Celebrate Julia Child’s Birthday with a Special Book Talk and Reception

Join acclaimed author Alex Prud’homme, as he discusses his newest book Dinner with the President: Food, Politics, and a History of Breaking Bread at the White House. Inspired by a series of events, including Julia Child’s televised visits to state dinners in 1967 and 1976, this conversation will examine the politics of food as Alex discusses the primal impulse to break bread with one another, even those we might disagree with across the political divide.

Stay after the book talk to celebrate Julia Child on what would have been her 112th birthday! The reception will take inspiration from Julia’s special menu request for her 90th birthday celebration in Washington, D.C.—burger sliders, Ceaser salad, and ice cream sundays!

Alex Prud’homme has written for The New York Times, The New Yorker, and Vanity Fair, and has authored nine books. He is best known for co-writing Julia Child’s memoir My Life in France, a #1 NYT best-seller that inspired half the film “Julie & Julia.” His latest work, Dinner With the President: Food, Politics, and a History of Breaking Bread at the White House, is a narrative history of America through the foods, and food policies, of 26 presidents — from George Washington starving at Valley Forge to Trump’s burgers and the Biden’s ice cream. He lives in Brooklyn, NY, with his family.