“Teaching kids how to feed themselves and how to live in a community responsibly is the center of an education”

“Basically, the person in the White House should be principled, should have a philosophy about food that relates directly to organic agriculture”

“It is an obligation to help people understand the relation of food to agriculture and the relationship of food to culture”

“When all we care about is cheapness, we don’t ask how long things will last or how well they are made”

“The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any -”

“Let things taste of what they are”

“I think if you buy from people who are taking care of the land, you’re supporting the future of this country”

“When a product is cheap, it becomes disposable”

“In the United States alone, about 30 to 40 percent of our entire food supply is wasted every year”

“When you have the best and tastiest ingredients, you can cook very simply and the food will be extraordinary because it tastes like what it is”

“How are we going to teach slow-food values in a fast-food world?”

“Once you can’t imagine how things are made, you are free to have an utter fantasy that everything can and should be cheap”

“I feel that good food should be a right and not a privilege, and it needs to be without pesticides and herbicides. And everybody deserves this food. And that’s not elitist”

“Everything tastes better with butter”

– Alice Waters, chef, campaigner, founder of Chez Panisse

Celebrating Dorset’s composer

DORSET-based composer Rick Birley is celebrated in a chamber concert at St Mary’s Church, Dorchester, on Saturday 19th July, at 7.30pm.

The concert will showcase some of Birley’s chamber compositions, brought to life by some of the county’s finest musicians.

Leora Cohen (violin), accompanied by Duncan Honeybourne (piano), will play three of Rick’s striking works – a Sonatina (1979), a lively suite inspired by South American dance and the darker, aptly named Austerity.

Damien Knollys (cello) then joins them for the premiere of a new piano trio, Past Tense.

Then Abbi Temple (soprano) and Sam Hanson (piano) will perform settings of six Thomas Hardy poems from Satires of Circumstance, including the witty and delightful Ruined Maid.

The concert ends with two of Rick Birley’s powerful piano solos, the evocative March Wind (1974) and the new Butterfly in the Wind (2024).

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Celebrating Dorset’s composer