The event will be held in the The Sue and Edgar Wachenheim III Trustees Room (Room 206) of the Stephen A. Schwarzman Building of The New York Public Library at 42nd Street and Fifth Avenue. This program is made possible by the generous support of The Dorot Foundation. The event is free but reservations are required. 

Please reserve your seat by writing to food@nypl.org

Joan Nathan and Arthur Schwartz will be available for book signings afterwards.

Joan Nathan is the author of ten cookbooks and is a regular contributor to The New York Times, Food Arts Magazine, and Tablet Magazine, among other publications.

In 1994 Nathan published the much-acclaimed Jewish Cooking in America, which won both the James Beard Award and the IACP/Julia Child Cookbook of the Year Award; as well as An American Folklife Cookbook, which received the R.T. French Tastemaker Award in 1985. She most recently wrote The New American Cooking which also won the James Beard and IACP Awards as best American cookbook published in 2005. Her other books include Foods of Israel Today, Joan Nathan's Jewish Holiday Cookbook, The Jewish Holiday Baker, The Children's Jewish Holiday Kitchen, The Jewish Holiday Kitchen, and The Flavor of Jerusalem.

The New York Times Magazine called Arthur Schwartz "a walking Google of food and restaurant knowledge." As the restaurant critic and executive food editor of the New York Daily News, which he was for 18 years, he was called The Schwartz Who Ate New York. Nowadays he is best known as The Food Maven, the name of his website. Whatever the sobriquet, he is acknowledged as one of the country's foremost experts on food, cooking, culinary history, restaurants, and restaurant history.