Last fall, I attended an event during the First Person Arts Festival featuring Joan Nathan. She is a fabulous storyteller and brought the audience on her journey through France in an exploration of Jewish French cuisine. I learned that Jewish men introduced the eggplant to France by bringing seeds from India. Of course, you can't talk about food without eating! So, there were plates of Zahav's famous hummus and sandwiches from Hershel's East Side Deli. Yum! 

I'm a huge fan of cookbooks and food anthropology so the idea of listening to someone's stories about food while eating food...

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