MSG: Science, history and food with Sarah Lohman and Jonathan Soma! A different delicious topic the We do the talking, you do the drinking!
Sarah Lohman and Jonathan Soma take on a curious food topic and break down the history, science, and stories behind it. Sarah Lohman is the kingpin of Four Pounds Flour, a blog dedicated to uncovering the flavors of the past and using them to inspire contemporary cooking. Jonathan Soma co-founded the Brooklyn Brainery and has an unhealthy interest in how foods work and the chemistry hiding inside. He’s a scientist, but exactly the wrong kind for the job.
05/11/2026
Sarah is rubbing a Kickstarter campaign to get her third book, ICE CREAM LAND, across the finish line! Check it out below — you can get a digital download historical ice cream cookbook or a signed first edition!
ICE CREAM LAND Help get my book to the finish line and get a personalized copy in return!
12/12/2024
Sarah’s hosting a free event in Park Slope tomorrow — come say hi!
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Experience "Endangered Eating" With All Your Senses Endangered Eating Paperback Release Party!
12/08/2024
Join Sarah at the Brooklyn Brainery Monday night for her talk on the connection between Food and Cults!
Cult Food In this talk, Food Historian Sarah Lohman explores the often bizarre connections between food and America's cults.America in the mid-nineteenth century is thought of as a time of repression, but it also birthed a legion of free-thinking, free-lovin', agrarian societies. Althoug...
12/01/2024
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How to Research In my work as a culinary historian, I don't just dive into recipe databases. I've tracked the evolution of ingredients in newspaper archives, flipped through the pages of a 1820s whaling journal, hunted down primary sources on genealogical websites, and traveled to the basement of the Alamo (...
06/13/2024
Sarah needs your vote!
Her book Endangered Eating has been nominated for the Ohioana Readers’ Choice Book Award; the winner is awarded a $2000 cash prize!
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04/03/2024
Sarah has expanded her Food Photo class to talk about the evolution of food imagery over hundreds of years. Join her Weds April 4 online to learn more!
03/27/2024
Sarah is sharing behind the scenes photos and stories from her book Endangered Eating! Click through for the virtual event details.
03/20/2024
Sarah had a new class! Online, Thursday 21, with Brooklyn Brainery
A History of Activism through Cookbooks (Online) Food has often been a way for activist communities to fundraise, connect, and spread the word about their cause. We'll look at the origins of the link between food and activism with the abolitionist food writers of the Civil War. We'll unpack suffrag...
11/28/2023
Sarah’s book is racking up the accolades! It makes a great gift for weird dads, in-laws who like food, or (frankly) yourself.
Accolades! Will there be more? I don’t know but please buy this book for everyone you know, it’s not just me telling you it’s good, it’s all these professionals 😆
Endangered Eating is one of editors’ Best Books of 2023.
It’s a editors’ choice.
And one of ‘s best books of the fall. (I don’t have a sticker for that one).
Available anywhere books are sold in hardcover, e-book and audiobook. 
Purchase: https://amzn.to/3QRDecY
Tonight!!! Tickets are available at the door but it’s gonna be a CROWD! So get there early to get a good seat! Doors at 6:30
https://www.caveat.nyc/events/endangered-eating-book-release-spectacular-with-sarah-lohman-10-24-2023?fbclid=IwAR2XDy70PXtALWvCBpf9OEtCBsGaKL4zP29D6xJOmNG9pkiYJOvmdqzCvBg
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10/21/2023
Sarah & Soma are back on stage Tuesday Caveat! Get your tickets at the link:
Tuesday Oct 24 is BOOK RELEASE DAY!!!! And I’m celebrating with an event at Caveat ! I’ll be joined on stage by my other half (of Masters of Social Gastronomy) Jonathan Soma, amateur food scientist and Director of the Lede Program at the Columbia School of Data Journalism. Then I’ll be in conversation with Tonya Hopkins The Food Griot, and co-founder of the James Hemings Society.
We’ll talk EXTREME HETEROZYGOTES. You’ll hear about North America’s first peanut, believed to have been extinct since 1930, PLUCKED FROM THE VOID and GROWN AGAIN. And we’ll talk about why these foods are going extinct, and how you can help save them.
Books will be available for purchase at the event, and I’ll stick around after the event to sign. It’s a perfect chance to take care of holiday shopping for that in-law you don’t know too well but you know they like food.
$12 in advance / $15 at the door: https://www.caveat.nyc/events/endangered-eating-book-release-spectacular-with-sarah-lohman-10-24-2023?fbclid=PAAaZvtKKh-bYZZuHg4TwUW1_raQVbY66UI4S9CpscCRXZa-L2hWqThdnsRpQ_aem_Aetux4LRjgD8YmAfH7l-58DEtoCEm1X7fHz_kQMbBq6IHOX59pCnn3Mq4_VuTCdXTAI
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