To Live and Dine in L.A.: Menus and the Making of the Modern City

You are invited to join a Food Matters discussion on Thursday, April 21st featuring Josh Kun, Associate Professor for the Department of Communication Studies at the University of Southern California.

Professor Kun will discuss his work with the historic menu collection of the Los Angeles Public Library, a living repository of meals past and an archive of urban eating that tells us about the changing role of food in the city. Treating the menus as "urban texts," Kun reads dishes, restaurant history, and menu design for clues to how economics, culture, race, and gender have formed both L.A. food history and the history of L.A. itself.

Co-Sponsored by:
Community Outreach Partnership Center
UCI School of Social Ecology