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Currently all our programs are presented virtually via Zoom on Central Time. Once we can meet again, we hope to continue with both live and virtual programs. Please read the full event notices for details because days and times often vary. You are encouraged to join our email list to receive advance notices followed by day-of-meeting reminders with the required Zoom link. 

Culinary Historians of Chicago:

  • Wednesday, June 16, 2021 @ 7:00 PM via Zoom: Someone’s in the Kitchen with Dinah (Shore) with Flo Selfman
  • Wednesday, July 28, 2021 @ 7:00 PM via Zoom: Louisa Chu and Nick Kindelsperger of the Chicago Tribune
Chicago Foodways Roundtable:

  • Monday, July 12, 2021 @ 7 PM via Zoom: Viennese Cuisine Prior to 1938 with Susanne Belovari
  • Saturday, October 30, 2021 @ 10 AM via Zoom:  First Catch Your Gingerbread  plus UK Supper Clubs, what are they? with Sam Bilton

Find Culinary Historians of Chicago and Chicago Foodways Roundtable on Twitter or Facebook.

Greater Midwest Foodways Alliance:

  • Thursday, August 12, 2021, Live judging @ 3:00 PM Eastern Time: Family Heirloom Recipe Contest @ Indiana State Fair (Indiana Building)
  • Friday, August 13, 2021, Winners announced @ 12:15 PM: Family Heirloom Recipe Contest @ Illinois State Fair (Hobby, Arts and Craft Building)
  • Saturday, August 14, 2021, Live judging @ 2:30 PM: Family Heirloom Recipe Contest @ Missouri State Fair (Home Economics Building)
  • Sunday, September 5, 2021, Live judging @ 1:00 PM: Family Heirloom Recipe Contest @ South Dakota State Fair (Women’s Building)
  • September 2021: Heirloom Apple Tour – postponed from 2019.

Find Greater Midwest Foodways on Twitter, Facebook or our website.

Someone’s in the Kitchen with Dinah (Shore)

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Join us on Wednesday June 16, 2021 via Zoom!

By Flo Selfman

Eggplant Vegetable Pie

Having been a top singing star, Dinah Shore became a pioneer television personality with “The Dinah Shore Chevy Show,” which showcased her distinctive voice and relaxed Southern charm from 1951 to 1963. In 1970, she returned to television as host of “Dinah’s Place,” an NBC morning show that covered homemaking, crafts, child-rearing, health and beauty—always with a song, of course, and usually a cooking segment, either by Dinah or her celebrity guests. Many leading chefs got their first national exposure on “Dinah’s Place.” Continue reading →

Viennese Cuisine Prior to 1938

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Join us on Monday July 12, 2021 via Zoom!

Wiener Kuche

Susanne Belovari, Archivist

The famous Wiener Küche had long been a collective culinary tradition of Jews and non-Jews alike. It was perhaps the perfect example, in an imperfect and Anti-Semitic city, of two formerly distinct groups moving towards each other and integrating while daily creating, cooking, and eating one cuisine. Continue reading →

Chicago Trib’s New Restaurant Critics Exposed! Meet Louisa Chu and Nick Kindelsperger

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Join us on July 28, 2021 via Zoom!

Louisa Chu and Nick Kindelsperger

Time was we could never get a Chicago food critic to speak to our group; they religiously refused to reveal their identities in public. That is until about three years ago when the Tribune’s esteemed food critic, Phil Vettel, published a story in the paper, complete with his photo, explaining that it was almost impossible for him to remain anonymous when reviewing restaurants. Continue reading →

The Taco Truck: How Mexican Street Food Is Transforming the American City

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Robert Lemon,
Author, Geographer, Documentary Film Maker

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Icons of Mexican cultural identity and America’s melting pot ideal, taco trucks have transformed cityscapes from coast to coast. The taco truck radiates Mexican culture within non-Mexican spaces with a presence—sometimes desired, sometimes resented—that turns a public street corner into a bustling business. Continue reading →

Black Smoke: African Americans and the United States of Barbecue

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Presented by Adrian Miller
Food Writer, Attorney, Certified Barbecue Judge

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Join us as James Beard Award-winning author Adrian Miller discusses the history of African American barbecue culture from his book, Black Smoke: African Americans and the United States of Barbecue. Black Smoke describes how African Americans inherited a type of cooking that fused Native American meat smoking and European grilling techniques that became known as “barbecue.” Continue reading →