Event

Join us by Zoom on January 31, 2022, at 3pm EST, for a talk and discussion with Harry Eli Kashdan on the theme of “How to Read a Cookbook: Cuisine and the Nation in Ottolenghi's London.”  This event forms part of the series of “Bite-Sized Talks: Middle Eastern Food and Foodways across History,” sponsored by the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, and co-sponsored by Kutchin Seminar Series in the Jewish Studies Program, at the University of Pennsylvania.

Harry Eli Kashdan is a scholar of food culture and migration in the contemporary Mediterranean. He holds a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from University of Michigan, and was Lauro de Bosis Postdoctoral Fellow in Italian at Harvard University and Postdoctoral Scholar in the Global Mediterranean at The Ohio State University before joining the University of Pennsylvania as a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in the Humanities during the 2021-22 year.  His current projects include a monograph exploring neighborly relationships between host countries and migrants in the Mediterranean, articles on Syrian refugee cookbooks and Italian food and travel television, and a co-edited volume of essays by American immigrant food writers on the COVID-19 pandemic, forthcoming in Fall 2022 from Rutgers University Press.

Pre-registration is required.  The registration link is here: https://web.sas.upenn.edu/middle-eastern-bite-sized-talks/register/

Find out more about the event here: https://nelc.sas.upenn.edu/events/2022/01/31/how-read-cookbook