[Eril-l] Fwd: FW: ALCTS President's Program in New Orleans

[Mary Page]

 Please join ALCTS in New Orleans for a fantastic program!!



http://www.ala.org/news/member-news/2018/01/alcts-speaker-uncovers-southern-
food-and-family


CHICAGO—Michael W. Twitty, author of The Cooking Gene (HarperCollins,
2017), is the featured speaker at the President’s Program of the
Association for Library Collections & Technical Services (ALCTS). The
President’s Program “Dining from a Haunted Plate” will be held at *10:30
a.m. on Monday, June 25, 2018* during the American Library Association
(ALA) Annual Conference and Exhibition in New Orleans, La.



Join Twitty as he discusses his journey to uncover the history of Southern
food in his own family. This talk focuses on his search through the lens of
extensive research at libraries and archives and plantations across the
South and how he translated that journey into food through museum education
and historic interpretation. In tracing his family roots through food from
enslavement to emancipation, from West and Central Africa to the Old South,
his work invites all Southerners of all backgrounds to a complicated,
uncomfortable groaning table rich in heritage and tradition in which new
conversations and connections emerge.



Twitty is a noted culinary and cultural historian and the creator of
Afroculinaria, the first blog devoted to African American historic foodways
and their legacies. He has been honored by FirstWeFeast.com as one of the
twenty greatest food bloggers of all time, and named one of the “Fifty
People Who Are Changing the South” by Southern Living and one of the “Five
Cheftavists to Watch” by TakePart.com. Twitty has appeared throughout the
media, including on NPR’s The Splendid Table, and has given more than 250
talks in the United States and abroad. His work has appeared in Ebony, the
Guardian and on NPR.org. He is also a Smith fellow with the Southern
Foodways Alliance, a TED fellow and speaker and the first Revolutionary in
Residence at the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation. Twitty lives in Silver
Spring, Md.



The Cooking Gene was recently awarded the 2018 James Beard Award for
Writing and was named the 2018 James Beard Book of the Year.



Following his presentation, Twitty will be signing copies of The Cooking
Gene and Preservation Week posters.



ALCTS thanks the University of Kentucky Libraries for their generous
sponsorship of the 2018 ALCTS President’s Program.



The Association for Library Collections & Technical Services (ALCTS) is the
national association for information providers who work in collections and
technical services, such as acquisitions, cataloging, collection
development, preservation and continuing resources in digital and print
formats. ALCTS is a division of the American Library Association.
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