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Reading and Cooking Club

June 18 at 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm

Little Island Creamery presents a new concept: the reading and cooking club!

This is a quarterly meeting which encourages participants to read a book every 3 months on the topic of the politics of food preservation and to meet to discuss it while also experimenting with the preservation strategies described in that book. We can learn from our ancestors in understanding the political implications of how we choose to preserve our foods.

In June, we’ll discuss Book 2: The Serviceberry, Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World by Robin Wall Kimmerer. Meeting on June 18, we will discuss foraging and gathering natural foods as well as a trade economy and will practice preserving the Spring’s berry harvest, to share of course! We will be making strawberry jam 🍓 and a wild berry shrub. 🍹

Other books will include :

  • Book 3: Our Fermented Lives, A History of How Fermented Foods have Shaped Cultures and Communities by Julia Skinner. Meeting on September 17th
  • Book 4: The World of Sugar, How the Sweet Stuff Transformed our Politics, Health and Environment over the last 2000 years. Meeting on December 17th

Admission $20 per person per meeting Limited to 8 people

Book not provided!

*Note: You do not need to have read the book to sign up and participate in the cooking demonstration and tasting.

For more information and to sign-up, please email: events@littleislandcreamery.net or call (360) 849-9456 ext.1

Borrow these books at the Cathlamet Library or buy them used online: