An event of possible interest to anybody thinking about local foods, food equity, and everything in between. Best, Liz* *
***Eating Good in the Neighborhood: The Medical and Moral History of Dietary Localism*** Steven Shapin (Department of the History of Science, Harvard University) April 14 at 4:30 pm 374 Rockefeller Hall on the Cornell Campus/ / Abstract:* *The Oxford University Press recently anointed “locavore” Word of the Year. It was made up in 2005 by some San Franciscans who thought it a good idea to eat only foods produced within a 100 mile radius. We should be locavores for the uniquely Californian joint reasons that it is good for the palate and good for the planet. Localism is now widely urged as a reaction to the globalization of the food supply that has become a marked feature of the way we live now; we should reject modern globalization and return to the local ways of the past. My purpose here is: (1) to ask whether locavores have got their history right; (2) to explore how medical and moral traditions from Antiquity to fairly recent times have thought about the dietetic local and the exotic; (3) to use this historical exploration of dietary localism as a window onto changing conceptions of the self and its aliment over a broad sweep of history. Questions? Or for more info, please contact the Department of Science & Technology Studies (607)255-3810 Coming from off campus? TCAT's Rt 10 offers shuttle service from Seneca St. to Sage Hall every 10 minutes http://tcat.nextinsight.com/routes.php?mrnid=227 Not sure where Rockefeller Hall is? Check out this searchable map: http://www.cornell.edu/img/maps/large_search.pdf -- Elizabeth Viviana Karabinakis /Community Food Educator/ Cornell Cooperative Extension of Tompkins County 615 Willow Ave. Ithaca, NY 14850 Phone: 607.272.2292 Fax: 607.272.7088 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ For more information about sustainability in the Tompkins County area, please visit: http://www.sustainabletompkins.org/ RSS, archives, subscription & listserv information for: [email protected] http://lists.mutualaid.org/mailman/listinfo/sustainabletompkins free hosting by http://www.mutualaid.org
