The Long Island Agricultural Forum will host local food writer T.W. Barritt as a guest speaker at its dinner on January 14 at the Polish Hall in Riverhead. The doors open at 5:30pm. Dinner and the program begin at 6:30 p.m.
Tickets are available to the public at $28 per person and include dinner with a cash bar. For reservations, please call 631-727-7850 ext. 341.
Barritt’s book, Long Island Food: A History from Family Farms & Oysters to Craft Spirits, tells the stories of Long Island’s individual farmers, oystermen and food entrepreneurs. Through these stories, Barritt discusses how the area’s rich farming and maritime past has inspired a food renaissance that is redefining the future of what is grown and eaten throughout the region.
He describes his first book as a suburban boy’s search for his local food culture. He explores how immigrant families built a thriving agricultural and maritime community, producing everything from crunchy pickles, hearty potatoes and briny oysters, to succulent Long Island duckling. The book also profiles modern-day pioneers – in community agriculture, wine, cheese, fine dining and craft spirits – who are reinventing Long Island’s food landscape.
A native of Nassau County, Barritt, grew up in the heart of suburbia in the 1960s. He has spent his professional career working in broadcast media and communications. A highly-trained amateur chef, Barritt attended the French Culinary Institute in New York City and contributes to the magazines Edible Long Island and Edible East End. His essays on food history are featured in Entertaining from Ancient Rome to the Super Bowl, a two-volume encyclopedia published by Greenwood Press in 2008.
Long Island Food is published by American Palate, a division of History Press, and is available for $21.99.
Source: Press release issued by the Long Island Farm Bureau dated January 6, 2015.
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