Farm & Fork Society Event Schedule - Fall 2018

September 27, 6:30 PM
Sweet Survival: Tales of Cooking & Coping
Book signing, Talk, Recipe Sampling -- RSVP HERE


Local author Laura Zinn Fromm grew up eating chocolate mousse with a silver teaspoon. So begins the title essay from Sweet Survival: Tales of Cooking & Coping – two parts memoir, one part cookbook. A former award-winning journalist and self-described sugar addict, Fromm is both funny and frank in this moving account of trying to find comfort in a family fraught with mental illness. These essays are warm and generous, as are her recipes and cooking advice. You’ll find everything in here, from baking for a Nobel Prize winner to courting a kidnapper; mastering a mousse soufflĂ© to roasting a chicken in milk. Fromm writes about her life with a tenderness and tenacity, and about food with a devotion and sensuality that will inspire even the most kitchen-phobic among us to bolt for our sautĂ© pans. If food is love, Fromm depicts cooking as even lovelier.


September 28, 10:30 AM
Wasted! The Story of Food Waste

Matinee + Lunch
MONDO Summit, 426 Springfield Avenue, Summit, NJ
Movie: Register and Pay Here for the Matinee ($15):
Lunch: Email terrifriedman@mac.com to purchase a farm to table lunch.

To shed light on food waste and the needs of our local food pantries, Farm & Fork Society has joined up with The Summit Film Society to have a special showing of WASTED! THE STORY OF FOOD WASTE on September 28th at Mondo in Summit. This movie aims to change the way people buy, cook, recycle, and eat food. Through the eyes of chef-heroes like Anthony Bourdain, Dan Barber, Massimo Bottura, and Danny Bowien, audiences will see how the world's most influential chefs make the most of every kind of food, transforming what most people consider scraps into incredible dishes that create a more secure food system. The screening will be followed by a special lunch catered by Carolyn Hough of Panetica and a conversation led by Dr. Tisha Bender of Rutgers University who teaches on the ethics of food. Lunch will incorporate vegetables from Farm & Fork Society’s farmers, Circle Brook Farm and Coeur et Sol Urban Farm.


October 23, 6:00 - 9:00 PM

Soup Sisters 
Cooking Class, Social Event, Soup Donation
Spectrum 360, Livingston, NJ

Farm & Fark Society is partnering with the Soup Sisters for a very special cooking event. Soup Sister events are social evenings with lively conversation, chopping, cooking, laughter and warm kitchen camaraderie that culminate in a simple, sit-down supper of soup, salad, bread and wine for all participants. Each event produces approximately 150-250 servings of fresh soup that sustains localshelters with nourishing and nurturing soup each month. Farm & Fork Society is helping to organize an event on Tuesday, October 23rd to benefit our Generation Zero: Working to Reduce Hunger campaign. All soup produced will go to Isaiah House, whose mission is to reduce the prevalence of homelessness, hunger, and unemployment throughout Essex County and more specifically, within the Oranges and Newark. We hope you can join us. There are only 15-18 spaces available. Carolyn Hough Co-Founder of Soup Sisters NJ (Chef Extraordinaire and Former Owner of the Shed) will lead the class. The cost is $65 per person and you can register for this private class by clicking the HERE and putting in the code 2018soup


October 24, 6:30 PM
Clean Cocktails: Righteous Recipes for the Modern Mixologist
Pre-Order Book for Signing -- RSVP HERE
Author Talk, Book Signing, Mocktail Sampling

Meet Beth Ritter Nydick and Tara Roscioli, holistic health coaches and authors of Clean Cocktails: Righteous Recipes for the Modern Mixologist, a resource guide on all things cocktail for those who still want to enjoy a drink without undoing all their hard work at the gym or dinner table. Sample “mocktails” from their book and learn about the health benefits, such ingredients as ginger (better digestion), cilantro (good for detox), and even vodka (metabolism booster). Beth and Tara bring a clean-living mindset to craft mixology. Their recipes use nothing but naturally low-calorie spirits; fresh juices loaded with vitamins; gentle sweeteners like honey and maple syrup; and anti-inflammatory spices like cinnamon, cayenne, and turmeric―the perfect alternative to drinks that are typically loaded with refined sugars, artificial flavors, and dyes. The book provides recipes for “clean” syrups and bitters so readers can easily build their own delicious drinks. 



November 7, 6:30 PM
The Farm Cooking School Cookbook
A Case for Seasonal Eating: 
How eating in season makes you healthy & saves the planet 

Cooking Demo, Authors Talk, Q/A, Book Signing, Recipe Sampling-- RSVP HERE
The Book House Millburn

We have all heard the terms “farm-to-table”, “organic”, “clean eating”, “green”, “sustainable”, but what do they really mean? Ian Knauer and Shelley Wiseman, of The Farm Cooking School, will break down these buzzwords by illustrating how their business works in sync with local farms. In “A Case for Seasonal Eating: How eating in season makes you healthy & saves the planet,” Ian & Shelley will discuss the health and environmental benefits of eating locally and in season - giving guests approachable and realistic methods to incorporating these practices into their own lives. In addition to this very informative talk, they will demo several recipes utilizing locally sourced ingredients which guests will be invited to taste. In addition to The Farm Cooking School Cookbook, Ian Knauer is the author of The Farm: Rustic Recipes for a Year of Incredible Food, host of The Farm cooking show on PBS television, and was writer for Gourmet magazine; and Shelly Wiseman is the author of two cookbooks was a Food Writer at Gourmet magazine.


November 30, 8 PM
Wasted! The Story of Food Waste

MONDO Summit, 426 Springfield Avenue, Summit, NJ
Tickets $12 in Advance, $14 at the door
Email summitfilm@gmail.com to reserve advance seating


To shed light on food waste and the needs of our local food pantries, Farm & Fork Society has joined up with The Summit Film Society to have a special showing of WASTED! THE STORY OF FOOD WASTE on September 28th at Mondo in Summit. This movie aims to change the way people buy, cook, recycle, and eat food. Through the eyes of chef-heroes like Anthony Bourdain, Dan Barber, Massimo Bottura, and Danny Bowien, audiences will see how the world's most influential chefs make the most of every kind of food, transforming what most people consider scraps into incredible dishes that create a more secure food system. The screening will be followed by a panel discussion with Dr. Tisha Bender of Rutgers University who teaches on the ethics of food and Melissa Goldberg, founder of Farm & Fork Society 

January 17, 2019, 6:30 PM
Food in the City
Author Reading, Signing and Food Sampling
The Book House Millburn


Meet author Ina Yalof of Food in The City, a fascinating oral history from an unforgettable gallery of New Yorkers who embody the city's culinary heart and soul. The book focuses on the country’s most food-crazed metropolis, New York, with an eye toward eliciting the stories of the people who fuel it. Food and the City is full of delicious insights, inspiring stories, and singular anecdotes that together paint a vibrant picture of metropolitan food culture. Ina will read an excerpt of her book and talk about her amazing interviews with such New York greats as Dominique Ansel who explains what great good fortune led him to make the first Cronut and David Fox, third generation owner of Fox's U-bet syrup all the while guest will get to munch on goodies from some of the food purveyors in the book. Food and the City has been praised by New York best chefs including Daniel Boulud and Marcus Samuelsson.