{"id":643,"date":"2011-04-17T10:08:30","date_gmt":"2011-04-17T15:08:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gastronomyatbu.wordpress.com\/?p=643"},"modified":"2018-03-28T17:55:00","modified_gmt":"2018-03-28T21:55:00","slug":"practicing-gastronomy-with-leigh-belanger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/gastronomyblog\/2011\/04\/17\/practicing-gastronomy-with-leigh-belanger\/","title":{"rendered":"Practicing Gastronomy with Leigh Belanger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/gastronomyblog\/files\/2011\/04\/lb-resized.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-645 alignleft\" style=\"margin-right:10px\" title=\"lb-resized\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/gastronomyblog\/files\/2011\/04\/lb-resized.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"156\" height=\"193\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Practicing Gastronomy is a series of informal discussions with professionals from all corners of the food and drink world. Here\u2019s a preview of our next guest.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The intangible benefits of Leigh Belanger\u2019s work for <a href=\"http:\/\/chefscollaborative.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Chefs Collaborative<\/a> aren\u2019t too shabby. She gets to work for something she believes in, striving to expand the sustainable food landscape by sharing knowledge and forging relationships among culinary professionals. But she admits she doesn\u2019t mind the occasions on which they get to celebrate their efforts. Working with chefs, she says, means good eating.<\/p>\n<p>Chefs Collaborative is a Boston-based nonprofit network that connects chefs around issues of food sustainability. Leigh\u2019s been their program director for four years, overseeing and implementing the organization\u2019s educational and community building efforts. Before joining up with Chefs Collaborative, Leigh served, managed, and cooked in restaurants, and also worked as a freelance food writer. She\u2019s kept up the multitasking. She\u2019s close to finishing her MLA in Gastronomy, and she recently submitted her first cookbook manuscript. She runs a holiday cookie business, too.<\/p>\n<p>Leigh will be the next participant in our Practicing Gastronomy discussion series. Please join us for a conversation about her work with a food-focused nonprofit, plus her array of other culinary pursuits.<\/p>\n<p><strong>EVENT INFORMATION: <\/strong><strong><br \/>\nWednesday, May 4<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>808 Commonwealth Avenue<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Room 122<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>4:45 &#8211; 5:45pm <\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Practicing Gastronomy is a series of informal discussions with professionals from all corners of the food and drink world. Here\u2019s a preview of our next guest. The intangible benefits of Leigh Belanger\u2019s work for Chefs Collaborative aren\u2019t too shabby. She gets to work for something she believes in, striving to expand the sustainable food landscape [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14625,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9,11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/gastronomyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/gastronomyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/gastronomyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/gastronomyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14625"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/gastronomyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=643"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/gastronomyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8555,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/gastronomyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643\/revisions\/8555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/gastronomyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/gastronomyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/gastronomyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}