Cooking by the Book with Food Historian Sarah Wassberg
Join us for this culinary talk presented by food historian Sarah Wassberg Johnson about celebrity chefs, cookbooks and the changing landscape of American cuisine. We will journey through America’s cuisine as told by cookbooks and explore celebrity chefs, obscure and familiar, from all over the country and across the decades. Spanning the late 18th century to the present, Wassberg Johnson discusses how cookbooks reflected and influenced changes in home cooking in the United States.
Sarah Wassberg Johnson is The Food Historian – author, speaker, educator, podcaster, and blogger on all things related to food history. A frequent interviewee of journalists looking for historical context, she was featured in all three episodes of The History Channel mini-series, “The Food That Built America” and has been featured on NPR, the Atlantic, CNN, Atlas Obscura, and more. She has published in New York History journal and the Agricultural History journal and is currently finalizing edits on her book, “Preserve or Perish: Food in New York State during the Great War, 1916-1919,” under contract with SUNY Press. Sarah received her MA in History/Public History from the University at Albany, the State University of New York, and her BA in History and Scandinavian Studies from Concordia College in Moorhead, Minnesota.