Presented by
Robert Launay, PhD

Before the age of jet travel and international hotels, travelers to foreign places might not have been able to participate in, or even understand, subjects like politics, religion, or private life. But, whatever their personal preferences, they had no choice but to eat the food, and so the authors of travel books wrote about it, from Marco Polo down to the present day. Continue reading →

Presented by Ed Levine,
Author and lecturer

Pizza is the single most popular food in the United States, and wherever you go you can always find it. In fact, we consume 33 billion dollars worth of pizza annually from the 63,873 pizzerias in America.  Having consumed 1,000 slices of pizza in one year, across 20 states, Canada and Italy, Ed Levine certainly possesses a firsthand, encyclopedic knowledge of the dish. Continue reading →