An Evening with Sam Kass and Helena Bottemiller Evich for THE LAST SUPPER

Join Bold Fork Books for a special can't-miss evening with Sam Kass and Helena Bottemiller Evich!

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR: SAM KASS

Sam Kass was senior policy advisor for nutrition policy in the Obama Administration and is currently an investor in several food technology start-ups. One of the Michelle Obama's longest-serving advisors, Sam was the executive director of her Let's Move initiative and helped create the first major vegetable garden at the White House since Eleanor Roosevelt's Victory Garden. He is a graduate of the University of Chicago and was trained by one of Austria's greatest chefs, Christian Domschitz.

ABOUT THE BOOK: THE LAST SUPPER

Stopping–or slowing–the climate crisis is not going to be easy, but it is possible. President Obama’s Senior Advisor on food and nutrition breaks down how the key to fixing the climate crisis is going to be found in how we are fed...and the answer is far beyond simply shopping at the farmer’s market. But the good news is: We know how to get there.

As a chef in high-end restaurants, and later, in the home of then-Senator Barack and Michelle Obama, Sam Kass read a lot about how eating organic and buying local was the key to remaking a food system otherwise built on climate-change-causing fossil fuels.

But when he served the Obamas as a Senior Advisor in the White House, he realized something: While it’s easy to identify the problems in our spoiled food system, fixing it is not as simple as getting your eggs from the farmers’ market. It’s going to take supporting promising new technologies, compelling businesses to sell us what we need, and changing policy and our culture. It won’t be easy, and frankly, time is not on our side. But the good news is, The Last Supper lays out the way to save our food, planet, and our way of life.

In The Last Supper, Kass shares everything he’s learned, from successes (and educational failures) in the White House and working with big business big and small to improve our food system, to exciting, possibly world-changing technologies that are here today, waiting to be unleashed at scale. He lays out an accessible plan to save our food, the environment, and in turn, ourselves, based on four pillars of change.

ABOUT THE MODERATOR: HELENA BOTTEMILLER EVICH

Helena Bottemiller Evich is the founder and editor-in-chief of Food Fix. Most recently, she led coverage of food and agriculture issues at POLITICO for nearly a decade, winning numerous awards for her work, including a George Polk Award for a series on climate change and two James Beard Awards for features on nutrition and science. In 2022, she was a James Beard Award finalist for a deep dive on diet-related diseases and Covid-19. Helena has appeared on CNN, MSNBC, CBS, BBC and NPR, among others.

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