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  Foodies!  Gardeners!  Farmers!  Eaters! Enjoy slideshow & delicious "Wild Flavors" tasting offered by Chef Didi Emmons! TICKETING: Tickets cost $5 and may be used as a $5 coupon towards the purchase of WILD FLAVORS! Please see below for details. Cosponsored by the Natick Community Organic Farm & Wellesley's new shop, Gustare Oils & Vinegars!  Come meet roving eco-chef, cookbook author, consultant Didi Emmons as she celebrates the publication of her newly IACP nominated seasonal cookbook, WILD FLAVORS: One Chef's Transformative Year Cooking from Eva's Farm.  PRESENTATION: Didi will present a 50 minute slideshow featuring 20 herbs, greens, and foraged foods easily found or cultivated in Boston’s climate and how they can improve your cooking.  The slides will also feature the quirky but sustainable lifestyle of Eva, the 70 year old female farmer who taught her to love these plants and what they can do in the kitchen.   TASTING: Didi will bring an intriguing selection of some of these plants to taste, as well as delicious samples of foods prepared from her book's recipes.  Gustare Oils & Vinegars will bring unique oils and vinegars to sample as well!  TICKET DETAILS: Seating is limited. To reserve your ticket(s) please call Wellesley Books at 781.431.1160. Tickets are non-refundable and at 7:15 pm on the day of the event, unfilled seats will go to those in the standby line. All tickets will be held at Wellesley Books and may be picked up at any time prior to the event or at the event itself.  ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Didi was trained in France and is the founder of four Boston area restaurants, including Haley House Bakery Cafe and Veggie Planet in Harvard Square.  Haley House is a non-profit in Roxbury that offers healthy affordable food.   Didi is also Executive Chef of Take Back the Kitchen, a cooking program at Haley House for underserved youth in Roxbury and Dorchester.  She is also currently writing a cookbook with Project Bread serving public school cafeterias in the New England area. She has written two previous cookbooks, Vegetarian Planet and Entertaining for a Veggie Planet. ABOUT THE BOOK: "For Northeasterners or city folk, Wild Flavors is the most useful guide I've seen to plants and weeds literally in your backyard... it will make you look with new curiosity not just at the alleyway and paths you walk but the exotic reaches of the produce aisle.   Corby Kummer, The Atlantic - Dec 2011 “Kitchen gardeners or mad-eyed gleaners will be itching to get dirt under their nails after reading this book. Bookshelves groan under the weight of new seasonal-produce cookbooks, but none of them conveys the unglamorous work of farming so realistically or lovingly." -- Sara Bir, The Oregonian ABOUT the COSPONSORS Founded in 1974, The Natick Community Organic Farm is a nonprofit, certified-organic farm providing productive open space, farm products, and hands-on education for all ages, year-round.  See www.natickfarm.org Gustare Oils & Vinegars is a new, tasty addition to Wellesley Square's retail shops.   Offering gourmet olive oils and balsamic vinegars from local growers around the world, the store is open for tastings Thursdays through Saturdays.