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Culinary Historians of Chicago’s YouTube Channel
Leftovers A History of Food Waste & Preservation
Eleanor Barnett, PhD
Available on YouTube
Recorded via Zoom on November 9, 2024
The Glory of Chicago-Style BBQ
Dominique Leach
Available on YouTube
Recorded via Zoom on October 30, 2024
The Meticulous Process of Recipe Writing
Raeanne Sarazen
Available on YouTube
Recorded via Zoom on September 18, 2024
My Life in Recipes: Food Family and Memories
Joan Nathan
Available on YouTube
Recorded via Zoom on August 14, 2024
How Publishing Legend Judith Jones Shaped Culture in America
Sara B. Franklin
Available on YouTube
Recorded via Zoom on June 10, 2024
The Soul of Jewish Food
Dylan Maysick, co-owner Diaspora Dinners
Available on YouTube
Recorded via Zoom on May 22, 2024
Cicadas, anyone?
Carolyn Berg, David Hammond and Catherine Lambrecht
Available of YouTube
Recorded via Zoom on May 20, 2024
Examining History through Recipes: Crofton Cookbook (Manuscript cookbooks from Fort Sheridan, 1890s)
Catherine Lambrecht, Nicole Stocker
Available on YouTube
Recorded via Zoom on February 29, 2024
From Bean to Bar – Exploring the Complex World of Chocolate
Adam Centamore
Available on YouTube
Recorded via Zoom on February 28, 2024
Ignite The Conversation: A Exploration Into Chicago-style BBQ
Dominique Leach (Lexington Betty Smokehouse) – Brian Jupiter (Frontier/Ina Mae Tavern)- Daniel Hammond (Smoky Soul BBQ)- Ron Conner (U Want Dat Smoke BBQ)
Monica Eng, Mike Gebert, Catherine Lambrecht
Recorded at Lexington Betty’s Smokehouse on February 25, 2024
A History of the World in 10 Dinners
Victoria Flexner and Jay Reifel
Available on YouTube
Recorded via Zoom on December 11, 2023
The Delmonico Way
Max Tucci
Available on YouTube
Recorded via Zoom on November 9, 2023
Feeding the Art Deco Spirit
Teri Edelstein, PhD
Available on YouTube
Recorded via Zoom on October 16, 2023
What’s Behind Italy’s Ingredients?
Viola Buitoni
Available on YouTube
Recorded via Zoom on October 4, 2023
Madison’s Magical Market
Terese Allen
Available on YouTube
Recorded via Zoom on September 20, 2023
Much ado about masalas – a deep dive into Indian cuisine
Nandita Godbole
Available on YouTube
Recorded via Zoom on August 31, 2023
Alex Prud’homme, Dinner with the President
Available on YouTube
Recorded via Zoom on July 12, 2023
Flora, Fauna and Foodways
Nancy Webster, Archivist
Available on YouTube
Recorded via Zoom on June 27, 2023
Live from Rome: A Slice of Rice — Italian Style
Valentina Masotti
Available of YouTube
Recorded via Zoom on June 10, 2023
Colombian Exchange
Hit World Like Culinary Comet
Bill St. John
Available on YouTube
Recorded via Zoom on May 31, 2023
Fieldwork: A Forager’s Memoir
Iliana Regan
Available on YouTube
Recorded via Zoom on May 1, 2023
Made in Chicago: Stories Behind 30 Great Hometown Bites
Monica Eng and David Hammond
Available on YouTube
Recorded via Zoom on April 6, 2023
What you probably did not know about Indian Food
Colleen Taylor Sen, PhD
Available on YouTube
Recorded via Zoom on March 29, 2023
The Multiple Heritages of Irish Soda Bread
Lucy Long, PhD
Available on YouTube
Recorded via Zoom on March 13, 2023
History of American Pies … and Illinois is well represented!
Catherine Lambrecht
Available on YouTube
Recorded via Zoom on February 23, 2023
Bitter Sweet: A Wartime Journal and Heirloom Recipes from Occupied France
Kitty Morse
Available on YouTube
Recorded via Zoom on February 15, 2023
Mooooving Day – Transhumance and the Impact on Dairy Cultures
Adam Centamore
Available on YouTube
Recorded via Zoom on January 25, 2023
Truffles
Susi Gott Séguret
Available on YouTube
Recorded via Zoom on January 10, 2023
Rose Levy Beranbaum: The Cookie Bible
Rose Levy Beranbaum
Available on YouTube
Recorded via Zoom on December 12, 2022
Chinese Home Cooking from the Woks of Life
Kaitlin and Sarah Leung
Available on YouTube
Recorded via Zoom on December 8, 2022
Naomi Duguid, A Salty Talk
Naomi Duguid
Available on YouTube
Recorded via Zoom on November 30, 2022
From ‘Peanut Weddings’ to ‘Beef Stands:’ The Socio-Culinary History of Chicago’s ‘Italian Beef’
Anthony Buccini, PhD
Available on YouTube
Recorded via Zoom on November 15, 2022
The Turkey, An American Story
Andrew F. Smith
Available on YouTube
Recorded via Zoom on November 3, 2022
Savoring Appalachia
Susi Gott Séguret
Available on YouTube
Recorded via Zoom on October 25, 2022
Fool’s Gold: A History of British Saffron
Sam Bilton
Available on YouTube
Recorded via Zoom on October 1, 2022
What Ewe Always Wanted to Know About Lamb Farming In The U.S.
