• October 22
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• Moses Lake

The Ancient Fruitcake: What Really, Really Old Food Tells Us about History, Culture, Love, and Memory

This talk is not about the old leftovers in the fridge. It is about food that is so old, so unusual, or so meaningful, that no one dares throw it away. Discover the foods archeologists have found buried with mummies, the petrified banana so appealing it sparked a Banana Museum, the 350-year-old fruitcake handed down […]

• October 22
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• Mount Vernon

The Ethics of Eating Meat on a Small Planet

What are the implications—for humans, animals, and the Earth—of raising more than 87 billion animals annually for food? And what will happen when the human population reaches a projected nine billion people at midcentury, causing the production of animals to double? Research is increasingly suggesting that the mass production and consumption of animals is a […]