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
Hear the crack of gunfire and the boom of cannons at the Lake County Forest Preserves’ 23rd annual Civil War Days. Visitors of all ages are invited to explore the military and civilian camps to learn about life in the 1860s. Continue reading
An art installation by Julie Green, Professor at Oregon State University
(Julie Green will not be present at our tour.)
For 15 years, Julie Green has painted images of death row inmates’ last meal requests in cobalt blue mineral paint onto second-hand ceramic plates. She intends to continue making 50 plates per year until capital punishment is abolished. Continue reading