John and Sukey Jamison, owners, Jamison Farm, Latrobe, Pa
Available on YouTube
Recorded via Zoom on August 24, 2022
The Invisible 6,000 Year History of Sourdough
Eric Pallant
Available on YouTube
Recorded via Zoom on July 20, 2022
To Ukraine with Love
Anna Volyshyna
Available on YouTube
Recorded via Zoom on June 22, 2022
Street talking Indian street food
Rijana Bhargava
Available on YouTube
Recorded via Zoom on May 25, 2022
Feeding Fascism: The Politics of Women’s Food Work
Diana Garvin
Available on YouTube
Recorded via Zoom on May 13, 2022
The Ten Commandments of Pizza
Peter Reinhart
Available on YouTube
Recorded via Zoom on April 27, 2022
The Making of a Chicago Master Chef and Chicago’s Food Evolution
Chef Michael Maddox
Available on YouTube
Recorded via Zoom on March 30, 2022
St. Chrys’s Table: Birth of a Cookbook
Elizabeth Richter, Jonathan Boyer, Isabel Carpenter, McLaurin Files, and Janet Russo
Available on YouTube
Recorded via Zoom on March 16, 2022
Black Women in the Kitchen
Sephira Bailey Shuttlesworth, PhD
Available on YouTube
Recorded via Zoom on February 9, 2022
Historic Chicago Bakeries
Jennifer Bollick
Available on YouTube
Recorded via Zoom on January 12, 2022
Slicing into Chicago’s Pizza History
Steve Dolinsky
Available on YouTube
Recorded via Zoom on December 8, 2021
A Tale of Two Food Journalists: ‘Jane Eddington’ of Chicago Tribune, 1910-1930 and Alma Lach of Chicago Sun-Times, 1957-1965
Emily Martin and Kimberly Wilmot Voss
Available on YouTube
Recorded via Zoom on November 17, 2021
Let’s Eat! Celebrating with Food
Debbie Fandrei, Raupp Museum
Korean Cultural Center of Chicago
Recorded at the Raupp Museum on November 13, 2021
The Pilgrim Kitchen The Harvest Celebration of 1621: Plimoth Patuxet Museum, Plymouth Massachusetts
John Ota
Available on YouTube
Recorded via Zoom on November 9, 2021
First Catch Your Gingerbread! UK Supper Clubs: What Are They?
Sam Bilkin
Available on YouTube
Recorded via Zoom on October 30, 2021
Beijing Duck and the Pandemic: The story of Chicago’s iconic Sun Wah BBQ
Kelly Cheng
Available on YouTube
Recorded via Zoom on October 20, 2021
How Ingredients Shaped a Chef
Peter Hoffman
Available on YouTube
Recorded via Zoom on September 29, 2021
Chicago Trib’s New Restaurant Critics Exposed! Meet Louisa Chu and Nick Kindlesperger
Louisa Chu and Nick Kindlesperger
Available on YouTube
Recorded via Zoom on July 28, 2021
Viennese Cuisine Prior to 1938
Susanne Belovari
Recorded via Zoom on July 12, 2021
Someone’s in the Kitchen with Dinah (Shore)
Flo Selfman
Available on YouTube
Recorded via Zoom on June 16, 2021
The Taco Truck: How Mexican Street Food is Transforming America
Robert Lemon
View presentation on YouTube
Recorded via Zoon on June 2, 2021
Black Smoke: African-Americans and the United States of Barbecue
Adrian Miller
View presentation on YouTube
Recorded via Zoom on May 19, 2021
Pizzeria Uno and the Mysterious Origins of Deep Dish Pizza
Peter Regas
Available to see on Facebook and YouTube
Recorded via Zoom on May 13, 2021
The Making of James Beard, An American Legend
John Birdsall
Available to see on Facebook
Recorded via Zoom on April 14, 2021
How the Frugality of Rural Foodways Reshaped this Nationally Acclaimed Chef
Vivian Howard
Available to see on Facebook
Recorded via Zoom on March 24, 2021
Swedish Pancakes for Breakfast?
B. Marcus L. Cederström
Available to see on Facebook
Recorded via Zoom on March 4, 2021
The Rise of Black Cooks and the Soul of American Food
Chef Marcus Samuelsson interviewed by Donna Pierce
Available to see on Facebook
Recorded via Zoom on February 15, 2021
Thoughts on the Origins of Pizzerias in America and Chicago
Peter Regas
Available to see on Facebook
Recorded via Zoom on February 11, 2021
Gordon Sinclair – Live!
