The Food Folly Follies”, serves up super-sized helpings of cultural commentary through a smorgasbord of colorful characters from the crock-pot mind of an actress with a Masters in Nutrition. The one-woman show begins at the dawn of time with a foraging cave woman and then drops you in a blender of modern food choices with a rural Texas native, a Nurses Aide, a story-teller, and a Snake Oil Salesman. The larger than life real character, Abil, will spend the second half of the show fielding questions from the audience about diet and nutrition.
This kind of nutrition education has never been tried before. Abil’s presentation style defines the term “edutainment”. True to her theatrical roots, her presentations are dramatic and humorous, as well as educational. She believes that performance-art gets through to people in ways that lectures and written materials cannot.

Abil graduated from Bastyr University in the fall of 2007 with a Masters of Science, Nutrition. Her education at this unconventional school allowed her to follow her creative muse, while learning science. For her Master’s Thesis she wrote and designed a study to discern the effects of poetry and performance on adult, dietary behavior change. She regularly applies the results of her study to her presentations and continues to find off-beat ways to teach nutrition. Welcome to “The Food Folly Follies”, Abil’s next big thing.

Saturday, April 5th, Radio interview on “In the Kitchen with Tom and Thierry”.
Abil Bradshaw will chat with Tom Douglas (of Palace Kitchen, Dahlia, Etta’s, Lola, and Serious Pie) and Thierry Rautureau (of Rover’s). She will be on their radio show, “In the Kitchen with Tom and Thierry” starting at 5:30. The segment is called, “What’s Your Special?”. Abil will promote her show, “The Food Folly Follies” and discuss her lead character’s favorite pastime, foraging for beautiful, nutritious foods. She will share her favorite nettle recipes and tell you why wild foods are so good for us. Don’t miss it.

Read the reviews from the Preview Show.