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We know a lot about the everyday life of the ancient Egyptians—the crops they gathered, how they baked their breads and so on. What exactly they ate, what dishes they made, those are harder to assess. Charles Perry will do his best.

Charles Perry majored in Middle East Studies at Princeton University and the University of California, Berkeley. From 1968 to 1976 he was an editor and staff writer at Rolling Stone in San Francisco. In 1978 he returned to Los Angeles as a freelance food writer, and from 1990 to 2008 he was a staff writer for the Food Section of the Los Angeles Times. He has written widely on Middle Eastern food history, was a major contributor to the Oxford Companion to Food, has translated four medieval Arabic cookbooks and is the president and co-founder of the Culinary Historians of Southern California.

!!! 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!!!

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