Maize: The Life Force of the Americas - Food Lecture

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Celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month! Discover the rich and complex history of maize, the life force of the Americas, with Maite Gomez-Rejon of ArtBites in this interactive demonstration while you prepare Memelas with Black Beans, Mushrooms and Zucchini. Register for this event. Pick up ingredients to make your own memelas at home from any PVLD library while supplies last. Register here.

Maite Gomez-Rejón is the founder of ArtBites. She has dedicated her career to exploring the nexus of art and culinary history through lectures, cooking classes, and tastings presented in museums and universities across the country and through videos on her YouTube channel – ArtBites: Cooking Art History. Maite has a BFA from the University of Texas at Austin, an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a Grande Diplome from the French Culinary Institute in New York City. She has been a guest on the Today Show, featured in Food & Wine magazine and Hyperallergic, and interviewed on KCRW's Good Food, NPR's Splendid Table and the BBC’s The Food Programme. She is also a contributor to Life & Thyme, Eaten Magazine, Gastro Obscura and other publications. Her essay, “Mexico's Early Cookbooks,” appears in the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Latin American History.

Event Type(s): Author Reading/Lecture

Age Group(s): Adult, Senior

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