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Virtual Northbrook Writes: Intro to Food Memoir

Freda Love Smith

In this workshop, Freda Love Smith, author, drummer, and lecturer at Northwestern University, will help you explore food memoir as a means to access memory, communicate identity, and express emotion.

This event will be held live using an online meeting platform. Once you have registered, please check your email the day before the program for a link.

Advance registration is required for all of our virtual programs. You do not need a library card to register. You only need to register once for each program, even if more than one person in your household will be attending the program.

M.F.K. Fisher states in her introduction to The Gastronomical Me, that “there is a communion of more than our bodies when bread is broken and wine drunk.” “And that is my answer,” she continues, “when people ask me: Why do you write about hunger, and not wars or love?”

In this introductory workshop, Freda Love Smith will help participants to explore food memoir as a means to access memory, communicate identity, and express emotion. Through mini-lectures, discussion, and writing exercises, participants will generate ideas for personal food essays.

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