Presented by
Bruce Kraig, PhD
War is a great driver of changes in all human societies. As Von Clauswitz, famously said, war is an instrument of political policy. And politics are the external expressions of drives and themes in a society, from economics, to social conditions and cultural perceptions. Continue reading
Presented by
Wilbert Jones
Author, “Smothered Southern Foods”
Here’s what Art Smith, best selling author of “Back to the Table,” and personal chef to Oprah Winfrey, has to say about our speaker for today: ”When I was growing up in the South, I remember seeing so many wonderful foods on our family dinner table. Some of my favorite foods were smothered dishes, especially smothered pork chops–cut thin, browned in a pan, then we would add some flour and water to the reserved juices to make a wonderful sauce served over white rice. Continue reading
Presented by
Leah Zeldes
In the pantheon of Jewish festival foods, the Hanukkah latke may be the
tastiest. The Jewish festival of Hanukkah began about 164 B.C.E., after
a small tribe of Jews triumphed over the Syrian-Greek rulers of
Jerusalem and the rededicated their Temple. Continue reading
By Nancie McDermott
Food Writer, Cookbook Author, Teacher
Author Nancie McDermott is letting her roots show. Renowned for her recipes and writings on the cuisines and culture of Southeast Asia, where she spent three years as a Peace Corps volunteer, McDermott’s latest volume is truly the frosting on her culinary cake. Ms. McDermott brings us down home to her beloved south for “Southern Cakes,” which layers on a luscious bounty of coconut cakes, pound cakes, jelly cakes, fruitcakes and classics like Lady Baltimore Cake, and Thirteen-layer Cake. Continue reading
Presented by
Trudy Knauss Paradis
Trudy Paradis will recount the lately forgotten story of the Germans in Milwaukee and the profound influence these German-speaking immigrants and their descendants had upon the dynamic city of today. From the early German-speaking arrivals to Milwaukee County in the 1830s, to the vibrant “German Athens on Lake Michigan” which these immigrants and their children created, to the suppression of German identity following the two World Wars, to the renaissance of German ancestral pride of today. Continue reading