Darra Goldstein
Scandinavia is a land of extremes, where chic design meets rugged wilderness, where perpetual winter nights are succeeded by endless days of summer. The Scandinavians still live and cook according to seasonal rhythms, and many still practice hunting and foraging as natural activities in a region with some of the most pristine places on earth. Continue reading
Presented by Charles Baker-Clark, PhD
ZDRAVO (HELLO) FROM MONTENEGRO
In the western Balkans, the gumno is a threshing floor, consisting of a low circular stone wall and a stone floor. Traditionally, donkeys or horses were tethered to a post at the center of the gumno and separated wheat and chaff with their hooves. Continue reading
Presented by Jennifer Jordan, author and educator
Each week during the growing season, farmers’ markets offer up such delicious treasures as brandywine tomatoes, cosmic purple carrots, pink pearl apples, and chioggia beets—varieties of fruits and vegetables that are prized by home chefs and carefully stewarded by farmers from year to year. These are the heirlooms and the antiques of the food world, endowed with their own rich histories. Continue reading
Preparation, preservation, pickling
and eating wild, and not so wild, mushrooms!
Presented by Stephanie Kowalyk and Catherine Lambrecht
A joint meeting with the Illinois Mycological Association (IMA)
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Kamay is the Tagalog word for hands and eating using your hands is traditionally called Kamayan. A kamayan meal may be on a table laid out with banana leaves with food mounded in the middle and a serving of rice at each seating. Continue reading