Cooking healthfully and together. Open technologies useful for this goal.
Keep in touch with the CookCamp Google Group and check out notes from the sessions.
The CookCamp un-conference will focus on food and health, bringing together people from diverse backgrounds (health, technology, design, food, politics, business, cooking, and more) to share, create, and learn from one another over the course of a day.
"An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure"
Taking a proactive approach to managing our health, instead of responding to health events as they arise, requires different strategies than those we employ today. CookCamp will focus on the role that food plays in our lives and our health, and enable collaboration between various fields, such as health, technology, public policy, and design, to produce unique and innovative solutions.
Some of the important questions we hope to cover: What does this future require? What are some of the problems we currently face? How can we replace the "Garbage" in "Garbage In, Garbage Out" with a new standard of awesomely tasty food that's good for us? How can we have fun with this?
A little history: CookCamp arose from some discussions during HealthCamp that focused on prevention and behavior change. For this CookCamp we will focus less on food preparation (at least at the venue) and more on the issues surrounding food and cooking (political, social, geographical, ethical). But we will have some healthy food on hand.
Check out the Session Ideas below, add some of your own, and please sign up if you'd like to attend!
Date: Saturday, February 24, 2007 Doors open 09:30
Venue: CitizenSpace
425 Second Street #300
San Francisco, California 94107
(Map)
Public Transportation information
Parking and Car Pooling
CookCamp is free and open.
If you are new to Barcamps, read the following: TheRulesOfBarCamp, What to expect at a BarCamp, BarCampHostingPoints, How to use this wiki
Who
Planners -- people who will make it happen -- in random order
Participants = Cookcampers = people who will make it happen
To add your name click on the edit page button above and/or send an email to: cookcamp2007 --at- yahoo --dot- com (the "--" are there to prevent spam)
We'll keep you up to date with the latest CookCamp developments and we promise not to spam you. Adding your name to either list will help us gauge how many people will attend and affect such things as venue, food, essentials, etc. Thanks!
- Dave Chiu, blog
- Ray Seddigh
- Ann Haiden drAnnHaiden
- Dave Sanford
- Sissie Hsiao
- Kevin Braithwaite
- Tracy Ruggles
- Andrius Kulikauskas MyFoodStory, MinciuSodas - I will be there around 11:00 or so.
- Raines Cohen, Northern California Cohousing organizer and Aging-In-Community Specialist
- Crystal Williams I'll trek up for this. :-)
- Margaret Mannion
- Kent Bye & Jen Gouvea, Ebb & Flow
- Erik Hinzpeter
- Tantek Çelik
- Jeremy Moore
- Kristopher Tate
Folks who are interested (but not sure yet if they'll make it)
- Abe Burmeister blog
- Debt Consolidation
- Cash Advance
- EnochChoi
- Steve Rhodes
- Sara Cohen
- Sarah Bresee
- Ian McKellar blog
- Safire
Regrets
- James Littlejohn blog 8,000km away at present.
- Tim Bonnemann Blog (out of town)
- Chris Messina is traveling
- Josh Gulick Blog Getting married.
Who do you think we should invite?
Add your suggestions to CookCampInvitees
Session Ideas
What do you want to talk about, issues to cover, areas to innovate, etc.? Please add your thoughts below.
- new!Food Writing/Food Porn: best books, magazines, blogs, boards, etc.
- Testing and health: how can we make it easier to find out about health issues? Can we do some testing on-site so people know what goes on? For example, testing for gluten allergy (Celiac Disease) or other food allergies.
- What are some ways we can help people make better decisions in the supermarket?
- Calorie counting and estimating - how do you get good at quickly and efficiently estimating and counting calories in the pursuit of sticking to a calorie budgeted diet? (Background: What Does 200 Calories Look Like?)
- Social networking in support of health and nutrition
- Some of the science behind how food works in conjunction with our genes, enzymes, immune system, hormones and whatnot - and how the wrong nutrition can contribute to a variety of very common diseases and chronic health problems - or possibly even things like cancer.
- How we can use technology to make eating right easier. And how to use it to promote the nutritional dialog between health care providers and patients.
- Making sense of organic, pesticides, toxins, and food borne bacteria, etc.
