Joe Bowie will chat with Tristan of the Maine Grain Alliance and share a recipe for Whole Wheat Vegan Chocolate Chunk Cookies. After 20+ years as a professional dancer. Joe studied at the International Culinary Center where he quickly fell in love with the chemistry and art of baking bread, and went on to complete the ICC’s professional artisan bread baking course. He has worked for Le Pain Quotidien, Chef Daniel Boulud, Dean & Deluca, and Sadelle’s and has taught artisan bread baking for the ICC, and Bleecker Street Bakery for which he developed baking classes and signature baked goods. He also started his own micro bakery Cola Bread Club, and partnered in the opening of Small Sugar, a cafe for which he was the Director of Bread and Pastry. He now lives in Chicago and teaches modern dance at Northwestern University.