a culinary celebration of america's founding mothers

WHAT:

Joanna Pruess, Culinary historian and chef, and Kelsey Brow, curator at the King Manor Museum, present A Culinary Celebration of America’s Founding Mothers: Martha, Abigail, and Dolley, a lively dialogue about the legacy of three of America’s First Ladies: Martha Washington, Abigail Adams, and Dolley Madison, and their friends. The event, which is sponsored by The New School's Food Studies Program, will include a tasting of some recipes. 

More than a century before New York women won the right to vote in 1917 (it took three more years for the country to ratify the 19th Amendment), some steadfast and intelligent wives stood alongside their husbands as our nation was created. Even without a ballot, they were an effective force in nurturing Colonial America. Woven into their biographies are details about what they ate, how meals were served, and sources for recipes, along with culinary innovations and insightful anecdotes about daily life and this new country. They reveal much of our history and even how we still eat today.

WHO:

Joanna Pruess is a culinary historian, chef, and award-winning food and travel writer who has written extensively for The New York Times Magazine, The Washington Post, Fine Cooking, Food & Wine, PBS’ online magazine: NextAvenue.org, and the Associated Press. Her fourteen cookbooks include the recently-published Soup for Two: Small-Batch Recipes for One, Two, or a Few; Dos Caminos' Tacos (with Ivy Stark); The Tea Cookbook; The Cast-Iron Cookbook; and Seduced by Bacon: Recipes and Lore about America’s Favorite Indulgence.

Kelsey Brow is a curator at the King Manor Museum specializing in historic house museums, textiles, food history, and material culture of the Early Modern period and the 19th century. 

WHEN

Monday, January 30, 2017 at 6:30 pm

WHERE

Wollman Hall, Eugene Lang College 65 West 11th Street Room B500