When We Gather: On Food, Celebration, and Ritual

In times like these especially, the power of gathering over shared nourishment and experience ripens with political possibility in anthropologist Ashanté Reese’s Gather, joyful festivity in entertaining expert Amber Mayfield Hewett’s Your Turn to Host, and fulsome flavor in chef Natasha Pickowicz’s Everyone Hot Pot. Join us for a wide-ranging conversation moderated by Danielle Davenport, co-founder of BEM, a bookstore and foundation celebrating Black food books.