Author Talk - Alex Prud'homme In-Person / Online
Writer Alex Prud'homme will discuss his recent book Dinner with the President. The book is a narrative history of American food, politics, and twenty-six presidents, from George Washington starving at Valley Forge in 1777 to Donald Trump's burger banquets, and Joe Biden's "performance enhancing" ice cream in 2022. The White House is the most important home in the world, and the meals served there communicate many things: the meals our leaders eat, who prepares and consumes them, and the context of presidential gatherings semaphore one set of signals; the Chief Executive's food policies send a different set of signals. Taken together, these messages touch on everything from personal nutrition to the evolution of American taste, local politics, global diplomacy, climate change, war, race, class, gender, and the like.
Alex Prud'homme is a freelance writer whose work has appeared in The New York Times, The New Yorker, and other publications. He is the coauthor of Julia Child's best-selling memoir, My Life in France. He lives with his family in Brooklyn, New York and spends summers on MDI.
- Date:
- Friday, August 4, 2023
- Time:
- 5:30pm - 6:30pm
- Time Zone:
- Eastern Time - US & Canada (change)
- Location:
- Mellon Room
- Campus:
- Northeast Harbor Library, 1 Joy Road, Northeast Harbor
- Audience:
- Public
- Categories:
- Public Event
