Meet Forrest Pritchard at Farmer’s Market and HPAC Sept. 26

Author and Berryville, Virginia farmer Forrest Pritchard will meet patrons at the Manassas Farmers Market at 7:30 am on Thurs., Sept. 26 at the Harris Pavilion in Old Town Manassas, along with Chef Todd Gray and Ellen Kassoff Gray, authors of The New Jewish Table: Modern Seasonal Recipes for Traditional Dishes.

The three authors will be promoting “What’s Cooking? Lots!” a Fall for the Book event with 12 food writers and cookbook authors at 6 p.m. the same evening, Thurs., Sept. 26, at the Hylton Performing Arts Center on George Mason University’s Prince William Campus.

This free admission event offers a little something for all palates.

A 6 p.m. panel discussion with all of the participants – Norman Davis, Todd and Ellen Gray, Krista Gallagher and Kris Schoels, Dave and Claudia Lefeve, Forrest Pritchard, Michael Stein, Joe Yonan and Peter and Laura Zeranski – is followed by cooking demonstrations, tastings, and book sales and signings from 7-9 p.m.

The entire evening is sponsored by Write by the Rails, the Prince William Chapter of the Virginia Writers Club. Media sponsor is Potomac Local News.

Forrest Pritchard’s memoir Gaining Ground: A Story of Farmers’ Markets, Local Food, and Saving the Family Farm offers glimpses into the business, politics, and personal struggles of modern-day agriculture, and charts the author’s own journey from lost profits to renewed prospects for the future. In a starred review, Publisher’s Weekly praised the book’s “remarkable odyssey of food from farm to table” and called Pritchard himself “a born storyteller.”

Pritchard was recently interviewed on the Kojo Nnamdi Show on Sept. 4. Listen to the interview here:

http://thekojonnamdishow.org/shows/2013-09-04/gaining-ground-history-local-family-farm

Fall for the Book’s 2013 festival is every day this week, through September 27 at George Mason University and locations throughout Northern Virginia, DC, and Maryland. Go to www.fallforthebook.org for more details.