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Thanks to all who came out and made Foodprint Toronto a success!

Foodprint Toronto is the second in a series of international conversations about food and the city. With the Toronto Board of Health having just formally adopted a new city-wide food strategy, the timing is perfect for a truly cross-disciplinary discussion that explores the past, present, and future of food and the city. From the fight for street food to the transportation infrastructure of the Ontario Food Terminal, and from the evolution of school meals to the challenge of scaling up urban agriculture, panelists will explore the forces that shape Toronto’s food and speculate on how to feed Toronto in the future.

Date: Saturday, July 31

Time: 12:30 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.

Location: Artscape Wychwood Barns (map)

Cost and Registration: No registration is required, there will be a $5 admission fee at the door

Program Schedule:

Zoning Diet: Jessica Duffin Wolfe, Barbara Emanuel, Pat Pessotto, Lola Sheppard
Culinary Cartography: Laurel Atkinson, Mark Fram, Chris Hardwicke, Darren O’Donnell
Edible Archaeology: Natasha & Andrew Akiwenzie, Shawn Micallef, Rebecca O’Neill, Robert Wright
Feast, Famine, and Other Scenarios: Evan D. G. Fraser, John Knechtel, Kathryn Scharf, Michael Wolfson

Watch live online thanks to our volunteer videographer, Kevin Lisoy.

Zoning Diet
(12:30 to 1:30 p.m.)
How do zoning, policy, and economics shape Toronto’s food systems?

Jessica Duffin Wolfe
Jessica Duffin Wolfe is Arts and Books Editor at Spacing Magazine and a member of the Editorial Board of POV, the magazine of the Documentary Organization of Canada. She recently completed her first novel, while her first short film, BERLIN, opened the Rooftop Film Festival in New York in 2008. She is currently pursuing doctoral studies at the University of Toronto, where she runs the graduate student speaking series WIDEN (Workshops for Inter-Discipline Exchange & Novelty).


Barbara Emanuel
Barbara Emanuel is Senior Policy Advisor at the Toronto Board of Health, and co-author of the City’s new food strategy report, Cultivating Food Connections: Towards a Healthy and Sustainable Food System for Toronto. Barbara has many years of experience working on social and public health policy issues including housing and homelessness, income security, and most recently food. She brings a multi-disciplinary approach to her work and sees food as an effective vehicle for realizing a variety of city building goals.

Pat Pessotto
Pat is Vice President of Merchandising at Longo Brothers Fruit Markets Inc. (Longo’s), a Toronto-based, family-owned grocery store chain founded in 1956. Pat has been with Longo’s since 1982, working in the store environment for ten years before being promoted to Head Office. As Director, he was actively involved in the planning and execution of all grocery merchandising strategies. In his current role as Vice President of Merchandising, Pat continues to oversee numerous departments ranging from grocery to prepared foods throughout our twenty-two locations. An alumni of the Queen’s Executive Program, Pat is also a member of Longo’s Planning Committee Team and is involved in the decision making of all aspects of the company’s initiatives. Pat also is a member of the Grocery Foundation / Crohn’s & Colitis SuperGala Committee.

Lola Sheppard
Lola Sheppard is founding partner of Lateral Office, a Toronto-based architecture practice, and InfraNet Lab, a research laboratory examining the relationship between urbanism and resources that maintains a popular blog as well as the annual journal [bracket]. Lateral Office/InfraNet Lab was recently awarded the Professional Prix de Rome in Architecture for 2010 by the Canada Council for the Arts. Lola Sheppard is also Assistant Professor of Architecture at the University of Waterloo, where her interests in infrastructure and land-use have led her to reconsider the Greater Toronto Area”s food-flows and Greenbelt.

Moderator: Nicola Twilley, Edible Geography

Culinary Cartography
(1:30 to 2:30 p.m.)
What can we learn when we map Toronto using food as the metric?

Laurel Atkinson
Laurel Atkinson joined Not Far From The Tree in 2009 as the Parkdale High Park Hub Coordinator, and is the Program Coordinator this year. She is currently pursuing her Masters in Environmental Studies, focusing on the activism and uses of public spaces in Toronto by community groups. Not Far From The Tree is a residential fruit-picking program that coordinates teams of volunteers to pick fruit from trees that would otherwise go to waste, and distributes it evenly between the volunteer gleaners, the fruit tree owners, and local food banks or social service agencies. Not Far From The Tree is currently laying the groundwork to develop a public fruit tree mapping system for Toronto.

