Changing Tastes: American Foodways at 250

There’s no American melting pot bigger than the diasporic mix of food traditions found in the United States. Food brings people from all walks of life together in the spirit of connection, understanding, and the search for bold, new flavors. 

Join us for a discussion on America’s rich culinary tradition through two acclaimed books featured in NYPL’s Reading America list: Jane Ziegelman’s 97 Orchard: An Edible History of Five Immigrant Families in One New York Tenement and Edna Lewis’s The Taste of Country Cooking. Author and culinary director Jane Ziegelman speaks about the history of foodways in the US through the lens of immigration and Black culinary traditions, and reflects on the shifts in taste over the course of US history.