Tootsie Tales from Candy Land Book Talk

April 10, 2011

Rutgers professor Samira Kawash is writing a book about the origins and evolution of candy, and blogs about it at candyprofessor.com. Dr. Kawash visits the Museum on Sunday, April 10, at 4 p.m. to give a talk she’s calling “Tootsie Tales from Candy Land.” Her premise: For the past century, America has been famous as a “great candy-eating nation.” Less well known, she says, “American inventors and dreamers have given us many new ways of getting our candy fix.” The early decades of the 20th century were an especially exciting time for candy. Dr. Kawash will cover the beginnings of American candy as we know it today, how it started off as “good food,” and how it made its way into the American kitchen.