Cara De Silva

Cara De Silva is a writer, journalist, independent scholar, editor, and lecturer whose primary subjects are food history; culture; ethnicity; the Holocaust; New York; and Venice. For over a decade, she wrote for Newsday/New York Newsday, where her specialty was immigrant neighborhoods. Editor, and author of the introduction to, In Memory's Kitchen: A Legacy from the Women of Terezin (a New York Times most noteworthy selection), her writings can be also be found in major newspapers, magazines, and books across the country. Current projects are a scholarly novel about 16th century Venice, and continuing research into "War and the Food of Dreams,” a frequent topic of her academic lectures.