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Tuesday, September 13. Time: 6:00 p.m.
Birmingham Public Library, Central Library
Foodies Book Club Presents Barry Estabrook
 Foodies Book Club hosts a discussion of the book
Tomatoland: How
Modern Industrial Agriculture Destroyed Our Most Alluring Fruit.
The author, investigative food journalist
Barry Estabrook, will lead
the discussion. The book examines how and why commodity tomatoes
came to be nothing more than potentially poisonous and unappealing
stand-ins for the real thing and exposes the human and environmental
costs associated with the $10 billion fresh tomato industry.
Renowned chef
Frank Stitt will discuss different tomato varieties
and offer samples of tomato-based dishes. Stitt is a three-time
finalist for the James Beard Foundation Chef of the Year and was
recently inducted into the JBF Hall of Fame.
Wednesday, September 14. Time: 12:00 noon.
Birmingham Public Library, Central Library
Brown Bag Program : PieLab
 Founded by a design collective known as Project M,
PieLab is a combination cafe, design studio and civic
meeting place in the small rural town of Greensboro in Alabama’s
impoverished Black Belt. PieLab is based on the notion that the best
way to bring people together and do good for the community is to
feed them pie and strike up a conversation; this is summed up in
PieLab’s formula as: "Pie + Conversation = Ideas / Ideas + Design =
Positive Change." We’ll have pies for sampling.
Wednesday, September 14. 7:00 p.m.
Woodrow Hall, 5504 1st Ave North, Woodlawn
Food Stories
Food Stories, hosted by
DISCO (Desert Island Supply Company) will be
a live storytelling event modeled after NPR’s popular program, “The
Moth.” Local storytellers will have five minutes to tell a true
story in the first person —the story subject must involve food. Cash
bar; Whole Foods Market will provide refreshments.
Thursday, September 15. 6:30 p.m.
Birmingham Public Library, Central Library
Food-Related Films
Reservations Required
(Free)
 Screening of a montage of short food-related films by
Joe
York, filmmaker for the University of Mississippi Center for
Documentary Projects. York works with the
Southern Foodways Alliance
(SFA) and has created SFA films on topics ranging from artisanal
cheese producers in the South to the journey of Vietnamese fishermen
to the Gulf Coast of Mississippi and Louisiana.
Jim 'N Nick's
Bar-B-Q will provide refreshments.
Friday, September 16. Time: 6:30 p.m.
Birmingham Public Library, Central Library
Bards & Brews
Bards & Brews, the popular monthly poetry slam/beer tasting will
spotlight winners of previous Bards & Brews events.
Free the Hops
(FTH) will provide information about craft beers.
Back Forty and
Lazy Magnolia breweries
will serve craft beers for sampling.
Continental
Bakery/Chez Lulu will provide refreshments.
Saturday, September 17. Time: Morning
Pepper Place Market
Food writing sessions
 DISCO will lead informal food writing workshops for children and
adults at Pepper Place Saturday Market. Birmingham. Library staff
will offer food-related craft activities for kids.
Saturday, September 17. Time: 3:30 p.m.
Location: Birmingham Public Library, Central Library
Discussion between Robyn O’Brien and Michael Nolan
Reservations required (Free)
The Central Library will host “At the Table With
Robyn O’Brien and
Michael Nolan.” O’Brien is author of
Unhealthy Truth: How Our Food Is Making Us Sick and What We Can
Do About It and founder of the Allergy Kids Foundation. Michael
Nolan, aka "The Garden Rockstar" is co-author of
I Garden - Urban Style. He will share his no-bull approach
to gardening.
Little Savannah Restaurant will provide refreshments.
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