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Panel Discussion




Saturday, November 14, 2015
2:00 p.m.
Harold M. Williams Auditorium, Getty Center

 
Nancy Zaslavsky of the Culinary Historians of Southern California leads a discussion on the Getty's exhibitions about food—The Edible Monument: The Art of Food for Festivals and Eat, Drink, and Be Merry: Food in the Middle Ages and Renaissance—with Getty curators Marcia Reed and Christine Sciacca, and noted culinary authority Anne Willan.

Marcia Reed is chief curator of the Getty Research Institute. Christine Sciacca is assistant curator of manuscripts at the J. Paul Getty Museum. Anne Willan, a preeminent authority on French cooking, has more than 50 years of experience as a teacher, cookbook author, and culinary historian. Nancy Zaslavsky, vice president for programs of the Culinary Historians of Southern California, is an award-winning author specializing in regional Mexican cuisine.

This lecture complements the exhibitions The Edible Monument: The Art of Food for Festivals, on view at the Getty Research Institute from October 13, 2015, to March 13, 2016, and Eat, Drink, and Be Merry: Food in the Middle Ages and Renaissance, on view at the Getty Museum from October 13, 2015, to January 3, 2016.