Food For Thought 4: Taste the World in Marseille – Oakland Edition

Vérane Frédiani, Marseille born writer of Taste the World in Marseille. A producer, director, editor, journalist, author, and photographer. Recently she focused her career on creating documentaries and writing books on gastronomy. In 2017 she filmed the documentary “The Goddesses of Food” with chefs Alice Waters, Dominique Crenn and Amanda Cohen among many other international women chefs. The film is available on Apple TV.  

Tanya Holland is a celebrity chef, restaurateur, podcast host, writer, cookbook author, soul food expert. She was the owner of Brown Sugar Kitchen in Oakland and is on the James Beard Foundation Board of Trustees.

Alexis Steinman, an American food, and travel writer based in Marseille, has had her work published in Roads & Kingdoms, Saveur, Atlas Obscura, Lonely Planet, and The Globe and Mail. Proud to have translated Vérane Frédiani’s “Taste the World in Marseille,” the first English book about Marseille cuisine, she leads food tours as the Marseille Bureau Chief of Culinary Backstreets.  

Carlos Manuel Solomon is a Chicano author, teacher, activist, historian, and Professor of Ethnic Studies at Cal State East Bay. His research interests include borderlands ancestry, collective and cultural memory, Chicano/a folklore, migration, and oral history. He has been collecting oral histories over the past 15 years for the Bay Area Latin American Migrant Archive.  
 

David Do Paço is the French Attaché for Academic Cooperation in San Francisco an urban historian. He earned his Ph.D. from the Sorbonne and has published his book L’Orient à Vienne au dix-huitième siècle with Oxford Press. David explores the social life of people deprived of civic rights and examines how they combined multiple circles of social belonging to compensate for the lack of administrative protection. He recently was the Columbia University chair in East-Central European Studies..