Please join the Eurasia Club and the Culinary Diplomacy Club at The Fletcher School for a conversation with famed food scholar and author Darra Goldstein. The presentation and tasting will explore the use of food as a means of rapprochement between cultures. What is the value of a shared meal? Can an awareness of others’ foodways increase intercultural understanding even as it highlights fundamental differences?

The event will include a standing dinner reception with Moldovan cuisine and foods fermented in Ukrainian, Georgian, Russian, and Romanian styles. The fermentation tasting will be accompanied by commentary on the traditions and processes behind them. The event is open to the public. Please make sure to register via myFletcher to participate in the event in person.

Darra Goldstein is the Willcox B. and Harriet M. Adsit Professor of Russian, Emerita at Williams College and the author of eight award-winning cookbooks. She is editor in chief of the forthcoming Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Food Studies and serves as series editor of California Studies in Food and Culture from the University of California Press, a book series that seeks to broaden the audience for serious scholarship as well as to celebrate food as a means of understanding the world. Goldstein has consulted for the Council of Europe on using food as a tool for tolerance and diversity and has held distinguished fellowships in food studies at the University of Toronto and the University of Melbourne. She currently sits on the board of the Julia Child Foundation for Gastronomy and the Culinary Arts and is a member of the advisory “Kitchen Cabinet” of the Smithsonian National Museum of American History.