Gastro Obscura: A Food Adventurer's Guide
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FEATURING
- Moderator June Xie
- Dylan Thuras
- Cecily Wong
It’s truly a feast of wonder: Created by the ever-curious minds behind Atlas Obscura, the new anthology Gastro Obscura transforms our sense of what people around the world eat and drink. Covering all seven continents, Gastro Obscura serves up a loaded plate of incredible ingredients, food adventures, and edible wonders. Ready for a beer made from fog in Chile? Sardinia’s “Threads of God” pasta? Egypt’s 2000-year-old egg ovens? But far more than a menu of curious minds delicacies and unexpected dishes, Gastro Obscura reveals food’s central place in our lives as well as our bellies, touching on history–trace the network of ancient Roman fish sauce factories.
Authors Cecily Wong and Dylan Thuras join moderator June Xie (Delish) for a conversation on the power and pleasures of food. A Q&A follows.
This online program is presented by St. Agnes Library.
ABOUT THE SPEAKERS
Cecily Wong is a writer at Atlas Obscura and the author of two novels. Her debut novel, Diamond Head, was a Barnes and Noble Discover Great New Writers Selection, recipient of an Elle Readers’ Prize, and voted a best debut of the 2015 Brooklyn Book Festival. Her second novel, Kaleidoscope, will be published in 2022. Her work has appeared in the Wall Street Journal, the LA Review of Books, and elsewhere. She lives in Portland, Oregon, with her husband and daughter.
Dylan Thuras is the cofounder and creative director of Atlas Obscura, and coauthor of the New York Times bestseller Atlas Obscura: An Explorer’s Guide to the World’s Hidden Wonders. Dylan is the host of The Atlas Obscura Podcast and has been a host on the NYTimes T-Brand podcast So You Want to Work Abroad, a correspondent for NPR’s All Things Considered, as well as a guest on CBS Sunday Morning and Science Friday. His work has been featured in print in the New York Times, the New Yorker, and Men’s Health. Dylan’s pursuit of the unusual began when he was a teenager exploring abandoned buildings in the Midwest, and it eventually took him to Budapest for a year, where he and his wife Michelle Enemark explored and wrote about the history of Eastern Europe. He lives with Michelle and their two children, Phineas and Jean, in New York’s Hudson Valley.
June Xie is a Senior Food Producer at Delish. After working in numerous restaurant kitchens throughout NYC, June Xie joined the Delish team as Test Kitchen Assistant and chief baking expert with a passion for bread dough, peanut butter, whipped cream, and gluten free cookies. When she's not testing the thousands of recipes on site, she's developing them!
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