A Tale of Two Food Journalists: ‘Jane Eddington’ of Chicago Tribune, 1910-1930 and Alma Lach of Chicago Sun-Times, 1957-1965

Posted on November 15, 2021 by Catherine Lambrecht

Presentation from November 15, 2021

‘My Dear Miss Eddington’: Reader Letters and
Early Twentieth Century Food Media

Podcast

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Pizzeria Uno and the Mysterious Origins of Deep-Dish Pizza

Posted on May 13, 2021 by Catherine Lambrecht

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

Posted on May 4, 2021 by Catherine Lambrecht

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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