Foodshed, the Baltimore-based restaurant group behind Woodberry Kitchen, Parts & Labor and Shoo-Fly, is launching a new speaker series "about food, its sources and the way we eat."
The series, Origins, starts Thursday at Artifact Coffee in Hampden with an evening devoted to oysters.
The panelists for the debut evening include Matt McShane and Monica Fahey McShane, the brother and sister owners of the Great Wicomico Oyster Co.; Dewey Ward, the vice president of operations of Chesapeake Green Technologies; and former Baltimore Sun reporter Rona Kobell, now with the Chesapeake Bay Journal.
The discussion will be moderated by Jim Poris, former senior editor of the journal Food Arts, and the evening will be hosted by Foodshed's Spike Gjerde.
The evening will begin with cocktails at 6:30 p.m., followed by the speaker and Q-and-A part of the of the evening from 7 p.m. to 8 p.m. A themed supper, designed by chef Opie Crooks, will follow. Tickets for the evening are $80, and reservations can be made by calling 410-464-8000.
The second and third installments of the are scheduled for Feb. 19 and March 19. A fourth installment is being planned for a date in April.