Writer/Author Adam Gopnik Talks About Our History with Food

Cubberley Community Center (4000 Middlefield Rd Palo Alto, CA 94303)

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The Commonwealth Club welcomes Adam Gopnik, longtime staff writer for The New Yorker and author of the books Paris to the Moon and The Table Comes First: Family, France, and the Meaning of Food, to the Cubberly Community Center. We are a culture obsessed with food, but how did we get to that point? Gopnik traces our table ancestry back to France and discusses its rapid evolution. With the aim of creating a new dialogue about the way we eat, Gopnik explains how food helped family and friends come together as well as why those conversations and relationships were always more important than what was actually on the table. Afterward, he'll sign copies of his books.

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Cubberley Community Center

4000 Middlefield Rd

Palo Alto, CA 94303

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650-329-2418

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http://www.commonwealthclub.org/events/2011-11-01/adam-gopnik

About the Ticket Supplier: Commonwealth Club

The Commonwealth Club of California is the nation's oldest and largest public affairs forum, presenting over 400 annual events on topics ranging across politics, culture, society and the economy.

Founded in 1903, the Commonwealth Club has played host to a diverse and distinctive array of speakers, from Teddy Roosevelt in 1911 to Erin Brockovich in 2001. Along the way, Martin Luther King, Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton and Bill Gates have all given landmark speeches at the Club.