Valerie Stivers - Writer and Columnist of The Paris Review’s ”Eat Your Words”

2019-07-17

Food isn’t just something to eat. Turns out it’s also — something to read. That’s why Valerie Stivers, Writer and Columnist for the very respected publication The Paris Review with a popular column called "Eat your Words" — which approaches classic literature through its food——is able to cook up so many recipes drawn from the works of myriad writers. Valerie shares her story and insights with author and chef Rozanne Gold. In this episode: A rare kind of conversation on using food as a lens to reading a classic literature in a new way.

Food isn’t just something to eat. Turns out it’s also — something to read.

That’s why Valerie Stivers, Writer and Columnist for the very respected publication The Paris Review with a popular column called "Eat your Words" — which approaches classic literature through its food——is able to cook up so many recipes drawn from the works of myriad writers. Valerie shares her story and insights with author and chef Rozanne Gold.

In this episode:

A rare kind of conversation on using food as a lens to reading a classic literature in a new way.
Valerie shares how you don’t have to have expertise in the culinary world to use it as a key for unlocking deeper mysteries about the human condition
How food is present well beyond the table, and widely seen in classic literature
How food can be a lens into storytelling and characters
And a look at how religion and food can be provocative lenses into cultures and value systems

Comments (3)