The Masters of Social Gastronomy Present: Hometown Booze at Kings County Distillery
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 Kings County Distillery invite you to a night of talks looking at the connection between alcohol and place.
Sarah will explore the history of boozemaking in Brooklyn - find out how Brooklyn's earliest distilleries got cows drunk, the real deal on Prohibition, and what space robots have to do with the New York's "Whiskey Wars."
Soma will be tackling country-specific booze, including why Scotland gets Scotch while all the rest of us just get this-or-that whiskey.
As an added bonus, Kings County will be providing tiny tastings of 3 their whiskeys. A cash bar will also be available. 21+ only.
This talk will be held at Kings County Distillery, located in the Brooklyn Navy Yard at the 299 Sands Street entrance. Entrance details will be provided the day before the event. 21+ only. This event will be a mix of seating and standing room. Doors will open at 6:30, with talks beginning around 7pm.