Category Archives: Chicago Foodways Roundtable

Pizzeria Uno and the Mysterious Origins of Deep-Dish Pizza

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The only photo of Riccardo and deep-dish pizza known to exist (March, 1945)

Presented by Peter Regas
PizzaHistoryBook.com

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Who invented deep-dish pizza? Is there a more controversial question in Chicago food history? There’s little doubt the pizzeria at 29 East Ohio Street in Chicago- originally named “The Pizzeria” later renamed “Pizzeria Uno”- served the original deep-dish pizza. But despite decades of debate and speculation, no one has definitively identified who created the pizza style that now has a market niche worth hundreds of millions of dollars and that -rightly or wrongly- branded Chicago, as a deep-dish pizza town. Continue reading →

Ossoli Cookbook: A fundraiser for the first public beach in Highland Park, Illinois

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Presented by Highland Park Public Library’s Cookbook Club
with Highland Park Historical Society and Us!
 
 
We are encouraging people to prepare a recipe from this antique community cookbook and discuss the results. This cookbook is available online via the University of Illinois. Certainly you are welcome to sit in on the discussion and not have cooked anything!

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Mock Goose and Lord Woolton’s Pie: Shopping, Eating, and Cooking ‘On the Ration’ in World War II Britain

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Annette Laing, 
Author, Academic, Public Historian

When war broke out in 1939, the British people, long dependent on imported foods, found themselves thrown back on their own resources. Sure, they had a little help from their American friends, much of it in the form of powdered eggs and Spam. Continue reading →

A Curious, Secret Spice in your Masala?

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Stoney Curry Lichen
Stone Curry Lichen

Presented by Priya Mani
Live from Denmark

This will not be simulcast on Facebook nor hosted on YouTube. 
If you are missing the meeting and wish to watch it later, 
please email culinaryhistorians@gmail.com for a link.

A talk by Priya Mani on gathered, edible lichens from the Indian subcontinent. It is hardly imaginable that a lichen scraped off tree barks in the sub-Himalayan forests is the decisive and defining ingredient of what we know and imagine as “spicy-Indian.” Continue reading →