Mark Fram
Mark Fram is an architectural consultant, designer and urban planner. He has studied, written, spoken, and taught extensively on the subjects of architecture, historic preservation, and the history and planning of buildings and cities; his recent essay in The Edible City retraced the geography of Toronto’s lost greenhouses and market gardens.

Chris Hardwicke
Chris Hardwicke is an associate at Sweeny Sterling Finlayson & Co Architects, where he is in charge of city building projects such as the Lawrence Heights Development Plan, the West Don Lands Public Realm design and the Waterfront Master Plan for Kaohsiung, Taiwan. His visionary ideas and projects, including Farm City, Ravine City, and Velo-City, have been exhibited at the Ontario Science Centre and the Design Exchange in Toronto, Grand Central Station and the Van Alen Instititute in New York, the Dieppe Biennale, the Milan Furniture Fair, and published in the books The Good Life: New Spaces for Recreation and uTOpia, greenTOpia and blueTOpia from Coach House Press.

Darren O’Donnell
Darren O’Donnell is a novelist, essayist, playwright, director, designer, performer, and artistic director of Mammalian Diving Reflex. He is the inventor of the “wafflusa,” a hybrid of the waffle and the pupusa, and has curated several participatory dining projects, including Eat The Street, in which kids are the critics, and The Beautiful Hungry City, at which civic workers, from firefighters to court interpreters, came together over dinner to discuss the beautiful and creative aspects of their work.

Moderator: Sarah Rich, sarahrich.com

Edible Archaeology
(3:00 to 3:55 p.m.)
How has today’s food culture in Toronto been shaped by social changes, economic fluctuations, and technological innovations throughout the city’s history?

Natasha and Andrew Akiwenzie
Andrew & Natasha Akiwenzie are the proprietors of Akiwenzie’s Fish, a small First Nations commercial fishing company on the west side of Georgian Bay. Andrew fishes by hand from an open boat, using traditional methods to catch whitefish, lake trout and occasionally rainbow trout and salmon, while Natasha debones and smokes fish over apple and maple chips. They bring their catch to sell at several markets in Toronto, and their three boys help with clean up, customer service and labeling.


Shawn Micallef
Shawn Micallef is a senior editor at Spacing, co-founder of [murmur], the location-based mobile-phone documentary project and instructor at the Ontario College of Art and Design. He writes about cities, culture, buildings, art, and whatever is interesting in books, blogs, magazines, and newspapers. Stroll, his monograph of Toronto from a flaneur’s perspective, was published by Coach House Press earlier this year.

Rebecca O’Neill
Rebecca O’Neill is a PhD candidate in the University of Toronto’s Department of History, where she studies school lunches and the cultural construction of ‘Brain Food’ for children in Toronto and New York City between 1941 and 1980. Her work explores the social, cultural and economic factors that contribute to nutrition and food choices within families and schools throughout the 20th century.

Robert Wright
Robert Wright is Associate Professor at the John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design, and principal of iz, an open and exploratory design practice. Wright is also the Associate Director of the Centre for Landscape Research, where worked with the Ontario Food Terminal Board, using operational photography, historical mapping, and infrastructure strategies to synthesize and communicate its past, present, and future operations.

Moderator: Geoff Manaugh, BLDGBLOG

Feast, Famine and Other Scenarios
(4:00 to 4:55 p.m.)
What are the opportunities and challenges of Toronto’s possible food futures?

Evan D. G. Fraser
Evan D.G. Fraser is an Associate Professor of Geography at the University of Guelph in Ontario, Canada, and a Senior Lecturer at the School of Earth and Environment at the University of Leeds in the UK. His research is on farming, climate change and the environment. Along with Andrew Rimas, he is the author of two books, Empires of Food: Feast, Famine, and the Rise and Fall of Civilizations, and Beef: The Untold Story of How Milk, Meat, and Muscle Shaped the World. He shares a Psychology Today blog with Andrew Rimas titled The Considered Table.


