IN-PERSON EVENT at Museum of the City of New York

Join our panel of urban foragers, farmers, community gardeners, seed savers, and ecologists as we explore the forgotten stories and unseen worlds within the wilds and gardens of the Big Apple.

IN-PERSON EVENT

With the community cookbook and art project Recipes for the (R)Evolution, theater makers from Radical Evolution’s community consider cooking as an everyday creative act, alongside other artistic recipes we incorporate into our domestic lives. At this event, theater makers and food justice practitioners will consider the relationship to food as ritual, culture, and popular art-making.

In-Person Event at Farm to People

In celebration of her new book, BLACK EARTH WISDOM MOFAD is thrilled to welcome author and food justice activist Leah Penniman for a talk and signing at Farm to People in Bushwick, Brooklyn.

In-Person Event at Essex Market

Join White Moustache founder Homa Dashtaki for an evening with with Iranian-born food magazine editor and TV personality Nilou Motamed as they reflect on the Iranian and Zoroastrian traditions embedded in the pages of Dashtaki’s new book, YOGURT & WHEY.

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IN-PERSON EVENT at Demo Kitchen at Ace Hotel Brooklyn

Join The Museum at FIT’s curator of education and research, Melissa Marra-Alvarez, and associate curator of costume, Elizabeth Way, who will speak in conversation with food studies scholar Fabio Parasecoli about their most recent book, Food & Fashion, which examines the ways that food culture has expressed itself in fashion over the last 250 years.

IN-PERSON EVENT at Museum of the City of New York

In Harlem, a neighborhood filled with myriad immigrant communities, rice can be thought of as a representation of the area’s diverse culture. No one knows this better than James Beard Award-winning Chef Chef JJ Johnson, whose restaurant FIELDTRIP celebrates culture through the shared experience of rice. 

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Join us for an evening of food, drink, and conversation with about Mexico’s culinary traditions with Aldama’s Chef Gerardo Alcaraz and Christopher Reyes, moderated by journalist and Mexico-city based culinary expert Pedro Reyes.

In-Person Event at Essex Market

Join MOFAD at Essex Market for an evening with acclaimed food writer and chef Melissa Thompson and legendary culinary historian, Dr. Jessica Harris, as they take us on a journey to Jamaica with a conversation celebrating Thompson’s new cookbook, Motherland.

IN-PERSON EVENT at The Garden at Ace Hotel Brooklyn

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Joe Campanale and Joshua David Stein will discuss their new book, Vino: The Essential Guide to Real Italian Wine, and reveal their favorite Italian wines from native grapes and lead a tasting of natural wines.

IN-PERSON EVENT at Museum of the City of New York

Where does halal food fit into the context of New York City dining? And how do issues of religion, class, and bureaucracy impact the halal food that’s available and who is able to sell it?

In-Person Event at Essex Market

Join author Naomi Duguid in conversation with food writer and home cook Bettina Makalintal for a deep dive into the miracle of salt and its essential role in preserving, fermenting, and transforming food.

IN-PERSON event at Invisible Dog Art Center

Brooklyn-based artist William Mullan invites you for a presentation on the apple’s history, from it's Miocene-beginning to its historical intersections with migration, capitalism, and culture.

IN-PERSON event at Invisible Dog Art Center

Neurodivergent Pickling is an ephemeral installation, a ritual, and an endurance performance. Over the span of several hours, two neurodivergent performers obsessively wash, cut, and line up vegetables until the floor is filled with them, before turning them into pickles.

IN-PERSON EVENT at Museum of the City of New York

What happens when communities are created through immigration? What foods do they recreate, and how do they transform when native ingredients are no longer available? Join us for a look back at New York's historical foodways, particularly during periods of mass migration.

IN-PERSON EVENT at Essex Market - SOLD OUT

Join Chef Chintan Pandya (Dhamaka, Adda, & Radi) and Vishwesh Bhatt, chef of Snackbar in Oxford, Mississippi, and author of ‘I Am From Here: Stories and Recipes from a Southern Chef’, for a conversation around bold blends of spices, culture and heritage.

IN-PERSON EVENT at Museum of the City of New York

To celebrate the launch of his new book, Gastronativism: Food, Identity, Politics, author and food scholar Fabio Parasecoli joins Marion Nestle and Krishnendu Ray for a conversation about the many ways in which food becomes the object of and the motivation for politics from the local to the global, determining winners and losers in high stakes conflicts.

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Join Reem Assil in conversation with The New Yorker’s Helen Rosner as we celebrate the publication of Arabiyya and learn how in her quest for purpose, Reem has returned to the Arab table again and again as a place that shapes her identity.

IN-PERSON EVENT at Gertie

With prominent bagel makers and food historians from both New York City and Montreal, this event will focus on the role of the bagel in Jewish culture, and the deep historical and social histories that have led to its prominence on the food scene internationally.

Young readers and eaters are invited to join MOFAD and acclaimed writer Joshua David Stein for a storytime of books about food in the backyard at Local Roots NYC in Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn.

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In a panel led by executive editor of Bon Appetit, Sonia Chopra, join Chef Surbhi Sahni and Madhushree Ghosh, author of Khabaar: An Immigrant Journey of Food, Memory and Family, for a conversation that interrogates how food pathways change and morph following waves of immigration and how communities assimilate and miscegenate in the wake of these movements.

Meet us in East Harlem to celebrate and support the vibrant, rich history, and strong tradition of African American Black chefs, farmers, and food and drink producers who have laid the foundation for American food culture.

IN-PERSON EVENT

Join us as we recognize Juneteenth with Nicole Taylor and James Beard Award-winning writer Osayi Endolyn with a conversation that celebrates Taylor’s new book, Red Birds and Watermelon: A Cookbook for Juneteenth and Black Celebrations.

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Chef and educator Adrian Lipscombe, chefarmer Matthew Raiford, and culinary historian Michael Twitty interrogate the history of Black farming and cooking in America and what it means today.

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What is American food? In his first cookbook, Kwame Onwuachi, the acclaimed author of Notes from a Young Black Chef, shares the dishes of his America; dishes that show the true diversity of American food.

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Join New York Times columnist and cookbook author Eric Kim as he moderates a panel with his creative team, Jenny Huang (photographer), Beatrice Chastka (prop stylist) and Tyna Hoang (food stylist) on what it took to make the NY Times bestselling Korean American: Food That Tastes Like Home.

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Food, like music, is shaped by our climate, socio-economic circumstances, and our heritage. Both are a product of these broader contexts and articulation of our struggles and triumphs within them. This event will explore the many parallels in the trends and textures that shape our two most basic forms of expression: food and music.

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Join us as we honor the immense culinary contributions of James Hemings, the enslaved chef of Thomas Jefferson who trained in Paris and brought his proficiency in French cooking and a trove of recipes back to Monticello.

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Journalist Korsha Wilson will lead a conversation with chefs Eric Adjepong and Pierre Thiam about West Africa's influence on American food and the vastness of being both African and American.

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A talk and tasting with author Hannah Kirshner, author of “Water, Wood, and Wild Things,” and Shinobu Kato, Founder of Kato Sake Works