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Short film: la surconsommation
In what is pretty much a condensed version of Our Daily Bread, this six minute film gives us hundreds of thousands of good reasons to support small-scale, local, organic food production, processing and retailing.
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Gluttony, by Allegra McEvedy
I was happy to find a place on a School of Life workshop last time I was in London. Alain de Botton‘s genius sideline, this eccentric school in Bloomsbury offers a dazzling range of talks, workshops and Sunday sermons as well as a supremely tempting gift shop. Here for your summer entertainment, is a sermon appropriate to these pages, Allegra McEvedy on Gluttony:
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Bread and summer
Denman Island Strawberry Shortcake Things have gone into summer drift here at the Iambic Cafe. I’ve been jolted into action by my friends at the Kneading Conference West, who’d like me to share with you news of their upcoming gathering, September 12-14, to be held once again in the exquisitely perfect setting of the experimental orchard at the Mount Vernon Research Station. If you love bread and/or grain and want to spend a delicious weekend with farmers, millers, bakers and foodies in the gorgeous Skagit County countryside for a paltry $300 (meals included) you should register now! Keynote speakers this year include renowned New York grain grower/flour producer Thor Oechsner and Gastronomica founding editor Darra Goldstein and there will be workshops in artisan bread baking, pastry baking, grain growing, milling and wood-fired oven construction.
In other news, here’s a taste of my summer so far:
Reading in Bellingham 
Denman Isl.Garden Tour 
CSF seafood share 
Solstice Moon on the Gorge 
Oddly shaped fruit 
Canada Day on the Gorge 
GTUF garden tour 
Nettie Wiebe at CAFS 
Lots of farmers markets 
Haliburton Farm chicks
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In her latest collection, Rhona McAdam navigates the dark places of human movement through the earth and the exquisite intricacies lingering in backyard gardens and farmlands populated by insects and pollinators, all the while returning to the body, to the tune of staccato beats and the newly discovered symmetries within the human heart.
“…A beautiful, filling collection, Larder is a set of poems to read at the change of the seasons, to appreciate alongside a good meal, and to remind yourself of the beauty in everything, even the things you may not appreciate before opening McAdam’s collection….”
Rhona McAdam is a writer, poet, editor, and Registered Holistic Nutritionist with a Master’s in Food Culture from Italy and a deep-rooted passion for ecology and urban agriculture. Her work spans corporate and technical writing to poetry and creative nonfiction, often exploring the vital links between what we eat and how we live. Based in Victoria, BC, and available via Zoom, Rhona is always open to new writing commissions, readings, or workshops on nutrition and the culinary arts.
