Join culinary historian Karima Moyer-Nocchi for a special presentation inspired by her new book, The Epic History of Macaroni and Cheese. Through visuals and storytelling, Moyer-Nocchi will explore the long, surprising journey of a dish that has moved across centuries, continents, and social worlds—shaped by religious traditions, elite dining, migration, industrialization, and everyday home cooking.

From antiquity to fashionable eighteenth-century Europe to nineteenth- and twentieth-century America, Moyer-Nocchi traces how macaroni and cheese became both a symbol of refinement and a practical, sustaining meal. Along the way, she highlights the many hands involved in its making, including cooks whose knowledge and labor often went uncredited, as well as chefs, entrepreneurs, and home cooks who adapted the dish to new tastes and circumstances.

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