Movie Night at the Schlesinger Library December 7, 2009

Films: The Dione Lucas Cooking Show (1950s) produced by WPIX, “Julia Child at Marshall Field’s” (1980) from Julia Child collection, Buying Food (1950) produced by Centron, and Seeds of Promise: the Critical Roles of Third World Women in Food Production (1987) directed by Deborah Ziska.

To highlight our renowned culinary collection, we like to draw your attention to instruction by chefs and television personalities Dione Lucas and Julia Child, as well as two types of educational films on the topic, Buying Food and Seeds of Promise: the Critical Roles of Third World Women in Food Production.

Guest commentator: A discussion with Laura Shapiro, columnist and author of Something from the Oven: Reinventing Dinner in 1950s America and Julia Child: a Life, will follow the films.

*Please note the change from our usual screening day of Wednesday.

Official Website: http://www.radcliffe.edu/schles/movie_night.aspx