COME SEE US AT THE FESTIVAL OF BOOKS
F O O D L O V E R S and cooks will have plenty to explore at this year’s Los Angeles Times Festival of Books April 20 and 21 on the USC campus. Here’s what we have cooking:
PANELS AND INTERVIEWS SATURDAY, APRIL 20 4 p.m.: Food Memoir: Cooks with Books.
Storyteller, historian and Jewish recipe collector Joan Nathan (“My Life in Recipes: Food, Family, and Memories”), Francebased cooking teacher and guide Rosa Jackson (“Niçoise: Market-Inspired Cooking from France’s Sunniest City”) and chef, writer and magazine founder Klancy Miller (“For The Culture: Phenomenal Black Women and Femmes in Food: Interviews, Inspiration, and Recipes”) discuss how food can be a main character in our interactions with the world.
Free. At USC’s Ray Stark Family Theatre.
SUNDAY, APRIL 21 12:30 p.m.: Ideas Exchange: José Andrés.
A conversation with the humanitarian, chef and founder of World Central Kitchen about his work feeding people in disaster and war zones, including the recent tragedy in Gaza, as well as his many restaurants and cookbooks, including his latest, “Zaytinya: Delicious Mediterranean Dishes From Greece, Turkey, and Lebanon.” Hosted by L.A. Times Food General Manager Laurie Ochoa.
USC’s Bovard Auditorium. Tickets required. $75 orchestra seating with copy of “Zaytinya,” $35 balcony general admission.