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CLIMATE MOBILIZATION STRATEGY KICKS OFF GHG EFFORT
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MEETING TO ‘TAKE THE TEMPERATURE’ OF HEALDSBURG CLIMATE ACTIVISM By Christian Kallen
WRITER MFK Fisher in a contemplative moment at her study in the Last House in Glen Ellen, where she lived from 1971 to her death in 1992.
‘Art of Eating’ Movie on the Menu at Little Saint MFK FISHER CELEBRATED IN NEW FOOD DOC By Christian Kallen
M.F.K. Fisher, one of the premier wine writers of the past 100 years, lived the last 20 years of her life in Sonoma County, near Glen Ellen. Everyone who was anyone in cuisine— Jacques Pepin, James Beard, Alice Waters, Julia Child—made the pilgrimage to visit her at the Last House, the small cabin off Highway 12 where she lived between 1971 and her death in 1992. Her influence in cuisine remains strong even now, 30 years later. Mary Frances Kennedy Fisher’s witty, polished prose brought food appreciation to life in books such as Consider the Oyster, How to Cook a Wolf (written during the war years, when rationing was
common), The Gastronomical Me, With Bold Knife and Fork and many others. Several of them were collected in The Art of Eating, which serves as the title of a new documentary on her life and influence that will be presented upstairs at Little Saint on Sunday, Dec. 11. Director Gregory Bezat and producer Gary Meyer, co-founder of Landmark Theaters, along with Chef Kyle Connaughton of SingleThread, will talk about the making of The Art of Eating and the impact Fisher had not only on the Sonoma community but the larger food industry and cooking itself. As she says in the film, “People ask me why I write about food. The easiest answer is that,
like most humans, I am hungry. But there is more than that.” The film is in its first round of screenings, its premiere having been held at the Mill Valley Film Festival in October. The Dec. 11 screening at Little Saint will be followed by a dinner from Chef Bryan Oliver, inspired by Fisher’s essays and this time of harvest and connection, along with wines paired to share a story of her journey. Although the menu for the Sunday screening isn’t yet available, Chef Oliver said, “The menu is going to take inspiration from Fisher's writings during her time in France and in California, along with SingleThread Farm’s current harvest.”
Photo courtesy of MFK Fisher Institute
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Photo courtesy of Gregory Bezat
Perhaps Mark Twain’s most famous aphorism is that “Everybody talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it.” Turns out that’s not strictly true. Since the mid 19th-century, if not before, everybody has been doing something about the weather, but not in a good way. The greenhouse gas emissions that most of the industrial world creates through internal combustion engines, factory farms and other fossil fuel uses have been “doing something” about the weather by creating atmospheric pollutants, which accumulate as greenhouse gasses that have raised the temperature of the Earth—and continue to do so. The City of Healdsburg, like other jurisdictions in Sonoma County, California and elsewhere, has made it a civic policy to mitigate against greenhouse gasses, to the extent a city can. The county’s Regional Climate Protection Authority (RCPA) was formed in 2009 to coordinate climate protection efforts among Sonoma County’s nine cities. Their 2016 target was to achieve county-wide reductions in greenhouse gasses (GHG) by 40% from 1990 levels by 2030, and 80% by 2050. These goals were updated in 2021, when their Climate Mobilization Strategy (CMS) called for more aggressive goals, including carbon neutrality by 2030 (GHG reductions at 80% below 1990
The event will begin at 4:30pm, and conclude about 8:30. Tickets are $225 per person, plus tax and gratuity, with a portion of the ticket going towards the making of the film. To order tickets, visit littlesainthealdsburg. com/happenings/an-evening-with-mfk-fisher.
CLASSIC A 1938 photo of MFK Fisher in Whittier.
CITY COUNCIL USHERS IN A NEW ERA OLD GIVES WAY TO THE NEW IN HISTORIC SWEARING-IN CEREMONY By Christian Kallen
Photo by Christian Kallen
MEETING Jerry Eddinger bends to congratulate Ron Edwards, as Chris Herrod ( foreground)
looks on, in the Dec. 5 city council meeting.
One of the most significant city council meetings this year was held Monday night. The Dec. 5 meeting began with a farewell to a long-serving city officer and ended with the swearing in of a new council that included the city’s first Black council member. The changes foreshadow that a new era may be dawning in
Healdsburg. Jerry Eddinger, who has been in city public service since 1976, stepped down from his most recent post as a planning commissioner to end a 48-year term of service for the City of Healdsburg. During that period, he has served on the city council three times, as well as the Design Review Council, the Green City Committee, the Central Healdsburg Avenue Committee and, most recently, the Planning Commission, from which he stepped down last month. Though he appeared taken aback by the positive warmth shown by Councilmember Evelyn Mitchel and other council members and the rousing ovation he received—the council chambers were full to bursting with the ➝ City Council, 3