.The Politics of Cooking: A Night of Edible Education at UC Berkeley

If there’s such a thing as food-nerd heaven, maybe it’s a college course taught by Michael Pollan (In Defense of Food, etc.), one of America’s foremost thinkers on the ethics and politics of food, playing host to a rock-star lineup of speakers that includes farmers, food activists, and some of the Bay Area’s most-respected chefs. That’s the gist of Edible Education 103: Telling Stories About Food and Agriculture, a sixteen-week class on food politics sponsored by Alice Waters’ Edible Schoolyard Project and open to all UC Berkeley students: Yes, the revolution will be brought to you by Chez Panisse, and there will (occasionally) be refreshments.