Join us on Thursday February 11, 2021 via Zoom.
Presented by Peter Regas
PizzaHistoryBook.com
In the past, the historical consensus was the first licensed pizzeria in America was opened in 1905 at 53 Spring St. in New York City by of a young Italian immigrant named Gennaro Lombardi. However, in 2019 at the U.S. Pizza Museum in Chicago, Peter Regas challenged that consensus with a talk titled “Filippo Milone and the Forgotten Pizza Makers of New York City.” Continue reading
Join us on Thursday March 4th via Zoom!
Presented by B. Marcus L. Cederström
Folklorist
Why do we eat the things we eat? And how do those things change due to migration? Continue reading
Join us on Saturday March 13, 2020 @ 10:00 AM via Zoom!
Presented by Priya Mani
Live from Denmark
A talk by Priya Mani on gathered, edible lichens from the Indian subcontinent. It is hardly imaginable that a lichen scraped off tree barks in the sub-Himalayan forests is the decisive and defining ingredient of what we know and imagine as “spicy-Indian.” Continue reading
Presented by Susie Wyshak
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Discover Trader Joe’s key role in introducing fun and unusual foods into the American diet decades ago, when the company was already encouraging the non-health food store shopper to try “better for you” versions of already-popular foods. Wyshak compares items featured in a 1982 flyer to how we eat now to show TJ’s importance in creating a nation of adventurous food lovers. Continue reading
Presented by Ann Flesor Beck
Author and Candy Maker
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Gus Flesor came to the United States from Greece in 1901. His journey led him to Tuscola, Illinois, where he learned the confectioner’s trade and opened a business that still stands on Main Street. Sweet Greeks sets the story of Gus Flesor’s life as an immigrant in a small town within the larger history of Greek migration to the Midwest. Continue reading