Presented by
Emma Kowalenko
Chicago Oral History Roundtable
Oral history workshop prepares participants on how to capture history preserved in our midst through recollections and stories. This is the first stepping stone to our first Roundtable project: collecting oral histories of early television cooking show pioneers. Continue reading
Who would be up for a tour of the sites of Belgian settlement in Chicago?
What, you say, Belgians? In Chicago?! Yes and yes.
Conducted by Krista Reynen
(Who wrote the entry on Belgians in the Encyclopedia of Chicago)
The tour will start at 12 pm (to accommodate the church). We will meet in front of St. John Berchmans Church at Logan Boulevard. There are no steps to get into the church at the moment but we will enter via a side entrance. Continue reading
A program by
Penelope Bingham
“Just what is “American Food”? Raymond Sokolov says there is no such thing, David Rosengarten says “It’s All American Food”. It seems that every food historian and critic has an opinion on the subject, but there is no consensus. Continue reading
Presented by
Chinese-American Museum of Chicago
This tour starts with an introduction and demonstration of the art of Chinese tea making and continues with a tour to two Chinatown teahouses to explore both gourmet and herbal varieties
A program by
Myra Albert
Beginning in the 1880’s there was a philanthropic movement to return Jewish immigrants “back to the soil.” By 1924 there were 75,000 Jewish farmers in the USA. Presenter Myra Albert recollects her Grandpa’s poultry and produce farm in New Jersey and reads from her Mother’s memoirs about this “healthier lifestyle.” Continue reading