BookHub at MNAR. Readings with Nona Rapotan

The series of meetings "BookHub at MNAR: Readings with Nona Rapotan" continues this year at the National Art Museum of Romania. The February 2024 edition will take place on Saturday, 17 February 2024, at 11.00 am, at the Museum of Art Collections, Calea Victoriei 111.

The guests are Cosmin Dragomir, culinary historian, Adriana Sohodoleanu, PhD in sociology and Mihail Coșulețu, artist and creative director at Humanitas Publishing House. The books proposed for debate will be: "Curatorul de zacuscă" and "Colectionarul de sarmale", both written by Cosmin Dragomir, "Noua bucătărie românească", Adriana Sohodoleanu's book and "Intelectuali la cratiță", by Ioana Pârvulescu, illustrated by Mihail Coșulețu.

Through the dialogue between Nona Rapotan and the three guests, the audience will have the opportunity to discover and understand what lies behind consumer habits, what gourmet cuisine means, how necessary culinary histories are, how the illustration for a culinary book is made, but also how the three guests see the relationship between culinary art and fine art.

Held regularly at the museum, the "Bookhub at MNAR: Readings with Nona Rapotan" meetings are a platform for mediating between books and fine art, in the company of personalities from the cultural sector.

Nona Rapotan is editor-coordinator of the Bookhub.ro project, being one of the recognized professionals in the publishing field, with an openness to related cultural areas.

Cosmin Dragomir won the attention of readers with his first book ”Curatorul de zacuscă”, a publishing success, then published ”Colecționarul de sarmale”, a book that arouses the curiosity of gourmets and lovers of culinary curiosities. In 2017 he launched gastroart.ro the first specialized magazine dedicated to researching the history of Romanian gastronomy and hospitality.

Adriana Sohodoleanu holds a PhD in sociology, with her recently published thesis”Noua bucătărie românească”. She has contributed articles to publications such as Oxford Food Symposium's Proceedings, Dilema Veche, Iscoada, Zile si Nopti and others. He is co-author, with Cosmin Dragomir, of a book of historical dessert recipes, and has weekly appearances on Radio Romania Cultural's ”Cultura la farfurie”.

Mihail Coșulețu is an artist and creative director at Humanitas Publishing House. He has participated in numerous solo and group exhibitions. At Humanitas Publishing House he illustrated the volumes: Ioana Pârvulescu (ed.), ”Intelectuali la cratiță” (2012); Pisicoteca practică a lu' Moș Pârșu răsădită în sol autohton” by Florin Bican (2014); ”Platon, Dialoguri socratice” (2015); Vladimir Tismăneanu, Ciprian Măceșaru, ”Trei sute de ceaușești liliputani” (2016); ”Aristofan, Trei comedii” (2017); Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, ”Petit prince” (2017), Ioana Pârvulescu, ”Prevestirea” (2020). She lives and works in Bucharest.

Admission is based on a 12 lei ticket, to which discounts and free admission apply for different categories of public.