[getsmart-l] Food For Talk - November 23

[foodfortalk at utoronto.ca]

PLEASE CIRCULATE WIDELY
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Food For Talk presents:

John Knechtel, director of Alphabet City
FOOD CITY: The infrastructure of eating local
Friday, November 23, 2:00-4:00 pm
York University, HNES 140

Foodsheds, Footprints and Foodmiles
Jennifer Forkes
December 7, 2:00-4:00 pm
University of Toronto, University College
Room A101

The St. Lawrence Centre is presenting two forums in November.

The Politics of Food
Tuesday, November 20, 2007
7:00 - 7:30 p.m. Displays in Lobby
7:30 - 9:30 p.m. Panel Discussion
St. Lawrence Centre for the Arts!
27 Front St E, Toronto (2 blocks east of Union Station)

Affordable Housing: Finding Solution
Wednesday, November 28, 2007
7:30-9:30
St. Lawrence Centre for the Arts!
27 Front St E, Toronto (2 blocks east of Union Station)

For more information see the website http://forum.stlc.com/forum.php

There is a new email list that may be of interest: Discover Local Food  
is for those interested in the growing number of celebrations,  
projects and initiatives in support of local food in the Greater  
Toronto Area and beyond. The list circulates invitations,  
announcements, news releases and project summaries that relate to  
local food in the GTA and throughout Ontario. The list is dependent on  
readers for suggesting items. Send yours now. Discover Local Food is a  
project of the Greater Toronto Area Agricultural Action Committee:  
www.gtalocalfood.ca <http://www.gtalocalfood.ca/> . GTA AAC staff  
moderate this list. To subscribe to Discover Local Food, send an email  
message: discover-subscribe at gtalocalfood.ca

Edible Toronto, new quarterly magazine, has been launched. You can  
check them out at http://www.edibletoronto.com/.

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'Food for Talk' provides a place for conversations to take place  
between people who work with communities, government and universities  
to explore the emerging and challenging issues around food security,  
agricultural transformation, and local food alternatives/networks.
This series is jointly sponsored by the Centre for Urban Health  
Initiatives at the University of Toronto, York University Faculty of  
Environmental Studies, the Ryerson Centre for Studies in Food  
Security, and the Toronto Food Policy Council.

For more information about the seminar series, contact Kim  
Crichton-Struthers at foodfortalk at utoronto.ca or telephone the Centre  
for Urban Health Initiatives at 416-978-7223.

Previous Food For Talk seminars are presently available in digital  
audio format at the website of the Ryerson Centre for Studies in Food  
Security, www.ryerson.ca/foodsecurity and the Centre For Urban Health  
Initiatives website, http://www.cuhi.utoronto.ca/