Presentation by
Jeff Stern
With less than four inches of rain having fallen since the first of the year, and temperatures hitting 92 degrees on May 19, 1934, Chicago was vulnerable. It took only a carelessly tossed cigarette in the Union Stock Yards that Saturday afternoon to set off the most destructive blaze since the Great Fire of 1871. Continue reading
Presentation by
Weslie Janeway
Tuesday, November 10th, 2009 at 7 PM
Podcast recorded by WBEZ’s Chicago Amplified
Ina’s
1235 West Randolph Street
Chicago, IL 60607
http://www.breakfastqueen.com
While scientist Charles Darwin pursued research and theory, his wife Emma Wedgwood Darwin, like many women of her time, kept a notebook filled with recipes, culinary instructions and personal anecdotes about everyday life in the Darwin household. Continue reading
Presentation by
Aggie “The Tomato Lady” Nehmzow
Podcast courtesy of WBEZ’s Chicago Amplified
Last October on a sunny day with puffy clouds arranged gloriously across the horizon, three generation of Nehmzow women set out for Heap’s Giant Pumpkin Farm. Our mission was threefold: culinary, decorative and diversity. Continue reading
Talk by Colleen Taylor Sen and Lunch
Bhabi’s Kitchen
6352 North Oakley
Chicago
Podcast courtesy of WBEZ’s Chicago Amplified
Curry is one of the most widely used—and misused—terms in the culinary lexicon. Outside of India, the word curry is often used as a catchall to describe any Indian dish or Indian food in general, yet Indians rarely use it to describe their own cuisine. Continue reading
Chuck Bauer,
Volunteer at Garfield Farm Museum, www.garfieldfarm.org
3N016 Garfield Road. LaFox, IL (or St. Charles, IL), 630-584-8485
Podcast courtesy of WBEZ’s Chicago Amplified
Chuck Bauer, will lecture on the history of corn. There will be discussion of the type used in the 1840’s and how farmers manipulated corn to create the variety we have today. Continue reading