Presented by MFA Products of Design

Speaker Series: Nicola Twilley

Nov 12, 2025; 2:00 - 4:00pm
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MFA Products of Design presents a talk with Nicola Twilley, author of Frostbite: How Refrigeration Changed Our Food, Our Planet, and Ourselves (Penguin Press, June 2024), and co-host of Gastropod, a podcast from the Vox Media Podcast Network in collaboration with Eater that explores food through the lenses of history and science.


Twilley’s first book, Until Proven Safe: The History and Future of Quarantine, was co-authored with Geoff Manaugh and was named one of the best books of 2021 by Time Magazine, NPR, the Guardian, and the Financial Times. Twilley is a frequent contributing writer at The New Yorker and the author of Edible Geography. She lives in Los Angeles.

Free and open to the public