Women in Food
Chef Edith Murnane named Boston's first food policy director
Edith Murnane has always been defined by food, from the bucolic 700-acre apple orchard where she grew up to her Jamaica Plain restaurant, which served an extraordinary chili that tempered the bite of chipotle peppers with dark Belgian chocolate.
Now Mayor Thomas M. Menino has pulled Murnane out of the kitchen to employ her gastronomic know-how in a new way. Murnane has been named Boston’s first food policy director to help increase access to fresh eats and expand opportunities for urban farming.
“Bringing fresh food into the city is really important to the city’s health, both its physical health and its economic health,’’ Murnane said yesterday. “We need to be better at making food physically accessible to everyone across the board.’’
For more on this Boston Globe artcile by Andrew Ryan click here.
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Save Bristol Bay Campaign - You can help make a difference
The 'Save Bristol Bay' campaign, working to protect Bristol Bay, Alaska's salmon fishery, has recently reached a really exciting and critical point. The Environmental Protection Agency has the opportunity right now to protect the Bristol Bay watershed from mineral development before the Pebble Partnership submits their permit applications. As a way to encourage the EPA t take this important and unprecedented action, there is a chef sign-on letter that will be submitted to the White House (specifically Sam Kass) later this fall/winter. The letter is posted on the WhyWild site: http://www.whywild.org/take-action/chefs-letter
If you attend industry events that are not currently represented on WCR’s calendar, or have attended an event and would like to share a recap and photos with the membership, please send the information to WCR headquarters at admin@womenchefs.org.
- WA Festival of Cheese at Benaroya Hall, Seattle, August 28
- Bay Area Local Exchange Dine Around at Chez Panisse, September 16
- CO Farm to Table @ GABF, tasting RCS! September 16-17
- CO Ladies of Craft Beer Brunch at FreshCraft, September 17
- NYC SHARE, A Second Helping of Life, September 20
- NJ Epicurean Palette, Grounds for Sculpture, September 26
- MI Local Exchange Event: Food Justice, Capuchin Soup Kitchen, September 27
- DC WCR's "World Fare" event at Willow Restaurant, October 3
- CO Beer Bloggers Conference, November 5 -7
- Pasadena, CA WCR National Conference, November 6-8
Education, Scholarship and Mentorship
WCR’s 2010 Scholarship and Internship Program is now closed to applications and the judges and hosts are working hard to choose this year’s recipients. For information regarding the program and timeline click here.
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