Event Lectures and Symposia Food, Family, Community: Annabelle Tometich and Crystal Wilkinson

Date and Location

  • When: Saturday, August 24, 2024

    2:50 pm - 3:50 pm EDT

  • Where: Walter E. Washington Convention Center - West Salon GHI (Street Level, South Building)

    801 Allen Y. Lew Place NW, Washington, DC 20001

Part of National Book Festival ; 2024 National Book Festival

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The foods we love can be an entrée into who we are, according to these nonfiction books. Annabelle Tometich examines her Filipino mother in “The Mango Tree” and Crystal Wilkinson’s “Praisesong for the Kitchen Ghosts” collects the memories and recipes of her Black Appalachian forebears. Moderated by Anna Spiegel.

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