Our celebration of writers, artists, scholars and cooks who use recipes to revolutionize our relationship to cooking, eating, memory and belonging was livestreamed on December 3rd, 2021. The full recording is available here:
Program:
-- Introductions
-- Karim Atrawi & Nahid Kazemi talk to Marcia Lynx Qualey about their book Arab Fairytale Feasts
-- Anita Mannur speaks with Veruska Cantelli about her forthcoming book Intimate Eating: Racialized Spaces and Radical Futures
-- Ismail Einashe speaks to Bhakti Shringarpure about his journey with Somali cookery and on African-migrant-owned restaurants in Sicily.
-- Suchitra Vijayan reveals a cookbook-in-progress, Suvai: A Mother's Inheritance
-- Focus on Afghanistan: Durkhanai Ayubi speaks to Meg Arenberg about her book Parwana: Recipes and Stories from an Afghan Kitchen.
-- Focus on Afghanistan: Zohra Saed speaks to Bhakti Shringarpure about Central Asian cookery and the current unfolding crisis in Afghanistan.
-- Anas Atassi speaks to Anny Gaul about his book Sumac: Recipes and Stories from Syria.