Foodie Fridays: The Good Food Festival & Conference Is Back!

Your choices matter! Join individuals, leaders, and businesses that sustain the locally-driven 
Good Food Movement at the Good Food Festival March 14-16 at UIC Forum in Chicago! 

The Good Food Festival and Conference is the leading food event in the country! It includes a Financing Conference, Trade Show, School Food and Food Policy Summits, and a Saturday Festival that celebrates Good Food. There’s something for everyone!

Rick Bayless Demo

Festival highlights include:

• 150 Exhibitors - Local and sustainable products from farms and artisanal producers
• Urban Farm Bus Tour – to four leading-edge urban farms in Chicago
• The Art of Fermentation presented by fermentation guru Sandor Katz
• Chefs at Play cooking demonstrations with celebrity chefs Rick Bayless and Carrie Nahabedian and our MC, Michael Gebert of Sky Full of Bacon
• Preservation Kitchen - canning and pickling with Paul Virant, Perennial Virant
• Kimchi Challenge: chefs face off in a contest to find Chicago’s best kimchi. Judges include Steve Dolinsky, Sandor Katz, Louisa Chu, Andrea Mattson-McGaffey and Bill Daley
• Good Food Commons - twenty-minute informal sessions with experts on a variety of Good Food topics, from backyard bee and chicken care to home composting 
• Good Food For Thought panels featuring local and national leaders in the Good Food Movement, including Fred Kirschenmann, Stone Barns Center for Food & Agriculture Foraging Wild Edible Plants, a workshop presented by urban forager Nance Klehm , Vicki Nowicki of The Land Office, with Iliana Regan of Elizabeth Restaurant 
• Sausage Making workshop presented by Kim Leali, The Publican
• Gardening workshops – Season Extension For Chicago Gardens and Climate Change In Your Backyard
• Kids’ Corner, family-friendly activities with Melissa Graham of Purple Asparagus
• Good Food Court - lunch and snacks from a sampling of Chicago’s local eateries

Exhibition Floor

Also get your tickets for Localicious! -  the Good Food party of the season, March 15 at 
7:30pm, pairing top chefs with farmers for a food, craft beer and local spirits tasting event you don't want to miss! 

Participating restaurants, brewers, and distillers include the following:

Allium Chicago • August Hill Winery • Autre Monde Café • Begyle Brewing • Big Bowl • Big Jones • Browntrout • Cello Via • Chicago Diner • Crop to Cup Coffee • Death’s Door Spirits • Duke’s Ale House • FEW Spirits • Floriole Cafe • Fortune Gourmet • Fresh Coast Distributors • Greenbush Brewery • Journeyman Distillery • Katherine Anne Confections • Koval Distillery • Midwest Wine Selections • NessAlla Kombucha • New Holland Brewing • Nonna Santi Biscotti • North Shore Distillery • Osteria Via Stato • Province • Pure Kitchen Catering • Revolution Brewing • Ruth and Phil’s Gourmet Ice Cream • Saigon Sisters • SenTEAmental Moods • Templeton Rye • Trattoria No. 10 • Two Brothers Brewing • Uncommon Ground • Vera Chicago • Virtue Cider • West Town Tavern • White Oak Gourmet • Yusho

Come celebrate the joys of Good Food at this family-friendly Festival.

For more information on tickets for Localicious, go here.

For conference workshops, exhibitors, and tickets, go here.





Photo credits: Rick Bayless Demo courtesy of Christina Noel for Good Food Festival & Conference - Chicago.
                     Expo Highlights courtesy of Peter Byer for Good Food Festival & Conference - Chicago.