Presented by Priya Mani
Live from Denmark
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A talk by Priya Mani on gathered, edible lichens from the Indian subcontinent. It is hardly imaginable that a lichen scraped off tree barks in the sub-Himalayan forests is the decisive and defining ingredient of what we know and imagine as “spicy-Indian.” Continue reading
Presented by B. Marcus L. Cederström
Folklorist
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Why do we eat the things we eat? And how do those things change due to migration? Continue reading
Official White House portrait of former U.S. First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy by Mark Shaw, 1961
An interview with
Chef Marcus Samuelsson
Conducted by culinary historian and food writer
Donna Pierce
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Black cooking has always been more than “soul food,” with flavors tracing to the African continent, to the Caribbean, all over the United States, and beyond.
Join us as internationally acclaimed chef Marcus Samuelsson highlights the diverse deliciousness of Black cooking today. Continue reading
Presented by Peter Regas
PizzaHistoryBook.com
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In the past, the historical consensus was the first licensed pizzeria in America was opened in 1905 at 53 Spring St. in New York City by a young Italian immigrant named Gennaro Lombardi. However, in 2019 at the U.S. Pizza Museum in Chicago, Peter Regas challenged that consensus with a talk titled “Filippo Milone and the Forgotten Pizza Makers of New York City.” Continue reading