On the religious side of the holiday season, and indeed across the calendar, there are any number of traditional sweets with sacred meanings. Constance Kirker, a culinary historian and retired professor of art history at Penn State who now teaches at the Culinary Institute of America in Singapore, will address the topic of “Sacred Sweet Tooth: The Symbolism and Function of Candy and Sweets in Religious Traditions” as it pertains to Christianity, Hinduism, Buddhism and Islam. The talk is sponsored by the Culinary Historians of New York. Sweets will be served: “Sacred Sweet Tooth,” Jan. 15 at 6:30 p.m., $25 for members, $40 for nonmembers, $10 for students, eventbrite.com; Culinary Historians of New York, Anthroposophical Society of America, 138 West 15th Street (Seventh Avenue), culinaryhistoriansny.org/events/.
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