Inspired by the Borscht Belt’s classic Jewish cuisine, we present a sicha (“conversation”) with award-winning authors Roger Horowitz and Ted Merwin. Horowitz, author of Kosher USA: How Coke Became Kosher and Other Tales of Modern Food, and Merwin, who wrote Pastrami on Rye: An Overstuffed History of the Jewish Deli, will discuss the integration of Jewish food into contemporary American cuisine.

A historian and expert on American food, Roger Horowitz is Director of the Center for the History of Business, Technology, and Society at the Hagley Museum and Library in Wilmington, DE. Ted Merwin teaches religion and Judaic Studies at Dickinson College in Carlisle, PA, where he is the founding director of the Milton B. Asbell Center for Jewish Life. Registration required. COST: $18

Sponsored by the Feinstein Center for American Jewish History and the Gershman Y. Part of Feinstein's What is Your Food Worth program.