A Night to Remember: A Multi-generational Family Book Signing, Photo Exhibit and Presentations

NASHVILLE, Tenn. - May 26, 2015 - PRLog -- Nationally recognized sustainability and local food activist, Jim Embry, will be a guest speaker at A Place at The Table weekly dinner and lecture/film series on Wednesday, 17 June—with dinner prepared by Chef Martha Stamps and her staff.  Jim who spoke in 2012 will share his photos and experiences from his 2014 trip to Torino, Italy as part of the U.S. delegation to Slow Food’s 2014 Terra Madre event.  He will connect the local food movement in Nashville to this international event.

Environmental and food activist, Irucka Embry of Nashville, will serve as co-host for the evening, along with Chef Martha Stamps.  Irucka has invited other family members to participate in A Night to Remember: A Multi-generational Family Book Signing, Photo Exhibit and Presentations.  The program will be held on Wednesday, June 17, 2015, at the West End United Methodist Church at 2200 West End Avenue (across from Vanderbilt University).  The event begins at 6 PM with a delicious dinner prepared by Chef Martha Stamps and her staff.

There will be books signed and sold by the authors, a photo exhibit and spirited presentations.  Twin brothers Irucka (Nashville) and Obiora Embry (Lexington, KY); their mother, Dr. Deborah Mapp-Embry (Louisville, KY); their aunt, Ivy Barksdale (Lexington, KY); their father, Jim Embry (Richmond, KY) and their grandfather, James Mapp (Chattanooga) will read from and sign their books.  Jim Embry will also exhibit photographs from his travels to Terra Madre and around Italy.

The dinner starts at 6 and ends around 6:45 PM & is $12 for adults and $6 for children under 10.   Please RSVP for the dinner by calling (615) 983-8850 or e-mail info@marthastampscatering.com.

At 6:45 PM Irucka’s family will read and give short presentations.  This part of the program is free and open to the public.

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Martha Stamps (www.marthastampscatering.com) is a native Nashvillian who grew up at her parent’s home near Radnor Lake and graduated from Harpeth Hall.  Stamps’ education about food and land began when she was a child.  After graduating from the Culinary Institute of America, Stamps returned to Nashville and with determination began her slow-food crusade.  Stamps began dealing directly with farmers and doing outreach and education, providing an entryway for everyday Nashvillians to begin asking questions about what they were eating and where it was coming from.  Stamps’ progressive efforts in the early 1990s make her a way-out-front early adopter of now-ubiquitous ideas, such as eating organic, sustainable growth, buying local, connecting directly to farmers via CSAs and co-ops, and from-scratch cooking.  Her weekly A Place at The Table dinner and movie/lecture series which combines delicious food and thought began in 2009.  (Source: “Stamps of Approval”, by Joe Nolan, Local Table)

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For more information about the event, please visit www.embrybooks.org.