International Fun Food Fest

The International Fun Food Fest: What’s on Your Plate? is this year’s spring conference at the International House, at 10 College Place, across the street from the Davis campus’s northern boundary.

“All over the world, food inspires individual family roles, rules and traditions. What we eat, with whom we eat and how we interact as we eat, stimulates and strengthens the bond of families, communities and even countries,” a news release states.

The festival is scheduled from 1 to 5 p.m. April 25. The program includes four UC Davis experts:

• Charlotte Biltekoff, assistant professor, American studies, and food science and technology: “Eating Ethnicity — Adventures in Food and Identity.”

• Charlie Bamforth, the Anheuser-Busch Endowed Professor of Malting and Brewing Sciences, in the Department of Food Science and Technology — “The Wondrous World of Beer.”

• Daniela Barile, post-doctoral researcher, food science and technology — “Exotic Foods from Around the World.”

• Louis Grivetti, professor emeritus, nutrition: “Chocolate: Heritage of the Americas.”

Organizers said the festival will include food vendors and a no-host beer garden. The entertainment lineup lists local comedian Denise Hoffner and an interpretive dance depicting “The Making of Cheese.”

For children ages 4 to 10, organizers plan to set up a room with movies and crafts.

Admission at the door: $7 for I House members, $10 for nonmembers, with a $2 discount for anyone bringing three cans of food to donate to Yolo County’s Short-Term Emergency Aid Committee, or STEAC.

Music freebies

Next week brings two free concerts during the noon hour, courtesy of the Department of Music. They start at 12:05 p.m. in 115 Music Building.

UC Berkeley Chamber Chorus — April 28. Works by Berkeley composers from the 1930s to today: Brian Current, Robin Estrada, Andrew Imbrie, Jorge Liderman and Randall Thompson.

Empyrean Ensemble — April 30. Septets (rescheduled from the UC Davis resident ensemble’s March 15 concert) by Mario Davidovsky (Piano Septet, 2007), Petros Ovsepyan (Deserts, 2008) and Mika Pelo (Lygnir, 2009). Also, Iannis Xenakis’ Okho, a percussion work.

Complete Campus Calendar: calendar.ucdavis.edu