Gather with your Colorado Yale community for an evening with Professor Paul Freedman. His topic will be "What is American Cuisine?" Join us on Friday, April 25, 2025 at 6:00 p.m. at the Golden History Museum for this excellent event and lecture.
Everyone can identify key aspects of Italian or Japanese cuisine, but is there such a thing as American cuisine? Most of the world thinks American taste can be simply identified with fast food. Professor Freedman’s talk is an effort to show that the picture is both richer and more complex, identifying characteristics of American food preference and how they have evolved over the past two hundred years.
This event is part of Yale's signature Redpath Lecture series and always attracts a large and diverse gathering of Yalies. Alumni, parents and friends of the Yale community are all welcome.
The evening will begin at 6:00 pm with light bites, beer, and wine followed by remarks at 6:30 pm. This event will also serve as our annual meeting.
Fee: $25.00
Pay with PayPal using the button below, or if you prefer to pay via check, please RSVP to Heather Hill and mail your check to the Colorado Yale Association, Box 911, Denver, Colorado, 80201.
Once you have RSVP'd you will check in at the event when you arrive. No physical tickets will be issued.
We know that schedules sometimes change. The last day we will be able to fulfill requests for refunds (excluding the PayPal service fee) is April 4, 2025.
The Redpath Lecture will take place at the Golden History Museum in Golden, CO. This cool little museum seeks to create a community that lives and loves its history. What better place could there be to welcome Professor Freedman who has served as Yale Director of Undergraduate Studies in History, Director of the Medieval Studies Program, Chair of the History Department, and Chair of the Program in the History of Science and Medicine.
Professor Freedman has also written extensively on food and culinary history including Food: The History of Taste, an illustrated collection of essays about food from prehistoric to contemporary times, Out of the East: Spices and the Medieval Imagination, Ten Restaurants That Changed America, and Why Food Matters which describes why food is important for reasons of cultural identity, memory, and orientation in the world. His most recent book is (co-authored with Marc Aronson) Bite by Bite: American History through Feasts, Food, and Side Dishes. This children's book offers an introduction to American history through specific historical meals and venues such as soda fountains, Italian restaurant and Native American celebrations that show the range of creativity as well as conflict over many centuries.
This will be a fun evening, we hope you will join us!