October 22-25, 2009

 

 

Get on board the "Discovery" trolley and bring your appetite! On this 90-minute, fully narrated tour, our informative guides will educate you on the culinary history of Portland and treat you to delectable samples of Maine-inspired foods! You will be entertained and dine on board while seeing the sights of Portland, and also disembark to visit three unique destinations. On this tour, you will get a behind-the-scenes look and taste of these culinary delights sure to please your palate:

 

Lobster straight from the harbor on old fashion boiled bagels (Catch a Piece of Maine and Mr. Bagel)

The best smoked seafood in the industry (Harbor Fish and Ducktrap Farms)

Locally made “award winning” artisan cheese (K. Horton Specialty Foods)

Handcrafted wine from the finest wildflower honey (Maine Mead Works)

Chocolate truffles offering a new spin on the “Needham” (Dean’s Sweets and Cold River Vodka)

 

This tour is great for visitors and residents alike. All you need is your curiosity for Maine’s finest foods and your camera!

 

Schedule: October 22-25

9:30-11:00, 11:30-1:00, 1:30-3:00. 3:30-5:00

 

Tours depart and end at two Old Port locations: Long Wharf and the Ocean Gateway Pier

 

To purchase tickets in advance, visit MaineFoodieTours.com or call 207-233-7485

To purchase tickets during the Harvest Festival, visit the Portland Discovery ticketing office on Long Wharf (along Commercial Street in the Old Port)

 

 

Friday October 23^rd -  6:00 – 9:00 pm, with the film beginning at 6:30. 
Q&A following the movie at 8:00pm.

 

 

“In Food, Inc., filmmaker Robert Kenner lifts the veil on our nation's food industry, exposing the highly mechanized underbelly that has been hidden from the American consumer with the consent of our government's regulatory agencies, USDA and FDA. Our nation's food supply is now controlled by a handful of corporations that often put profit ahead of consumer health, the livelihood of the American farmer, the safety of workers and our own environment. We have bigger-breasted chickens, the perfect pork chop, herbicide-resistant soybean seeds, even tomatoes that won't go bad, but we also have new strains of E. coli—the harmful bacteria that causes illness for an estimated 73,000 Americans annually. We are riddled with widespread obesity, particularly among children, and an epidemic level of diabetes among adults.

 

Featuring interviews with such experts as Eric Schlosser (Fast Food Nation), Michael Pollan (The Omnivore's Dilemma, In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto) along with forward thinking social entrepreneurs like Stonyfield's Gary Hirshberg and Polyface Farms' Joel Salatin, Food, Inc. reveals surprising—and often shocking truths—about what we eat, how it's produced, who we have become as a nation and where we are going from here.”

Source:  www.foodincmovie.com