A special Beyond the Book Family Story Tim e and activity\, celebrate LGBTQ+ Pride Month with the story of Sandor Kat z and his love of fermented foods. Enjoy a complimentary copy of "Sandor K atz and the Tiny Wild" and at home activities within\, care of the DC Publ ic Library Foundation and Beyond the Book. Complimentary books provided wh ile supplies last.
\nFor reasonable accommodations\, please contact the Center for Accessibility at 202-727-2142 or DCPLaccess@dc.gov. For ASL or tactile interpretation\, please allow at least seven (7) days notice.
\n\n"Entert ainingly depicted... Bon appé\;tit!" &mdash\;"Starred" review\, Booklist
\n"A triumphant celebrati on of food and community." &mdash\;Kirkus Reviews\, "Children's Books that Celebrate Queer Identity&rdquo\;
\n"A fizzy and informative celebration of fermentation that enthusiast ically supports curious experimentation and food literacy." &mdash\;S helf Awareness
\n\nSandor Katz&rsquo\;s love of fermented food s tarted with kosher dill pickles he ate as a New York City kid. As an adult \, he left the busy city and moved to a queer community in the mountains o f Tennessee. There\, his friends grew their own food\, cooked and ate toge ther\, and sometimes danced in drag when the work was done. One day\, the cabbages were all\, ALL ready to be harvested. What to do? Sandor tried to make sauerkraut. Delicious! He kept experimenting\, finding old recipes\, combining old ideas to make something new. Then\, he shared what he learn ed in bestselling books\, in classes\, and with a growing group of friends around the world.
\nWritten by award-win ning authors Jacqueline Briggs Martin and June Jo Lee\, Sandor Katz an d the Tiny Wild folds timely themes of ecology\, community-building\, and resilience into a lively biography that closes with a hands-on recipe : just chop\, salt\, pack\, and wait for tiny\, wild\, invisible microbes to turn raw ingredients into zingy\, zangy foods that we love. Sandor beli eves that making fermented foods connects all\, ALL of us on planet Earth& mdash\;people\, plants\, and The Tiny Wild. Won't you join Sandor&rsquo\;s crew and share your own dash of dazzle with the world?
\n\n\n\n"A new picture book about food fermentation evangelist Sandor Katz is the que er biography I didn&rsquo\;t know I needed&mdash\;full of flavor inspirati on and community&hellip\;Martin and Lee&rsquo\;s text is a delight echoing the snap crunch and fizz of fermenting foods. Julie Wilson&rsquo\;s illus trations are colorful and casual reflecting the vibe of the farm community and Katz himself. Katz&rsquo\; queerness is not a focus of the story but is nevertheless clear as is the queerness of his community&mdash\;a lovely example of how not to make every queer person&rsquo\;s biography 'about' them being queer but nevertheless to make their queerness visible."\n
&mdash\;Mombian\, GLA AD Media Award-winning blog for LGBTQ parents
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June Jo Lee is a food ethnographer\, studying how America eats. She& rsquo\;s a national speaker on food trends and consults with organizations such as Google Foods. She co-founded READERS to EATERS\, a publisher prom oting food literacy through stories about our diverse food cultures. She a lso co-authored\, with Jacqueline Briggs Martin\, Chef Roy Choi and the St reet Food Remix\, a 2018 Sibert Award Honor Book for Most Distinguished In formation Book. She lives in San Francisco. foodethnographer.com
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