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Inscribing Food/Talking Life: New Orleans Past

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Susan Tucker, Curator of Books and Records at the Newcomb Center for Research on Women, Tulane University, gives the third Franke lecture in the series “History of Food and Cuisine.” Her talk is entitled “Inscribing Food/Talking Life: New Orleans Past.”

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Susan Tucker, Curator of Books and Records at the Newcomb Center for Research on Women at Tulane University, gives the third Franke lecture in 2011 series, “History of Food and Cuisine.” Her talk is entitled “Inscribing Food/Talking Life: New Orleans Past.” Ms. Tucker is the author of Telling Memories Among Southern Women (1988); coeditor of The Scrapbook in American Life (2005), and editor of New Orleans Cuisine: Fourteen Signature Dishes and Their Histories (2009). More recently, Ms. Tucker is exploring the various forms in which family memories are kept, including the inscription of recipes and other food lore.

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