The Masters of Social Gastronomy Present: A History of Wine at City Winery
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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The Masters of Social Gastronomy and City Winery invite you to a night of wine-focused stories from the Old World and the New!
Sarah will be telling the tale of the Great French Wine Blight, when the scourge of phylloxera decimated the grape industry in 1800's Europe. This tiny insect changed the world of alcohol forever, paving the way for the rise and (scandalous!) fall of absinthe.
Soma will explore the world of legally-protected wine appelations and the concept of terroir. Learn the true impact of Prohibition and what one can really expect from Nebraska! Can a Champagne come from California, and does a rosé by any other name taste just as sweet?
This talk will be held at City Winery, located at 155 Varick Street in Manhattan, and drinks will be available from a cash bar of beer and wine (bring cash!). 21+ only. This event will be a mix of seating and standing room. Doors will open at 6:30, with talks beginning around 7pm.