I did want to mention a couple of new titles, glutenfree, vegancomfort food. And bridgets diet book. Wild and food cook book. You see a bit of the swath we are cutting in the cooking world. Sorry . [inaudible] romance fiction. Still in paper back. Its a great pleasure for me to introduce clark work which is the master of ceremonies for these events and thank you for coming. Thank you all. One of the reasons we wanted to gather to be the and after 5 00 is because you we wanted you to have all the sunlight that you can get. I was at a book party on the upper east side, a book that Marian Burros had written from the New York Times. Lets walk a little bit and we were on 96th, in new york or something. Before we knew it we had gotten all the way to Washington Square and convinced me to help her food up the nutrition department. 20 years later there are food studies all over the country and the program here is thriving. Its extraordinary that we are now helping to educate already incredibly
Good afternoon. Im marvin taylor, the director of the library. It is a pleasure for me to welcome you here to our next critical topic in foods. Food studies 20 years. Is the Movement Really changing food . Im delighted that you all joined us here. We have one of the largest collections of cooks in the country. We have over 60,000 at this point. The collection has largely been built on donations and i would like to thank meryl evans who is here who gave up some of her collection. We continue to build that collection. People always ask how the collection is accessible. We have about half of the books cataloged. You can check there. We also have archival materials. You can find it in our website. And important papers there. Groups from the 70s and 80s. We welcome people, it at the affiliated with nyu to make an appointment. It is here to be a resource for everybody interested in food. Wanted to mention a couple of titles that have come in. Who would come up with the vegan, glutenfree the
Started in this program and give us a moment or two to be the at milan. Ood guide sure. I was at the first meeting that marion told you to convene about starting this department. I was someone sitting around a table with a bunch of smart people in the food world. There wasnt really a food world back then. Just people working with food. Thinking about what a program could be was amazing. I thought i have to sign up. And started the following year and applied as a phd candidate. The thing that was so exciting about that at the time was i was the food geek would be competing on television with a junior chefs show and i was always interested in food but not something that a middleclass jewish kid could do with this his head held high. I dont regret not being a chef. The idea that there would be an Academic Program that would look at food which was more akin to how i personally integrate the idea of food into my life which is that it is a cultural phenomenon, their experts and artists and i
Your conferences which is coming up again, 8001000 people in the middle of a rainy saturday afternoon were talking in practical terms about what they were doing. It was not a political movement. It was activity interaction and discussion. Please help it welcomed the executive rector of just food. Welcome the executive director of just. Read with a sense of social justice. Food was started 20 years ago by a group of people that were looking at the Movement Towards Sustainable Agriculture and the antihunger Movement Thinking that there should not be parallel lines. We had farms disappearing and we have people in the city were hungry. Convened the first conference the first year and what they eventually hit on was the first thing they did which was csa. At the point that just food was founded, there was one csa in new york city. There are now 130 in our network. From the beginning, there was a on making sure that was accessible to everyone. Csa often of income involves payment upfront and
Next week. 23 year old Benjamin Clague is accused of killing isu freshman emmalee jacobs near campus last december. Police arrested him more than a month later. Based on evidence that includes video from inside the bus he was driving the morning jacobs was hit. Clague is out on bond. His arraignment is set for february 15th. The republican president ial candidates took the stage in New Hampshire last night. Heading into the primary, donald trump and ted cruz are still looking back at the iowa caucuses. And one of the top finishers here. Found himself an obvious target. Steve handelsman has the story. Surging in New Hampshire polls, marco rubio was defensive. Knowing hed get slammed for being a first term senator i think its not the experience but how it worked out. The attack came from governors you have not been involved in a consequential decision where you Chris Christie and former governor jeb bush you learn this. You learn it by doing it. Were gonna win were gonna win with trump t