Audience
Virtual Book Launch for Good Eats: 32 Writers on Eating Ethically, NYU Press, 2024
Co-edited by Jennifer Cognard-Black and Melissa A. Goldthwaite
6.00 PM EST, Thursday, January 18th
Register for this FREE launch and creative reading here: https://nyu.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN__vdbTEQVT0CoyWs32kxjtQ
In an age of mass factory farming, processed and pre-packaged meals, and unprecedented food waste, how does one eat ethically? Featuring a highly diverse ensemble of award-winning writers, chefs, farmers, activists, educators, and journalists, Good Eats invites readers to think about what it means to eat according to individual and collective values. These essays are not lectures about what you should eat, nor an advertisement for the latest diet. Instead, the contributors tell stories of real people—real bellies, real bodies—including the writers themselves, who seek to understand the experiences, cultures, histories, and systems that have shaped their eating and their ethics.
Good Eats will encourage you to become more mindful of what and how you eat—and to consider the larger systems and cultures that shape that eating. These essays turn mundane meals into remarkable symbols of how we live, encouraging each of us to find food that is both sustaining and sustainable.
Contributors who will provide "tasting plates" from their essays at this celebratory reading include Shirley Geok-lin Lim, Barbara J. King, Ira Sukrungruang, Lisa Knopp, Maureen Stanton, Taté Walker, Nick Neely, and Wendy Petersen-Boring & Katy Giombolini (who wrote a collaborative essay). Jennifer Cognard-Black and Melissa A. Goldthwaite will introduce and moderate the event.