☞ SEE: Southern Cooking in New York City

Thursday, February 18th, starting 6:30 PM at MCNY. The Great Migration & Southern Cooking in New York City. During the first half of the 20th century, millions of African Americans left the rural South for the urban North, seeking economic opportunity and equality. In New York, they helped to create a new culture that included language, art, music, and food—really good food. Today, the techniques, traditions, and ingredients that defined the foodways of the agrarian South continue to influence some of the city's finest and most famous restaurants. Food writer and historian John T. Edge will lead a discussion focusing on how the Great Migration transformed the culinary culture of the North with leading experts, including Jessica Harris, author of a forthcoming history of African-American foodways and Ted Lee, one of the James Beard award-winning Charleston Lee brothers.

Presented in partnership with the Southern Foodways Alliance and Division of Tourism, Mississippi Development Authority. A reception will follow. RESERVATIONS REQUIRED: $12 Non-Members, $8 Seniors and Students, $6 Museum Members. A two dollar surcharge applies for unreserved, walk-in participants.For more information please call 212.534.1672, ext. 3395. Go to the MCNY website to reserve: LINK. The Museum of the City of New York is at 1220 Fifth Avenue, between 103rd and 104th Street. Nearest subway is the 6 train at 103rd Street or 2,3 at 110th Street.