Reverence & Reparations: Dinner and a Conversation on Food, Farming, Land and Justice

Reverence & Reparations: Dinner and a Conversation on Food, Farming, Land and Justice

With Dr. Amilcar Shabazz, Neftalí Durán, Deb Habib & Ricky Baruc

Thursday, November 14, 2019, 6:30 PM at Blue Heron Restaurant, Sunderland

$30/person  (price does not include beverages, tax or gratuity)

CALL 413.665.2102 FOR RESERVATIONS

– menu –

BUFFET

Fried Chicken with Country Gravy

New England Baked Haddock ^GF Lemon Beurre Blanc

Mashed Potatoes

Moroccan Chickpea and Kale Tagine

Couscous

Sautéed Green Beans with Balsamic Glazed Onions

Maple Glazed Carrots

Mixed Green Salad Apples, Dried Cranberries, Roasted Shallot Vinaigrette

Basket of Biscuits & Cornbread Whipped Butter

DESSERT STATION

Carrot Cake

Chocolate Mousse

Dr. Amilcar Shabazz is a professor in the W. E. B. Du Bois Department of Afro-American Studies at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He teaches in the area of historical studies with an emphasis on the political economy of social and cultural movements, education, and public policy. His books include Advancing Democracy: African Americans and the Struggle for Access and Equity in Higher Education in Texas, Women & Others: Perspective on Race, Gender, and Empire (co-edited with Celia R. Daileader and Rhoda E. Johnson, and The Forty Acres Documents (with Imari Obadele and Johnita Scott Obadele). He has been a Fulbright Senior Specialist and has done work in Brazil, Ghana, Japan, Cuba, and other countries. Presently, he is completing an historical biography of lawyer-activist-publisher Carter Wesley, volumes on the mass media and the civil rights and black power movements, and a book of the future of the higher education African Americans in the wake of anti-affirmative action litigation from Bakke and Hopwood to Fisher v. University of Texas.

Neftalí Durán is a chef, advocate, educator, and organizer, working toward an equitable food system. Neftalí was born in Oaxaca, Mexico to a Mixteco family of cooks, healers, and campesinos. He is a Salzburg Global Fellow, and his writing and culinary projects have been featured at the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian, the Smithsonian Museum of American History, the Native American Culinary Association, Food52.com, The Cooking Channel, and as a signature pitmaster at the Cook ‘n Scribble Longhouse Food Revival series in upstate New York. He has been a featured speaker on The Moth MainStage, Harvard, Smith College, and more. Neftalí’s work is grounded in the belief that access to food is a human right.

Ricky Baruc and Deb Habib are founders of the nonprofit organization Seeds of Solidarity, a visionary farm and education center based in Orange, Massachusetts, that has transformed the lives of hundreds of youth. Seeds of Solidarity runs a variety of programs, including a school gardens program and the Seeds of Leadership program that teaches underemployed and low-income teenagers sustainable agriculture and how to cook with local foods. Deb and Ricky are also founders of, and continue to organize with their neighbors, the North Quabbin Garlic and Arts Festival, one of the premier agricultural events of New England. It attracts 12,000 people each year, only produces 3 bags of trash, and inspires the artistic and agricultural economy while revitalizing an economically struggling community. Deb and Ricky will read from their recently published book: Making Love While Farming: A Field Guide to a Life of Joy.