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
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The collection has largely been built through donations and i want to thank her for giving us her wonderful collection. People always want to know, is the collection accessible . We have about half of them catalogued. We also have materials on our website under the food studies collection. Finding find links to parts of the collection. You will find papers. And so we welcome people, you do not have to affiliated with nyu or any university to come and consult with the collection. Everybody is interested in food in new york. I didnt want to mention a couple of new titles that have come in just because, who would come up with the title glutenfree comfort vegan food. I am not making it up. And bridgets diet coke look. Diet cookbook. The drag queens guide to sensible living. The, this a bit of very wide swath that we are cutting through this cookbook world. There are more cut books published cookbooks published every year than any other book, except for this one jon runyan. Romance except f