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EATONVILLE Restaurant LAUNCHES 'Food and Folklore Series'

 

Inaugural dinner brings famed Hurston biographer Valerie Boyd to the table

 

Bringing the art of the story back to the dinner table, Eatonville Restaurant is launching Food and Folklore, a new monthly series intertwining storytelling and fabulous food.  Food and Folklore is wrapped in the spirit of gifted storyteller and folklorist Zora Neale Hurston’s brand of hospitality – a generosity with food. 

 

HurstonBiographer Valerie Boyd kicks off the series Friday, Nov. 13 at 6:30 p.m. at the restaurant. Boyd is the author of Wrapped In Rainbows:  The Life of Zora Neale Hurston and is currently finishing her next book, Spirits in the Dark:  The Untold Story of Black Women in Hollywood.

 

Each Food and Folklore event will feature a special prix fixe menu prepared by Eatonville’s executive chef Rusty Holman. After the main entrée, the evening winds down with dessert and informal and lively conversation with a special guest.

 

The price per person for Food and Folklore is $45 (plus tax and tip). Reservations are required as space is limited. For reservations or information call, 202-332-ZORA (9672) or email foodandfolklore@gmail.com.

 

About Eatonville Restaurant

Eatonville Restaurant is a Southern-inspired restaurant opened in 2009 by Andy Shallal, founder of Busboys and Poets. Located in the historic U Street Corridor at 2121 14th St. NW, The Zora Neale Hurston inspired restaurant is in the heart of where Hurston and fellow writer/poet Langston Hughes enjoyed a lively social and cultural life during the early 1920s. Eatonville pays homage to Hurston’s D.C. connections including her time as a student at Howard University.

 

It is named for her childhood hometown in Florida, the setting of her most famous novel Their Eyes Were Watching God.

 http://www.eatonvillerestaurant.com.

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