The Bartlett welcomes Barry Estabrook, a three-time James-Beard-Award-winning journalist on Wednesday, July 29 at 7:00 pm in the Silver Educational building. He is the author of Pig Tales: An Omnovore’s Quest for Sustainable Meat, which Alice Waters described as “a beautiful and clear-eyed examination of the world of pigs and pig farming,” and of the New York Times best-selling Tomatoland: How Modern Industrial Agriculture Destroyed Our Most Alluring Fruit (described as “masterful” by Mark Bittman in the New York Times).
Youthful stints on a midwestern dairy farm (hot!) and being tossed about on a commercial fishing boat off Nova Scotia (frigid!) taught Barry that writing about how food is produced is a lot easier than actually producing it! Barry lives on a 30-acre plot in Vermont where he tends to a large vegetable garden, tends a small flock of laying hens, make maple syrup and writes.
Barry will speak and sign two of his books: Tomatoland and Pig Tales. The event is open to the public.
For more information please visit www.bartlettarboretum.org.
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More about Barry Estabrook: Barry was a contributing editor at Gourmet magazine. His work has also appeared in the New York Times “Dining” section and the New York Times Magazine, Eating Well, Men’s Health, Saveur, Gastronomica,TheAtlantic.com and many other national magazines. He has been anthologized in The Best American Food Writing 2005, 2007, 2008, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014. He lives in rural Vermont. His website is www.politicsoftheplate.com.