Note: Meetings are usually held on the second Sunday of each month, September through May, from 2:00 to 4:00 p.m. Currently we are meeting via Zoom, but in-person meetings are held at the Bethesda-Chevy Chase Services Center, 4805 Edgemoor Lane, Bethesda, Maryland, and occasionally at other venues. The meetings are open to anyone. However, certain meetings may require a fee.
Speaker: Nevin Martell Silver Spring, Maryland Via Zoom (Members will receive a link and passcode.) BIO Nevin Martell is a D.C.-area based independent writer-photographer focusing on food, foraging, and travel, whose work has appeared in The Washington Post, National Geographic, The Boston Globe, USA Today, Bloomberg, BBC, The Daily Beast, AARP, Men’s Journal, Fortune, Travel +… Read More »My Culinary Writing Career
Speaker: Darra Goldstein Williamstown, Massachusetts SPEAKER BIO Darra Goldstein, the Willcox B. and Harriet M. Adsit Professor of Russian, Emerita, at Williams College, is the founding editor of Gastronomica and editor in chief of the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Food Studies. She also serves as series editor of California Studies in Food and Culture from… Read More »The Kingdom of Rye: Russian Food and National Identity
Speaker: Victoria Johnson New York Via Zoom (Members will receive a link and passcode.) Speaker Bio Victoria Johnson is Professor of Urban Policy and Planning at Hunter College of the City University of New York. She earned her undergraduate degree in philosophy from Yale in 1991 and her Ph.D. in sociology from Columbia in 2002.… Read More »American Eden: David Hosack, Botany and Medicine in the Garden of the Early Republic