“How Prohibition Changed America” by Richard Foss
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Speaker
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Richard FossAuthor, SpeakerRichard Foss has been writing professionally since 1986 and has contributed to over thirty publications including the Encyclopedia of World Food Cultures and the Oxford Companion to Sweets. He taught culinary history at the Osher Institute/UCLA Extension, and is on the board of Culinary Historians of Southern California. He is the author of Rum: A Global History, and Food in the Air and Space. Currently, Foss is curating a project on food culture for the Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs, and also curating an exhibition called “Cooking Up a New West” for the Autry Museum of the American West.