You all know of the Cookie Monster, but how would you like to meet the Cake Angel? For that’s what we consider Jocelyn Delk Adams. Jocelyn has penned an oh-so-sweet book that captures not only her southern grandmother’s luscious baking legacy, but her loving warmth as well.
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BBQ History Heats Up January
Presented by Chef Bill Reynolds,
Proprietor, New Buffalo Bill’s, New Buffalo, Michigan
It may be January, but we’ll be warming you up with a program that we typically hold in July—on the bliss and history of BBQ. Why January, you ask? Because that’s when we could get our speaker, Chef Bill Reynolds, a formidable force in America’s culinary scene; Chef Bill was finally able to take a break from his BBQ emporium, New Buffalo Bill’s, that he opened last summer in the lakefront getaway of New Buffalo, Michigan. Continue reading
Chicago: A Food Biography
Presented by Daniel Block and Howard Rosing
Chicago began as a frontier town on the edge of white settlement and as the product of removal of culturally rich and diverse indigenous populations. The town grew into a place of speculation with the planned building of the Illinois and Michigan canal, a boomtown, and finally a mature city of immigrants from both overseas and elsewhere in the US. Continue reading
The Goelitz Family: Jelly Belly
Jelly Belly’s Vice Chairman Bill Kelley will unwrap the roots of the Goelitz candy empire, which began as a storefront in Belleville, Illinois. While now headquartered in California, their legacy candy corn has been made in North Chicago since 1913. Continue reading
Dining in Grayslake
Exhibit tour of Food, Family and Tradition: Dining in Grayslake. This new exhibit explores the history of the community’s restaurants and the families who made them go. Charlotte Renehan will add interesting details. Continue reading