Monday, 04 Mar 2024
Eight Flavors: The Untold Story of American Cuisine
Sarah Lohman's talk explores how American food is united by Eight Flavors: black pepper, vanilla, curry powder, chili powder, soy sauce, garlic, MSG, and sriracha. Lohman explains how these influential ingredients made their way to the American table. Lohman is originally from Cleveland, Ohio, where she began working in a museum at age 16, cooking historical food over a woodburning stove. She moved to New York in 2006 and now works with...
Tuesday, 05 Mar 2024
A History of Activism Through Cookbooks
Sarah Lohman will explore the origins of the link between food and activism with the abolitionist food writers of the Civil War; unpack suffrage cookbooks from the turn of the 20th century; share the earliest LGBTQ cooking pamphlets from the 1960s; and talk about how food is still used to connect and advocate for causes today. Lohman is originally from Cleveland, Ohio, where she began working in a museum at age 16, cooking historical food...