The NYU Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, the Department of Anthropology, the Department of Nutrition and Food Studies, and the Center for Ancient Studies present
An Appetite for the Past
Monday, April 30, 2018
Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, Second Floor Lecture Hall
15 East 84th Street
212.992.7800
1:00pm Introduction and Opening Remarks
Yitzchak Jaffe (ISAW)
Alexander Jones (ISAW)
Kelila Jaffe (NYU)
1:30pm Scaling the Heights of Filial Gourmandism: Reconstructing the “Bake” (Bao 炮)
Paul Nicholas Vogt (Indiana University)
Wai Hon Chu (Institute of Culinary Education and NYU)
2:00pm Babylonian Cooking
Agnete Lassen (Yale University)
Pia Sörensen (Harvard University)
Gojko Barjamovic (Harvard University)
Nawal Nasrallah (Culinary Historian, Author, and Chef)
Chelsea Graham (Yale University)
2:30pm What Do Barbarians Eat? Food and Society at the Fringes of Bronze Age China
Yitzchak Jaffe (ISAW)
Karine Taché (CUNY Queens College)
Raymond Childs (ISAW)
3:00pm Fish Sauces at the Roman Table
Sally Grainger (Independent Scholar)
Cathy Kaufman (NYU)
Alessandra Pecci (University of Barcelona)
Edward Biddulph (Oxford Archaeology)
4:00pm The Medieval Blancmage
Amy Bentley (NYU)
Jennifer Berg (NYU)
Ryan Harrington (NYU)
4:30pm Bygone Fish: Rediscovering the Red Sea Parrotfish as a Delicacy of Byzantine Cuisine
Uri Jeremias (Chef and Founder, Uri Buri)
Guy Bar-Oz (University of Haifa)
Gil Gambash (University of Haifa)
Efraim Lev (University of Haifa)
5:00pm Free of Tainting: Vegetarian Recipes from Benxin’s Studio in Song China
Robban Toleno (Columbia University)
Amanda Cohen (Chef, Dirt Candy)
5:30pm Comments and Discussion
Roger Bagnall (ISAW)
Pam Crabtree (NYU)
Krishnendu Ray (NYU)
NOTE: Space permitting, registration for the conference will open to the general public on Friday, April 6th, at 10am. To register, please visit: isaw.nyu.edu/rsvp
In conjunction with the conference, a Tasting Symposium will be held on May 1, 6:00-8:00pm, in the Department of Nutrition and Food Studies. Teams will prepare tastings and serve a sample of their food research product for attendees to consume. To RSVP for the Tasting Symposium, please click here.
Please check isaw.nyu.edu for event updates.