Thanks Liz for posting this. Would love to attend but have other commitments. Great stuff Tony Del Plato
On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 9:40 PM, Liz Karabinakis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 > -- There is scarcely anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse, and sell a little more cheaply. The person who buys on price alone is this man's lawful prey. - John Ruskin _______________________________________________ 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
