2012 Symposium Program
(subject to change)
Friday, March, 23
Blanton Museum Auditorium
9:00am—12:00pm
Registration & Coffee
9:30am
Welcome
Dean Randy Diehl, College of Liberal Arts, University of Texas at Austin
Marvin Bendele, Executive Director, Foodways Texas
Elizabeth Engelhardt, Associate Professor, Department of American Studies, University of Texas at Austin
10:00am
A Short But Not Always Sweet History of Sugar in Texas
MM Pack, Food Writer and Private Chef
11:00am
The Work of Gulf Coast Regional Food Culture
Zachary Moser & Eric Leshinsky, Shrimp Boat Projects
Priscilla Weeks, Environmental Anthropologist
Fiesta Gardens
12:00pm
Coastal Bycatch Luncheon
Justin Yu, Oxheart Restaurant, Houston
Sponsored by Louisiana Foods
Blanton Museum Auditorium
2:00pm
Presentation of 2012 Foodways Texas Lifetime Achievement Award
2:30pm
Preserving the Rich Culture of Drinking in the South
Bobby Heugel, Anvil Bar & Refuge, Houston
3:15pm
Putting Up Texas (demo & discussion)
Stephanie McClenny, Confituras, Austin
MM Pack, Food Writer and Private Chef
4:15pm
Telling Stories Over a Pint: The Foodways Texas Craft Brewery Oral History Archive
Niko Tonks (Moderator), Foodways Texas Craft Brewery Oral Historian and Home Brewer
Brock Wagner, Founder, Saint Arnold’s Brewery, Houston
Fiesta Gardens
6:00pm—7:30pm
Book Signing
Texas Artisan Market
7:30pm
Central Texas Barbecue Heritage Dinner
Meat by John Mueller, JMueller BBQ, Austin
Sides by Hoover Alexander, Hoover’s Cooking, Austin
Sponsored by The Pearl Brewery
Saturday March 24
The Blanton Museum Auditorium
9:00am
Feast or Famine: The Effects of Drought on the Texas Food Supply
Jessica Dupuy (Moderator), Freelance Writer and Cookbook Author, Austin
Jim Gossen, President and CEO, Louisiana Foods, Houston
Neal Newsom, Founder, Newsom Vineyards, Plains
Jeff Savell, Professor, Department of Animal Science, Texas A&M University, College Station
Raymond Slade, Certified Professional Hydrologist, Austin
10:00am
Food Through the Camera’s Lens
Penny De Los Santos, Photographer
11:00am
Country Food Comes To Town
Rebecca Sharpless, Associate Professor, Department of History, Texas Christian University
Springdale Farm
12:00pm
Urban Garden, Modern Goat
Matt McCallister, Campo Modern Country Bistro, Dallas
Sponsored by Greenling
The Blanton Museum Auditorium
2:00pm
Texas Iconic Restaurant Oral History Project
Elizabeth Engelhardt, Associate Professor, Department of American Studies, University of Texas at Austin, along with Letisha Brown, Jennifer Doane, Andrew Gansky, Amanda Gray, Scott Pryor, Jennifer Rafferty, Nick Roland, Kirsten Ronald, Gavin Schwan, Sherri Sheu, Kathryn Sutton
3:00pm
Heritage Breeds and Sustainable Farming
Karla Loeb (Moderator),
Morgan Weber, Revival Market, Houston
Craig Haney, Stone Barns Center for Food & Agriculture, Pocantico Hills, NY
Taylor Boetticher, Fatted Calf, Napa, CA
4:00pm
The Future of Soul Food?
NNaya Jones, Ph.D. Student, Department of Geography and the Environment, University of Texas at Austin
Kevin Thomas, Assistant Professor, Department of Advertising, University of Texas at Austin Hoover Alexander, Hoover’s Restaurant and Hoover’s Soular Garden, Austin
Boggy Creek Farm
7:00pm
1840s Farm Dinner
Sonya Cote, East Side Showroom & Hillside Farmacy, Austin
Sunday March 25
9:30am
Symposium Wrap-up
Marvin Bendele, Executive Director, Foodways Texas
10:00am
Chuck Wagon Lore
Tom Perini, Perini Ranch Steakhouse, Buffalo Gap
10:30am
Chuck Wagon Brunch
Tom Perini, Perini Ranch Steakhouse, Buffalo Gap
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2011 Foodways Texas Annual Symposium
Gulf Coast Gathering
2011 Foodways Texas Symposium
February 25-26, 2011
Galveston, Texas
We take the word gathering as our signpost for this first Foodways Texas Symposium. We gather together as people interested in the preservation, promotion, and celebration of the diverse foodways of Texas. A family reunion, as it were, gathered down at the water, we will eat and visit and learn. We gather to harvest the food of our gulf coast, the plants and animals that make up the bounty of Texas’ land and sea. Those harvests, nets, and hauls will draw our attention as we learn from and about the people who have gathered for us for so long. We gather also by inviting in our unique Texas food stories, especially looking out for the forgotten or almost vanished or heritage practices and people up and down the changing gulf coast. We gather together people and communities to listen, learn, debate, and engage. Please join us as we begin our Foodways Texas adventure at Gulf Coast Gathering, our first annual symposium in Galveston, Texas.
2011 Symposium Program Schedule
Friday, February 25th
Texas Seaport Museum
5:30 Registration and Libations
6:45 Welcome
Marvin Bendele
7:00 Lifetime Achievement Award Presentation
7:30 Dockside Dinner
Tim Byres of Smoke in Dallas
Saturday, February 26th
Blanton Museum Auditorium
9:00 Continental Breakfast
9:30 Touring the Wild Texas Coast
Joe Nick Patoski
10:15 What’s in a Name?: The Ways of Food in Texas
Elizabeth Engelhardt & Amy Evans Streeter
11:00 Break
11:15 The Strangest Thing in the Nets: Bycatch, “Trashfish,” and Gulf Sustainability
Jenny Wang (moderator), Bryan Caswell, Jesse Griffiths, and P. J. Stoops
12:15 A Day with Oysters: Photo Exhibit
Jody Horton
12:30 Louisiana Foods Lunch on the Grounds
Chris Shepherd of Catalan in Houston
2:00 Honky-Tonk Potlucks and Gulf Dive Bars
John Nova Lomax
2:45 Vietnamese Fishing Communities Along the Texas Coast
Ellen Sweets
3:45 From Pepper Grove to San Antonio Bay: The Secret History of Oyster Appellations
Robb Walsh (moderator), Jon Rowley, Dr. Sammy Ray, Jim Gossen, Tracy Woody, and Misho Ivic
Gaido’s
6:30 Oyster Appellation Tasting and Texas Cocktail Hour
7:30 Foodways Texas: Where We Are and Where We’ll Go
Marvin Bendele
8:00 Taste of Galveston
Casey Gaido of Gaido’s in Galveston
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