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2:00 pm EST
September 27, 2026

North Stage, Cadman Plaza East

Korean War Veterans Park Brooklyn NY 11201 United States

Non-Fiction

Free

The Culinary Life: Crafting Narrative and Memoir Through Food

Food is life, and for culinary lives—where craft, relationships, and personal growth are rooted in the kitchen—the lens of food can sometimes be the clearest vantage point from which to look back. Join us to explore the ways food guides narrative in memoirs by chefs and writers Brigid Washington, author of Salt, Sweat & Steam and Zahra Tangorra, author of Extra Sauce; and in Tanya Bush‘s narrative cookbook Will This Make You Happy; moderated by Lisa Donovan, author of Our Lady of Perpetual Hunger. 

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