The Preserve : Pickling the Past with Anna Hudelson and Catherine Bowman

Join Anna Hudelson and Catherine Bowman on August 26 at the Lazy Black Bear for a picnic that will explore the use of preservation in our lives, both of food and of memory. Enjoy music, writing, and wonderful food!

Anna Hudelson's motto is "Preserve now for fantastic ingredients later." That is exactly what she does, taking summer fruits and vegetables and storing them away for a winter feast! She is mainly self taught but has used the knowledge of the two previous generations of her family when in a pickle.

Catherine Bowman is the award-winning author of 1-8OO-HOT-RIBS, Rock Farm, Notarikon, The Plath Cabinet, and most recently Can I Finish, Please? She also edited Word of Mouth: Poems featured on NPR’s All Things Considered. Her poems have appeared in The New Yorker, Ploughshares, The Paris Review, The LA Times and Best American Poetry among other journals. She lives on a farm and teaches literature, writing, and poetry at Indiana University.

The Preserve Overview:

Join poet, writer, and IU professor Catherine Bowman in conversation and collaboration with community chefs Andrew Gerber, Anna Hudelson, and Katarina Koch for three evenings of food, merriment, and creative writing.

In each gathering we will partake of cuisine prepared for you to enjoy that celebrates local food heritages and history. We will then delve into food memories, stories, place, and culture around food through playful and engaging creative prompts. Remembering cooking, sharing food, the day-to-day dinners and family feasts all conjure up and call forth the stories of our lives. We will slow down and experience the ways the senses can ignite memories and stories.