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Gather Around the Table at Temple University Libraries this spring

Please join us this spring for the Libraries’ Beyond the Page public programming series. This year our theme, “Gather Around the Table”, will frame critical conversations around the common theme of food. This semester’s series launches with a talk by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Michael Moss, on his book Salt, Sugar, Fat: How the Food Fiants Hooked Us.

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Upcoming programs include:

•   Salt, Sugar, Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked UsThursday, Jan. 30 at 6 pm

Michael Moss: Salt, Sugar, Fat
In Salt, Sugar, Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us—which was recently featured on the cover of The New York Times Magazine—Pulitzer Prize-winning author Michael Moss examines the boardroom strategies of America’s most recognizable food brands, explains how food scientists use the “bliss point” of sugary foods to guarantee maximum addictiveness and deconstructs marketing campaigns that redirect health risk concerns.

Moss’s lecture at Temple is cosponsored by Temple Contemporary, the General Education Program, the Center for Obesity Research and Education, and the Myer & Rosaline Feinstein Center for American Jewish History.
 
•   Blechman food chain logoThursday, Feb. 6 at 4 pm

Nicholas Blechman: Food Chains
Food Chains is a project that maps the origins of our food in the industrialized food system. Using drawings and information graphics, award-winning illustrator and New York Times Art Director Nicholas Blechman goes behind the scenes at the world’s largest pasta factory in Parma, Italy, where he discovers the secret codes embedded in Parmigiano-Reggiano cheese rinds and explores the fraudulent production of olive oil.

Blechman’s lecture at Temple is cosponsored by Temple Contemporary and the Myer & Rosaline Feinstein Center for American Jewish History. That lecture is part of the Feinstein Center series What Is Your Food Worth?
 
•   Charles L. BlocksonFriday, Feb. 7 at 3 pm

Charles L. Blockson: The Presidents’ House Revisited Behind the Scenes: The Samuel Fraunces Story
Charles L. Blockson, founder of the Charles L. Blockson Afro-American Collection at Temple, discusses his latest publication, The Presidents’ House Revisited Behind the Scenes: The Samuel Fraunces Story, which explores the life of a black man who worked as a spy, cook and steward for George Washington at his home in Philadelphia. A book signing will follow the author’s talk.

This program will take place at the Charles L. Blockson Afro-American Collection on the first floor of Sullivan Hall, 1330 Polett Walk.
 
•   The American Way of EatingThursday, Feb. 20 at 3:30 pm

Tracie McMillan: The American Way of Eating
When award-winning (and working-class) journalist Tracie McMillan saw foodies swooning over $9 organic tomatoes, she couldn’t help but wonder: What about the rest of us? Why do working Americans eat the way we do? And what can we do to change it? To find out, McMillan went undercover in three jobs that feed America, living and eating off her wages in each. Reporting from California fields, a Walmart produce aisle outside of Detroit and the kitchen of a New York City Applebee’s, McMillan examines the reality of our country’s food industry in The American Way of Eating: Undercover at Walmart, Applebee’s, Farm Fields and the Dinner Table.

McMillan’s lecture at Temple is cosponsored by the Myer & Rosaline Feinstein Center for American Jewish History. That lecture is part of the Feinstein Center series What Is Your Food Worth?

All programs are free and open to the public.

Public programs are held at Paley Library, 1210 Polett Walk on Temple’s Main Campus unless otherwise specified.

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