Moral rectitude. But feeling it was honest and you were treated like respect. We appreciate you spending a few minutes talking with us at the span. At cspan and book tv. The last panel of the day, this is goin good afternoon, e director of the john w library of congress. This center is one of the sponsors of this years festival and are proud to bring beloved writers here. We work to bring scholars to work in the librarys collections. We are proud to sponsor this event and join with cspan as a partner. Our next panel is dig in what food says about us. It features cheuk kwan, anya von bremzen, and Daniela Galarza. His new book is have you eaten yet . Anya is an Award Winning author and culinary author. Our moderator, Daniela Galarza is a staff writer for the washington post. Please join me in welcoming them. [applause] daniela high everyone, how is everyone . You had a good trip in . Cheuk yes i did. [laughter] daniela i want to do a brief introduction, if people had not read the books,
A family, table, but i would also argue food has a lot of commercial value, and identity has a lot of commercial value. Think about it. A lot of these protectionist mechanisms started in the 1990s with neoliberal globalized politics and economics. The neapolitan establishment organization is like this, and you cannot make it another way. They sell their cultural capital, national capital, digital capital. You have slow food at the same time. Something of culinary the sergeant came into vogue, and on the one hand the forces of food identity and patriotism and this intense marketing. Bulgarian, turkish, all of this stuff. There is a lot of money involved. Absolutely. Anya not to ruin everyones sentiment or anything. Once you look behind the taste and flavor of everything, it comes very political. You mentioned pizza margarita and how this authenticity, this idea of authenticity and hyper regional italian food started spreading, and chuck, in your book you started demonstrating how chines
We work to bring scholars to work in the librarys collections. We are proud to sponsor this event and join with cspan as a partner. Our next panel is dig in what food says about us. It features cheuk kwan, anya von bremzen, and Daniela Galarza. His new book is have you eaten yet . Anya is an Award Winning author and culinary author. Our moderator, Daniela Galarza is a staff writer for the washington post. Please join me in welcoming them. [applause] daniela high everyone, how is everyone . You had a good trip in . Cheuk yes i did. [laughter] daniela i want to do a brief introduction, if people had not read the books, i highly recommend them. National dish and have you eaten yet . , i have fallen in love with them. I am enamored with the curiosity and depth you have approached the reporting. I want to do a brief introduction of each book, you will get into question, and open up to audience questions. We will call people up. Anya is book anya writes, we have an idea of what french, itali
Todays speakers. One of the sponsors of this year ss festival. We are proud to bring americas most beloved writers here into rooms like this one. The center works to bring scholars into residents to work into the librarys collections. We are proud to sponsor this event. And to join with cspan as a partner for this project. Our next panel is dig in. What food says about us. Chuck is a writer and filmmaker. Cofinding a magazine and its own production company. His new book is have you eaten yet. Stories from Chinese Restaurants from around the world. A threetime james. Awardwinning author pierre turn latest book is National Dish. Around the world in search of food, history and the meaning of home. And our moderator, the staff writer for the food section of the washington post. Ea please join me in welcoming them [applause] hello, everyone. How is everyone today. A good trip then. I love it. I wanted to do a brief introduction. If people have not read the book yet i highly highly recommend
We are hearing a lot about china these days in east asia. That is what interested me. When i think of alaska and the early 20th century, i am thinking of hawaii, along, the philippines, the panama canal San Francisco. And of course the British Empire in British Columbia and the british have other territories. And of course japan is a rising power. I am interested in how that plays out. The different empires and the relationship between them and i a working on a book right now that focuses on the american empire and the British Empire in the far pacific northwest. I will be in the yukon some researching that. My interest is on is in my interest is in how broad things play out in particular places. Not so much how big themes play out. The same thing applies to the book on anchorage. I will move quickly through what we have here. I hope not too quickly. I hope not too quickly. Most of us know that ingrid starts out as a railroad town. We do not need to say much about that. The government