Keep Calm And Cook On With Julia Turshen

Ep. 12: On Building Community with Liz Alpern

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Sinopsis

Liz Alpern is passionate about bringing people together through food. She is the creator of Queer Soup Night. Each QSN a time to feel welcome who identify as queer to not feel like an exception in the room. There are now Queer Soup Night communities across the country. Liz is also the co-founder of The Gefilteria and co-author of The Gefilte Manifesto: New Recipes for Old World Jewish Foods. Liz and her co-founder Jeffery’s mission for their work is to reclaim and revolutionize Ashkenazi cuisine. In all her free time, Liz is also a faculty member at the International Culinary Center's Culinary Entrepreneurship program in New York and consults for the national food justice organization Fair Food Network. Liz and Julia talk about the work Liz does, the intention she brings to it, and the intersection of their shared queer and Jewish identities. There's also a shoutout to the Third Wave Fund and answers to listeners' questions. For more about Julia and her work, head here.