GASTRONOMICA

Interview with Darra Goldstein, editor and founder of "Gastronomica". Darra is professor of Russian literature at Williams College.
A fascinating Skype conversation, nearly an hour long, which failed to be recorded, leaving me in the panic to remember it all!
Anyway, the text will be published by the Slowfood magazine.
As a preview, I'm posting pictures of what must have been a pretty memorable event back in 1959, the first USIA (United States Information Agency) exhibition, "The American National Exhibition" in Moscow! The Eameses took part and designed some of the displays. In addition, Nixon and Krushev had a rather blunt exchange of minds, triggered by the display of "the American kitchen". It went down in history as the "kitchen debate" and I will try to search for a transcript of the conversation.
The USIA exhibitions lasted until 1979, and Darra worked on the last edition, which was dedicated to agriculture.