Help Kickstart Food Book Fair 2016

For writers, eaters, farmers, chefs, activists, scientists and more, Williamsburg, Brooklyn is the place to be this Spring. Food media festival Food Book Fair (FBF) is back for its fifth year, and this time around it’s calling on the good food community to help make it even bigger and better.

Happening from May 1-2 at the Wythe hotel in Brooklyn, the “Coachella of writing about eating,” will include panel discussions, a pop-up food bookstore, its indie food magazine festival Foodieodicals, film screenings, dinners and more. But in order to make the event more comprehensive, accessible and financially sustainable for the organizers, FBF has launched a Kickstarter campaign to raise $20,000 to help take the first-of-its-kind festival to the next level.

Help Kickstart Food Book Fair 2016

 
If the FBF team reaches their funding goal, they will be able to:

1. Lower ticket costs and offer scholarship options to make the event more accessible to a broader audience
2. Move its ever-popular Foodieodicals food magazine fair to a larger venue, allowing them to meet demand from both exhibitors and attendees
3. Invite more diverse speakers sand presenters from outside New York City
4. Offer more delicious, sustainable food throughout the weekend-long event
5. BONUS: If they reach their goal, they plan to take the FBF show on the road! Los Angeles, San Francisco and Chicago could be next.

Check Out The Awesome Rewards

 
Rewards include early-bird tickets to FBF programming, workshops, Foodieodicals and its annual collaboration dinner with Egg Restaurant. There are also some pretty stellar rewards for high level backers, including:

1. A four-course dinner for your squad cooked by Chef Eli Sussman, co-owner/co-chef of Samesa and Ed & Bev’s
2. Parlor party with up to a dozen people at Morgenstern’s Finest Ice Cream
3. A year’s worth of classes — for two! — at Brooklyn Kitchen
4. Wine tasting with Master Sommelier Laura Maniec and dinner at Corkbuzz

 
Food Book Fair has raised almost $14,000 so far and it has 5 days left in its campaign. You can learn more and support FBF here.