On Thursday, June 13, 2024, Janet Beizer’s subject was food inequity in 19th century France, when the concept of the “harlequin” referred to the practice of reassembling dinner scraps cleared from the plates of the wealthy to sell, replated, to the poor, a history that touches on our modern challenges of food inequity, food insecurity and food waste.
CHNY is grateful to Nate Nakshian Ward for editing and mixing this video.