the website says. Last year, the group’s inaugural symposium took place in Galveston.
Panels will bring together a number of farmers, food artisans, craft brewers, chefs and food historians to talk about the state of food in Texas today, as well as the efforts to record the stories of the people who make Texas food what it is.
Also part of the symposium are a number of interactive dining experiences, including a chuck wagon brunch with Tom Perini of Perini Ranch Steakhouse, a seafood dinner with Justin Yu of Oxheart Restaurant in Houston and an 1840s farm dinner at Boggy Creek Farm with Sonya Cote of East Side Showroom.
Symposium tickets, which go on sale at 10 a.m. today for members and on Monday for nonmembers, cost $225 for members and $250 for the general public. You can also buy an $85 pass that will get you into the panels but none of the events with meals. (Don’t dillydally on those tickets. The group’s second annual barbecue camp in June is already sold out.)
You can find out about joining the group by going to its membership page.
Photos from FoodwaysTexas.com.
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By Realistic
January 31, 2012 2:51 PM | Link to this
Only $85 and no food. What a bargain.