Chewing the Fat
Chewing the Fat speaker Leah Penniman in 2019.
The Lazarus Events Series for Sustainable Food & Agriculture at Yale, also known as “Chewing the Fat,” is funded through a generous gift from Dr. George and Shelly Lazarus and offers Yale students a chance to learn more about food and farming through guest speakers, culinary workshops, and film screenings.
People invited to speak as a part of Chewing the Fat represent a range of perspectives on and theories of food systems change, and stretch the bounds of conversations, debates, preconceptions and tropes that have animated the mainstream “food movement” of years past. Chewing the Fat has been home to practitioners, academics, policymakers, advocates, and activists who generate critical thinking and discussion about food and agriculture, and their relationships to human values, science, and society. Some semesters, the series might be propelled thematically; previous semesters have seen themes such as food law and policy, food and gender, racial justice and food, corporate power and food systems change, and queer food politics.
Fall 2023 Events
November 17, 2023 | “Grow Food, Not Prisons” with Jalal Sabur and Michael Capers of Sweet Freedom Farm, in collaboration with the Yale Undergraduate Prison Project
Spring 2024 Events [more events will be added soon]
January 29, 2024 | Vietnamese-American bakes: College Tea with Lauren Tran of Pop-Up store Bánh by Lauren, in collaboration with Timothy Dwight College
February 21, 2024 | Savoring Stories: Indigenous Foodways and Community Building at la Mesa with Woesha Hampson-Medina '18, in collaboration with La Casa Cultural and the Native American Cultural Center
February 22, 2024 | College Tea with Irene Li, in collaboration with Timothy Dwight College and the Asian American Cultural Center
February 26, 2024 | College Tea with Zewiditu Jewel, in collaboration with Silliman College and the Afro-American Cultural Center
February 28, 2024 | Growing Wheat Well: Why Context Matters for Montana to Mexico
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