Dinner and Some Ed is an effort to raise awareness (and to enjoy!) local sustainable food by hosting a meal and showing a TED or TEDx video on food and farming. "Dinner" is a relative term- this can also be done as a brunch, lunch, picnic, or potluck. The key is just to have a computer or a mobile device where you can watch the talks while enjoying delicious, sustainable food.

Dinner and Some Ed came out of a project called Tedibles at TEDActive in Palm Springs, CA, in 2012. It is an effort to bring sustainable food to the extended TED community (meaning anyone who's ever watched a TED talk).

Food Revolution Day on May 19th is the perfect time to host your first dinner and to join the global movement.

How can you get involved?  Simple: 

Step 1: Host a Dinner Party on Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution Day site

Step 2: Name your dinner "Food Revolution Dinner and Some Ed"

Step 3: Plan a meal

Step 4: Invite friends

Step 5: Watch TED/TEDx videos

Have fun!

Use your imagination when planning your meal - host a potluck, invite your local farmer, or have guests bring recipes along with their dish and include where they sourced their ingredients.  Visit Dinner and Some Ed's What To Do page for ideas and more information.

Our Pick of the Month videos are:

Jamie Oliver: TED prize wish: Teach every child about food

Laurie David: Dinner Makes a Difference

Dan Barber: How I Fell in Love with a Fish

Birke Baehr: What's Wrong with Our Food System

Watch these or your own combination of videos while enjoying some great tasting food, and be sure to check out our site for more information or to submit a review of your dinner!

Brought to you by The Glynwood Institute for Sustainable Food and Farming in support of Food Revolution Day.

TEDxManhattan DVD

The DVDs for TEDxManhattan are almost ready. We will be offering them free of charge to anyone who would like to use them for educational and/or noncommercial uses. Please email TEDxManhattan@gmail.com with your mailing address if you would like a copy.

Dinner and Some Ed

We are currently putting together a Tumblr site called Dinner and Some Ed. Visit it to find out how you can have your own TEDx-like experience; it is chock full of ideas on how to host a sustainable dinner party and show TED and TEDx food talks.   We're still developing the site but wanted to give you a sneak peek. Please visit it today - and when you have your sustainable food event, feel free to post up photos and a write up of what you did.

TEDxEast

As a courtesy to the TEDxManhattan mailing list, our friends at TEDxEast are offering direct admittance to the TEDxEast program "The View from in Here" at Alice Tully Hall in Lincoln Center on May 11, 2012. You can bypass the registration and sign up directly by going to

http://www.eventbrite.com/event/3006202633

The cost is $200 plus a small handling fee.

To find out more about TEDxEast, please visit http://www.tedxeast.com/events.shtml.

Please note, this is not a sustainable food TEDx; this is a regular TEDx program. The website describes the program:

Finding ourselves in a time of considerable social upheaval, we recognize this as an opportunity with our community to step back and look at things more critically. This means to examine, discuss and interrogate the ideas around us. With a tightly curated program of 25+ ideas, personalities and performances, we are designing a day that will take the TEDxEast experience to a whole new level. 'The View from In Here' is designed to engage our community in a different way. Our event will offer an examination of multiple perspectives - the shades of grey that inhabit all aspects of life. It will be for our attendees to decide if the ideas presented are the beginning of the end or the next big thing; magnanimous or mercurial; useful or useless.

TEDxManhattan 2013

Mark your calendar. TEDxManhattan "Changing the Way We Eat" 2013 will be held in February of 2013. For anyone who would like to host a viewing party, pencil in February 16th. We will let you know when the date is finalized. More details to come in the next few months.