Excited with this second book giveaway, Ali Berlow, The Food Activist Handbook, sponsored by Miami Book Fair which is happening Nov.15-22. As Ali says, “If you’ve had enough of E. coli scares, disappearing farmland, pesticide problems, and hunger in your community, this inspiring book will show you exactly how one person really can make a difference.”
What an incredibly practical Handbook, this may be a serious topic but Ali has succeeded in breaking it down with tips and steps how we can do our part to provide fresh, healthy food for our community whether it’s organizing a cooking club or community kitchen or taking a cooking class. As a cooking teacher, I’m always happy to show cooking can be a creative and fun process instead of a chore which is how most working folks view cooking! It’s a matter of mindset.
Don’t miss meeting this dynamite lady, Ali will be reading and signing her books at the Fair, Nov. 22, 1:30pm, Room 6100.
See below how to win this book, good luck.
These two upcoming Miami events would make Ali proud…
Sat. Nov.14: Wynwood Yard, a culinary community hub to explore and collaborate launching this, you can become a founding member and participate in multi events, get more details here.
Wed. Nov.18-22: SEED Festival, a conscious plant-based food and wine festival includes Food Forward, an all day conference is designed for food and sustainability industry entrepreneurs, farmers, chefs, government and education leaders and those passionate about our future.
About Ali Berlow
Ali is the author of two books: The Food Activist Handbook: Big & Small Things You Can Do to Help Provide Fresh, Healthy Food for Your Community and The Mobile Poultry Slaughterhouse: Building a Humane Chicken Processing Unit to Strengthen Your Local Food System, both by Storey Publishing.
Born and raised in Madison, Wisconsin, food has always been a passion of Ali’s. During her college days at the UW-Madison, Ali cooked for cash at fancy catered gigs and flipped burgers at Dotty Dumpling’s Dowry. Wanderlust and fluency in Swahili sent her abroad to Kenya and Somalia. Finding her way back to America, pit stops included her ancestral lands of Northern Germany and France, Italy and various Caribbean isles. Married, three boys, a rescue pup, some pigs and a few cats later — Ali is home and lives between the island of Martha’s Vineyard and Putney, Vermont. She cooks to nurture, to create. She writes passionately about food and all that it means — delving deep into our senses and our emotions.
As the former founding Executive Director of Island Grown Initiative, a non-profit that supports the small family farms and farmers of the island, Ali is committed to raising awareness + raising consciousness about the food that we feed to our families.
Her essay series A Cook’s Notebook airs periodically on NPR member stations, though its home station is WCAI / WNAN.
Ali and her husband Sam Berlow, launched Edible Vineyard in April ‘09. A quarterly print magazine, EV is dedicated to the local community on Martha’s Vineyard, featuring stories and recipes from the Island.
Visit here for more about Ali.
About The Food Activist Handbook
FRESH FOOD FOR ALL
Berlow provides a wealth of tools and solutions to help you energize and organize your local food system and create better access to healthy food for everyone. Full of inspiring stories and practical advice from the vibrant community of food activists, this is your playbook for bringing the food movement home.
THINGS YOU CAN DO
ESTABLISH a neighborhood kitchen for preserving the harvest
SET UP a community composting program
MAP local farmland
CONNECT food pantries with producers
IDENTIFY ethnic food traditions in the community
Ready for Book Giveaway? Keeping it simple, here you go:
1. Subscribe to my free newsletter in right sidebar, you’ll get news on all things food related and beyond. If you’re already a subscriber, go to no.2
2. Leave a comment below why you deserve to win Ali’s book? Then email me wokstar at eleanorhoh dot com so I have your email if you win.
3. Eligibility: Only for United States residents. Closing date: Friday, November 27 at 12 midnight, ET. Check back here for winner announcements Sat.Nov.28.
4. A random winner will be picked and contacted via email. Respond ASAP, otherwise I will pick the next winner.
Your book will be sent directly to you through the publisher, good luck everyone!
"Miami Book Fair"
November Events, Happenings
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Nov.3 – Nov.15
Newt Miami: Experiments in Light, Color & Sound
Multi events, enjoy, check it out here!
