Join us for a MOFAD book club event as we discuss Leah Eskin’s new novel, Like Wafers in Honey, which was inspired by the life and recipes of Edda Servi Machlin. Machlin’s important cookbook The Classic Cuisine of the Italian Jews (along with its sequels) offers the compelling story of a vanished community — Machlin's family, along with the other Jewish townspeople of Pitigliano, known as Little Jerusalem, fled during World War II. Leah will be joined by Sari Kamin to discuss the process of converting Machlin’s recipes for the modern cook all while showing how memory, food, and storytelling can resist erasure.
Ticket includes entry to Street Food City from 6 PM to 7 PM, a bite from the book, and refreshments.