FOOD, JUSTICE & JOY  Thursday 26th Feb, 7pm-9pm

A celebration of community cookery school Made In Hackney’s (MIH) food justice work and debut plant-based cookery book WE COOK PLANTS. Hosted by MIH founder Sarah Bentley and former MIH Programmes Manager & Crystal Palace local Veryan Wilkie-Jones. Join us for night of food demo’s, tastings, plant-based health and wellbeing, food justice conversation and celebration. The night will feature:

• Fermentation & wild food demonstration with forager, chef and acclaimed author Rachel de Thample
• Preparing and eating sustainably sourced Irish moss with plant-based chef, naturopath and community health activist Sharon Gardner
• Food justice and community food in action panel discussion with food justice facilitator Sareta Puri, community chef and builder Zoe Marks and MIH founder and author Sarah Bentley.
• Food tasting, book signings, conversation and connection.

ABOUT MADE IN HACKNEY

Since 2012 pioneering British plant-based cookery school and charity, Made In Hackney, has inspired hundreds of thousands of people to grow, cook and eat more plants. A food justice revolution disguised as a community cookery school – it’s aim is to resist the damaging corporate control of our food system and fight back with community centred solutions; delicious climate-friendly plant-based food; and create space for connection, care, celebration and joy. The cookery school runs workshops and courses in diverse plant-based skills, multicultural cuisines and health support; provides nutritious meals to households who need food support; upskills community groups and civil society to go more plant-based; and offers training and mentoring to groups internationally via their Global Plant Kitchens programme.

ABOUT WE COOK PLANTS – the recipe book

WE COOK PLANTS features over 100 global plant-rich recipes with contributions from Sami Tamimi, Andi Oliver, Anna Jones, Dr Rupy; tips on foraging, fermentation, food waste reduction and micro allotment growing; and think pieces from Aja Barber, Nova Reid, Earthling Ed and Yazzie Min. So much more than a cookbook it features conversations about juicy topics such as how to decolonize the food system, regen versus organic farming, why millions of people are going hungry in the 6th wealthiest nation in the world – and much more.