John Knechtel
John Knechtel is Director of Alphabet City Media, which he founded in 1991. He is the editor of a series of volumes, including Air, Water, Food, Fuel, and Trash, which offer new perspectives and investigate new possibilities on topics that are central to our lives.

Kathryn Scharf
Kathryn Scharf is Program Director at The Stop Community Food Centre. She has been working in the community food security movement in Toronto for 16 years and recently co-authored the Metcalf Food Solutions report, In Every Community A Place For Food.

Michael Wolfson
Michael Wolfson is Food and Beverage Sector Specialist with the City of Toronto. He has over thirty years of experience in the food industry, including work with various small natural and specialty foods manufacturers and distributors, running his own food brokerage and consulting business, and work with the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs. Michael sits on the Board of the Toronto Food Business Incubator, the Toronto Food Strategy Steering Group, and the Toronto Enviro-food Working Group and is an advisor to the Greater Toronto Agricultural Action Committee.

Moderators: Sarah Rich and Nicola Twilley

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Foodprint NYC was the first in a series of international conversations about food and the city. From a cluster analysis of bodega inventories to the cultural impact of the ice-box, and from food deserts to peak phosphorus, panelists examined the hidden corsetry that gives shape to urban foodscapes, and collaboratively speculated on how to feed New York in the future. The free afternoon program included designers, policy-makers, flavor scientists, culinary historians, food retailers, and others, for a wide-ranging discussion of New York’s food systems, past and present, as well as opportunities to transform our edible landscape through technology, architecture, legislation, and education.

Date: Saturday, February 27

Time: 1 p.m. to 5:30 p.m.

Location: Studio-X (180 Varick St., Suite 1610, New York, NY 10014)

Free and open to the public

Program Schedule:

Zoning Diet: Sean Basinski, Joel Berg, Nevin Cohen, Stanley Fleishman
Culinary Cartography: Jonathan Bogarín, Makalé Faber Cullen, David Haskell, Naa Oyo A. Kwate
Edible Archaeology: Rebecca Federman, William Grimes, Annie Hauck-Lawson, David Sax
Feast, Famine, and Other Scenarios: Amale Andraos, Marcelo Coelho, Natalie Jeremijenko, Beverly Tepper



(1:00 to 1:55 p.m.)
How do zoning, policy, and economics shape New York City’s food systems?

    Sean Basinski
    Sean Basinski is the Founder and Director of the Street Vendor Project, a member-based advocacy group for street vendors’ rights at the Urban Justice Center. He is a lawyer, and former street-food vendor himself.
    Joel Berg
    Joel Berg is the author of All You Can Eat: How Hungry is America? and the Executive Director of the New York City Coalition Against Hunger. He is a former senior USDA official and policy analyst, and his work has won the US Secretary of Agriculture’s Honor Award for Superior Service, and the Congressional Hunger Center’s Mickey Leland National Hunger Fighter Award.
    Nevin Cohen
    Nevin Cohen is an Assistant Professor of Urban Studies at The New School, where his research and teaching is focused on urban food systems, citizen participation, and the environment. He was responsible for developing landmark municipal recycling, water conservation, and clean fuel laws in New York City as an analyst for the City Council and Manhattan Borough President.
    Stanley Fleishman
    Stanley Fleishman is the President and CEO, Jetro Cash & Carry/Restaurant Depot, a major supplier of wholesale commodities for foodservice businesses.
    Moderator: Nicola Twilley, Edible Geography

(2:00 to 2:55 p.m.)
What can we learn when we map New York City using food as the metric?

