The University of Vermont Dan and Carole Burack President's Distinguished Lecture Series presents Journalist and Culinary Historian, Laura Shapiro, Monday, March 30, at 4:00 pm, in the Fleming Museum, room 101.

Laura Shapiro is a journalist and historian who has published widely on women and cooking in america.  She got her start in Boston, writing about feminism for the alternative press, and then spent sixteen years covering the arts, food and women's issues for Newsweek. She is the author of three books, most recently, Julia Child.

Laura's talk, "Stuffed Eggs and Shrimp Wiggle in the FDR White House", will be followed by a reception in the Marble Court of the Fleming Museum. The Lecture is hosted by the Food Systems Graduate Program with the Department of Anthropology, the Department of History and the Gender, Sexuality and Women's Studies Program.

In addition to the Burack Lecture, Laura will also participate in a Food Journalism Roundtable on Tuesday, March 31, at 9:00 am, in the Livak Ballroom, Davis Center. This event will also feature food writers, Rowan Jacobsen and Molly Stevens, with a book signing to follow.

For more infromation about these events, please contact Serena Parnau, aparnau@uvm.edu