The Eat Real Lit Fest aims to spread the love of food through stories by giving the stage to a few of the Bay's most outstanding food writers to recount their most memorable, humorous, bizarre, daring, satisfying, and enlightening food experiences. They've gathered writers, chefs, and the food-obsessed to entertain us on the various food themes: Street Food on Friday; Making, Growing, and Finding Food on Saturday; and the first-ever Eat Real Food Storytelling Slam on Sunday. Possibly the first fest of its kind, the Eat Real Lit Fest will be an adventure: some writers will read, some will riff without paper, and some will dress up as their favorite fruit. Each writer will cook up a good story that will whet your appetite. The Ecology Center will have a booth at the festival and be selling books by the featured authors on Friday and Saturday.Schedule: Friday, 7-9pm -- Street Food: Emcee Liam Mayclem (Eye on The Bay, "Cheap Eats"), Pim Techamuanvivit (The Foodie Handbook: The (Almost) Definitive Guide to Gastronomy), Derrick Schneider (Obsession with Food), Gustavo Arellano (¡Ask a Mexican!, KCRW's Good Food), Anamika Khanna (Kasa Indian Eatery & Kasa Indian website), Andy Isaacson (WorldWebEyes), Sara Deseran (Asian Vegetables and Picnics, Sake: A Modern Guide), John Birdsall (SF Weekly, SFoodie), Richie Nakano (Hapa Ramen, linecook415), David Boyk (CaliforniaTacoTrucks.com), Andrea Nguyen (Into the Vietnamese Kitchen and Asian Dumplings). Saturday, 4-7pm -- Making, Growing, and Finding Food: Emcee Bonnie Azab Powell (The Ethicurean), Rachel Saunders (Blue Chair Fruit Company, Blue Chair Jam Cookbook), Thy Tran (Wandering Spoon, The Essentials of Asian Cooking, Taste of the World, Kitchen Companion), Lisa Jervis (Bitch magazine, Women in Media and News, Cook Food: A Manualfesto for Easy, Healthy, Local Eating), Molly Watson (The Dinner Files), Karen Solomon (Jam It, Pickle It, Cure It and The Cheap Bastard's Guide to San Francisco), Maria Finn (City Dirt, A Little Piece of Earth), Margo True (Sunset magazine, Sunset's One-Block Diet), Brooke Budner (Little City Gardens, Little City Gardens blog), Jason Mark (Earth Island Journal, Change.org, The Progressive, Alternet), Greg Massa (fourth-generation rice farmer, Massa Organics blog), Anthony Tassinello (featured morel hunter in Michael Pollan's The Omnivore's Dilemma), Hank Shaw (Hunter Angler Gardener Cook), Novella Carpenter (Farm City), Cheryl Koehler (Edible East Bay, Burning Lamb), Daphne Miller (The Jungle Effect).Sunday, 3-5pm -- Food Storytelling Slam: Emcee Beth Lisick (Porchlight Storytelling Series, Everybody Into the Pool, Helping Me Help Myself), Youth Speaks is the leading nonprofit presenter of spoken word.
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