Background
Cara De Silva was born in New York City, New York, United States. She is the daughter of Mayer and Rose (Zweig) Krawetz.
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De Silva received her education at the City College of the City University of New York, graduating from it with a Master of Arts degree.
160 Convent Ave, New York, NY 10031, USA
Cara De Silva started her career as an adjunct professor at the Center for Worker Education at the City University of New York in 1986.
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De Silva became a writer for Newsday/New York Newsday in 1988, where her speciality was ethnic New York and her food-and-culture column, "Flavor of the Neighborhood," was a popular feature. She worked there until 1995.
160 Convent Ave, New York, NY 10031, USA
De Silva received her education at the City College of the City University of New York, graduating from it with a Master of Arts degree.
160 Convent Ave, New York, NY 10031, USA
Cara De Silva started her career as an adjunct professor at the Center for Worker Education at the City University of New York in 1986.
235 Pinelawn Road Melville, New York, U.S. 11747
De Silva became a writer for Newsday/New York Newsday in 1988, where her speciality was ethnic New York and her food-and-culture column, "Flavor of the Neighborhood," was a popular feature. She worked there until 1995.
(In Memory's Kitchen: A Legacy from the Women of Terezín i...)
In Memory's Kitchen: A Legacy from the Women of Terezín is a beautiful memorial to the brave women who defied Hitler by preserving a part of their heritage and a part of themselves.
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Cara De Silva was born in New York City, New York, United States. She is the daughter of Mayer and Rose (Zweig) Krawetz.
De Silva received her education at the City College of the City University of New York, graduating from it with a Master of Arts degree.
Cara De Silva started her career as an adjunct professor at the Center for Worker Education at the City University of New York in 1986. Two years later, she became a writer for Newsday/New York Newsday, where her speciality was ethnic New York and her food-and-culture column, "Flavor of the Neighborhood," was a popular feature. During that time, in addition to stories produced for her beat at New York Newsday, Cara also wrote personal essays and general features.
In 1995, Cara started working as an independent scholar and freelance writer. Currently, she is also a frequent speaker at fundraisers, conferences, and seminars, and has also been featured on local, national, and international television and radio shows, among them the "The News Hour with Jim Lehrer" (PBS), "The Morning Show" (CNN), "All Things Considered" (NPR), the Television Food Network, and "The Voice of America."
As a teacher, De Silva has taught courses both in food and culture and in writing, at the City University of New York. She has also lectured at New York's venerable National Arts Club on Charles Dickens and food history during the Victorian period. And has spoken, too, at The Museum of Jewish Heritage on the subject of Italian Jews, Italian Jewish food and foodways, and Italian Jewish culture, a longstanding interest.
Currently, De Silva is also a consultant for academic and other institutions, all in the United States (among them the American Museum of Natural History), and abroad. As a professional researcher, Cara works for herself and others on a variety of subjects, both scholarly and popular.
De Silva's current writing project is a scholarly novel about 16th century Venice, a city she has studied for years, both there and in Italy.
Cara De Silva is an American award-winning journalist, and James Beard Award Nominee, who focuses on a broad range of subjects that include food and food history; culture; ethnicity; New York City; Italy (especially Venice); and fusion. She is the author of In Memory's Kitchen: A Legacy from the Women of Terezin, which became one of the New York Times Book Review's most noteworthy books of the year, and also a New York Times and Publishers Weekly bestseller.
Other work by Cara can be found in the forthcoming volumes Rumba Under Fire: The Arts of Survival from West Point to Delhi (Punctum Books, 2015); Savoring Gotham (Oxford, 2105) for which she was also advisory editor; and A Norton Anthology of Food Writing (W.W.Norton & Co, Inc, 2015). Further work has been published in A Slice of Life: Contemporary Writers on Food, an anthology of writings by well-known novelists, poets, food writers, and chefs (Overlook, 2003; Duckworth, London, 2004); and in Provence: The Collected Traveler: An Inspired Anthology & Travel Resource by Barrie Kerper. (Fodors, 2001). Likewise, she is a contributor to Food and Judaism: Studies in Jewish Civilization 15 (Creighton University Press, 2004).
As a journalist, she was a writer for Newsday/New York Newsday and in addition to it, her articles have been published by the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Cleveland Plain Dealer, the Los Angeles Times Syndicate, Gastronomica; Gourmet Magazine, Saveur, Food & Wine, Eating Well, Martha Stewart Living, Cuisine, and Diversion magazines.
She has also been featured on local, national, and international television and radio shows both here and abroad, among them "The News Hour with Jim Lehrer" (PBS), "The Morning Show" (CNN), "All Things Considered" (NPR), the "Food Network," and "The Voice of America."
(In Memory's Kitchen: A Legacy from the Women of Terezín i...)
1996De Silva is a member of the American Folklore Society, Gypsy Lore Society, Culinary Historians of New York, Author’s Guild, and the National Coalition of Independent Scholars.
De Silva was married to Robert Ackerman. However, the couple got divorced. De Silva has no children.
