| Event Start Date: November 17, 2022 | Event End Date: November 17, 2022 | Event Venue: |
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Naomi Duguid, who’s taken food lovers to many corners of the globe, now invites readers and cooks on a very different journey—a deep dive into the miracle of salt and its essential role in preserving, fermenting, and transforming food.
Duguid will look at salt’s history and its impact on culture and cuisine across the globe. She’ll explain how salt — the chemical — works, how it’s used to ferment and preserve, and how that knowledge can be used to make basics like miso, sauerkraut and basturma. She’ll talk about what to cook with salt-preserved ingredients like salt cod, kimchi, fish sauce and preserved lemons and how to create a “salt pantry” with enticing blends of salt and spices. Duguid will wrap up the talk by elaborating on the ways salt transforms everything it touches, from vegetables, soups, mains, pasta dishes, to desserts. A Q&A will follow the talk.
Naomi Duguid is a writer, photographer, traveler, and home cook. Her recent cookbook Taste of Persia is the winner of a James Beard Award, an IACP Cookbook Award, and a Taste Canada Award. Her book Burma: Rivers of Flavor is also an IACP Cookbook Award and Taste Canada Award winner. Her six previous award-winning titles, co-authored with Jeffrey Alford, include two now-classic cookbooks that won the James Beard Award for Cookbook of the Year: Flatbreads & Flavors: A Baker’s Atlas and Hot Sour Salty Sweet: A Culinary Journey Through Southeast Asia. Naomi leads small-group food-immersive trips to the Republic of Georgia and elsewhere. She is a Trustee of the Oxford Symposium on Food and Cookery, and is a frequent guest speaker and presenter at food conferences, particularly those focused on grains. She lives in Toronto. Follow her on Instagram and Twitter at @naomiduguid.
This event is a co-production of the Culinary Historians of Canada and the Campbell House Museum. Masks are not required but are requested as we continue to try to protect the vulnerable members of our community.
For participants who are unable to attend in person, the talk will be live-streamed. If you would like to attend the live stream only, please select the Free Zoom Ticket option at the checkout.