Professor Kun will discuss his work with the historic menu collection of the Los Angeles Public Library, a living repository of meals past and an archive of urban eating that tells us about the changing role of food in the city. Treating the menus as “urban texts,” Kun reads dishes, restaurant history, and menu design for clues to how economics, culture, race, and gender have formed both L.A. food history and the history of L.A. itself.

For more information please contact:
Victor Becerra, COPC Director
Please RSVP to vbecerra@uci.edu

Co-Sponsored by:
Community Outreach Partnership Center
School of Social Ecology
Department of Planning, Policy and Design