Book Talk | Kate Brown | Tiny Gardens Everywhere: The Past, Present, and Future of the Self-Provisioning City

Join the Institute for Public Knowledge on Monday, April 6 (5:30-7:00 PM) for an event with Kate Brown. She will discuss her book, Tiny Gardens Everywhere: The Past, Present, and Future of the Self-Provisioning City, with Amy Bentley.

Kate Brown is a Distinguished Professor in the History of Science at MIT and author of four previous prize-winning books, including A Manual for Survival, an NBCC Award finalist. She currently plants her gardens in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and in Vermont.

Amy Bentley is a Professor in the Department of Nutrition and Food Studies at New York University. A historian with interests in the social, historical, and cultural contexts of food, she is the author of Inventing Baby Food: Taste, Health, and the Industrialization of the American Diet (California, 2014), (James Beard Award finalist, and ASFS Best Book Award). In 2024 she co-edited (with Fabio Parasecoli and Krishnendu Ray) the collection Practicing Food Studies (NYU). Other books include Eating for Victory: Food Rationing and the Politics of Domesticity (University of Illinois, 1998), A Cultural History of Food in the Modern Age (editor) (Bloomsbury, 2011), and the co-edited volume (with Simona Stano) Food for Thought: Nourishment, Culture, Meaning (Springer, 2021).