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Saké ‘n’ Skewers: An Evening of Education and Pairing
Please join us in welcoming Nancy Matsumoto, co-author of the James Beard award-winning Exploring the World of Japanese Craft Saké: Rice, Water, Earth for a fun night of saké education and saké and food pairing. Following a lecture on sake basics—What is it? How is it made? What’s the best way to drink it?—we’ll indulge in chef Charlie Grandquist’s tasty chicken and seafood yakitori skewers paired with a selection of Japanese sakés. Must be over the age of 21 to join the class with valid ID.
Words on the Counter with Nancy Matsumoto and Drea Scotland
Join us for an afternoon of stories, wine, and the people who grow it.
On April 12th, we're bringing together two people who think deeply about where things come from: Nancy Matsumoto, author of Reaping What She Sows, a book about how women are fixing our broken food system, and Drea Scotland of Drinks Farm, a farm in Prince Edward County making wines and other beverages with hybrid grapes and a whole lot of care.
They'll be in conversation with Celia Mendez of Canary Counter, tasting through some of Drea's wines and talking about the things that keep them up at night (in a good way).
"Japanese Tanka Poetry and Its Key Role in One Chicago Family" The Nineteenth Century Charitable Association
Learn what tanka poetry is, how it differs from haikku, a its important place in Japanese culture as the oldest form of Japanese poetry, still widely practiced by citizens at all levels of society. Nancy Matsumoto shares her family history, introducing her grandparents, Tomiko and Ryokuyo Matsumoto, who, in 1960 published a book of tanka poetry. By the Shore of Lake Michigan, now translate iinto English.
Elawa Farm Book Talk
Join Elawa Farm Foundation and Artisan Grain Collaborative for an engaging conversation with Nancy Matsumoto, author of Reaping What She Sows: How Women Are Rebuilding our Broken Food System. The panel conversation will feature four women working in the regional grain ecosystem, including:
• Alyssa Hartman, Artisan Grain Collaborative (featured in the book)
• Jill Brockman-Cummings, Janie’s Mill
• Sandy Boss Febbo, Bang Brewing, (featured in the book)
• Laura Calvert, Elawa Farm Foundation
Women in the Island Food Sys
On Apri 7, from 5:30 to 7 PM at the Martha’s Vineyard Ag Society’s Ag Hall, we're hosting a panel on women in the island food system with James Beard Award winner Nancy Matsumoto! The panel is co-hosted with Slough Farm.
This panel celebrates the publication of Nancy's new book Reaping What She Sows: How Women Are Rebuilding Our Broken Food System. Our panelists will be Nancy Matsumoto, Alexis Moreis of the Wampanoag Tribe of Chappaquiddick, Caroline Pam of Island Grown Initiative, Emma Green-Beach of MV Shellfish Group, and Chef Ting of Black Joy Kitchen.
We'd love to see you there; if you'd like to attend, please register on our website!
Association for Asian American Studies Conference
Association for Asian American Studies Conference, Honolulu Hawaii, “Recovering Stories of Displacement and Dispossession through Issei Tanka Poetry” 8:15-9:45 am HST, Hilton Hawaiian Village Waikiki Beach Resort, 2005 Kalia Road, Honolulu, HI 96815.
Book Talk Toronto Metropolitan University
Lecture for School of Nutrition students, undergraduate Food Systems students.
Book Passage, Corte Madera
Book Passage, Corte Madera, California, 1 pm book talk and signing.
Green Valley Farm + Mill
Green Valley Farm + Mill, Sebastopol, California, details TBD.
Women Who Nourish: From Soil to Table to Glass
University of California at Merced panel discussion, "Women Who Nourish: From Soil to Table to Glass."
Join us at UC Merced for an inspiring Women’s History Month conversation celebrating women leading across agriculture, ranching, culinary arts, and food storytelling.
In recognition of the United Nations’ International Year of the Woman Farmer, Women Who Nourish highlights how women are shaping regenerative food systems, caring for the land, and nourishing communities — from soil to table to glass.
Date: March 19, 2026
Time: 6:00 pm -- 7:30 pm Location: UC Merced, Fred and Mitzie Ruiz Administration Center, Room 306
Parking: Free after 6:00 pm
"Women Who Nourish," part of UC Merced's "Food for Thought" speaker series
Please click here for tickets and details!
UC Santa Barbara lecture
UC Santa Barbara lecture for environmental studies professor Liz Carlisle’s Food, Agriculture, and the Environment class.