    Jonathan Bogarín
    Jonathan is a New York born, New York-based artist and educator. His work spans the disciplines of painting, film, and community artworks made in collaboration with youth. As a Teaching Artist at the Center for Urban Pedagogy, he co-created Bodega Down Bronx , a 29-minute video that investigates New York City’s bodegas in terms of their owners, suppliers, inventory, clientele, and more.
    Makalé Faber Cullen
    Makalé Faber Cullen is a cultural anthropologist and contributor to Renewing America’s Food Traditions: Saving and Savoring the Continent’s Most Endangered Foods. She is the former director of the RAFT, Ark, and Presidia initiatives of Slow Food USA. Prior to working with Slow Food, she developed in-school and public programs for City Lore and the Smithsonian’s Festival of American Folklife.
    David Haskell
    David Haskell is a Senior Editor at New York magazine, and formerly the Executive Director of the Forum for Urban Design. As the co-founder of Kings County Distillery, the first distillery in New York City since prohibition, he is also at the forefront of the recent micro-local, artisanal Williamsburg-based food geography.
    Naa Oyo A. Kwate
    Naa Oyo is assistant professor of Sociomedical Sciences at the Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University. Her research centers on determinants of African American health, with particular attention to individual and neighborhood inequality, including perceptions of racism and food environments.  She was recently awarded the National Institutes of Health Director’s New Innovator Award, a research grant designed to support exceptionally creative new investigators who propose highly innovative projects that have the potential for unusually high impact.
    Moderators: Nicola Twilley and Sarah Rich

(3:30 to 4:25 p.m.)
How has today’s food culture in New York been shaped by social changes, economic fluctuations, and technological innovations throughout the city’s history?

    Rebecca Federman
    Rebecca Federman is the electronic resources coordinator for the New York Public Library, and the librarian for the NYPL’s culinary collections. She is also the author of Cooked Books, where she discusses some of her favorite finds from NYPL’s vast archive of historic menus and cookbooks.
    William Grimes
    William Grimes was the restaurant critic at the New York Times from 1999 to 2004. He is the author of several books, including Straight Up or on the Rocks, My Fine Feathered Friend, Eating Your Words: 2000 Words to Tease Your Taste Buds, and most recently Appetite City: A Culinary History of New York. Currently, Grimes is an obituary writer at the Times.
    Annie Hauck-Lawson
    Annie Hauck-Lawson is an associate professor at Brooklyn College and co-editor of the book Gastropolis: Food and New York City, with Jonathan Deutsch, as well as the originator of the term food voice, a concept for exploring ways that food serves as channels of communication and avenues of identity for individuals and groups of people. Annie is a Master Composter and grows, gathers, prepares and composts food in Brooklyn.
    David Sax
    David Sax is the author of Save the Deli, a cultural history and travelogue of the Jewish delicatessen business, which was a Los Angeles Times bestseller. He is a freelance journalist whose work has appeared in New York, Vanity Fair, GQ, Gourmet, and others. He is from Toronto, and prays for Canada’s golden moment in the hockey finals.
    Moderator: Sarah Rich

(4:30 to 5:25 p.m.)
What are the opportunities and challenges of New York City’s possible food futures?

    Amale Andraos
    Amale Andraos is an architect and the co-principal of WORKac. Recent completed projects include the installation ‘Public Farm 1’ at PS1/MoMA, ‘New-Ark, Mega-Agropolis‘ for Pioneers of Change, Governor’s Island, and the publication of 49 Cities, an investigation of the relationship between ecology and urbanism. Current work includes the first Edible Schoolyard in New York City with Alice Waters’ Chez Panisse Foundation. In 2009, WORKac was honored at the White House as Finalist for a National Design Award.
    Marcelo Coelho
    Marcelo Coelho is a designer and researcher whose recent project, Cornucopia: Digital Gastronomy, in collaboration with Amit Zoran, proposes a three-dimensional printer for food. Earlier work includes Dinnerware, prototypes for a digital place setting that responds to both the properties of the food it contains and the diner’s gestures. Coelho is currently a PhD candidate at the MIT Media Lab.
    Natalie Jeremijenko
    Natalie Jeremijenko is an artist whose background includes studies in biochemistry, physics, neuroscience and precision engineering. She directs the xDesign Environmental Health Clinic at NYU, where she is also assistant professor in Art. Her projects include the Cross Species Dinners and Cookbook, featuring dishes and recipes that explore the gastronomy of nonhuman urban dwellers, as well as the Urban Space Station, a distributed urban agriculture and parasitic architecture project. A 1999 Rockefeller Fellow, she was recently named one of the 40 most influential designers by I.D. Magazine.
    Beverly Tepper
    Beverly Tepper is a Professor in the Department of Food Science at Rutgers University, where she is also director of the Sensory Evaluation Laboratory. She studies the genetics of taste and taste changes in disease, such as diabetes. The goal of her research is to combine food sensory science with nutritional science and psychology to better understand the links between taste, diet and health.
    Moderator: Geoff Manaugh, BLDGBLOG

Foodprint NYC is grateful for the support of our generous host, Studio-X New York, and our sponsors, IZZE and City Bakery.


