GheeMe POP + The 5th Annual Food LAB Conference
CookEatDrink Taste the Terroir
Friday + Saturday, September 13-14, 2019

Southampton Campus Stony Brook University, Southampton, New York

5th Annual Food LAB Conference CookEatDrink Taste the Terroir

The FOOD LAB at SBU Southampton welcomes the top chefs, wine makers, brew masters, distillers, mixologists, farmers, fishers, butchers and bakers, food writers and food media stars, and especially, YOU, the FOOD LOVERS.

In a tasty collaboration of the Food Lab with the East End Food Institute and Edible Long Island and East End, The 5TH Annual Food Lab Conference – a premier celebration of the bounty of our food, wine and spirits — will be held on the Southampton Campus of Stony Brook University on September 13-14, 2019.

The conference will bring together the people, food and drink that will give us the opportunity to learn about and experience a region steeped in a history of culinary diversity, innovation, entrepreneurship and globally recognized excellence. This is a place to be for Food Lovers, especially at harvest time.

On stage, you’ll see, hear and meet… major food stars from Long Island and beyond, in conversation with your favorite food writers and journalists.

Lidia Bastianich, Chef, Restaurateur, Emmy and James Beard Award winning TV chef and Author and Adored Godmother of the Italian Table

In Conversation with

Adam Gopnik, Author, journalist and staff writer at the New Yorker

All talks and tastings will take place on the beautiful Southampton campus of Stony Brook University, overlooking Shinnecock Bay and Southampton’s amazing ocean beaches (only a few minutes drive from campus). Talks will be presented in Duke Lecture Hall (feel like a student again!) and tastings will be continuously offered al fresco and in the South Fork Kitchen from East End Food Institute.

Events include Taste the Terroir– an opportunity to taste and learn about wines, beers and spirits from all across Long Island, from Montauk Brewery and Wolffer Estate Vineyard in the east to Matchbook Distillery, Paumanok Vineyards and RGNY on the North Fork.

Interactive Tasting and Taste Memory – learn all about How We Taste as we bring together chefs, food and wine writers, sommeliers and mixologists, together with experts in biology, anthropology and practitioners of mindful eating to share the tools for a deeper appreciation of what we eat and drink.

The goal of COOK EAT DRINK Taste the Terroir is to share the special experience of creating Taste Memories – cooking, eating and drinking, mindfully and memorably, from our bountiful farms, fisheries and vineyards. Our guests, our speakers, our chefs, bakers, farmers, fishers, winemakers, brewers, distillers will all come together to share their knowledge, and their joy, in immersing themselves in what has become a national, and global, passion for FOOD.

The Food Lab Conference, now in its fifth year, is Long Island’s premier culinary conference offering the best in participating speakers, food and drink tastings, and a place for people who want to learn about, share and enjoy the tastes of our special region to come together.

The Food Lab is a hub for sharing information, education and conversation about issues and ideas in all things related to how and what we eat.