Join Nevada Humanities on Monday, October 19, 2026, from 6:00 to 7:00 pm at the Wells Fargo Auditorium on the campus of the University of Nevada, Reno for an exciting evening with culinary historian Sarah Lohman in conversation with author and journalist Alan Deutschman. Lohman and Deutschman will discuss Lohman’s exploration of the history of food in Nevada and beyond, as well as her book Endangered Eating: America’s Vanishing Foods. Their conversation will touch on how Lohman uses food to explore different communities and how these communities are shaped by their culinary landscapes, and the often surprising ways that our own food practices and ingredients are rooted in social and political histories.
This event is free and open to the public. Seating is limited and registration is required.
Sarah Lohman is a culinary historian and the author of the bestselling books Endangered Eating: America’s Vanishing Foods and Eight Flavors: The Untold Story of American Cuisine. She focuses on the history of food as a way to access the stories of diverse Americans. Endangered Eating was a New York Times Editors’ Choice, and was named one of the Best Books of 2023 by Amazon’s Editors, Food & Wine, and Adam Gopnik on the Milk Street podcast. It was a finalist for the Nach Waxman Prize for Food & Drink Scholarship and winner of the Ohioana Library Book Prize for Nonfiction. Lohman’s work has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, and NPR. Lohman has lectured across the country, from the Smithsonian Museum of American History in Washington, DC to The Neon Museum in Las Vegas. Lohman is based in Henderson.
Nevada Humanities selected Lohman to represent Nevada at the 2026 Library of Congress National Book Festival in Washington, D.C., and as Nevada’s contribution to the 2026 national Great Reads from Great Places initiative.
Alan Deutschman holds the Reynolds Chair of Business Journalism at the Reynolds School of Journalism, University of Nevada, Reno. In his 35-year career as a journalist, Alan Deutschman has been the Silicon Valley correspondent for Fortune, a senior writer at Fast Company, the “Profit Motive” columnist for GQ and a contributing editor at Vanity Fair and New York Magazine. Since joining the Reynolds School of Journalism in 2011, he has taught courses in magazine writing, business journalism, and food writing in Paris, Italy, and the Spanish Basque country.
Deutschman is the author of The Second Coming of Steve Jobs, A Tale of Two Valleys, Change or Die, Walk the Walk, and How Steve Jobs Changed Our World. His books have been translated into eight languages. His articles have also been published in the New York Times Magazine, the Wall Street Journal, Wired, Conde Nast Traveler, Newsweek, Salon.com, the San Francisco Chronicle, and the Boston Globe. He has appeared as a commentator for NBC’s “Today Show,” CNBC’s “Squawk Box,” Bloomberg TV’s “Bloomberg West” and documentaries on CNN, CNBC, Bloomberg TV, and the Discovery Channel.
This event is produced by Nevada Humanities and made possible with support from the Reynolds School of Journalism at the University of Nevada, Reno, the Federation of State Humanities Councils with the Mellon Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Institute of Museum and Library Services and Chief Officers of State Library Agencies, and individual donors. This event is also part of the national initiative By the People: Conversations Beyond 250, which is a series of community-driven programs created by humanities councils in collaboration with local partners. By the People was developed by the Federation of State Humanities Councils and the Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage.