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  • Traced Elements and Stay Wild invite you to Cook Book Club, February 22

    Traced Elements and Stay Wild invite you to Cook Book Club, February 22

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    Here’s how it works.

    You make a shareable plate, from the selected cookbook, and show up, to Stay Wild, at 7pm, on Thursday February 22.

    You meet a bunch of other people, sample a bunch of other dishes, and decide whether the cookbook is for you or not.

    No cost. No stakes. No pressure.

    Bring your own napkin, or nibbling plate. We’re making this a Zero Waste event.

    Take home your platter at the end of the night.

    Make new friends. Try some new dishes. Get inspired. Without having to do too much work at all.

    First cookbook is the Smitten Kitchen Every Day.

    There’s a copy at Stay Wild and you’re welcome to stop by, browse its pages, and snap a photo of the recipe you’d like to try.

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    Post a note in the comments, of what you’re making, so we don’t have 20 people making the same dish.

    Cookbook clubs are the new potlucks. ~ Andrea Chu

  • The Dirt on Food and it’s Power to Heal

    The Dirt on Food and it’s Power to Heal

     

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    Fuck calories.

    To which I would add, fuck “clean eating”, fuck salmonella poisoning, and fuck the commodities trading of food futures.

    Let’s bring eating back to earth.

    By which I mean, let’s put the dirt back on your produce, the scruffiness into your hospitality, and relationships back into your consumption.

    Let’s put ecology back on the table.

    Literally, let’s place the dinner table into a web, instead of at the end of supply chain. Let it be part again of a network of living things, that flow through and from the table, in a million different forms – energy, sunlight, worm food, fresh produce, dead animals; as an anchor to conversation, to nourishment, to relationship, to healing.

    Reclaim the table, and the garden, the power that food has heal – not just our bodies, but our relationships, our sense of agency, and our role as stewards and restorers of the earth. And the opportunity food offers us, to grow – not just out there in the soil, but as humans.

    We’ve been consumers for long enough.

    This website is a place to map food stories, from the heart of the Pemberton Valley, in order to turn consumers on to the idea of being growers, creators, culture-shapers and restorers of the planet. Without guilt. Without pressure. With joyful messy experimentation, scrappy gardens, candour and dirt.

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