{"id":177,"date":"2015-01-27T17:52:53","date_gmt":"2015-01-27T17:52:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.thefoodstand.com\/2015\/01\/27\/2015127your-weekly-guide-to-good-food-jan-26-feb-1\/"},"modified":"2016-04-04T12:04:51","modified_gmt":"2016-04-04T16:04:51","slug":"your-weekly-guide-to-good-food-jan-26-feb-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.thefoodstand.com\/2015\/01\/27\/your-weekly-guide-to-good-food-jan-26-feb-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Your Weekly Guide to Good Food: Jan 26 – Feb 1"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Top 5\u00a0Food\u00a0Events to Check Out This\u00a0Week<\/h2>\n

Here are this\u00a0week’s not-to-miss\u00a0food\u00a0events where you can meet folks indulging in their favorite eats, just as much as you do.\u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n

\"Scenes\u00a0from\u00a0Foodstand Scenes\u00a0from\u00a0Foodstand Spotlight\u00a0held last week at Foodstand HQ\u00a0(in\u00a0last week’s newsletter!)<\/p>\n

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1. Mon, Jan 26th\u00a0@ 7PM|Winegasm|31-86 37th Street|Queens<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Queens Slur: Slow Money NYC Monthly Happy Hour<\/a>
\nIt’s the Slow Food NYC monthly Happy Hour! It’s fun, social, and informal. But it’s also your opportunity to talk to the leadership of Slow Food NYC and let them know what’s on your mind. Got a great idea for an event? Looking for ways to get involved? Want to learn more about Slow Food? Just looking to have a relaxing drink with other “Slow” minded people? The Slur is your opportunity to get involved.<\/p>\n

2. Tues, Jan 27th @ All Day|Staying In|Home|Blizzard Juno<\/strong>Decadent Hot Chocolate<\/a>\u00a0+\u00a0Good Food Documentaries<\/a>
\nWe’re going to take a page from\u00a0The Smitten Kitchen<\/a>‘s cookbook to brave the upcoming blizzard this Tuesday. Grab your comforter,\u00a0this simple recipe<\/a>\u00a0for a heartwarming Hot Chocolate, and snuggle up to that television subscription for some\u00a0good food documentaries<\/a>. We personally love:\u00a0Food, Inc<\/a>,\u00a0Forks Over Knives<\/a>, and\u00a0Vegucated<\/a>!<\/p>\n

3. Wed, Jan 28th\u00a0@ 8PM|Littlefield<\/strong>|622 DeGraw St|<\/strong>Brooklyn<\/strong><\/p>\n

Romance and Revenge: Aphrodisiacs and Female Prisoners<\/a><\/p>\n

Every culture has a long history of aphrodisiacs —\u00a0love-inducing and libido-promoting foods, ranging from the commonplace to the esoteric. Is chocolate the rightful king of Valentines Day, or could the world do better with a tiger’s unmentionables?\u00a0When love goes wrong, out comes the Victorian obsession with female poisoners: delicate and seductive, the ladies made headlines in the age of yellow journalism for offing their lovers with poisoned food.\u00a0Join the Masters of Social Gastronomy to trace the history of these ladies\u00a0and see what science has to say about their amorous assertions.<\/p>\n

4.\u00a0Thurs, Jan 29th @ 6:30PM|The Brooklyn Kitchen|100 Frost St<\/strong>|Brooklyn<\/strong><\/p>\n

Inventing Baby Food: Taste, Health, & Industrialization of the American Diet<\/a>
\nIs it true that breast is best? Did the development of commercial baby food in mid-twentieth century America provide safe and healthy food, freeing mothers to work outside the home, or did it cause the decline of breastfeeding and set the stage for an epidemic of childhood obesity?\u00a0No topic is more fraught than what we feed babies. A complex social activity as well as a question of nutrition, feeding babies is an expression of American notions about science, health, child-rearing practices, and tradition. Amy Bentley, Associate Professor in the Department of Nutrition, Food Studies, and Public Health at New York University\u00a0will discuss the ways in which commercial baby food shaped the evolution of parental and pediatric care in the mid-twentieth century and the role of such food in helping to establish adult preferences for much of today\u001as highly-processed, calorie dense, and minimally nutritious foods.\u00a0A reception with martinis and a 1950s-inspired\u00a0cocktail party menu will precede the talk.<\/p>\n

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5. Sat, Jan 31st @ 9AM – 5PM |Grind|1412 Broadway|Manhattan<\/strong>
\nFood Startup Venture Fundraising Boot Camp<\/a>
\nJoin our friends at\u00a0Food + Tech Connect<\/a>\u00a0for their upcoming fundraising boot camp. Taught by US Venture Partners Partner Paul Matteucci, this intimate, hands-on bootcamp will demystify the process of raising venture capital and give you the tools to go out and raise money with confidence.\u00a0<\/span>
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