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"From Farfel to Falafel: Food, Wine and Jewish Culture," will take place at the University of California, Davis from Sunday evening, May 14 - Tuesday, May 16, 2006. The conference is sponsored by the UC Davis Program in Jewish Studies and the RMI, with additional
sponsorships from The Judah L. Magnes Museum in Berkeley, The Koret Foundation,
The Taube Foundation, The Sacramento Jewish Federation and The Jewish
Community Foundation of the West.
UC Davis is one of the premier institutions in the world for the scientific study of food and wine. With this conference, we hope to investigate the way food and wine function in a particular culture, that of the Jews, from biblical antiquity to the present day. We are particularly interested in the way food and wine function as bridges between high "literary" and popular cultures within the Jewish tradition and, in addition, as bridges between Jewish and other cultures. In addition to scholarly sessions, there will be a number of "hands-on" activities including food sampling and wine tasting from the Hagafen Winery and Rosenblum Cellars, as well as a screening of the film, "Divine Food: 100 Years in the Kosher Delicatessen Trade" by L. John Harris and Bill Chayes."
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