Your ticket to the festival (starting at noon) includes access to the book talk (at 3 pm) with author Michael Twitty and Rabbi Jessy Dressin. Come for some or all of the festivities!
Sukkot, the Jewish harvest festival, is known as zman simchateinu – our season of joy. It is a time to enjoy meals, gatherings and learning with friends in the temporary huts we build outside for this week of celebration. Celebrate, learn and connect outside and in our Sukkah and cap the day with a conversation between Rabbi Jessy Dressin and Michael Twitty titled: “Making a Home for the Ancestors” (3 – 4pm).
Come dwell in our Sukkah and contribute some festive decorations. There will be music, nosh, fun and activities. Learn about the esteemed guests we welcome to join us across time and space. Shake the lulav and etrog (did someone say Jewish rain dance?) and hear from one of the current leading thinkers and tasters of Jewish identity, foodways and community.
Michael’s work is a braid of two distinct brands: the Antebellum Chef and Kosher/Soul. Antebellum Chef represents the vast number of unknown Black cooks across the Americas that were essential in the creation of the creole cuisines of the Atlantic world. Kosher/Soul is the brand that deals with what Michael has termed “identity cooking.” Identity cooking isn’t about fusion; rather it’s how we construct complex identities and then express them through how we eat. In 2018, Michael won the James Beard Cookbook of the Year award for his book: The Cooking Gene: A Journey Through African-American Culinary History in the Old South.
Your ticket to the festival includes access to the book talk with author Michael Twitty and Rabbi Jessy Dressin. Come for some or all of the festivities!
Also with Michael Twitty: Matzo Ball Gumbo (vegetarian) workshop to get the day started and a special reception for Jews of Color hosted by the Jews of Color Mishpacha Project to end the day.