Interviewed by Michael Gebert
Available to see on Facebook
Recorded via Zoom on January 13, 2021
An Onion in My Pocket
Deborah Madison
Available to see on Facebook
Recorded via Zoom on December 9, 2020
How Trader Joe’s Changed the Way America Eats
Susie Wyshak
Available to see on Facebook
Record via Zoom on December 3, 2020
Women in the Kitchen: Twelve Essential Cookbook Writers Who Defined the Way We Eat
Anne Willan
Available to see on Facebook
Recorded via Zoom on November 28, 2020
Sweet Greeks: First-Generation Immigrant Confectioners in the Heartland
Ann Flesor Beck
Available to see on Facebook
Recorded via Zoom on November 10, 2020
No Ketchup! Why Dennis Foley Ate 50 Hot Dogs in 50 Days
Dennis Foley
Available to see on Facebook
Recorded via Zoom on October 22, 2020
What a Waste! Here’s what the world is doing to recover, reduce and recycle food waste
Andrew F. Smith
Available to see on Facebook
Recorded via Zoom on October 21, 2020
An Invasion of Gastronomic Proportions: My Adventures with Chicago Animals, Human and Otherwise
Mike Sula
Available to see on Facebook
Recorded via Zoom on September 24, 2020
Fat Rascals: Dining at Shakespeare’s Table
John Tuft
Available to see on Facebook
Recorded via Zoom on September 2, 2020
The Most Loved Room in the House: The Evolution of the American Kitchen
John Ota
Available to see on Facebook
Recorded via Zoom on July 15, 2020
The Rule of Rum
Cynthia Clampitt
Available to see on Facebook
Recorded via Zoom on June 18, 2020
16,000 Years of Global Potato History
Raghavan Iyer
Available to see on Facebook
Recorded via Zoom on May 27, 2020
When Potato Fields were Prisons: Unfree Farm Labor in McHenry County During World War II
Samuel Klee
Recorded via Zoom on April 5, 2020
Chicago’s Evolving Restaurant Scene: How can the Cherished Small Guy Survive?
Michael Lackowicz
Recorded at Bethany Retirement Community on February 22, 2020
A Taste of FoodCultura
Students in Foodcultura: The Art and Anthropology of Cuisine, University of Chicago, Autumn 2019
Recorded at Bethany Retirement Community on Febuary 15, 2020
A Taste of FoodCultura
Students in Foodcultura: The Art and Anthropology of Cuisine, University of Chicago, Autumn 2019
Recorded at Bethany Retirement Community on January 25, 2020
The Legitimacy and Legacy of Chinese Food in America
Monica Eng and Louisa Chu
Recorded at Bethany Retirement Community on January 18, 2020
How the Instant Pot Helped This Indian-American Forge Her Ethnic Identity
Chandra Ram
Recorded at Bethany Retirement Community on December 14, 2019
A Culinary History of Downeast Maine
Sharon Joyce
Recorded at Bethany Retirement Community on December 7, 2019
Maggi Galaxy
Stephan Palmié and Antoni Miralda
Recorded at Bethany Retirement Community on November 9, 2019
After Fall from Grace, Chef and Business Partner Plan the Best Ever
Curtis Duffy and Michael Muser interviewed by Monica Eng
Recorded at Bethany Retirement Community on November 2, 2019
Last Night on the Titanic: Unsinkable Drinking, Dining and Style
Veronica Hinke and Gale Gand
Recorded at Bethany Retirement Community on October 10, 2019
Bread Guru’s Never-Ending Quest for the Perfect Pizza
Peter Reinhart
Recorded at Bethany Retirement Community on September 7, 2019
The Dark Side of Peach History
Belinda Smith-Sullivan
Recorded at Bethany Retirement Community on August 10, 2019
Spicy Chicago Couple to Give Well-Seasoned Talk
Patty Penzey Erd and Tom Erd
Recorded at Bethany Retirement Community on July 27, 2019
Civil War Camp Cooks, 2019 Armchair Tour
Erik Schultz
Recorded at Weiss Memorial Hospital on July 13, 2019
Well of the Sea
Margaret Carney
Recorded at Bethany Retirement Community on June 9, 2019
Midwestern Food – What is it?
Abra Berens
Recorded at Weiss Memorial Hospital on June 8, 2019
Paris à Table: 1846
Joe Weintraub
Recorded at Bethany Retirement Community on May 11, 2019
Overrated Tradition: Why Fresh Perspective Will Save the Jewish Deli
Aaron Steingold
Recorded at Weiss Memorial Hospital on May 4, 2019
A Classic French Chef Confronts 21st Century Technology
Dominique Tougne
Recorded at Weiss Memorial Hospital on April 13, 2019
Apples in the Midwestern Imagination
Lucy Long
Recorded at Bethany Retirement Community on April 6, 2019
Beholding a Grainy History: A Woman Named King Is a Queen of Our Local Bread Scene
Ellen King
Recorded at Weiss Memorial Hospital on March 9, 2019
Currying Interest in Indian Cuisine, From Its Arrival in America to Its Rise in Chicago
Colleen Taylor Sen
Recorded at Weiss Memorial Hospital on February 23, 2019
French Restaurants in Chicago: A 75-Year Retrospective 1924-1999
Alain Maes
Recorded at Bethany Retirement Community on February 2, 2019
Community Cookbooks: Inspiring Twain Restaurant’s Midwestern Menu
Tim and Rebekah Graham
Recorded at Bethany Retirement Community on January 12, 2019
Family Heirloom Recipes from the Illinois State Fair, An Illinois Bicentennial Project
Catherine Lambrecht
Recorded at Weiss Memorial Hospital on December 8, 2018
Chicago Fire: How the Windy City Carved Its Niche In BBQ History
Dino Dean
Recorded at Weiss Memorial Hospital on November 17, 2018
Wild Boar to Baconfest: Pigs in History and Popular Culture
Cynthia Clampitt
Recorded at Bethany Retirement Community on November 4, 2018
Why is Chicago Pizza City, USA?
Steve Dolinsky and Peter DeRuvo
Recorded at Davanti Enoteca, Chicago, IL on October 24, 2018.
