Looking forward to Passover but feeling uninspired by your usual menu? Are you craving new ways to imbue your seder with delicious food and rituals? Join Community Creative Fellow and culinary historian Sara Gardner to explore vibrant Jewish flavors from across the Sephardic diaspora and to learn how to integrate these recipes and stories into a meaningful and delectable seder experience. Together we will cook, taste, and reflect on how incorporating historical stories and tastes from our global diaspora can enrich our modern Jewish holiday table. Register here.
The schedule:
Sara M. Gardner is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese Studies at the University of Minnesota. Her work focuses on the culinary heritage and cultural identity of the Sephardic Jews. Previously, she served as the Collaborations Manager for the Jewish Arts Collaborative and the Associate Director for Young Adult Programs at Hebrew College in Newton. From 2016-2017, she lived and researched medieval Sephardic culinary heritage in Spain as a Fulbright Graduate Research Scholar.
Sara has presented her work at various international conferences, including the Modern Language Association, the Oxford Symposium on Food & Cookery, and the Dublin Gastronomy Symposium, and has taught cooking classes across the Boston area and internationally. Sara is also a published cookbook author: The Rosh Hashanah Seder Cookbook: Stories and Recipes from the Reform Jewish Community of Madrid (2018). When she’s not searching out medieval Sephardic documents in the archive or writing her dissertation, Sara loves to paint watercolors, FaceTime with her niblings, and to experiment with Jewish diasporic flavors in her kitchen.
105 Hudson Road, Sudbury, MA 01776
(978) 443-9622|Email Us
Sign up to receive our weekly newsletter,
Mah Chadash, in your inbox.