- What all the bacteria that live in the digestive system do with your food, and how they actually produce chemicals that can potentially contribute to health problems and symptoms.
- How we can get better food in our schools?
- Can we make time to get back into our kitchens?
- Understanding connections: Ways to account for the time lag between cause (food, exercise) and effect (health).
- How do you select the accurate information from the mass of (conflicting) data that’s out there?
- Information about raw food diets... what really happens to food at high temperatures? Is it really that bad? Share some raw food recipes or help in making the transition to a raw food diet.
- Practical ideas for eating better - how to make your midwestern family eat better, live longer, and not hate you in the process.
- Healthy living is supposed to be simple: Eat right, get enough sleep, exercise - but things get complicated when applying this to individuals and their specific situations. What are some of the factors which we need to take into account? What are some of the opportunity areas where new solutions might provide benefits?
- Food as a universal concern that lets us connect to people of all cultures through their personal stories as at My Food Story
Other Food-Related Issues to Ponder in Addition to Those Related to Health & Nutrition:
- The geography (and geopolitics) of food.
- The source of your food and the economics behind the sytems that bring it to you. I've always wanted to take a single piece of food (like a loaf of bread) and trace all of its ingredients out to their sources.
- Food justice / access (why are there no grocery stores in poor neighborhoods, why do diet-related illnesses such as obesity and diabetes disproportionately affect people of color and the poor?)
- dinnerTogether: How cooking for each other and coming home to shared meals can foster community and improve quality-of-life and longevity: studies plus stories (Raines)
- Environmental effects of food production (pesticides, soil erosion, soil nutrient depletion, fossil fuel-based fertilizers, food miles...)
- Food miles and Local Food (how far does food travel from farm to plate?)
- Food safety / security (how can we ensure an ongoing supply of safe, healthy food for all?)
- Fair trade (international AND domestic... how can we make sure that everyone involved in producing food has safe working conditions, and gets a fair share of the profits?)
- Farm-worker issues (safety, pesticides, hours worked, housing, citizenship, etc)
- Industrial food / agribusiness OR small family farms?
- Animal welfare
Info for Presenters
We Need Your Help!
To pull off a successful CookCamp, we're going to need the following...
Please note if you can help with any of this. Are we missing anything?
- More participants
- More session ideas!
- Interested sponsors
- If you have any powerstrips to bring along and share for the event, make a note here so that we don't end up with 50!
- If you're willing to bring along and share a projector, that would be swell! (There will be one at the venue.)
- Previous barcamp participants, planners, and aficionados to share their wisdom and help in case participants have questions. And to help the event stay true to the original barcamp vision.
- CookCamp T-shirts or Apron designs!
- Some healthy snacks would be nice, along the lines of food and drinks
- Nametags, wall-safe tape (painter's tape) - Dave Chiu
- Post-it notes would be nice - I'll bring some - and some pens - Crystal Williams
- Plates, napkins, cups, etc. - Margaret Mannion
- forks, knives, spoons ?
- Toilet paper, paper towels and trash bags - Ann Haiden
Bring
- Computerness
- Healthful Cookingness
- Ideas and demos
- Foods or ingredients? (keep in mind there is no kitchen, so any demo or session using food would need to factor this in)
- Healthful Recipies
- If you have schwag you want to share, this is probably a good place
Chronicling CookCamp - Sharing Videos, Photos, Slides from CookCamp
For uploaded media, list the tags you are using to identify this event:
cookcamp, barcamp
Upload all your presentations and post the urls here:
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Upload all your images and put the urls here:
- * Kristopher Tate's photos from CookCamp 02/24/2007
- * Dave Chiu's photos from CookCamp 02/24/2007
- * The CookCamp Flickr Group 3/15/2007
Upload all your videos and put the urls here:
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Resources and Links
- CookCampResources Links to articles, books, movies, etc. discussed or recommended here. Put your relevant media suggestions here and continue to add them!
- RecipePublishingSharing An open discussion and brainstorming on the topic of a recipes microformat. Also a playground to add recipes or links to favorite recipes.
- CookCampTips A running collaborative list of our collective tips and tricks for everyday healthy eating.
Contact The CookCamp Planners
- Email cookcamp2007 ---at- yahoo --dot- com
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