Cacao Catharsis: Spreading Joy Through Chocolate
Ramona Thomas
Recorded at Weiss Memorial Hospital on October 6, 2018
High and Dry on the North Shore
Bill Savage
Recorded at Santi’s Garden, Highwood on September 20, 2018
Chicago’s Meaty History: from our Stockyards to Our Steakhouses
Russell Lewis
Recorded at Weiss Memorial Hospital on September 15, 2018
How Chicago Became a National Food Shrine: A Master Chef Dishes on Our Delicious History
Carrie Nahabedian
Recorded at Weiss Memorial Hospital on August 18, 2018
Laminations Be Praised! How Croissants Came to Be, and Other Crusty Tales
Sandra Koll
Recorded at Weiss Memorial Hospital on July 21, 2018
Risotto and Beyond: The Heartfelt History of Italian Rice
John Coletta interviewed by Monica Kass Rogers
Recorded at Weiss Memorial Hospital on June 2, 2018
Morel Tales: The Culture of Mushrooming
Gary Alan Fine
Recorded at Niles Historical and Cultural Center on May 7, 2018
Whoever Said the English Can’t Cook? Cookbooks from 1300 to 1700 Prove Otherwise!
Sarah Peters Kernan
Recorded at Weiss Memorial Hospital on April 27, 2018
American Food has a History You Won’t Believe!
Bruce Kraig
Recorded at Weiss Memorial Hospital on March 17, 2018
Constructions of Taste in Francisco Martinez Montino’s Cookbook
Carolyn Nadeau
Recorded at Bethany Retirement Community on March 3, 2018
Whatever Happened to Wheat? How Bread Meets Our Kneads
Greg Wade
Recorded at Weiss Memorial Hospital on February 10, 2018
Pasta and Noodles
Kantha Shelke
Recorded at Bethany Retirement Community on January 20, 2018
International Inspirations – Culinary Lessons Learned on the Road
Christopher Koetke
Recorded at Weiss Memorial Hospital on January 13, 2018
Fooditor. Eat Chicago. Drink Chicago. Read Chicago
Michael Gebert
Recorded at Kendall College on December 9, 2017
The Mind of a Chef and the Secret of “Lettuce”
Justin Diglia
Recorded at Kendall College on December 2, 2017
The South’s Fruity History
Nancie McDermott
Recorded at Imperial Towers on November 4, 2017
Anomalies and Curiosities of Dinnerware
Margaret Carney
Recorded at Kendall College on November 1, 2017
Chicago Food Encyclopedia Debuts
Carol Haddix and Colleen Taylor Sen
Recorded at Kendall College on October 28, 2017
Hidden Flavors of the Philippine Kitchen
Amy Besa and Romy Dorotan
Recorded at Kendall College on September 28, 2017
Food and German Identity: from the Third Reich to the Berlin Wall
Alice Weinreb
Recorded at Kendall College on September 23, 2017
Beyond repletion: Discovering functions of German food in Chicago
Nadja Huthmann
Recorded at Kendall College on September 23, 2017
From Cacao to Craft Chocolate Stories from the Past, Sustainability for the Future
Valerie Beck
Recorded at Kendall College on September 9, 2017
Swedish American Museum Tour
Don Ahlm, Docent
Recorded at Swedish American Museum on August 26, 2017
Old Husbands Tales: Barbecue Myths that Deserve to Die
Meathead Goldwyn
Recorded at Kendall College on June 17, 2017
Big Scoop! Ice Cream Maven Gives Chilling Tales
Dana Cree
Recorded at Kendall College on April 15, 2017
The Story of the African Americans Who Have Fed Our First Family
Adrian Miller
Recorded at Kendall College on February 11, 2017
Passion for Persia
Naomi Duguid
Recorded at Kendall College on October 1, 2016
Food in the Gilded Age: What Ordinary American’s Ate
Robert Dirks, PhD
Recorded at the Chicago History Museum on May 21, 2016
BBQ History Heats Up January
William Reynolds
Recorded at Kendall College on January 30, 2016
Chicago: A Food Biography
Daniel Block and Howard Rosing
Recorded at Kendall College on January 23, 2016
The Goelitz Family: Jelly Belly
Ed Kelley
Recorded at Grayslake History Center on December 5, 2015
What the Argonauts Ate
Ann Chandonnet
Recorded at Kendall College on November 21, 2015
Fire and Ice: Classic Nordic Cooking
Darra Goldstein
Recorded at Chicago History Museum on November 7, 2015
The Spirit of Gumno
Charles Baker-Clark
Recorded at Kendall College on October 31, 2015
Philippine Cuisine: A Plateful of History
Saralynn Pablo, Caitlin Preminger, Natalia Roxas
Recorded at Kendall College on October 10, 2015
Hot Dog! It’s Hot Doug! Bunside Chat with Chicago’s Wienie King
Douglas Sohn
Recorded at Kendall College on September 26, 2015
Edible Memory: The Lure of Heirloom Tomatoes and Other Forgotten Foods
Jennifer Jordan
