Events
October 2010: Eat These Words
Walking Food Tour and Writing Workshop Alimentum editors want to take you out to eat and help you write the words you always wanted to write! Join Editor Paulette Licitra and Menupoemer Esther Cohen to enjoy two of the best all-time adventures: eating and writing. So many of us love to eat. And love to write. Together we'll combine the two: exploring food and words in one of the world's greatest cities. We'll wander through New York for an entire day and evening. We'll bring you to places you might never have the chance to see or experience or know—hidden gems of the New York culinary world. Together we'll write poems and stories and see how what we eat and what we write are connected. Space is limited. Join us! Itinerary and enrollment information.
_______________________________________________________________ Publisher Paulette Licitra is a writing mentor for Middle Tennessee State University's Writer's Loft. Come hone your writing skills with her—especially food-focused stories, essays, and memoir. The Writer's Loft is a low-residency Fall and Spring program. See the website for more information. _______________________________________________________________ Put Your Passion for Food on Paper Learn The Craft of Food Writing, The International Culinary Center’s intensive food writing course, from the 14-time James Beard Award-winning journalist, Alan Richman. Developed for aspiring and active journalists, culinary professionals, and anyone who wants to break into the vast world of the food media, our curriculum offers real-world industry insights and valuable one-one-one feedback from the man Food & Wine Editor-in-Chief Dana Cowin called “one of America's greatest food journalists.” In six sessions, you’ll explore the ingredients of good food writing and hone your skills as you develop food reviews and features and craft compelling editor pitches that will get your foot in the door. Enjoy visits from special guests for an inside look at the profession. Combine your love of food and passion for writing into a marketable skill—maybe a new career. Enroll in The Craft of Food Writing. Course begins September 23.
_______________________________________________________________ August 2010: The Tomato—a Uniter, Not a Divider! Tomato Art Fest Voted "Best Festival" in the 2007, 2008, and 2009 Nashville Scene Reader’s Polls, the Tomato Art Fest will return this year on Saturday, August 14. Located in Historic East Nashville’s Five Points area, which has been coined by Budget Travel Magazine as "Nashville’s version of New York’s East Village," this FREE, costume-friendly event provides a fun-filled day for thousands. Music, tastings, TomatOlympics, more! (Tomato art by Alimentum's very own Paulette Lucitra.)
_______________________________________________________________ On the Radio _______________________________________________________________ Issue Ten Launch Reading _______________________________________________________________ April 2010: April is Poetry Month! Celebrate with Menupoems!
Join us! It’s easy: a) Print your copy of Menupoems 2010. Watch Mark Kurlansky reading his menupoem, "Ode to a Mushroom..."
_______________________________________________________________ February 2010: Luna Star Cafe, North Miami, Florida Such a lovely reading at Luna Star Cafe in North Miami on February 12, 2010! Thanks to the all the great poets who read…Elisa Albo, Jen Karetnick, Stephen Gibson, Michael Hettich, Ricardo Pau-Llosa…and thanks to everyone for coming! _______________________________________________________________ February 2010: Cumberland Art Gallery, Nashville, Tennessee Lovely reading at Cumberland Gallery Food Show, February 4, 2010!
Saturday October 30, 2010
New York City
Saturday, August 14, 2010
Nashville, Tennessee
June 22, 2010
Alimentum Publisher & Editor-in-chief Paulette Licitra with Jerilyn Morgan on Radio Free Nashville (WRFN 107.1FM) chatting about food in our lives: It’s Not Just About What’s on the Plate!
June 19, 2010
Smalls Jazz Club, New York City
A Festival of Food Poems!
Thanks to everyone for coming out and reading us your poems.
Paulette Licitra, Editor-in-Chief, and Esther Cohen, Menupoems Editor 
Gerd Stern reading his poems.
b) Video yourself or your dining companion reading a menupoem in your favorite restaurant or café
(iPhones and other camera phones are perfect for this!)—and
c) Send it to alimentumonline@gmail.com! (More info and more videos here.)
At the Luna Star Cafe reading
Elisa Albo reads
Jen Karetnick reads
Stephen Gibson reads
Michael Hettich reads
Ricardo Pau-Llosa reads
Nevin Compton Trammel and our attentive audience
Christina Stoddard
Nancy Vienneau
Marilyn Murphy, artist, and Paulette Licitra, Alimentum Publisher
Marilyn Murphy, Paulette Licitra, and Nevin Compton Trammel