Food in the Library

Friday April 4, 3:15 - 4:15
42nd & 5th

What are you doing this Friday? If the answer isn’t “making my way to NYC for an introduction to culinary research in one of the world’s premier libraries”, then I presume that, like me, you’ll be sighing a lot and wistfully gazing at images from Libraries by photographer Candida Höfer, while eating a pastrami sandwich the size of a football.

Librarian Rebecca Federman is teaching the class. Here’s the post about it on her blog, Cooked Books. I think free, public events about food and culinary history from top institutions are a really big deal. Serious popular interest in food has grown with the rise of the Food Network. But that interest hasn’t quite extended to culinary history, and the culinary history community seems to be deliberately at arms length. I look forward to seeing this change.