Endangered Eating: Behind the Scenes (Online)

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Taught by Sarah Lohman

Sarah Lohman is a culinary historian and the author of the bestselling books Endangered Eating: America’s Vanishing Foods and Eight Flavors: The Untold Story of American Cuisine. She focuses on the history of food as a way to access the stories of diverse Americans. Endangered Eating was a New York Times Editors’ Choice, and was named one of the Best Books of 2023 by Amazon’s Editors, Food & Wine, and Adam Gopnik on the Milk Street podcast. It was a finalist for the Nach Waxman Prize for Food & Drink Scholarship and winner of the Ohioana Library Book Prize for Nonfiction. Lohman’s work has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, and NPR. Lohman has lectured across the country, from the Smithsonian Museum of American History in Washington, DC to The Culinary Historians of Southern California

 

 

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Food historian Sarah Lohman's most recent book has been a critical success -- praised as one of the best books of 2023 by Amazon, Food & Wine, and Adam Gopnik. This talk will give readers the chance to peek behind the scenes of Endangered Eating: America's Vanishing Foods, a five-year project that took Lohman on the road for all of 2019.
 
Lohman will provide an in-depth look at her process taking the project from concept to reality. She'll share unseen photos from her year on the road and unwritten stories about all the times she thought she was going to die. She'll also read an unpublished story from her journey. All that and she'll be taking questions about any aspect of completing this book!
 
Join us for a fun, informal talk about the realities of travel journalism and nonfiction writing, as well as a look into the incredible diversity of America's food landscape.

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