The Enduring Mother Hunger: An Anniversary Conversation about The Milk of Almonds

Hosted by Pummarole Magazine

December 4, 2022 02:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)

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In 2002 The Feminist Press published The Milk of Almonds: Italian American Women Writers on Food and Culture, an anthology of memoir, fiction, and poetry by fifty-four writers. Editors Louise DeSalvo and Edvige Giunta aimed at subverting conventional narrative of food, gender, and ethnicity. The anthology included established and emerging authors, including many authors who had not yet published a book. Twenty years later, one of the editors and several of the contributors come together to reflect on the cultural significance of this groundbreaking anthology and the community it helped to forge.

Event hosted by Gabriel Piemonte, editor of Pummarole Magazine https://pummarol.com/

Readings and conversation with coeditor Edvige Giunta and contributors Phyllis Capello, Nancy Caronia, Annie Lanzillotto, Maria Laurino, Kym Ragusa, and Nancy Savoca 

Moderated by Marci Merola