Food Lit: India’s Organic Farming Revolution

When: 
Sunday, May 17, 2015 11:00am to 1:00pm
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Where: 
3674 18th St.
San Francisco, CA 94110
United States
Price: 
$15.00
12 slots available

May 17, 2015: 
Nonfiction: India’s Organic Farming Revolution: What It Means for Our Global Food System by Sapna E. Thottathil (Oct 2014)

With guest author Sapna E. Thottathil!

Most of us are familiar with a wide variety of Indian flavors and ingredients today, but draw a blank on the farms that have fueled this cuisine for thousands of years. Author Sapna Thottathil fills us in on contemporary farming in the south Indian state of Kerala, where the destructive effects of reliance on hybridized seeds, synthetic fertilizers and heavy pesticide use are being reversed by state mandated organic farming. In Kerala we can see the economic, environmental and health impacts that such change can bring about, and consider it as a model for other places.
Author Sapna Thottathil will join us to discuss her book.

Food Lit meets every third Sunday of the month for casual conversation around 18 Reasons’ table, usually featuring the author or other expert guest, led by our fearless moderator-coordinator Heather Knape. We talk about food, flavors, farming, politics, life in San Francisco and anything else that can fit into two hours and connect back to our book of the month.

Please bring a dish or drink to share for our potluck lunch. Your favorite Indian dish would work well for this meeting, especially if the recipe is from Kerala. Remember, you don’t have to have finished (or even begun) the book to attend, our discussions run the gamut from sparking interest in the book’s subject to full on raging debates over writing style, flavors, the foodsystem and other loosely related topics. If nothing else, we’re hoping to get you fired up and thinking about eating well.