The Masters of Social Gastronomy Present: Illicit Substances at Kings County Distillery
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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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Let's get high with the Victorians! From patent medicines to absinthe, Coca-Cola to laughing gas, we'll start with a look at all the forms of socially-acceptable substance abuse during the 19th century.
Later, we'll fast-forward to modern-day America, where quasi-legal marijuana has spawned an industry of cannabis edibles. We'll survey the range of altered-state culinary concoctions and see what both science and chefs have to say about epicurean euphoria.
For Storytime, we'll explore the 1971 cookbook "Supermother's Cooking with Grass," and this mama's not using lawn clippings. For those preferring to stay on the good side of the law, we'll also see if vodka sauce can make some seriously drunken noodles.
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.
