Back to Basis Food Festival – Nothing Basic About It
Posted: September 20, 2010 Filed under: Need to Know | Tags: Ample Hills Creamery, Back to Basis Food Festival, Colicchio & Sons, Dirty Bird to-go, Events, Food, Just Food, The 30 Project, The Amazing Rea Live Food Co., The Farm On Adderley, The Feed Foundation, The Simple Kitchen Leave a comment »
Vendors at the Back To Basis Food Festival
If you did not get to the 1st Annual Back to Basis Good Food Festival, you missed a deliciously good time. The weather was beautiful (80 degrees and sunny), everyone was out and in a fantastic mood, and there was food, lots of fresh, local food prepared by some of the best restaurants and farms in the area.
I purchased four tasting tickets which I used to indulge in:
* A refreshing beet and cheese salad from Dirty Bird to-go
* Flavorful fluke ceviche from The Farm On Adderley
* To-die-for crispy, thin-crusted pizza with tomato, sopressata and mozzarella from Collichio & Sons
* An insanely rich Salted Crack Caramel ice cream cone from Ample Hills Creamery.
Pizza from Colicchio & Sons
Ample Hills Ice Cream Flavors
And there were so many other fantastic vendors serving mouth-watering dishes. Every person I spoke with commented on what an absolutely great idea this was, and that they should do it again. I, for one, couldn’t agree more.
Because we all, most definitely, ate well.
Spice cake with squash from The Simple Kitchen
Cheese from The Amazing Real Live Food Co.
The 1st Annual Back to Basis Good Food Festival NYC
Posted: August 27, 2010 Filed under: Need to Know | Tags: Basis, Ellen Gustafson, Events, Festival, Food, Global Issues, Hunger, Just Food, Local Food, Meatpacking District Initiative, New York City, Obesity, Seeasonal Eating, The 30 Project, The Feed Foundation Leave a comment »
If you live in New York and you love food, then mark your calendar, because there is an upcoming event you won’t want to miss.
Benefiting The 30 Project and Just Food, and featuring local farmers and chefs (think The Amazing Real Live Food Company, Dashing Star Farm, Padgett Far, Gramercy Tavern, Colicchio and Sons, Rouge Tomate, and Minetta Tavern, to name a few), the event is called the Back to Basis Good Food Festival. The goal is to get all of us to consider what we’re eating, where it comes from (no doubt this week’s massive egg recall helped with that), and how we can choose to “eat locally,” supporting small, regional farms in the process. From the event website:
ON SEPTEMBER 19, 2010, FROM 11AM TO 4PM IN GANSEVOORT PLAZA, Basis and The Feed Foundation will co-host the first annual BACK TO BASIS™ GOOD FOOD FESTIVAL in celebration of the season’s harvest. By day, the festival will feature traditional, localized, 100% traceable food from 30 family farmers and local top chefs. In the evening, farmers, chefs and a select group of ticket holders will come together for a seasonal, farm-to-table dinner to celebrate good food.
I’ve been following The 30 Project, since coming across a TEDTalk given by Ellen Gustafson, co-founder of The FEED Foundation and FEED Projects, at the TEDxEast conference in May of the year. In the talk, she explains her shockingly simple, common-sense equation for global malnutrition: “Obesity + Hunger = 1 Global Food Issue.” The reality is that, worldwide, 1 billion people are hungry and 1 billion people are overweight. She contends that this issue is the direct result of the changes in the food system over the past 30 years, and it will take the next 30 years to get it back on track, starting now.
If you’ve not already seen the video of Ellen’s talk, I’ve included it below. It takes ten minutes to watch. Trust me, it’s worth the time. And, if you’ll be in New York City on September 19th, buy your tickets and head to the Meatpacking District for what is sure to be a delicious time.
Eat well and do good.
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