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 and critically acclaimed book Eight Flavors: The Untold Story of American Cuisine. She focuses on the history of American food as a way to access stories of women, immigrants, and people of color, and to address issues of racism, sexism, and xenophobia. Her work has been featured inTheWall Street Journal andThe New York Times, as well as onAll Things Considered; and she has presented across the country, from the Smithsonian Museum of American History in Washington, DC to The Culinary Historians of Southern California. She is also 1/2 of the Masters of Social Gastronomy, a monthly food science and history talk at Caveat NYC, with Brainery co-founder Jonathan Soma.
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.
