Foods of Canada with Masters of Social Gastronomy (Online)
Taught by Sarah Lohman and Jonathan Soma
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
Soma was born in the South, is what someone from the North would say. He co-founded the Brainery, is the sciencey half of Masters of Social Gastronomy, and plans on getting married to Waffle House. In his more droll moments he is a tragic sellout to higher ed as a professor of data journalism at Columbia University's journalism school.
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This month, Sarah and Soma explore all the delicious cuisine of CANADA.
It's Maple Syrup season! Sarah will walk you through the tree-to-pancake pipeline of Maple Syrup making, and talk about the sweet's connection to Indigenous cultures and abolitionists. She'll introduce you to the slow-growing maple trees of Nova Scotia, the Quebecois tradition of Cabane à Sucres, or sugar shacks, and the Great Canadian Maple Syrup Heist.
Soma will be tackling poutine, the most elegant of foods. The northern cousin to our domestic cheese fries, this dish of decorated french fries has slowly but surely spread its curds-y, gravy-covered tendrils across the planet. We'll break down the ingredients one by one while learning to differentiate a True Poutine from the all-too-common imposters!
Then, at Storytime, Sarah gives a shout out to the Reefnet fishers of the Salish Sea, protectors of an ancient and complex system unique to the Indigenous tribes around the San Juan Islands. And because Soma has never eaten a vegetable in his entire life, he's going to talk about dessert.
