We are delighted to launch the Taubman Symposia’s 2024-25 season with a fascinating journey, led by Margaret E. Boyle and Ilan Stavans, through their new cookbook, Sabor Judío: The Jewish Mexican Cookbook (UNC Press, 2024). The talk highlights connections between food and diaspora for Mexican Jews, histories of immigration from 1492 to the present, and stories behind several recipes and people featured in the cookbook. The conversation also delves into links between food, memory and storytelling for Jewish Mexican Life.
“This is the book I have long been waiting for! With insight and knowledge, Ilan Stavans and
Margaret Boyle show the way Jewish food travels around the world with its people.” (Pati Jinich,
author of Treasures of the Mexican Table)
“An instant classic and more than a cookbook—it is a critical portrait of a community. An absolutely
new and stellar contribution.” (Michael W. Twitty, author of Koshersoul)
Margaret Boyle is Associate Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures at Bowdoin College, and director there of Latin American, Caribbean, and Latinx Studies. She founded and directs Multilingual Mainers, an elementary world languages and cultures program at Bowdoin. Her teaching and research focus on Hispanic women’s literary and cultural history, comedia history and performance, and health humanities.
Ilan Stavans, a leading Jewish Mexican scholar and critic, is Lewis-Sebring Professor of Humanities and Latin American and Latino Culture at Amherst College. He is cofounder and publisher of Restless Books, and a consultant to the Oxford English Dictionary. A New York Times bestseller and the recipient of numerous international awards and honors, he has published children’s books, dictionaries, biographies, graphic novels, and more.
Sunday, November 17, 2024 3:00 p.m. PT
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