Sarah Lohman takes us behind the scenes of her next book due out October 2023. Endangered Eating: America’s Vanishing Food  explores rare and endangered foods across the country. Lohman shares stories of her travels including local California adventures in the Coachella Valley learning about date varieties found nowhere else in the world. She’ll end the talk with a reading, the first time a part of her upcoming work will be shared. A video of today’s presentation will be postponed until October on the CHSC website, chsocal.org

A culinary historian and author of the bestselling book Eight Flavors: The Untold Story of American Cuisine Lohman focuses on the history of food as a way to access the stories of diverse Americans. Her work has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, and NPR. She has lectured  across the country, from the Smithsonian Museum of American History in Washington, DC to The Culinary Historians of Southern California. Her current project will be released with W.W. Norton & Co. in October  2023.

!!! This program will be held in person at the Mark Taper Auditorium at the Los Angeles Central Library.  It will not be available on Zoom!!!

Parking at the Central Library: 524 South Flower Street Garage. Saturday $1 flat rate with validation (9:30am – 5:30pm). Self-serve parking validation is available at the library’s Information Desk (first floor). The validation is a barcode imprinted on the parking ticket. Credit card or debit cards payments can be made at the exit gates. Cash payments can only be made in machines at the P-1 level of the parking garage before returning to your car.