Adam Gopnik

Free; reservations required. The United States, once a nation of lackluster cooking, has over the past three decades become a nation of people obsessed with food. Specialty markets bring organic food to millions of customers who used to put up with less appetizing produce and meats. Farmers markets are ... (more)a nationwide phenomenon. At the sushi restaurants Masa in New York City and Urasawa in Beverly Hills, customers spend over $500 a head to sample the freshest fish flown in from halfway around the world. We create identities based on diets—vegans, locavores, and pescatarians multiply—and politics seem to enter into even mundane grocery aisle decisions. But not everyone can afford to eat organic and sustainably. And some people don't believe that we are what we eat. Good food tends to be enjoyable for those who eat it, but is it good for anything else? Adam Gopnik, author of The Table Comes First: Family, France, and the Meaning of Food and the LA Weekly's Jonathan Gold visit Zócalo to discuss the joys and pitfalls of the new place of food in our lives. Adam Gopnik will also be appearing at the Getty on Thursday, February 23, for a lecture about winter scenes. Find more information at the Getty's site. Lotted and garage parking is available twenty-four hours at 233 S. Main St. Limited street parking is also available after 6pm.

Art critic for The New Yorker magazine and bestselling author Adam Gopnik will discuss the world of luxury, wealth, and leisure reflected in the art of Madame de Pompadour’s time, as well as the growth of radical new ideas about man, nature, and liberty that began in that era. Following the lecture, ... (more)Gopnik will sign copies of his books, including "Angels and Ages: A Short Book About Darwin, Lincoln, and Modern Life" and "Paris to the Moon".

Longtime New Yorker magazine writer Adam Gopnik discusses and signs his new book, Angels and Ages: A Short Book About Darwin, Lincoln, and Modern Life. 202-364-1919.

In a wide-ranging lecture that explores what makes successful children's stories "work," New Yorker essayist Adam Gopnik—author of Paris to the Moon, Through the Children's Gate, and The King in the Window, a book for children—examines the Babar series in its cultural and artistic context. He proposes ... (more)that the series is, in essence, a self-conscious comedy about the French colonial imagination and its close relation to the French domestic imagination. Tickets: $15 for Non-Members; $10 for Members