Santa Monica Farmer's Market book signing and reading
I’m looking forward to joining Fat Uncle Farm and Rodale’s twice-monthly pop-up at the Sunday Main Street market! I’ll have books to sell, and will be doing readings from Reaping What She Sows.
2640 Main St. (Main St. and Ocean Park Blvd.), Santa Monica, CA
Serica Storytellers + “By the Shore of Lake Michigan”
In person and online discussion and Q & A, “Poetry, Memory and Remembrance,” sponsored by Serica Initiative’s Serica Storytellers series and Julie Azuma of Potluck Asian America.
"By the Shore of Lake Michigan" book talk, Ontario Securities Commission, International Organization of Securities Commissions
Private event for the Asian Employee Network of the OSC and the IOSCO Diversity Network. In person and online. Toronto, Ontario. I’ll also be introducing Reaping What She Sows.
Old World Meets New World: Sake Tasting & Omakase Luncheon
We will be tasting through a lineup of classic, and new or revivied styles to show how sake has evolved over the years.
Clio’s Books, Oakland, California
Book talk and signing with Slow Food South Bay at Clio’s Books, Oakland, California. Stay tuned for details!
EcoFarm Conference keynote panel discussion
EcoFarm Conference keynote panel discussion, “How Women Are Rebuilding Our Regenerative Supply Chains,” Monterey, CA.
She Rises: A Celebration of Women Bakers and Local Grain Economies
“She Rises: A Celebration of Women Bakers and Local Grain Economies.” Sponsored by the Canadian Centre for Food and Ecology, at the Centre for Social Innovation
Online webinar with Kirsten Shockey and The Fermentation School
Online webinar with Kirsten Shockey and The Fermentation School.
By the Shore of Lake Michigan talk, School of Visual Arts
December 16, 2025 12:10-3 pm By the Shore of Lake Michigan talk, School of Visual Arts , with Kyoko Miyabe’s Japanese literature class, 310 E. 22nth Street, New York, NY. 10010.
Bold Fork Books, Washington, D.C.
December 15, 2026, 7 pm, Bold Fork Books, Washington, D.C., book talk and signing. I’ll be in conversation with Dani Nierenberg, Food Tank
Maker’s Mark x Tables of Contents dinner
December 13, 2025 5:30 pm, Maker’s Mark x Tables of Contents dinner, a collaboration between Dinner Evan Hanczor literary book readings in collaboration with Maker’s Mark distillery, Rob Samuels, 8th-generation whisky distiller and grandson of the founders of Makers Mark. Venue: Glynwood Center for Regional Food and Farming,. .
Museum of Food and Drink
December 11, 2025, 6-9 pm, Museum of Food and Drink, Brooklyn, NY. Panel discussion with four women who appear in Reapin Sam Garwin, OceanWave; Lisbeth Pacheco, Ethos Coffee Roasters; June Russell Glynwood Center for Regional Food and Farming; and Olivia Watkins, Black Farmer Fund. Book signing and regenerative snacks to follow.
Book signing at Karma Co-op
December 7, 2025, noon-3 pm. Book signing at Karma Co-op, 739 Palmerston Ave (on Karma Lane), Toronto, Ontario, M6G 2R3.
An Author's Point-of-View: How to Conceptualize, Pitch, and Land a Traditional Publisher for your Book
December 2, 2025, Virtual Talk, 5-6 pm PST. “An Author's Point-of-View: How to Conceptualize, Pitch, and Land a Traditional Publisher for your Book,” National Organization of Professional Organizers.
Reaping What She Sows: Book Talk & Signing
November 30, 2025, 1-2:30 p.m. EST, “Reaping What She Sows: Book Talk & Signing,” Chin Chin!, Creemore, Ontario,
Oblong Books, Rhinebeck, NY
November 21, 2025, 6 pm, Oblong Books, Rhinebeck, NY. Talk and book signing. I will be in conversation with George Weld, chef (Egg restaurant, Williamsburg, Brooklyn) farm operator, writer, and photographer.
Northshire Bookstore, Saratoga Springs, NY
November 20, 2025, 6 pm, Northshire Bookstore, Saratoga Springs, NY. Talk and book signing. I’ll be in conversation with Skidmore College professor of sociology John Brueggemann.
New York Society Library book talk and signing
November 19, 2025, 6-7:30 pm, New York Society Library book talk and signing, co-hosted by Slow Food New York City. I’ll be in conversation with Richa Mehra, vice president of the Slow Food NYC board.
“Feast and Famine” series talk and book signing
November 14, 3:30-4:30 pm “Feast and Famine” series talk and book signing, New York University Department of Nutrition and Food Studies lecture, Manhattan, NY.