{"product_id":"event-what-we-carry-women-writing-food-grief-and-memory","title":"Event: What We Carry: Women Writing Food, Grief, and Memory","description":"\u003ch3 dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(43, 0, 255);\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWednesday, July 1 at \u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(255, 42, 0);\"\u003e111 Broadway in the Financial District.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003ch3 dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(43, 0, 255);\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDoors open 6:00 | Talk 6:30-7:30 | Book Signing 7:30-8:00 pm\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFood memoirs have long offered writers a way to tell stories that extend far beyond the plate. In particular, many of the most resonant contemporary food memoirs by women use food as a lens for exploring grief, caregiving, family history, addiction, trauma, and survival. While food writing by men has often centered professional identity, culinary mastery, or life in restaurants, women food memoirists have frequently turned toward the emotional and domestic interior—using meals, recipes, and acts of feeding as a way to process loss, longing, and transformation.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eJoin acclaimed authors Laurie Woolever (\u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.kitchenartsandletters.com\/products\/care-and-feeding-a-memoir-paperback\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eCare and Feeding\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan\u003e), Lisa Donovan (\u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.kitchenartsandletters.com\/products\/our-lady-of-perpetual-hunger-paperback\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eOur Lady of Perpetual Hunger\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan\u003e), and Youngmi Mayer (\u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.kitchenartsandletters.com\/products\/im-laughing-because-im-crying-a-memoir-1\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eI’m Laughing Because I’m Crying\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.kitchenartsandletters.com\/products\/im-laughing-because-im-crying-a-memoir-1\"\u003e)\u003c\/a\u003e for a candid conversation about writing through food as a way of making sense of complicated lives. Across three distinct memoirs—by turns funny, devastating, and deeply intimate—these writers explore how food becomes a language for grief, identity, addiction, estrangement, and survival.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eModerated by \u003cem\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/em\u003e staff writer \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/contributors\/helen-rosner\"\u003eHelen Rosner\u003c\/a\u003e, this discussion will consider the possibilities of food memoir beyond the recipe or restaurant narrative, and how women writers have expanded the genre to hold stories of loss, resilience, and emotional complexity. Together, they will explore what it means to write from hunger—literal, emotional, and inherited—and how food can both conceal and reveal the truths we struggle to say directly.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNon-alcoholic beverages generously provided by \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.soberincentralpark.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eSober in Central Park\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTickets are non-refundable. You will not receive a physical ticket. Your name will be on a list at the door. This event will not be recorded.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(43, 0, 255);\"\u003ePlease note that this event is at 111 Broadway (corner of Thames St) at the NYC Food Stories by Kitchen Arts \u0026amp; Letters pop-up store.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Kitchen Arts \u0026 Letters","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41731851649157,"sku":"event062526","price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0297\/5046\/0549\/files\/What_We_Carry_2.png?v=1782241572","url":"https:\/\/www.kitchenartsandletters.com\/products\/event-what-we-carry-women-writing-food-grief-and-memory","provider":"Kitchen Arts \u0026 Letters","version":"1.0","type":"link"}