Ken Albala discusses Pancake: A Global History on Tuesday, January 6, at 6:30 p.m. at the Central Library, 14 W. 10th St.
Albala explains the cultural importance of the pancake through human history – from the Greek and Roman eras to the Middle Ages to present day. The pancake has earned a reputation as a nutritional staple, a comfort food, a portable victual for travelers, a celebratory dish, and a breakfast meal. Pancake: A Global History also includes several historic and modern recipes.
Albala is a professor of history at the University of the Pacific. He is also the author of Cooking in Europe: 1250-1650, The Banquet: Dining in the Great Courts of Late Renaissance Europe, and Beans: A History.
Copies of Pancake: A Global History will be available for sale, and Albala will sign copies purchased during the event.
Admission is free. A 6 p.m. reception precedes the event. Click here [4] or call 816.701.3407 to RSVP. Free parking is available in the Library District Parking Garage at 10th and Baltimore.###
Two other programs at the Kansas City Public Library offer a fountain of fun food facts as the authors of Hamburger: A Global History [5], and Citrus: A History [6] discuss their books on January 13 and 27, respectively.
The books are part of Reaktion Books’ new Edible series of chapbooks.
The programs complement the Hungry Planet exhibit [7] on display at the Central Library through January 18.
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