Feb 8
PRE-FEST EVENT
OPEN, SESAME!
Sunday, Feb 8, 7:00pm $20 Buy tickets
RACHEL SIMONS / Sesame: Global Recipes + Stories of An Ancient Seed
With evocative storytelling, vibrant photography, and contributions from a slate of noted chefs and food luminaries across the globe, Sesame is a loving culinary tribute to the sesame seed: how it has been translated by different culinary cultures, and how it has tied people and places together through generations. With its delicious nutty taste, nutritional density, and long shelf life, the sesame seed is a tiny ingredient with an enormous cultural impact and a deeply rich history across the entire Jewish diaspora and within Israel itself.
RACHEL SIMONS is the founder of Seed+Mill, the first store devoted to sesame products in the US. She enjoyed a multi-cultural upbringing, growing up in Australia and later moving to New York.