When summer temperatures soar, who wants to turn on the oven or fire up the stove? Chef Caryn Antonini shows how to keep it cool with fabulous no-heat recipes! At this fun evening event Caryn will demonstrate several mouth-watering dishes in New Canaan Library’s state-of-the-art kitchen, from a fresh, home-made hummus to a chopped Mexican summer salad with honey-lime vinaigrette, topped off with a frozen meringue key lime pie! Caryn Antonini is at the forefront of lifestyle advice and guidance. Cooking, decorating tips, wellness and overall good living are just some of the topics Caryn discusses on television and in interviews across the country.
New Canaan Library hosts a discussion by The Foodshed Forum and Connecticut Food System Alliance on New England’s potential to be more resilient against climate change and more racially and economically equitable through food. The speakers will present research from, “New England Feeding New England: A Regional Approach to Food System Resilience.”
Meg Hourigan, Coordinator of Connecticut Food System Alliance, will outline the opportunities and challenges in our regional food supply chains and employment, and the need to transition to climate-smart and adaptive food production processes that can increase food security. Also to be addressed is how to create more local, sustainable, and equitable stewardship of land and water. Ali Ghiorse, Co-Founder of The Foodshed Forum, will provide context about the industrial food system’s dependency on practices that contribute to racial and economic injustice, diet-related disease, biodiversity loss, water pollution and depletion, soil erosion and degradation, and climate change. Please register to attend.
Get your summer of love started with authors Annabel Monaghan and Amy Poeppel, in conversation about Monaghan’s new novel Summer Romance! Set in a fictional Long Island beach town, readers follow a recent divorcee and professional organizer whose life is a mess, and the summer in which she gets unstuck with the help of an unexpected person from her past. Don’t miss Annabel and Amy as they dish about the novel Country Living called the “ultimate summer beach read.”
Annabel Monaghan is the author of LibraryReads pick Same Time Next Summer and Indie Next pick Nora Goes Off Script, as well as two young adult novels and Does This Volvo Make My Butt Look Big?, a selection of laugh-out-loud columns that appeared in the Huffington Post, The Week, and the Rye Record. Amy Poeppel is the author of The Sweet Spot, Musical Chairs, Limelight, and Small Admissions. Amy’s writing has also appeared in The New York Times, The Rumpus, LitHub, Working Mother, Points In Case, and The Belladonna.
Iconic actor, author and advocate Michael J. Fox launched the Michael J. Fox Foundation in 2000 after publicly disclosing his 1991 diagnosis with Parkinson’s disease (PD). Since then, the Foundation has been leading the charge on finding a cure for PD and accelerating the development of improved therapies for the 6 million people worldwide living with PD today. New Canaan Library welcomes two key leaders from the Foundation, Fayga Brisman Taylor and Lynn Hagerbrant, who will speak about the renaissance taking place in Parkinson’s research and therapeutic development today, including breakthroughs through the landmark MJFF-sponsored Parkinson’s Progression Markers Initiative (PPMI). This event is available both in-person and via zoom. Those who would like to attend virtually should indicate that preference in the “notes” section of the registration form.
National planning expert Jeff Speck has spent his career studying what makes cities thrive and has boiled it down to one key factor: walkability. From economists, epidemiologists, and environmentalists to preservationists, planners, and parents, all agree that walkable communities are better in just about every way. Speck explains why walking is useful, particularly regarding land-use, zoning, transit, and parking, and then focuses on how, by sharing examples of places where walking is safe, comfortable, and interesting.
