Presented by
Bruce Kraig, PhD
War is a great driver of changes in all human societies. As Von Clauswitz, famously said, war is an instrument of political policy. And politics are the external expressions of drives and themes in a society, from economics, to social conditions and cultural perceptions. Continue reading
Presented by
Leah Zeldes
In the pantheon of Jewish festival foods, the Hanukkah latke may be the
tastiest. The Jewish festival of Hanukkah began about 164 B.C.E., after
a small tribe of Jews triumphed over the Syrian-Greek rulers of
Jerusalem and the rededicated their Temple. Continue reading
Presented by
Trudy Knauss Paradis
Trudy Paradis will recount the lately forgotten story of the Germans in Milwaukee and the profound influence these German-speaking immigrants and their descendants had upon the dynamic city of today. From the early German-speaking arrivals to Milwaukee County in the 1830s, to the vibrant “German Athens on Lake Michigan” which these immigrants and their children created, to the suppression of German identity following the two World Wars, to the renaissance of German ancestral pride of today. Continue reading
‘Learning to Cook in 1898: A Chicago Culinary Memoir’ presented by Ellen F. Steinberg and Eleanor Hudera Hanson. Learning to Cook in 1898 is more than just a cookbook or a collection of nostalgic recipes. Continue reading
Presented by
Joe McFarland
The increasing popularity of wild mushroom cookery in America is limited by a surprisingly one-dimensional understanding of wild mushrooms. Not all wild mushrooms taste alike, no more than all vegetables taste alike, or all meats taste alike. Continue reading