The Inclusive History Project and the Jewish Communal Leadership Program co-presented a conversation with world-renowned food writers and U-M alumni Joan Nathan, Ruth Reichl, and Ari Weinzweig. The three writers discussed the rich cultural encounters they experienced as students in Ann Arbor and shared how their time at U-M shaped their career trajectories. Reichl and Nathan were on campus in the 1960s and Weinzweig in the 1970s, critical and prolific decades when experimentation and innovation were being fostered from multiple vantage points through multiple senses, including taste! The conversation explored how food and identity are tied together and how those ties were experienced and explored by our special guests as students and in their careers.
Following the panel discussion, a reception was held with catering by Zingerman’s.
This event was presented by the Inclusive History Project and the Jewish Communal Leadership Program at the U-M School of Social Work and was co-sponsored by the U-M Department for Student Life; the U-M Frankel Center for Judaic Studies; the U-M Department of History; and the U-M Department of American Culture.
A recording of the event will be available for viewing in the coming weeks.
This event is associated with the IHP project site Outsiders, Insiders, Radicals, and Reformers: A History of Jews at the University of Michigan.