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Dish with Laura Tanner at the Keller Library

May 21 @ 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm

Drop in at the Keller Library on Tuesday, May 21, 5-6:30pm to contribute to Rising Resident Laura Tanner’s project, Dish, an ongoing project that studies regional foodways (i.e., the eating habits and culinary practices that guide the production and consumption of food) across the country to discover deep connections between diverse communities.

Tuesday, May 21, 5-6:30pm
Rosa F. Keller Library
4300 S. Broad Street, New Orleans
Note this is a drop in event, so no need to stay the whole time. Email info@astudiointhewoods.org with any questions.

In addition to creating drawings, Laura is collecting recipes and personal narratives about food traditions to be published in a series of printed catalogs as well as in an online archive. Please consider contributing to this effort by bringing a written recipe or food story to share in a listening both. The recipe could be one that has been handed down through the family for generations, shared with you by a friend, or developed on your own. The only requirement is that the recipe somehow evokes your relationship to Louisiana. If you decide to share a story, please consider one (or more) of the following prompts:

What is your relationship to Louisiana’s landscape? How has it changed throughout your life?
Describe your life and/ or family history in Louisiana?
What foods did you grow up with?
What is Louisiana food? How has it changed?
Tell a story about a recipe (it’s origins, who made it for you, etc.)
Who sits at your table?

The printed catalog will take the form of a community/ Junior League cookbook, acknowledging the activist history of informal cookbooks as the sustenance of change in America. If you choose to contribute, you will receive a copy of the catalog.

Details

Date:: May 21
Time:: 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm