Jane Kramer, “Celebration: From Food Ritual to Food Feast”

Jane Kramer is the longtime European correspondent of The New Yorker and writes the magazine’s ”Letter from Europe.”  She is the author of nine books, among them Europeans and The Politics of Memory – which were named as two of the hundred most important works of American journalism of the twentieth century – and, most recently, Lone Patriot, and she has been the recipient of many awards, including a National Book Award, a National Magazine Award, a Front Page Award, and an Emmy Award for documentary. With Europeans, she became the first woman, and the first American, to win the Prix Européen de l’Essai “Charles Veillon,” Europe’s most prestigious award for nonfiction, and ten years ago, for her writings on France, she was made a Chevalier de la Legion d’Honneur by the French president. She has also written for (among other publications) the New York Review of Books, the New York Times Book Review, the New York Times Magazine, Grand Street, Vogue, and HG, as well as several European journals and newspapers. She divides her time between Europe and New York.