2011 Foodways Texas Annual Symposium

Gulf Coast Gathering
2011 Foodways Texas Symposium
February 25-26, 2011
Galveston, Texas

We take the word gathering as our signpost for this first Foodways Texas Symposium. We gather together as people interested in the preservation, promotion, and celebration of the diverse foodways of Texas. A family reunion, as it were, gathered down at the water, we will eat and visit and learn. We gather to harvest the food of our gulf coast, the plants and animals that make up the bounty of Texas’ land and sea. Those harvests, nets, and hauls will draw our attention as we learn from and about the people who have gathered for us for so long. We gather also by inviting in our unique Texas food stories, especially looking out for the forgotten or almost vanished or heritage practices and people up and down the changing gulf coast. We gather together people and communities to listen, learn, debate, and engage. Please join us as we begin our Foodways Texas adventure at Gulf Coast Gathering, our first annual symposium in Galveston, Texas.

Friday, February, 25th
Texas Seaport Museum

5:30 Registration and Libations

6:45 Welcome
Marvin Bendele

7:00 Lifetime Achievement Award Presentation

7:30 Dockside Dinner
Tim Byres of Smoke in Dallas

Saturday, February, 26th
Texas A&M University, Galveston

9:00 Continental Breakfast

9:30 Touring the Wild Texas Coast
Joe Nick Patoski

10:15 What’s in a Name?: The Ways of Food in Texas
Elizabeth Engelhardt & Amy Evans Streeter

11:00 Break

11:15 The Strangest Thing in the Nets: Bycatch, “Trashfish,” and Gulf Sustainability
Jenny Wang (moderator), Bryan Caswell of Reef in Houston, P. J. Stoops of Louisiana Foods

12:15 A Day with Oysters: Photo Exhibit
Jody Horton

12:30 Louisiana Foods Lunch on the Grounds
Chris Shepherd of Catalan in Houston

2:00 Honky-Tonk Potlucks and Gulf Dive Bars
John Nova Lomax

2:45 Vietnamese Fishing Communities Along the Texas Coast
Ellen Sweets

3:45 From Pepper Grove to San Antonio Bay: The Secret History of Oyster Appellations
Robb Walsh (moderator), Jim Gossen of Louisiana Foods, Misho Ivic, Tracy Woody

Gaido’s

6:30 Oyster Appellation Tasting and Texas Cocktail Hour

7:30 Foodways Texas: Where We Are and Where We’ll Go
Marvin Bendele

8:00 Taste of Galveston
Casey Gaido of Gaido’s