Recorded at Kendall College on September 12, 2015
Mycology 101: Preparation, Preservation, Pickling and Eating Wild, and Not So Wild, Mushrooms
Stephanie Kowalyk and Catherine Lambrecht
Recorded at Kendall College on August 3, 2015
One Smart Cookie Shares Crumbs of History
Mindy Segal
Recorded at Kendall College on July 18, 2015
The Last Supper: Final Meals of U.S. Death Row Inmates
Recorded at the Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art on July 8, 2015
The Not Always Sweet History of Sugar
Andrew F. Smith
Recorded at Kendall College on June 20, 2015
Starving the South: How the North Won the Civil War
Andrew F. Smith
Recorded at Highland Park Library on June 20, 2015
Hot Dog Chicago: Circa 1983 and Beyond
Richard Bowen, PhD
Recorded at Kendall College on June 15, 2015
Vincent Clarence Price, Inventor and Businessman
and Eating Vincent Price
Ed Link and Christopher ‘Bull’ Garlington, respectively
Recorded at Kendall College on May 30, 2015
The Legacy of James Beard
Susan Ungaro, Christopher Koetke (Welcome), Steve Dolinsky (Introduction)
Recorded at Kendall College on May 2, 2015
Bitter: A Taste of the World’s Most Dangerous Flavor
Jennifer McLagan
Recorded at Kendall College on April 11, 2015
Last Kitchen Tour of the Butz House, March 22, 2015
Leah Axelrod
Recorded at the Butz House Museum of the Highland Park Historical Society on March 22, 2015
Matzah, The Bread of Faith: Making Model Shmurah Matzot
Rabbi Yosef Schanowitz
Recorded at Central Avenue Synagogue, Highland Park, Illinois on March 22, 2015
Chicago Has Something to Beef About
Cutting Remarks from A Woman Butcher
Kari Underly
Recorded at Kendall College on March 21, 2015
Food, Family and Tradition: Hungarian Kosher Family Recipes and Remembrances
Lynne Kirsche Shapiro
Recorded at Hungarian Kosher Market, Skokie, Illinois on March 15, 2015
The Bread Revolution
Much Kneaded Information from Bread Guru
Peter Reinhart
Recorded at Kendall College on February 28, 2015
Impact of American Indian Boarding School Education on Great Lakes Indigenous Foodways:
A Case Study of the Lac du Flambeau Reservation
Amelia V. Katanski
Recorded at Kendall College on January 31, 2015
Illinois Has a Lot to Wine About: A Toast and Tasting to Our State’s Great History
Clara Orban
Recorded at Kendall College December 13, 2014
Paris Confidential: The Sinful Creations That French People Bake Behind Closed Doors
Dorie Greenspan
Recorded at Kendall College on November 8, 2014
The Road Joyfully Traveled: Judging Family Heirloom Recipes at Midwestern State Fairs
Catherine Lambrecht
Recorded at Kendall College on September 27, 2014
Greening Green City Market: The past, present and future of a Chicago Treasure
Elizabeth Richter, Sarah Stegner and Tracey Vowell
Recorded at Kendall College on September 20, 2014
Learning Tour: Testa Produce
Barbara Daly
Recorded at Testa Produce on August 22, 2014
The Art and Soul of French Pastry
Jacquy Pfeiffer
Recorded at Kendall College on July 19, 2014
Breaking the Fast at a Ramadan Iftar at Khan BBQ
Yvonne Maffei
Recorded at Khan BBQ on July 1, 2014
Culinary Memoir & Personal Essays: Turning a Bunch of Heartland Food Stories into an Anthology
Peggy Wolff, Carol Mighton Haddix and Melanie Benjamin
Recorded at Kendall College on November 2, 2013
Before the Food Network
Sanford D’Amato
Recorded at Kendall College on October 26th 2013
The Life of Pie: Chicago’s Crusty History
Paula Haney
Recorded at Kendall College on September 28, 2014
Bev-O-Metrics: Taste-Profiling Beverages with Spectroscopy
Subha R. Das
Recorded at Kendall College on July 20, 2013
Aye, there’s the rub!
Chicago’s Bold BBQ History
Jared Leonard
Recorded at Kendall College on July 13, 2013
Julia’s Cats: Julia Child’s Life in the Company of Cats
Terry Burson
Recorded at Kendall College on November 10, 2012
From January, 2008 until June, 2013:
WBEZ Chicago Amplified
WBEZ’s Chicago Amplified partners with Culinary Historians by recording our programs and making them available for broadcast on demand at their website or downloadable to an iPod. All podcasts of Culinary Historians, Chicago Foodways Roundtable and Greater Midwest Foodways.
Let’s Get Canned: A Homey History of Preserving
Sherri Brooks Vinton
Recorded at Kendall College of June 29, 2013 by WBEZ’s Chicago Amplified
Agroterrorism: Food Poisoning Brought to a New Level!
