Date:
Wednesday, March 26, 2014, 7:30pm to 9:00pm
Location:
Thompson Room, Barker Center
In the 1970s, needing money for graduate school, Merry “Corky” White took a catering job at Harvard’s Center for European Studies. The gig led to a lifelong friendship with then-neighbor Julia Child, hours of culinary research in the basement of Widener Library, and a meeting that led to the book Cooking for Crowds, which was recently re-released for its 40th anniversary. Now Boston’s preeminent food anthropologist, White will be discussing the dietary history of Roman orgies, her own experiences cooking for crowds, and the joys of writing about food.
