Travelling Tour by American Museum of Natural History
Learning tour to Milwaukee Public Museum to view a special traveling exhibit, one that explores the complex food system that brings what we eat from farm to fork. In sections devoted to growing, transporting, cooking, eating, tasting, and celebrating, the Global Kitchen exhibition illuminates the myriad ways that food is produced and moved throughout the world. Continue reading
Exhibit tour of Food, Family and Tradition: Dining in Grayslake. This new exhibit explores the history of the community’s restaurants and the families who made them go. Charlotte Renehan will add interesting details. Continue reading
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Culinary Historians of Chicago:
Chicago Foodways Roundtable:
Conducted by Leah Axelrod
Leah Axelrod, charter member and ex-president of the Highland Park Historical Society, conducts the last tour of the period kitchen before the museum closed.
Recorded at the Butz House Museum of the Highland Park Historical Society on March 22, 2015.
Conducted by Leah Axelrod, Charter
Member of the Highland Park Historical Society
Leah Axelord, charter member of the Highland Park Historical Society, conducts the last tour of the period kitchen before the museum closed.
Recorded at the Highland Park Historical Society on March 22, 2015.