Jerrold Leikin
Recorded at Chicago History Museum on May 18, 2013 by WBEZ’s Chicago Amplified
Recipes for Domesticity: Cookery, Household Management, and the Notion of Expertise
Julia Gardner
Recorded at the Regenstein Library on May 4, 2013 by WBEZ’s Chicago Amplified
The Secret Financial Life of Food
Kara Newman
Recorded at Kendall College on April 22, 2013 by WBEZ
The Old Girl Network: Charity Cookbooks and the Empowerment of Women
Jan Longone
Recorded at Kendall College on April 20, 2013 by WBEZ’s Chicago Amplified
The Flavor of Africa
Wilbert Jones
Recorded at Kendall College on March 23, 2013 by WBEZ’s Chicago Amplified
Soup & Bread: Building Community One Pot at a Time
Martha Bayne
Recorded at Kendall College on March 2, 2013 by WBEZ’s Chicago Amplified
“Chocolate With a Taste of Pakistan” East meets West in crossover confections
Uzma Sharif
Recorded at Kendall College on February 16, 2013 by WBEZ’s Chicago Amplified
From Cinnamon to Saffron: Demystifying Indian Cooking in the Western World
Ranjini Rao
Recorded at Kendall College on January 19, 2013 by WBEZ’s Chicago Amplified
The Frosting on the (Filipino) Cake: A family carries on their matriarch’s dessert legacy
Maribel Anama
Recorded at Kendall College on January 12, 2013 by WBEZ’s Chicago Amplified
Pastrami on Rye: An Overstuffed History of the Jewish Deli
Ted Merwin
Recorded at Kendall College on December 15, 2012 by WBEZ’s Chicago Amplified
The Making of a Pastry Chef: The journey from childhood passion to apprenticeship to the heights of the profession
Eric Lanlard
Recorded at Kendall College on September 30, 2012 by WBEZ’s Chicago Amplified
Lost Recipes Found
Monica Kass Rogers
Recorded at Kendall College on September 22, 2012
The Original Food Pyramid: Beer, Bread, and Foie Gras
Michael Fenster
Recorded at Kendall College on September 5, 2012
What’s Your Hurry? Enjoy Our Curry!
A savory tale of what curry is–and isn’t
Anupy Singla, Author
Recorded at Kendall College on August 25, 2012
The South, According to Nathalie
Nathalie Dupree
Recorded at Kendall College on July 21, 2012 by WBEZ’s Chicago Amplified
Ramadan Food Rituals: The Way of Eating During the Islamic Holy Month of Fasting
Yvonne Maffei
Recorded at Kendall College on July 14, 2012
The Story of Algerian Pastries and an Epiphany
Rachel Flinn
Recorded at Kendall College of June 16, 2012 by WBEZ’s Chicago Amplified
Tofu Processing Tour
Kelly Cheng
Recorded at Sun Xien Soy Products on June 2, 2012 by WBEZ’s Chicago Amplified
Beat Cop’s Guide to Chicago Eats
David J. Haynes and Christopher Garlington
Recorded at Kendall College on March 24, 2012 by WBEZ’s Chicago Amplified
From Haggis to Headcheese — The Fall and Rise of Odd Bits
Jennifer McLagan
Recorded at Kendall College on March 17, 2012 by WBEZ’s Chicago Amplified
The Endangered Art of French Hospitality
Jacquy Pfeiffer
Recorded at Kendall College on February 21, 2012 by WBEZ’s Chicago Amplified
Chicago’s Classic Restaurants: Past, Present, and Future
Neal Samors and Eric Bronsky
Recorded at Kendall College on February 4, 2012 by WBEZ’s Chicago Amplified
Some Sweet Talk: Discover how the Midwest refined the nation’s sweet tooth through a delicious mix of immigrant traditions and American ingenuity.
Jenny Lewis and Heidi Hedecker
Recorded at Chicago History Museum on January 18, 2012 by WBEZ’s Chicago Amplified
Come Where the Sacred Meets the Quivering Profane: Exploring the Public and Private Spheres of Lutefisk
Carrie Roy
Recorded at Kendall College on December 10, 2011 by WBEZ’s Chicago Amplified
On Being a Cook in the 21st Century South
Virginia Willis
Recorded at Chicago History Museum on December 3, 2011 by WBEZ’s Chicago Amplified
The Pie Must Go On — An American Pie Story
Catherine Lambrecht
Recorded at Lexington College on November 19, 2011 by WBEZ’s Chicago Amplified
Come & Get It! The Way We Ate 1830-2008
Robert Dirks
Recorded at Kendall College on November , 2011 by WBEZ’s Chicago Amplified
Raising Austria: The History of Austrian Breads
Michael Mikusch
Recorded at Kendall College on October 29, 2011 by WBEZ’s Chicago Amplified
Beating the Nazis with Truffles and Tripe: The Early Years of Gourmet, ‘The Magazine of Good Living’
David Strauss
Recorded at Kendall College on October 22, 2011 by WBEZ’s Chicago Amplified
Matzo Balls, Chopped Liver and the Midwest Jewish Foodways of the Heartland
Ellen Steinberg
Recorded at Chicago History Museum on September 24, 2011 by WBEZ’s Chicago Amplified
A Lifetime in Food
Carol Haddix
Recorded at the Chicago History Museum on August 13, 2011 by WBEZ’s Chicago Amplified
Viktorija’s Secret: The Pleasures of Puglia
Viktorija Todorovska
Recorded at Kendall College on July 23, 2011 by WBEZ’s Chicago Amplifed
The Makings of Tasty Tofu
Kelly Cheng
Recorded at Sun Wah BBQ on July 16, 2011 by WBEZ’s Chicago Amplified
Bonjour, Bon Appetite
Barbara Fairchild
Recorded at Kendall Collebe on June 25, 2011 by WBEZ’s Chicago Amplified
Conversation with Chef Ken Hom
Ken Hom and Louisa Chu
Recorded at Kendall College on June 3, 2011 by WBEZ’s Chicago Amplified
From Awadh with Love: The Savory History of Indian Slow Cooking
Anupy Singla
Recorded at Barbara’s Bookstore on May 21, 2011 by WBEZ’s Chicago Amplified
Learn All About Indian Sweets and Snacks
Jayan Sukhadia
Recorded at Sukhadia’s Snacks on May 14, 2011 by WBEZ’s Chicago Amplified
Street Smarts on the Street Food of Vietnam
Mary Aregoni and Matt Eversman
Recorded at Kendall College on April 23, 2011 by WBEZ’s Chicago Amplified
Food Revolution: How the Civil War Changed Food in America
Bruce Kraig
Recorded at Lake County Discovery Museum on April 9, 2011 by WBEZ’s Chicago Amplified
“The Potato” and “The Civil War”
Andrew F. Smith
Recorded at the Chicago History Museum on March 26, 2011 by WBEZ’s Chicago Amplified
Sweet Home Chicago: Chocolate and Confectionery Production and Technology in the Windy City
Beth Kimmerlee
Recorded at the John Crerar Library on March 12, 2011 by WBEZ’s Chicago Amplified
Eat, Play, Love Our Neighborhoods
Alan Solomon
Recorded at Kendall College on February 26, 2011 by WBEZ’s Chicago Amplified
Comfort Food (and Wine) in America
Susan and Drew Goss
Recorded at West Town Tavern on February 12, 2011 by WBEZ’s Chicago Amplified
Lost German Chicago
Joseph Heinen
Recorded at DankHaus on January 8, 2011 by WBEZ’s Chicago Amplified
Appetite for Africa
Robert Launay
Recorded at Sikia Restaurant, Washburne Culinary Institute of Kennedy King College on December 18, 2010 by WBEZ’s Chicago Amplified
Chicago’s Dandy Candy History
Jenny Lewis
Recorded at Lexington College on November 13, 2010 by WBEZ’s Chicago Amplified
Talk Turkey to Me!
