Sabor Judío: The Jewish Mexican Cookbook with Ilan Stavans and Margaret Boyle

​In this delicious work, authors Ilan Stavans and Margaret Boyle celebrate the culinary traditions of Jewish Mexican cuisine across the centuries.

This event will take place in person at the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Library on the 7th Floor.

At the program, Stavans and Boyle will discuss the delectable culinary history of Jewish immigration to Mexico from 1492 to the present, illustrating how flavors and dishes evolved in Mexican and Jewish kitchens, and how they fused into a distinct cuisine, mainly by the labor of Ashkenazi, Sephardic, Mizrahi, and converso women.

To join the event in person | Doors will open 30 minutes before the program begins. For free events, we generally overbook to ensure a full house. Priority will be given to those who have registered in advance, but registration does not guarantee admission. All registered seats are released shortly before start time, and seats may become available at that time. A standby line will form 30 minutes before the program.

ABOUT THE AUTHORS

Ilan Stavans is a leading Jewish Mexican scholar and critic, is Lewis-Sebring Professor of Humanities and Latin American and Latino Culture at Amherst College, the publisher of Restless Books, and a consultant to the Oxford English Dictionary. Translated into numerous languages, his books have been adapted into film, radio,  theater and television. Born in Mexico City, he has translated Jorge Luis Borges, Pablo Neruda, and Juan Rulfo into English, Emily Dickinson and Elizabeth Bishop into Spanish, Isaac Bashevis Singer from Yiddish, Yehuda Amichai from Hebrew, and Don Quixote of La Mancha and Alice in Wonderland into Spanglish.

Margaret Boyle is director of Latin American, Caribbean, and Latinx Studies at Bowdoin College and associate professor of Romance Languages and Literatures. A Jewish-Mexican-American from Los Angeles, her teaching and research focuses on Hispanic women's literary and cultural history, comedia history and performance, and health  humanities, including medical, spiritual and food cultures. Her books include Unruly Women: Performance, Penitence and Punishment in Early Modern Spain (2014) and Health and Healing in the Early Modern Iberian World: A Gendered Perspective  (2021). Boyle founded and directs Multilingual Mainers, an elementary world languages and cultures program.

ACCESSIBILITY NOTES

In-Person

• Assistive listening devices and/or hearing loops are available at the venue.


• You can request a free ASL (American Sign Language) interpretation or CART (Communication Access Real-Time Translation) captioning service by emailing your request at least two weeks in advance of the event: email accessibility@nypl.org or use this Gmail template.


• This venue is fully accessible to wheelchairs.

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The 7 Stories Up Series at SNFL is made possible by the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF).