Join us IRL!
Summer had only just started and its already packed with live events! Read this newsletter to see where you can catch us in London!
After our virtual May event in conversation with Alicia Kennedy about her book No Meat Required, we’re ready for our upcoming live events in London!
Missed our virtual event? Paid subscribers have access to a recording of the talk.
On June 12 members of the National Gallery can join Anna and Chloe for a 90 minute tour of 18th-century Venice through the work of Canaletto. We’ll be jumping back to the themes we covered in Water season as we examine how tourism and trade impact food trends and systems
Wednesday June 19, you can join Anna and Chloe along with writers Emma Hughes, Angela Hui and Bre Graham for a talk about food writing. This is a repeat of our event with Real Magic Books in Wendover last year. Real Magic Books will also be joining us to sell books from the panelists
Anna has been busy at work curating the Woolwich Beanfest, a reprisal of a holiday declared on July 6, 1773 by King George III! Originally meant to be a celebration of beans and bacon, Beanfest 2024 will feature a celebration of food and drink through panels, workshops, demos and a mini marketplace featuring cookbook sellers and food stalls.
More info about the event can be found here and follow @woolwichworks for an announcement of when ticket sales go live!
Pitches
We are still looking for some pitches for Tree Season and have opened up submissions until the end of the month! You can read our pitch guidelines here.
Stories we’re most interested in right now:
A story about the history of palm oil and how colonial exploitation transformed a staple food into a symbol of deforestation
A story about urban foraging in relation to the politics of urban planning
To read:
While we still get ready to publish articles for Tree Season, you can read some of our existing articles that are tree-related
An Ode to Taiwanese Cinnamon, Clarissa Wei
Interview: Chanchala Gunewardena (founder of Kimbula Kuthil)
Interview: Chef Anna Higham and Tom Maynard of Maynard’s Farms
The Tree of Life, Joanna Lobo
Other news:
Chloe was on the BBC Food Programme talking about tacos off the back of her Vittles piece on the same subject. If you’re a fan of Mexican food and want to try more than just tacos, you should head to the Comalera ‘Vitamina T’ pop-up at Doña in Stoke Newington which starts on June 15 with tortas!
Anna was part of a panel at City University to discuss the 2021 article The Growth in ESEA Representation: Pitfalls, Potentials, and Politics. Three years on, a lot of movement has been made which was celebrated by this panel while they also critiqued how to move the needle forward and what groups may still benefit from more representation.
Hi, are you still taking pitches for the trees issue? or has it closed?