Savor: Open Kitchen - Transforming Food Service through Community, Culture, and Ethical Leadership

REGISTRATION AND PROGRAM

Program includes a welcome reception with a hosted bar and light refreshments. A pop-up exhibit from the UC Davis Library Archives and Special Collections will be displayed in the lobby.

• Tickets are $25 per person.
• Student, Faculty, Staff $15.00, Discount Code: HWCMDGPWWM
• Limited seats are available. Parking details are below.

GUEST SPEAKERS

Chef Norma Listman Sanchez is a Mexico City-based artist, chef and restaurateur exploring the intersection of history, food, art and politics in her culinary craft. Her deep scholarship on Mexican gastronomy and its period traditions bring the reverence and perspective of an art historian into the practice of a working chef. Norma’s mentorship of young female chefs is a living testimony to her commitment to bringing the feminist movements of the Global South to transform Mexico’s food systems. In 2018, along with her husband, co-chef & co-owner Saqib Keval, Norma opened Masala y Maiz, a social justice-focused restaurant in Mexico City.

Chef Saqib Keval is a food justice organizer, chef, public speaker and restaurateur, who comes from the cultural and ancestral lineage of the South Asian diaspora from Kenya and Ethiopia. He is a California-born native who speaks five languages and grew up in a large immigrant family of deer hunters, educators, and activists. He founded the food-centered, political art project People’s Kitchen Collective to explore radical hospitality as a response to the urgent social issues of our time. He has lectured at conferences and universities worldwide on topics at the intersection of food systems, art and political movements. In 2018 he opened Masala y Maiz, a social justice-focused restaurant in Mexico City along with his wife, co-chef & co-owner Norma Listman Sanchez.

Chef Santana Diaz is the Director of Culinary Operations and Innovation and Executive Chef for UC Davis Health. Seasonal. Local. Creative. These words fully define the passion and characteristics that guide Chef Diaz, whose vision has always been to bring a true farm-to-fork, restaurant-style culinary experience to all facets of every food venue that he has had the privilege to lead. Chef Diaz joined UC Davis Health in late 2017 after setting up and executing the Golden 1 Center food program with the most successful farm-to-fork production in sports. His drive to create an impactful program via health care intrigued him and offered him more opportunities to work with the local farmer and rancher community. Five years later, Diaz oversees one of the largest production kitchens in the region – serving more than 6,500 meals a day – and has transformed standard hospital food into sustainable, healthy eating for patients, employees, and the shared community. His experience with fine-dining restaurants and hotel management in the California Bay Area, coupled with large-volume sports and entertainment work, have yielded Diaz the opportunity to bring the high-volume “eats” to a healthier platform while not losing the most important aspect of the meals: taste.

Moderator Audrey Russek is the Curator, Food and Wine at the UC Davis Library. She leads the library’s strategic initiatives around distinctive collections in food, wine, and other beverages. She is active in collection development and management, research services, and outreach to support research, instruction, and public engagement around the science of food and wine and their role in culture. An interdisciplinarian at heart, Dr. Russek holds a PhD in American studies from the University of Texas at Austin. She is currently completing a book manuscript, Performing Culinary Citizenship: The Regulation of Restaurants in Modern America. She serves on the Editorial Collective for the journal Global Food History.

VENUE PARKING

This event will be in-person in the Silverado Vineyards Sensory Theater at the Robert Mondavi Institute, Sensory Building. Parking is available at the Gateway Parking Structure. Parking payment is enforced on weekdays.

There are three options for parking payment:

UC Davis uses AggiePark. Download the free AMP Park app on your iPhone or Android beforehand. When you park, you will enter the Zone (listed on the nearby sign) into the app and follow the instructions to pay for parking. This is the preferred and easiest method.

If you do not have a smartphone to download the app, you can also sign up for an account online and follow the steps on the website: https://aimsmobilepay.com/

Alternatively, permit machines in the Gateway Parking Structure accept credit cards. You will need to enter your license plate number into the machine to purchase a permit. We recommend this option as a last choice.

Link:

https://savor.ucdavis.edu/events/open-kitchens