Edible Stories: Representing California Foodways
California is the nation’s leading agricultural state and a laboratory of American cuisine—a place where abundance, immigration, and cultural experimentation have produced new restaurant forms, food trends, and a distinctive style centered on freshness, seasonality, and global fusion. In this course, we’ll explore four pivotal moments in California foodways, along with the art, architecture, stories, films, food writing, and advertising they inspired.
Faculty Bio
Kathleen Moran is a founder and faculty member of UC Berkeley's American Studies Program and has taught courses in History, English, Film, Geography, Architecture and Art History. She is a recipient of Berkeley's Distinguished Teaching Award.
This is an In-Person-Only Course
- Classes meet in person at the Golden Bear Center, Suite 365, at 1995 University Ave., Berkeley
- You must be a current OLLI @Berkeley member to register. Learn about membership, including our fee assistance program.
Schedule Highlights
- Course starts on Wednesday, June 3, and ends on Wednesday, June 24
- Classes meet for 4 weeks, 2 hours per session (1-3 PM)
- All course materials will remain available to view and enjoy in Member Dashboards through August 31
Member Praise for Kathleen Moran
An extremely knowledgeable instructor and one of the finest lecturers I’ve encountered ever.
Everything about this course was wonderful. Kathleen was not just knowledgable, but also animated. Her knowledge of the topic was excellent. I'd love to take another class with her.
Great course! Kathleen is terrific at providing a deep and nuanced lecture on film, novels and California history as well as the interrelationship among them. I got so much out of the class. I hope she teaches at OLLI again.