Name: The Authentic South
Start: 2024-09-22T14:30:00-0400
End: 2024-09-22T15:15:00-0400

Ideas Festival Emory
September 20-22, 2024 at Oxford College of Emory University
A weekend featuring some of the most impactful and interesting scientists, musicians, writers, filmmakers, and creators of our time.

Sunday September 22, 2024 2:30pm - 3:15pm EDT

Williams Auditorium

Chef Virginia Willis and writer Janisse Ray team up to talk not only about the nature of food and story, but about cultivating the ways we think about ourselves—how we return to authenticity, how we lighten up, how we ground, and how we tell the narratives of our lives.

Speakers

Janisse Ray

author

Janisse Ray is an award-winning American author who explores the borderland of nature and culture. Her bestselling first book, Ecology of a Cracker Childhood, was a New York Times Notable. This environmental memoir tells the story of growing up in the disappearing longleaf pine flatwoods... Read More →

Virginia Willis

chef, Virginia Willis Culinary Enterprises

Georgia-born French-trained chef Virginia Willis has foraged for berries in the Alaskan wilderness, harvested capers in the shadow of a smoldering volcano in Sicily, and executed the food styling for a Super Bowl commercial seen by over 160 million people.She is a James Beard award-winning... Read More →

Sunday September 22, 2024 2:30pm - 3:15pm EDT
Williams Auditorium

Ideas Festival Emory

Janisse Ray

Virginia Willis

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