About the film: In this documentary film, trailblazing food writer Ruth Reichl worries about the fate of small farmers, ranchers, and chefs as they wrestle with both immediate and systemic challenges. As the pandemic takes hold, she reaches across political and social divides to discover innovators who are risking it all to survive on the front lines. The film transcends the health crisis, laying bare how America’s decades-old policy of producing cheap food at all costs hobbles purveyors who are striving to stay independent.
Filmmaker Laura Gabbert (City of Gold, 2015 Sundance Film Festival) teams with Reichl to tell an expansive history behind an ever-more consolidating food industry.
About the event: Join us for a rare and special evening as we screen the critically acclaimed documentary, “Food and Country,” from renowned food critic (LA Times and NY Times), former editor-in-chief of Gourmet Magazine, and best-selling author, Ruth Reichl, After the screening, Ruth will participate in a talkback and Q&A to share her thoughts on the film and answer your questions. This is an exceptional opportunity to hear from one of the most influential figures in the food world and learn more about the challenges that small and independent farmers face today.
VIP Meet and Greet package: An exclusive opportunity to meet and to talk to Ruth after the show. This package includes a ticket to the event.
About Ruth Reichl: Ruth Reichl is an American chef, food writer and editor. In addition to two decades as a food critic, mainly spent at the Los Angeles Times and The New York Times, Reichl has also written cookbooks, memoirs and a novel, and been co-producer of PBS’s Gourmet’s Diary of a Foodie, culinary editor for the Modern Library, host of PBS’s Gourmet’s Adventures With Ruth, and editor-in-chief of Gourmet magazine. She has won six James Beard Foundation Awards.
Reichl’s critically acclaimed, best-selling memoirs are Tender at the Bone: Growing Up at the Table (1998), Comfort Me with Apples: More Adventures at the Table, Garlic and Sapphires: The Secret Life of a Critic in Disguise, Not Becoming My Mother and Save Me the Plums: My Gourmet Memoir (2019). [1] In 2009, she published Gourmet Today a 1,008 page cookbook containing over 1,000 recipes. She published her first novel, Delicious! in 2014, and, in 2015, published My Kitchen Year: 136 Recipes That Saved My Life, a memoir of recipes prepared in the year following the shuttering of Gourmet.[2]
This program is supported with funding from the generous bequest of Betsy Hitchcock.
Presented by History Colorado and Colorado Chautauqua
Doors: 6:30 PM
Event time: 7:00 PM
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Democratic government has been an ideal for many nations – at least in theory. But the opening decades of the twentieth century have witnessed some of the fundamental principles of democratic values being tested as significant social change is met by strong opposition. In many increasingly polarized advanced democracies, debates about the responsibilities of government to its citizens, the limits of individual freedom and rights, and the role of history in national identity narratives abound. Nations that were regarded as successful examples of liberal democracies with strong social safety nets have become more factionalized as their populations become more diverse. Can multicultural democracies overcome these challenges to be just, viable and sustainable?
At a time when many Americans feel that our own democracy is less stable than we assumed, there may be lessons we can learn from the failures and successes of others. Through an examination of the state of democracy in other parts of the world, the panelists and audience for this program will discuss how we might fully realize our own “more perfect union” to face the challenges of the 21st century.
Panelists:
Joe Jupille, Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science, Faculty Research Associate at the Institute of Behavioral Science.
He teaches broadly across European, comparative and international politics at undergraduate and graduate levels. A specialist in the European Union (EU), his research engages the reciprocal relations of rules and politics.
Yogesh Chandrani, Assistant Professor of Asian Studies and Religion, Colorado College.
Yogesh Chandrani is Assistant Professor of Religion and Asian Studies at Colorado College. He is the recipient of several grants and fellowships including the Fulbright Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Fellowship, the Foreign Language Area Studies Fellowship, the Columbia University Travelling Fellowship, the Columbia University Core Curriculum Fellowship, and a research grant from the Samuel Rubin Foundation (New York). Prior to joining Colorado College, he taught at Columbia University and at the Hagop Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies at New York University. His current book project is an ethnographic and historical exploration of the Muslim question in postcolonial India entitled Legacies of Colonial History: Region, Religion, and Violence in Postcolonial Gujarat.
