A Conversation with Sarah Lohman and Kim Foster
A Conversation with Author Sarah Lohman and Kim Foster
Great Reads from Great Places
Nevada Center for the Book
Join us on Thursday, November 12th at 6 pm in the auditorium of the Kasner Academic Building for a conversation with author Sarah Lohman and Kim Foster. Nevada Humanities selected Nevada author Sarah Lohman and her book Endangered Eating: America’s Vanishing Foods to represent Nevada at the 2026 Library of Congress National Book Festival in Washington, D.C. Her book is part of the Library of Congress Center for the Book’s national Great Reads from Great Places initiative, a list which includes recommended books for youth and adults from each affiliate center from the 50 states and six U.S. jurisdictions, including the Nevada Center for the Book, a program of Nevada Humanities that is one of 56 affiliates of the Library of Congress and its Center for the Book. Nevada Humanities’ participation in the National Book Festival and the National Book Festival Roadmap to Reading are made possible by the generous support of the Institute of Museum and Library Services, with additional support from Chief Officers of State Library Agencies.
Sarah Lohman is a culinary historian and the author of the bestselling books Endangered Eating: America’s Vanishing Foods and Eight Flavors: The Untold Story of American Cuisine. She focuses on the history of food as a way to access the stories of diverse Americans. Kim Foster is a James Beard Award-winning food writer who writes about people at the intersection of food and mental illness, family separation, poverty, addiction, trauma, and incarceration.
This event is presented by Nevada Humanities, the Marydean Martin Writers’ Project, and the City of Henderson. The Marydean Martin Writers’ Project is a program of the Office for the Arts at Nevada State University. For more information about our arts programming, visit our webpage and follow us on Instagram, Facebook, and X at @NevadaStateArts. For questions about this event, contact the Office for the Arts at TheArts@nevadastate.edu or 702.992.2380.
Thursday, November 12, 2026
Reception: 6:00 PM
Presentation: 6:30 – 7:30 PM
Nevada State University
Bob & Alison Kasner Academic Building
KAB Auditorium
1300 Nevada State Drive
Henderson, NV 89002
https://nevadastate.edu/thearts/
MORE ABOUT THE AUTHORS
Sarah Lohman
Endangered Eating was a New York Times Editors’ Choice and was named one of the Best Books of 2023 by Amazon’s Editors, Food & Wine, and Adam Gopnik on the Milk Street podcast. It was a finalist for the Nach Waxman Prize for Food & Drink Scholarship and winner of the Ohioana Library Book Prize for Nonfiction. Lohman’s work has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, and NPR. Lohman has lectured across the country, from the Smithsonian Museum of American History in Washington, DC, to The Neon Museum in Las Vegas. Lohman is based in Henderson.
Kim Foster
You can read Kim's work on her weekly newsletter www.KimFoster.substack.com, on her website www.kiminthewest.com and on Instagram @KimintheWest. She lives in Las Vegas, Nevada with her husband, David, their four kids, and many animals
