World Food Week 2010 Schedule of Events

Join us at Hart House for World Food Week to heighten your awareness and taste buds as we explore our relationship with food and what that means for our health and communities. Prepare to be provoked by a series of tastings, workshops, panel discussions and lectures addressing the issues related to food and how we can all take action in a local and effective way.

Food is an integral part of our society.  It not only provides nourishment, but gives us an opportunity to share with our community; it allows us to preserve tradition and culture; it connects us to the land.  Food should be about simple principles, yet in our society we’ve allowed it to become a commodity. We demand year-round access to the cheapest food possible, gorging ourselves to malnourishment, while millions go hungry and suffer famine on a daily basis. In order to ensure access to safe and healthy food, and for the future of our society, we need to understand our food systems and reconnect and support the individuals that create them.