Season 170 Episode 6232
Get CELEBRITIZED TEDx San Diego Speaker Series
Join Emmy Award-winning interviewer, Aurea McGarry as she introduces you to the extraordinary Author, Scientist, and TEDx Speaker Madhushree Ghosh. What We Talk About When We Talk About Food will surprise you Madhushree is an Award-winning author of debut food narrative memoir, KHABAAR: An Immigrant Journey of Food, Memory, and Family was published by the University of Iowa Press (@uiowapress) in 2022 Invited speaker to major food festivals, discourses on food as a social justice tool, on domestic partner violence issues as well as immigrant women of color in science and in food conversations Pushcart-nominated and (Notable Mention) Best American Essays in Food Writing; essays published in The New York Times, Vogue India, Washington Post, LA Times, The Writer, Longreads, Catapult, BOMB, Guernica, LA Review of Books, LitHub and others Madhushree works in oncology diagnostics Our foods tell our immigrant, migrant, and refugee stories—of the lands we left behind, of the lands we now call our own. How we adopt/adapt informs us on how we live and love. What we talk about when we talk about food is stories of where we call home. We were ALL immigrants once, this is our story. As the daughter of refugees (from what's now Bangladesh when India was divided during the 1947 partition of British-ruled India), and an immigrant to America as a graduate student, she has been raised on immigration issues that have affected our lives over generations. https://www.tedxsandiego.com