Francisco Rodriguez, Rice Family Professor of the Practice of International and Public Affairs, the Josef Korbel School of International Studies, University of Denver.
Francisco Rodriguez is Rice Family Professor of the Practice of International and Public Affairs at the Josef Korbel School of International Studies, University of Denver. A native of Venezuela, he is the founder of Oil for Venezuela, a non-profit organization finding solutions to Venezuela’s humanitarian crisis. He has held prominent positions such as Head of the Research Team of the United Nations’ Human Development Report Office and Chief Andean Economist of Bank of America (2011-2016). Rodríguez is a frequent contributor to publications such as Foreign Affairs, Financial Times, The New York Times, Americas Quarterly, Foreign Policy and the Washington Post. Dr. Rodriguez has published research papers in academic outlets including the American Economic Journal, Journal of Economic Growth, Journal of Macroeconomics, Journal of Politics and Economic Development and Cultural Change. HIs book Scorched Earth: The Political Economy of Venezuela’s Collapse, will be published in 2024.
Moderator: Claire Garcia, Professor of English, Colorado College.
Claire Oberon Garcia is Professor of English at Colorado College and serves on the State Historian’s Advisory Council. She has published widely on Black women writers and her book on Black Women Writers in Paris is under contract with the University of Georgia Press. A chapter titled “Black Women Writers, Black Internationalism and the Struggle for Citizenship” appeared in Black French Women and the Struggle for Equality: 1848-2015, Félix Germain and Silyane Larcher, editors. Garcia serves on the board of the Collegium for African American Research.
This program is supported with funding from the generous bequest of Betsy Hitchcock.
Legendary artist Graham Nash, as a founding member of both the Hollies and Crosby, Stills and Nash, is a two-time Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee. He has seen rock history unfold at some of its seminal moments – from the launch of the British Invasion to the birth of the Laurel Canyon movement a year later. An extraordinary Grammy Award® winning renaissance artist – and self-described “simple man” – Nash was inducted twice into the Songwriters Hall of Fame, for his work with CSN and his work as a solo artist.
Towering above virtually everything that Graham Nash has accomplished in his long and multi-faceted career, stands the litany of songs that he has written and introduced to the soundtrack of our lives for nearly six decades.
Nash’s remarkable body of work began with his contributions to the Hollies opus from 1964 to ’68, including “Stop Stop Stop,” “On A Carousel,” and “King Midas In Reverse,” among others.
The original classic union of Crosby, Stills & Nash (& Young) lasted but twenty months. Yet their songs are lightning rods embedded in our DNA, starting with Nash’s “Marrakesh Express,” “Pre-Road Downs” and “Lady of the Island,” from the firstCrosby, Stills & Nash LP and his iconic “Teach Your Children” and “Our House” from CSNY’s Déjà Vu.
Nash’s career as a solo artist took flight in 1971, beginning with two landmark albums, Songs For Beginners and Wild Tales which further showcased the depths of his abilities as a singer and songwriter, yielding such favorites as “Chicago/We Can Change the World” and “Military Madness”.
Graham Nash will be joined on stage by his longtime musical partners, Shane Fontayne (guitar and vocals) and Todd Caldwell (keyboards and vocals), performing favorites from across his sixty-year career.
Celebrate With Us
Boulder’s Colorado Chautauqua, a National Historic Landmark (NHL), is one of the few chautauquas in continuous use since its founding in 1898. For 125 years, the Colorado Chautauqua has been a healing oasis for the local community, as well as a hub of activity, welcoming over a million visitors each year. With its iconic Flatirons location, historic auditorium and dining hall, over 60 rental cottages and lodges, 40 miles of hiking trails, year-round concerts, talks and exhibits, quaint shopping, private event venues and farm-to-table dining, Chautauqua continues to honor its age-old values of lifelong learning, love of nature, voluntary simplicity and music, oration and the arts – delivering inspiration and respite for all.
Please join us to celebrate turning 125 years young in 2023 and revisit this page often during the year. We will be adding new history blogs, event details, Chautauqua recipes and more at least every month.
The Colorado Chautauqua is Celebrating its 125th Anniversary! 1898 – 2023 The Colorado Chautauqua, a National Historic Landmark (NHL), is one of the few chautauquas in continuous use since its founding in 1898. For 125 years, the Colorado Chautauqua has been a...
