Created by the ever-curious minds behind Atlas Obscura, this breathtaking guide transforms our sense of what people around the world eat and drink.
The Midtown Scholar Bookstore and Harrisburg Book Festival are pleased to welcome author Cecily Wong and blogger Sara Bozich for a live-stream discussion on Wong’s new work, GASTRO OBSCURA: A Food Adventurer's Guide.
This event is free and open to the public, with registration. For free domestic media mail shipping on festival orders, use code HBGBOOKFEST at checkout.
It’s truly a feast of wonder: Created by the ever-curious minds behind Atlas Obscura, this breathtaking guide transforms our sense of what people around the world eat and drink. Covering all seven continents, Gastro Obscura serves up a loaded plate of incredible ingredients, food adventures, and edible wonders. Ready for a beer made from fog in Chile? Sardinia’s “Threads of God” pasta? Egypt’s 2000-year-old egg ovens? But far more than a menu of curious minds delicacies and unexpected dishes, Gastro Obscura reveals food’s central place in our lives as well as our bellies, touching on history–trace the network of ancient Roman fish sauce factories. Culture–picture four million women gathering to make rice pudding. Travel–scale China’s sacred Mount Hua to reach a tea house. Festivals–feed wild macaques pyramid of fruit at Thailand’s Monkey Buffet Festival. And hidden gems that might be right around the corner, like the vending machine in Texas dispensing full sized pecan pies. Dig in and feed your sense of wonder.
About the Speakers:
Cecily Wong is a writer at Atlas Obscura, and the author of the novel Diamond Head, a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers selection, recipient of an Elle Readers' Prize, and voted a best debut of the Brooklyn Book Festival. She lives in Oregon.
Sara Bozich has been the go-to source for living locally for nearly two decades. Sara started her self-titled blog more than 15 years ago, where she’s dedicated to helping her readers get the most out of the greater Harrisburg area. Using the blog as the platform to launch her marketing agency, Sara offers events, promotion, and social media services. Whether hosting events throughout the region or working with local companies behind the scenes, Sara has made a name for herself promoting this region.
Sara’s other ventures include work on the film, Poured in PA, a feature-length documentary on Pennsylvania’s beer industry; co-founder and co-organizer of Harrisburg Beer Week; and proud mom to her son, Bo.
