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I’m thrilled to invite Tunde Wey and Theo Schear to discuss their new 6-part series Hard to Swallow, available on TVOD on July 1. The show is being described as “essayistic” and a Netflix buyer told them, “this should be in a museum, not Netflix.” And so, it’s right up our alley for the Salon Series! I’ll send out a commentary on the show on July 20, and I hope you’ll have a chance to watch and bring questions to this conversation.
From the Desk Members join free using the code at this link and will have access to the full archived video.
WHEN
Tuesday, July 21st, 11 a.m. EST
WHERE
Zoom
You will receive a link 30 minutes before the event. Please sign up using the email at which you want to receive communications.
WHO
Tunde Wey is a Nigerian immigrant artist, chef and writer working at the intersection of food and social politics. His work engages systems of exploitative power, particularly race, immigration, gentrification and global capitalism, from the vantage point of the marginalized other. He uses food and dining spaces to confront and close the disparities these inequalities create. Tunde’s work has been written about in The New York Times, The Washington Post, NPR, Vogue, and GQ. His own writing has been featured in The Boston Globe, Oxford American, CityLab, and the San Francisco Chronicle. He is a TIME Magazine 2019 Next Generation Leader and NYTimes 16 Black Chefs Changing Food in America 2019. Tunde is currently working on a memoir slated for a 2026 publish date from MCD (a division of Farrar, Straus & Giroux).
Theo Schear is a filmmaker from Oakland, California. His docu-series Hard To Swallow premiered at CANNESERIES in 2024 and won Best Direction at SeriesFest. He was a 2021 SFFILM FilmHouse Resident and a member of Detroit Public Television's National Documentary Unit, where he served as Media Producer for the Detroit Journalism Cooperative, and his work for the Golden State Warriors has earned a Clio Award. His writing has appeared in SFMOMA's Open Space, Documentary Magazine, Nieman Lab, and Film Threat.
Alicia Kennedy is a writer from Long Island. She is the author of the bestselling No Meat Required: The Cultural History and Culinary Future of Plant-Based Eating and the memoir On Eating: The Making and Unmaking of My Appetites. Her newsletter, From the Desk of Alicia Kennedy, is widely read and hosts a community, a magazine (Tomato Tomato), and events.
I’m thrilled to invite Tunde Wey and Theo Schear to discuss their new 6-part series Hard to Swallow, available on TVOD on July 1. The show is being described as “essayistic” and a Netflix buyer told them, “this should be in a museum, not Netflix.” And so, it’s right up our alley for the Salon Series! I’ll send out a commentary on the show on July 20, and I hope you’ll have a chance to watch and bring questions to this conversation.
From the Desk Members join free using the code at this link and will have access to the full archived video.
WHEN
Tuesday, July 21st, 11 a.m. EST
WHERE
Zoom
You will receive a link 30 minutes before the event. Please sign up using the email at which you want to receive communications.
WHO
Tunde Wey is a Nigerian immigrant artist, chef and writer working at the intersection of food and social politics. His work engages systems of exploitative power, particularly race, immigration, gentrification and global capitalism, from the vantage point of the marginalized other. He uses food and dining spaces to confront and close the disparities these inequalities create. Tunde’s work has been written about in The New York Times, The Washington Post, NPR, Vogue, and GQ. His own writing has been featured in The Boston Globe, Oxford American, CityLab, and the San Francisco Chronicle. He is a TIME Magazine 2019 Next Generation Leader and NYTimes 16 Black Chefs Changing Food in America 2019. Tunde is currently working on a memoir slated for a 2026 publish date from MCD (a division of Farrar, Straus & Giroux).
Theo Schear is a filmmaker from Oakland, California. His docu-series Hard To Swallow premiered at CANNESERIES in 2024 and won Best Direction at SeriesFest. He was a 2021 SFFILM FilmHouse Resident and a member of Detroit Public Television's National Documentary Unit, where he served as Media Producer for the Detroit Journalism Cooperative, and his work for the Golden State Warriors has earned a Clio Award. His writing has appeared in SFMOMA's Open Space, Documentary Magazine, Nieman Lab, and Film Threat.
Alicia Kennedy is a writer from Long Island. She is the author of the bestselling No Meat Required: The Cultural History and Culinary Future of Plant-Based Eating and the memoir On Eating: The Making and Unmaking of My Appetites. Her newsletter, From the Desk of Alicia Kennedy, is widely read and hosts a community, a magazine (Tomato Tomato), and events.