Simmer
Event description
The Nashville Food Project’s Simmer series is back! This chef pop-up series brings chefs, writers and educators together for interactive experiences that take us a bit deeper—to tell the stories behind the food and the people who grow, cook and share it.
For this event, we will explore the intersection of climate and food with a discussion of and meal inspired by Amanda Little's The Fate of Food: What We'll Eat in a Bigger, Hotter, Smarter World. The event will feature a delicious meal from Chef Philip Krajeck (Rolf and Daughters, Folk) along with beverage pairings. Tickets are limited and available for $150 each. This is a 21 and up event.
Funds raised from this dinner help support The Nashville Food Project’s mission of bringing people together to grow, cook and share nourishing food, with the goals of cultivating community and alleviating hunger in our city. A portion of all ticket sales are tax deductible.
About Amanda Little:
Amanda Little is a professor of journalism and science writing at Vanderbilt University and a columnist for Bloomberg, where she writes about the environment, agriculture and innovation. Amanda has a particular fondness for far-flung and hard-to-stomach reporting that takes her to ultradeep oil rigs, down manholes, into sewage plants, and inside monsoon clouds.
She is the author of The Fate of Food: What We’ll Eat in a Bigger, Hotter, Smarter World, which explores how to feed humanity sustainably and equitably in the climate change era. Her recent TED Talk, based on this book, has more than one million views. She also wrote the book Power Trip: The Story of America's Love Affair With Energy. Amanda has published her reporting and commentary in the New York Times, Washington Post, Vanity Fair, Rolling Stone, Wired, New York Magazine, NewYorker.com and elsewhere. A former columnist for Outside magazine and Grist.org, she is a recipient of the Nautilus Book Award, a Rachel Carson Environment Book Award from the Society for Environmental Journalists, and the Jane Bagley Lehman Award for excellence in environmental journalism.
Amanda has interviewed figures across the political spectrum, from Barack Obama, Joe Biden and Hillary Clinton to John McCain and Lindsey Graham, and has appeared on "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, MSNBC's "Morning Joe," Amanpour & Co. and CNN with Fareed Zakaria. She is a graduate of Brown University and the founder and director of Kidizenship, a non-partisan youth civics platform for teens and tweens. Amanda has served for a decade on the Board of Trustees at Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee, where she lives with her husband and kids. Follow her on Twitter @littletrip and Instagram @amandalittletrip.
About Philip Krajeck:
Philip Krajeck opened Rolf & Daughters in Nashville in 2012, blending his European training and uncompromising attention to detail to make plates that are honest and unabashedly full-flavored. Krajeck has that something extra—a knack for pushing ingredients far beyond their average capacity for good. The country is taking notice: since opening, Rolf and Daughters earned “Best New Restaurant” nods from Esquire and Bon Appétit as well as features in the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal.