Monday April 13, 2026, 7:00 - 10:00 PM

Food, Film, Memory, and Migration: A Film Screening and Conversation with Ceres and MOFAD

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Ceres is thrilled to return to MOFAD for an evening of film, food, and conversation. As part of the Spring 2026 Festival, Ceres will screen two short films:

Arepas en Bici follows chef Víctor Aguilera as he cycles across San Francisco, weaving together memories of immigration with his dream of sharing traditional Venezuelan cuisine.

Birria Landia offers a behind-the-scenes look at José and Jesús Moreno, brothers from Puebla, Mexico, who brought the vibrant flavors of their hometown to a beloved food truck in Queens.

From NYC to California, these films celebrate the enterprising spirit of immigrants and the powerful ways food and memory keep people connected to home.

Following the screenings, NYU Food Studies professor Krishnendu Ray, interdisciplinary artist and scholar Sarah K. Khan, and chef and culinary tour guide Esneider Arevalo will join us for a conversation exploring the intersections of food, migration, and memory.

Light bites and drinks will be served.

Purchase Tickets Here

Museum of Food and Drink

55 Water St 2nd Flr Brooklyn, NY 11201

Monday April 13, 2026

7:00 - 10:00 PM

Tickets include access to Street Food City from 6 to 7 PM.

Museum of Food and Drink

55 Water St 2nd Flr Brooklyn, NY 11201

Monday April 13, 2026

7:00 - 10:00 PM

Tickets include access to Street Food City from 6 to 7 PM.

Krishnendu Ray

Krishnendu Ray is a Professor in the Department of Nutrition and Food Studies at NYU and the Director of the Doctoral Program. He is the author of The Migrant’s Table (2004) and The Ethnic Restaurateur (2016) and the co-editor of Curried Cultures: Globalization, Food and South Asia (2012) and Practicing Food Studies (2024). He was a faculty member and the Acting Associate Dean of Liberal Arts at The Culinary Institute of America (1996-2005) and the President of The Association for the Study of Food and Society from 2014-2018. He was an editor of the Food Studies journal Gastronomica (2019-2024).

Krishnendu Ray

Sarah K. Khan

Sarah K. Khan creates art about food, women, migrants and culture. Her most recent explorations into porcelain, prints and film are inspired by a 16th century cook/book of living from Central South Asia, called the Book of Delights. Khan’s work has shown nationally and internationally in both solo and group exhibitions and can be found in private and public collections.

Dr. Khan pulls together her multiple skills as artist/scholar to share her work with a global audience in the hopes of instigating change around women, migration, food and climate inequities. Sarah has spent the last twenty years researching traditional ecological knowledge systems of Asia and the Middle East (nutrition, public health, integrative medicine, plant sciences, and agro-ecology) and is now translating that knowledge in creative ways making singular objects in her studio in Hadley, Massachusetts.