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Main Event Many Voices: Sarah Lohman
Saturday, September 20
2:00pm - 4:00pm
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Main Event Many Voices: Sarah Lohman
The Main Event: Many Voices series returns with culinary historian Sarah Lohman, who will explore the topic, "Endangered Eating: America's Vanishing Foods."
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AuditoriumThe Main Event: Many Voices series returns with culinary historian Sarah Lohman, who will explore the topic, "Endangered Eating: America's Vanishing Foods."
Sarah Lohman is originally from Hinckley, Ohio where she began working in a museum at the age of 16, cooking historical food over a wood-burning stove. She graduated with a BFA from the Cleveland Institute of Art in 2005. For her undergraduate thesis, she opened a temporary restaurant/installation that reinterpreted food of the Colonial era for a modern audience. Lohman moved to New York City in 2006 and worked as Video Producer for New York magazine’s food blog, "Grub Street." She chronicled her personal explorations in culinary history on her blog, "Four Pounds Flour," from 2008-2018.
Lohman’s most recent book "Endangered Eating: America’s Vanishing Foods," was released by W.W. Norton & Co. in October 2023. The book is a New York Times Editors’ Choice and was named one of the Best Books of 2023 by Amazon, 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.
Over her career, Lohman’s work has been featured in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, as well as on "All Things Considered," CNN, Gimlet Media, and NHK Japan. She has appeared in PBS’s American Experience, "The Cooking Channel’s Food: Fact or Fiction," and developed a historical food service for Taylor Mac’s a "24-Decade History of Popular Music."
Registration is not required. Seating is first come, first served. Auditorium doors will open at 1:30 pm for early seating. This event is ASL interpreted.
If you have any questions, please contact the Culture & AV Division by phone at 330.643.9015 or email at cadiv@akronlibrary.org. This event is ASL interpreted
The Friends of Main Library will be attending Main Event Many Voices: Sarah Lohman.
Lohman's book, "Endangered Eating: America’s Vanishing Foods," will be available for purchase while supplies last.
EVENT TYPE: | Books & Writing |
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