Koshersoul: Cooking and Storytelling with Michael Twitty and Jane Ziegelman- Livestream

Date

Sunday December 11

Time (Eastern Time)

7:00 PM  –  8:30 PM

Michael Twitty, acclaimed author of The Cooking Gene and Koshersoul, joins James Beard Award-winning food historian Jane Ziegelman to discuss the time-honored cultural traditions of cooking and food that mingle deliciously in Twitty's work. They will address the storytelling elements of Jewish food- as in Seders, food as tradition and text culturally, and how Twitty has integrated all his various selves into his work as a culinary historian. 

Michael Twitty is a noted culinary and cultural historian and the creator of Afroculinaria, the first blog devoted to African American historic foodways and their legacies. He has been honored by FirstWeFeast.com as one of the twenty greatest food bloggers of all time, named one of the "Fifty People Who Are Changing the South" by Southern Living, and one of the "Five Cheftavists to Watch" by TakePart.com. Twitty has appeared in numerous media and has given more than 250 talks in the United States and abroad. His work has appeared in Ebony, the Guardian, and on NPR.org. He is also a Smith Fellow with the Southern Foodways Alliance, a TED fellow and speaker, and the first Revolutionary in Residence at the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation. 

Jane Ziegelman, A James Beard Award winning food historian, is the author of 97 Orchard: An Edible History of Five Immigrant Families in One New York Tenement and Square Meal: A Culinary History of The Great Depression, which she wrote together with her husband, Andrew Coe. She lives in Brooklyn. 

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