The debut of Newt Miami: Experiments in Light, Color & Sound is here! Part architectural installation, part performance, and totally interactive. Unveiling launch party promises to be an exciting synesthesia with music adapted to 19 stories of brilliant animation at the Inter-Continental Hotel in downtown Miami! Co-founded by PR maven, Dejha Carrington and composer, Kelly Nunes.
Nov. 5: 7-9pm
Miu Over Miami
Children’s book launch & Indiegogo campaign to self publish
7610 NE 4th Court, #101, Miami IronSide, FL 33138
Mandatory RSVP thekatiedoyle@gmail.com
So proud of Katie’s 1st children’s book, beautifully illustrated book Miu Over Miami featuring iconic Miami landscape by illustrator Clayton Young. Bring your kids.
Nov.6: 6pm
Talde Miami Beach opens
4041 Collins Ave. inside Thompson Hotel
Can’t wait to taste Talde’s creative Asian-American cuisine by Chef/restauranteur and Top Chef alum Dale Talde who is Filipino/American. Look forward to trying Crispy Oyster & Bacon Pad Thai and Crab Fried Rice with tobiko and jalapeno aioli.
Nov.6
Pinch Kitchen
Grand opening in Miami’s Upper Eastside
Chef partners, John Gallo and Rene Reyes are opening a new, freestyle American eatery with small plates paired with craft beers and wine. They met 10 years ago at Casa Tua and have worked at Barceloneta and Pubbelly Sushi, no slouches! Glad to hear they are not compromising on quality of ingredients and flavor and delivering a “memorable experience”! Love name “Pinch Kitchen”, supposed to reflect how they cook…pinch of spices, garnishes or whatever, that’s how I cook, yay! Look forward to tasting their cooking.
Nov.8
Chef’s Panel at Delray Beach Wine and Seafood Festival
Six local area chefs discuss, share, inform, and tell great restaurant stories. Panel will be moderated by Christine Najac, managing director of South Florida Food and Wine. Check here for complete details.
Nov. 8, 6-9pm
Taco & Tequila Showdown
Vagabond Restaurant and Bar
Miami’s 12 hottest chefs and taquerias led by Vagabond host Chef Alex Chang, will showcase their signature taco, each bartender making a tequila cocktail to pair with each taco. Attendees get to vote for the Peoples Choice. A panel of Judges,will select their Best in Show winners. Get your tickets here.
Nov. 14 -Wynwood Yard Grand Opening
The Grand Opening will be a delicious community garden party with a special live performance by Elastic Bond and Alma Dance Theater. Very excited about this pop-up community outdoor vibrant space concept developed by founder & CEO, Della Heiman. Miami’s first culinary incubator with four food trucks along with a pop-up bar, an eco-friendly concept created by Chef Ken Lyon and beverage guru Ryan Goodspeed. The four pop ups are Della Test Kitchen by Della Heiman with her customizable menu with plant-based Della Bowls that pop with flavor and color, Myumi a traditional omakase sushi experience on wheels or savor Middle Eastern shawarma and falafel at The Arabian Knife. Vibe 305 will focus on American influenced cuisine and operated by Empowered Youth with Chef Brad Kilgore’s guiding hand. Don’t forget to explore WynBox, a sustainable container available for private dinner and educational events. Buy your tickets here. See you there!
Nov.15-22
Miami Book Fair Intl.
An 8 day literary party with over 450 authors reading and discussing their work during the Author Events on the Weekend; Children’s Alley; comic and graphic novels; new section for kids and teens; presentations by renowned graphic novelists and illustrators. Check out the complete program here.
I’m giving away 3 books this year on my blog, the first is…
Nancie McDermott’s delicious southern cookbook, Southern Soups & Stews, details here. I’ll be introducing the authors for Southern Specialties including Nancie McDermott!
Nov.18, 6:30-9:30pm
Zonin1821 host Wok Star Eleanor Hoh’s cooking class
Wed. Nov.18: 6:30-9:30pm
To register and prepay, click here.
