Thursday, October 12
7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
REGISTRATION IS CLOSED FOR THIS EVENT
Join us as we welcome renowned Food Historian Francine Segan, a TV personality and one of America’s foremost experts on Italian cuisine and culture, as she discusses entertaining during the Gilded Age — a time of calling cards, horse drawn coaches, afternoon tea, cotillions, lawn parties, and formal dinners… a time when even picnic luncheons were served on fine china!
Francine, James Beard-nominated author of six books, will offer fascinating tidbits about practices and norms of the era, like what it meant to give a lady a tulip instead of a rose; the most popular toasts of the era and when it was proper to remove your gloves or tip your hat.
Discover why ladies magazine’s of the 19th century advised bringing a bundle of sticks to a party. Learn the calling card equivalent of “unfriending” someone and why the nutmeg grater was the must-have accessory of the 1890s.
The event will also include a guessing game on the uses for now-obsolete objects and a recipe handout!
About Our Speaker
FRANCINE SEGAN, one of America’s foremost experts on Italian cuisine and culture, is an engaging public speaker, author, and TV personality.
A noted food historian and James Beard-nominated author of six
books including: Dolci: Italy’s Sweets and Pasta Modern: New & Inspired Recipes
from Italy.
Francine has appeared on many TV programs, including the Today Show and Early Show, and has been featured on numerous specials for PBS, the Food Network, History, Sundance, and Discovery channels.
Francine lectures across the USA and is a monthly guest speaker for AARP, attracting many thousands of viewers to her talks. She is a frequent speaker at NYC’s premiere cultural center the 92NY, and for the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton University, Smithsonian Museum in DC, Virginia Fine Arts Museum, and many others.
She recently moderated a panel for the Tribeca Film Festival on food in film with Isabella Rossellini and Stanley Tucci.
She is a frequent food judge for the Fancy Food Show, Bacardi Cocktail Competition, Barilla’s Pasta World Championship, and the International Pesto Competition.
Francine co-edited Entertaining from Ancient Rome to the Superbowl, a 2-volume encyclopedia, which was a finalist for the coveted Gourmand World Cookbook Award given each year in Paris. She contributed the chapter on Ruth Reichl for the book Icons of American Cooking and translated two books–Nutella Passion and The Pleasures of Espresso—from Italian into English for Giunti,Italy’s largest privately owned publisher. She writes for several magazines including Epicurious, Saveur and Italy Magazine. Francine Segan is a frequently quoted expert in many newspapers and magazines including The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Vogue, Scientific American, USA Today, L.A. Times, and Chicago Tribune.
Registration is full for this event.