About this Event
Durham County Library and Durham Library Foundation are hosting the 2nd Annual Library Fest from April 18 – 23, 2022. Library Fest is a celebration of public libraries, and this year the theme is all about food. Library Fest will be comprised of virtual and in-person programs for all ages. The public can look forward to cooking classes for kids, dual language programs, a digital history exhibit, STEAM programs, coffee meetups, business programs, and much more.
The grand finale on Saturday, April 23, will feature a conversation with Michael W. Twitty and Mark Anthony Neal at Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University. Twitty, is a culinary historian, educator and author of The Cooking Gene, and Neal, a James B. Duke Distinguished Professor of African & African American Studies. Twitty is also a winner of the James Beard Foundation Book Award and is known for his interpretations for the experiences of enslaved African Americans through food and its preparation.
Michael W. Twitty is a culinary historian and food writer from the Washington D.C. area. He blogs at Afroculinaria.com. He’s appeared on Bizarre Foods America with Andrew Zimmern, Many Rivers to Cross with Henry Louis Gates and most recently Taste the Nation with Top Chef‘s Padma Lakshmi. HarperCollins released Twitty’s The Cooking Gene in 2017, tracing his ancestry through food from Africa to America and from slavery to freedom, a finalist for The Kirkus Prize and The Art of Eating Prize and a 3rd place winner of Barnes & Noble’s Discover New Writer’s Awards in Nonfiction.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Nasher Museum of Art, 2001 Campus Drive, Durham, United States
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