A delicious crash course!
voted Top Five cooking classes by New Times
Learn loads of time-saving tips and tricks so cooking becomes a creative, mindful and relaxing time! A fun, easy, no-recipe, no-measuring approach to 30 minute dinners with just four seasonings and a few fresh ingredients and very little cleanup. My Wok Star Kit Bundle includes everything you need to be successful. A perfect solution for busy lifestyles and adaptable to any diet.
Nov. 18-22
2nd Annual Seed Fest
Tickets here. Follow @SeedFW for updates.
Vegans and vegetarians rejoice. I just returned from a fabulous media preview at Alter, Wynwood where 4 chefs showcased some scrumptious dishes. The 2nd annual plant-based food and wine festival returns to Miami. Events include upscale dinners, film screening, garden parties, and a Southern brunch, all leading up to a large-scale outdoor festival and grand tasting featuring food, wine, juices, music, gifts, organic body care, clothing, yoga, etc. Featured are some of the most talented speakers, chefs, celebrities, athletes and authors for a fun, educational, sexy, hip (and most of all, delicious!) week. Proudly sponsored by Whole Foods.
Book Giveaway: Nancie Mcdermott, Southern Soups & Stews
I’m thrilled to be giving away 3 books this year to celebrate The Miami Book Fair! To find out more about the Fair and my personal recommendations for where to eat in downtown Miami, visit my blog here. I’ll be giving away the other two books in the next couple of weeks, so come back and check it out! Here’s the first one just in time for fall, I love soups and stews anytime of the year and I live in Florida.
I’m so honored to give away Nancie McDermott’s new cookbook, she connected with me a few years’ back and is such an inspiration. I’m in awe with all she’s accomplished, just thinking about producing a cookbook sends me into a shock wave. I can hardly believe she has published a total of 9 Asian cookbooks so far! I hope I get to catch a spot of lunch with her. What a neat lady, she’s such a go getter, full of great ideas and advice. I got a chance to meet Nancie, Nathalie Dupree and Cynthia Graubart when I introduced and moderated Southern Specialties at the Miami Book Fair this weekend. What an honor to meet these prestigious authors, so in awe of their accomplishments. I feel such a slacker.
Nancie will be on the panel, Southern Specialties, Sunday, Nov.22, 12-1pm, building 6100.
About Southern Soups & Stews…
Home cooks throughout the American South treasure time-honored recipes for hearty soups and satisfying stews savored year after year. Often passed down through the generations, the dishes detailed in this book are cherished and shared at family gatherings, holiday feasts, and community suppers throughout the seasons. These recipes serve up soups and stews seasoned with history—from Nathalie Dupree’s Lowcountry Okra and Shrimp Gumbo to Summer Squash Soup with Black Pepper and Thyme, to Collard Greens with Pot Likker and Dumplings—offering us a glimpse of how people farmed, cooked, and continue to celebrate life over time.
About Nancie…
Nancie McDermott is a food writer and cooking teacher, and the author of 12 cookbooks. Her passion is researching and celebrating traditional food in its cultural context, and her beloved subjects are two seemingly different places with much in common: the cuisines of Asia and of the American South. Nancie gained her Southern kitchen wisdom as a Piedmont North Carolina native, and her Asian culinary research commenced soon after college, when she was sent to northeastern Thailand as a Peace Corps volunteer. For more about Nancie’s interesting life, click here.
Ready for Book Giveaway? Keeping it simple, here you go:
1. Subscribe to my free newsletter in right sidebar, you’ll get news on all things food related and beyond. If you’re already a subscriber, go to no.2
2. Leave a comment below why you deserve to win Nancie’s cookbook? Then email me wokstar at eleanorhoh dot com so I have your email if you win.
3. Eligibility: Only for United States residents. Closing date: Friday, November 27 at 12 midnight, ET. Check back here for winner announcements Sat. Nov.28.
4. A random winner will be picked and contacted via email. Respond ASAP, otherwise I will pick the next winner.
Your book will be sent directly to you through the publisher, good luck everyone!