Name: Daniel Philippon Book Launch
Start: 2024-09-30T16:00:00-05:00
End: 2024-09-30T17:30:00-05:00
Location: 310 Pillsbury Dr SE, Minneapolis, MN, United States, Minnesota 55455

The Department of English presents a celebration of Associate Professor Daniel Philippon’s The Farmer, the Gastronome, and the Chef: In Pursuit of the Ideal Meal (University of Virginia Press, 2024), which explores how writers and activists Wendell Berry, Carlo Petrini, and Alice Waters have changed America’s relationship with food over the past 50 years. In pursuit of his own “ideal meal,” Philippon planted and harvested vegetables in central Wisconsin, spoke with growers and food producers in northern Italy, and visited with chefs and restaurateurs in southeastern France.
This in-person event is free and open to the public in Pillsbury Hall room 412. For questions about accessibility services and the venue, please email [email protected] or call 612-626-1528. #UMNProud
Professor Philippon will briefly describe his methods in addressing the legacy of Berry, Petrini, and Waters in the sustainable food movement. With moderation by History Professor Tracey Deutsch, panelists will follow with short responses to the book’s investigations of:
Wendell Berry and community-supported agriculture, by Brian DeVore, Land Stewardship Project Managing Editor & Media Coordinator
Carlo Petrini and Slow Food in Italy, by Animal Science Professor Mike White, teaches “Sustainable Food Systems of Italy”
Alice Waters and French country cooking, by award-winning restaurant and food writer Dara Moskowitz Grumdahl.
Daniel Philippon is the author of Conserving Words: How American Nature Writers Shaped the Environmental Movement. He is past president of the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment (ASLE) and has served as Senior Fellow at the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society in Germany, Fulbright Scholar at the University of Turin and University of Gastronomic Sciences in Italy, and Visiting Professor at the École Normale Supérieure de Lyon in France. His teaching on environmental humanities, literary nonfiction writing, and sustainability studies has been honored with the Horace T. Morse–University of Minnesota Alumni Association Award for Outstanding Contributions to Undergraduate Education and the College of Liberal Arts Arthur “Red” Motley Exemplary Teaching Award.