Renee Ferguson
Recorded at Kendall College on November 6, 2010 by WBEZ’s Chicago Amplified
Kansha: Celebrating Japan’s Vegan & Vegetarian Traditions
Elizabeth Andoh
Recorded at the Chicago History Museum on October 30, 2010
Will Write for Food
Diane Jacob
Recorded at Kendall College on October 2, 2010 by WBEZ’s Chicago Amplified
Stir Frying to the Sky’s Edge
Grace Young
Recorded at Kendall College on September 25, 2010 by WBEZ’s Chicago Amplified
How to Order in an Indian Restaurant . . . and Self Publish!
Colleen Sen
Recorded at Kendall College on September 18, 2010 by WBEZ’s Chicago Amplified
The American Family Farm –its history, evolution and impact on us all|
Jon Hoek
Recorded at Washburne Culinary Institute of Kennedy King College on August 28, 2010 by WBEZ’s Chicago Amplified
Smoque Signals: BBQ’s savory history satiates Chicago
Barry Sorkin
Recorded at Kendall College on July 17, 2010 by WBEZ’s Chicago Amplified
O Canada! Food ex-pats miss when they live here.
Food Americans miss when they visit there.
Chad Rubel
Recorded at Kendall College on June 19, 2010 by WBEZ’s Chicago Amplified
“Gale Gand’s Slice of Pastry History” Some sweet observations
Gale Gand
Recorded at Kendall College on June 5, 2010 by WBEZ’s Chicago Amplified
“Chop Suey” A cultural history of Chinese Food in the U.S.
Andrew Coe
Recorded at Chicago History Museum on May 22, 2010 by WBEZ’s Chicago Amplified
Easy Target: Foie Gras as a Pragmatic and Problematic Target for Animal Rights Organizations, Cities and Countries
Michaela DeSoucey
Recorded at Kendall College on May 8, 2010 by WBEZ’s Chicago Amplified
Out of Ethiopia
Almaz Yiginaw and Mawi Asgedom
Recorded at Chicago History Museum on April 17, 2010 by WBEZ’s Chicago Amplified
Chicago Victory Gardens: Yesterday and Tomorrow
LaManda Joy
Recorded at Kendall College on March 20, 2010 by WBEZ’s Chicago Amplified
Cafe History a la Berghoff: How we ate then and now
Carlyn Berghoff and Nancy Ross Ryan
Recorded at Berghoff Cafe on March 6, 2010 by WBEZ’s Chicago Amplified
The Bittersweet History of Chocolate in France
Mark Seaman
Recorded at Lexington College on February 20, 2010 by WBEZ’s Chicago Amplified
Food in the Atomic Age
Barbara Kuck
Recorded at Lake County Discovery Museum on January 17, 2010 by WBEZ’s Chicago Amplified
The Pleasure of Pasta
John Coletta and Nancy Ross Ryan
Recorded at Quartino Restaurant on January 16, 2010 by WBEZ’s Chicago Amplified
The View from the Kitchen: An Upstairs-Downstairs Look at Frank Lloyd Wright’s Most Famous House
Suzanne Martinson, Author, Food Editor, with Linda Mitzel, Photographer
Recorded at the Chicago History Museum on December 19, 2009 by WBEZ’s Chicago Amplified
A Treasure Trove of Thai
Nancie McDermott
Recorded at the Chicago History Museum on November 14, 2009 by WBEZ’s Chicago Amplified
Mrs. Charles Darwin’s Recipe Book
Weslie Janeway
Recorded at Ina’s on November 10, 2009 by WBEZ’s Chicago Amplified
Pumpkins and Squashes: Evolution in an American Family’s Folk Food
Aggie ‘The Tomato Lady’ Nehmzov
Recorded at Kendall College of November 7, 2009 by WBEZ’s Chicago Amplified
Thirty Turning Points in the Making of American Cuisine
Andrew Smith
Recorded at Lexington College on October 17, 2009 by WBEZ;s Chicago Amplified
All the World Loves a Curry
Colleen Sen
Recorded at Bhabi’s Restaurant on October 3, 2009 by WBEZ’s Chicago Amplified
Pizza According the the Gospel of Pollack and Goldsmith
Penny Pollack and Jonathon Goldsmith
Recorded at Spacca Napoli on September 26, 2009
Corn: 1840’s Agricultural Snapshot
Chuck Bauer
Recorded at Garfield Farms on September 20, 2009 by WBEZ’s Chicago Amplified
Asian Culinary Revolution
Bruce Cost
Recorded at Kendall College on August 8, 2009
When Extra-Virgin Olive Oil Wed Balsamic Vinegar, the Rest is History
Rick Petrocelly
Recorded at Chicago History Museum on July 25, 2009 by WBEZ’s Chicago Amplified
Low and Slow BBQ
Gary Wiviott and Colleen Rush
Recorded at Kendall College on June 27, 2009 by WBEZ’s Chicago Amplified
Courting Le Cordon Bleu Love, Laughter and Tears in Paris at the World’s Most Famous Cooking School
Kathleen Flinn
Recorded at the Chicago History Museum on May 9, 2009 by WBEZ’s Chicago Amplified
Double Dog Dare You! If You Miss Doug Sohn of Hot Doug’s or Bruce Kraig, Hot Dog: A Global History, Your Lose!
