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Category Archives: Greater Midwest Foodways
Pizzeria Uno and the Mysterious Origins of Deep-Dish Pizza
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
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!
Swedish Pancakes for Breakfast?
Presented by B. Marcus L. Cederström
Folklorist
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Why do we eat the things we eat? And how do those things change due to migration? Continue reading
An Afternoon with Jacqueline Kennedy
Official White House portrait of former U.S. First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy by Mark Shaw, 1961
A Historical Portrayal by Leslie Goddard, PhD