Book sales at Foodprint NYC are kindly provided by WORD, an independent bookstore in Greenpoint, Brooklyn.

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Canned Goods. Image: Library of Congress

You can watch Foodprint Toronto in full online here, or click the links below to be directed to individual panels.

Panel 1: Zoning Diet

Panel 2: Culinary Cartography part 1; Culinary Cartography part 2

Panel 3: Edible Archaeology

Panel 4: Feast, Famine, and Other Scenarios

The day’s program and speaker information are still available here.

Foodprint NYC is now available as a series of 4 free downloadable videos from iTunes U! Click the links below to be directed to the iTunes store. You can also find them by visiting Columbia’s GSAPP Wood Lectures Spring 2010 catalog on iTunes U. Go to Columbia University > Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation > GSAPP Spring 2010 > StudioX 2010.

Panel 1: Zoning Diet

Panel 2: Culinary Cartography

Panel 3: Edible Archaeology

Panel 4: Feast, Famine and Other Scenarios

* Please be patient with the first minute or two of audio in Panel 1 as we got the volume worked out.

The day’s program and speaker information are still available here. Don’t forget to sign up for the mailing list to stay updated on future events!

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For press inquiries, please contact foodprintcity@gmail.com or call Nicola Twilley at 310.876.2427.

Download our press material here:

PRESS RELEASE: San Francisco and Montreal | July 26, 2010
Foodprint Toronto: Program Announced

PRESS RELEASE: San Francisco and Montreal | July 6, 2010
Upcoming Event: Foodprint Toronto

Read what they’re saying about us here:

Urban Omnibus | August 18, 2010
Foodprint City

beyondumami | August 6, 2010
Foodprint Toronto notes

blogTO | August 4, 2010
Are cupcakes a sign of neighbourhood gentrification?

Torontoist | August 3, 2010
Foodprint Offers Food for Civic Thought

CBC Metro Morning | July 30, 2010
Edible Geography

Toronto Star | July 30, 2010
Sustenance and the city

GOOD | July 30, 2010
Foodprint Project: A Multicity Forum on Food, Culture, and Infrastructure

dpr-barcelona | July 30, 2010
Foodprint Project: From “Walmartization” to “Sitopia”

Ecosalon | July 30, 2010
Foodie Underground, Extra Fresh Edition: Foodprint Toronto

InfraNet Lab | July 29, 2010
Foodprinting.TO

Treehugger | July 29, 2010
Foodprint, An “International Conversation About Food” Comes To Toronto

Azure | July 27, 2010
Sustenance and the city

LSN | July 27, 2010
Inform: Nicola Twilley and Sarah Rich (pdf)

Pruned | July 21, 2010
Foodprint Toronto

Urban Omnibus | February 24, 2010
Food and the Shape of Cities

Edible Manhattan | February 25, 2010
Foodprint NYC: City Geography Through the Lens of Food

Civil Eats | February 25, 2010
Foodprint NYC: The First in a Series of International Conversations about Food and the City

Rented Spaces | February 26, 2010
Kitchen Of The Future: Food That Talks

Edible Geography | February 26, 2010
Foodprint NYC

Dwell | February 25, 2010
Events This Weekend

Inhabitat | February 4, 2010
Foodprint NYC

Kottke.org | February 1, 2010
Foodprint NYC Event

Pruned | January 31, 2010
Prunings LI

BLDGBLOG | January 27, 2010
Foodprint NYC

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Foodprint Project is a contextual exploration of food and cities. From the cartography of food supply chains to the molecular anatomy of flavor, from the migration of ethnic recipes to the future of urban agronomy, foodprints look beyond the plate to the spatial, political, cultural and economic forces that shape the way we eat.

Contact us at foodprintcity[at]gmail[dot]com.

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Foodprint Project is looking for partners to bring the unique conversation series to more cities. We’d love to hear from you!

Contact us at foodprintcity[at]gmail[dot]com.

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