Doug Sohn and Bruce Kraig
Recorded at Kendall College on May 6, 2009 by WBEZ’s Chicago Amplified
Talking Turkey (The country, that is)
Channon Mondoux
Recorded at the Chicago History Museum on April 11, 2009 by WBEZ’s Chicago Amplified
Passage to India
Suvir Saran
Recorded at Ranjana Bhargava Cooking School on March 21, 2009 by WBEZ’s Chicago Amplified
Civilized Dining Philosophies: We All Have Our Truths, Is Mine the Same as Yours?
Colleen Sen and Bruce Kraig
March 14, 2009
The Sweet and Savory Tale of Australia: A look at Culinary History from the “Land Down Under”
Naomi Levine and Cynthia Clampitt
February 7, 2009
The Sweet History of French Pastry
Keli Fayard
Recorded at Kendall College on January 31, 2009 by WBEZ’s Chicago Amplified
Kitchens: The Culture of Restaurant Work
Gary Alan Fine
Recorded at Kendall College on January 24, 2009 by Chicago Amplified of WBEZ Chicago
Never Put Ketchup on a Hot Dog
Bob Schwartz
Recorded at Kendall College on December 13, 2008 by WBEZ’s Chicago Amplified
Thanksgiving: The Great American Holiday
Penelope Bingham
Recorded at Kendall College on November 22, 2008 by WBEZ’s Chicago Amplified
Flavored with History
Karen Page and Andrew Dornenburg
Recorded at Roosevelt University on November 15, 2008 by Chicago Amplified of WBEZ Chicago
The Sweet History of French Pastry
Mark Seaman
Recorded at Kendall College on October 11, 2008 by WBEZ’s Chicago Amplified
Exploring the Culinary Collections at the Newberry Library
Handout from the lecture
Riva Feshbach
Recorded at Kendall College on September 20, 2008 by WBEZ’s Chicago Amplified
Bon Appetit Y’all: Stories from Three Generations of Southern Cooking
Virginia Willis
Recorded at Chicago History Museum on September 13, 2008 by Chicago Amplified of WBEZ Chicago
The History of Greektown’s Parthenon
Yanna Liakouras and Camille Stagg
Recorded at Chicago History Museum on August 8, 2008 by WBEZ’s Chicago Amplified
Grain-fed VS Grass Fed: What’s the Beef?
Bill Kurtis
Recorded at the Roosevelt University on July 19, 2008 by WBEZ’s Chicago Amplified
Farm to Table: California Cuisine in Late 19th-Century Los Angeles
Amelia Saltsman
Recorded at Chicago History Museum on June 21, 2008 by Chicago Amplified of WBEZ Chicago
Be a Locavore, Put More Local on Your Table
Rob Gardner and Sophie Gardner
Recorded at Kendall College on June 14, 2008 by WBEZ’s Chicago Amplified
Chef Louis Szathmáry and “The Bakery” Restaurant
Barbara Kuck
Recorded at Kendall College on May 17, 2008 by WBEZ’s Chicago Amplified
Savoring Sweet Sicily
Natalie Zarzour
Pasticceria Natalina, in Chicago’s Andersonville
Recorded at Chicago History Museum on March 15, 2009 by WBEZ’s Chicago Amplified
Behind the Scenes of Food Television
Louis Chu
Recorded at Kendall College on March 1, 2008 by WBEZ’s Chicago Amplified
Flavors of the Fruitlands: An Ode to Michigan
Justin Rashid
Recorded at Robert Morris College on February 23, 2008 by WBEZ’s Chicago Amplified
George H. Hammond and Marcus M. Towle: Forgotten Pioneers of the Beef Packing Industry
Richard Lytle
Recorded at Kendall College on February 2, 2008 by WBEZ’s Chicago Amplified
25 Years of Great Chicago Cooking and Drinking
Carol Haddix and Barbara Glunz
Recorded at Kendall College on January 26, 2008