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TICKETED: Chef Didi Emmons to excite audience with "Wild Flavors" tasting & slide show

04/05/2012 7:00 pm
 Didi Emmons

Foodies!  Gardeners!  Farmers!  Eaters!

Enjoy slideshow & delicious "Wild Flavors" tasting offered by Chef Didi Emmons!

TICKETING: Tickets cost $5 and may be used as a $5 coupon towards the purchase of WILD FLAVORS! Please see below for details.

Cosponsored by the Natick Community Organic Farm & Wellesley's new shop, Gustare Oils & Vinegars! 

Come meet roving eco-chef, cookbook author, consultant Didi Emmons as she celebrates the publication of her newly IACP nominated seasonal cookbook, WILD FLAVORS: One Chef's Transformative Year Cooking from Eva's Farm. 

PRESENTATION: Didi will present a 50 minute slideshow featuring 20 herbs, greens, and foraged foods easily found or cultivated in Boston’s climate and how they can improve your cooking.  The slides will also feature the quirky but sustainable lifestyle of Eva, the 70 year old female farmer who taught her to love these plants and what they can do in the kitchen.  

TASTING: Didi will bring an intriguing selection of some of these plants to taste, as well as delicious samples of foods prepared from her book's recipes.  Gustare Oils & Vinegars will bring unique oils and vinegars to sample as well! 

TICKET DETAILS: Seating is limited. To reserve your ticket(s) please call Wellesley Books at 781.431.1160. Tickets are non-refundable and at 7:15 pm on the day of the event, unfilled seats will go to those in the standby line. All tickets will be held at Wellesley Books and may be picked up at any time prior to the event or at the event itself. 

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

Didi was trained in France and is the founder of four Boston area restaurants, including Haley House Bakery Cafe and Veggie Planet in Harvard Square.  Haley House is a non-profit in Roxbury that offers healthy affordable food.   Didi is also Executive Chef of Take Back the Kitchen, a cooking program at Haley House for underserved youth in Roxbury and Dorchester.  She is also currently writing a cookbook with Project Bread serving public school cafeterias in the New England area. She has written two previous cookbooks, Vegetarian Planet and Entertaining for a Veggie Planet.

ABOUT THE BOOK:

"For Northeasterners or city folk, Wild Flavors is the most useful guide I've seen to plants and weeds literally in your backyard... it will make you look with new curiosity not just at the alleyway and paths you walk but the exotic reaches of the produce aisle.   Corby Kummer, The Atlantic - Dec 2011

“Kitchen gardeners or mad-eyed gleaners will be itching to get dirt under their nails after reading this book. Bookshelves groan under the weight of new seasonal-produce cookbooks, but none of them conveys the unglamorous work of farming so realistically or lovingly." -- Sara Bir, The Oregonian

ABOUT the COSPONSORS

Founded in 1974, The Natick Community Organic Farm is a nonprofit, certified-organic farm providing productive open space, farm products, and hands-on education for all ages, year-round.  See www.natickfarm.org

Gustare Oils & Vinegars is a new, tasty addition to Wellesley Square's retail shops.   Offering gourmet olive oils and balsamic vinegars from local growers around the world, the store is open for tastings Thursdays through Saturdays.

 

 

 

   
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Wild Flavors: One Chef's Transformative Year Cooking from Eva's Farm (Hardcover)

By Didi Emmons
$34.95
ISBN-13: 9781603582858
Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
Published: Chelsea Green Publishing Company, 10/2011
This is a cookbook about a farm, a farmer and a cook. Eva Sommaripa is a driven, uncompromising 70 year-old farmer growing exclusively for Boston’s top chefs. Her bucolic slightly chaotic 2-acre organic farm began 40 years ago. Growing over 200 unusual herbs, greens, and edible weeds, the farm is a visual and culinary odyssey, analogous to the Louvre, it can not be seen in a day. Over the past decade, Didi Emmons, chef and author, has been visiting Eva regularly. She has been cooking from her garden, absorbing knowledge of the plants and learning about Eva’s unconventional strategies to sustainability. On its most basic level, Wild Flavors is a seasonal cookbook celebrating greens, herbs, weeds, and foraged food. Forty six plants and 150 recipes are featured, including under-appreciated herbs like chervil and tarragon, nutritious weeds such as goosefoot and chickweed, and sumptuous greens like dinosaur kale and baby mustard. These are plants that are easy to grow (especially the weeds!) and are increasingly available in farmer’s markets. The timing couldn’t be better. Americans are sorely lacking the critical micro-nutrients that leafy greens provide mainly because so many animals are fed corn.

Vegetarian Planet: 350 Big-Flavor Recipes for Out-Of-This-World Food Every Day (Paperback)

By Didi Emmons
$24.95
ISBN-13: 9781558321151
Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
Published: Harvard Common Press, 5/1997
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Entertaining for a Veggie Planet: 250 Down-to-Earth Recipes (Paperback)

By Didi Emmons
$21.98
ISBN-13: 9780618104512
Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
Published: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 6/2003
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