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
The cover story out this week , a caricature of donald trump with this headline. Meltdown. Thank you for having me. I want to begin where your story begins. If you could read believe between the tea leaves what was that conversation . Developed an unlikely partnership. They are having a sweeping panic about the trajectory of the polls. The campaign was going in the wrong direction. They needed to turn it around. Whats going on in the rnc, they are trying to make a deliberation before early voting begins how they want to spend resources in terms of cash and feels field staff. Theres a menu of options on the table. This is something the rnc will have to make a determination about. He does not have a large staff. How reliant has he been, will he be moving ahead with the ground game . You bring up an important point. They have a joint fundraising agreement and have been working in tandem. Trump has exclusively relied on the Campaign Mechanics that other campaigns built. He has not run a si
Reframe america. At the social Gospel Movement at the end of the 19th to early 20th century. Movement, Teddy Roosevelt and Franklin Roosevelt impacted that said in Public Square, our deepest concerns ought to be fair wages andhealthcare and education protect an environment, and votingy when it comes to rights. The Civil Rights Movement had deep moral underpinnings. Believe, in 1967 this was before dr. Looked at militarism, materialism, and racively. Racism. He said we needed a radical of values, today. When we see a kind of an moral to limit the discussion to abortion, prayer in the school and where you homosexuality, and isgested that the better way deny y living wages, reform, Voting Rights and make gun to rybody can get a have a vote is an expression of moral values, our constitution, is justice, mercy, how you care for the least of hese, how you care for the vulnerable, how you embrace all people. Those are the deep moral values hat we believe we need to recover that and in some wa
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