Road Food: Exploring the Midwest

One Bite at a Time

 

Kendall College, Chicago, Illinois

April 27, 28 & 29, 2012

 

Call for presentations

 

 

Heirloom Recipe Competition, 2012

 

Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Minnesota, Missouri, Ohio, Wisconsin

 

Recipes and anecdotes of our winners and competitors are now available. Go to Events, then select State Fair, 2009, 2010 or 2011.

 

 

Road Trip!

From Bloomington to Lincoln, IL

Saturday, June 18, 2011

 

 

Watermelon Statue in Lincoln, IL (image by Peter Engler)

 

  

Come and Get It!  The way we ate, 1830-1980

By Julianne Glatz, Illinois Times, June 9, 2011

 

 

Everywhere you go is an adventure, if you keep your mind wide open and look.  This day trip to Central Illinois will reveal character, history and ingenuity in the flat lands.  More information is available here.

 

 

Midwest Eats!
Foodways of the Great Depression

 

 

Alas this event is now history.  Fortunately our partners at Chicago Public Radio's Chicago Amplified have recorded every presentation at this symposium as well as Maxwell Street's history.  These will be uploaded and available soon.  While this information is not lost to the ages, by not attending you never had a chance to ask a question or taste all the delicious food.  Perhaps next time?

 

Program Information

Speaker Biographies

Podcast of all presentations

Maxwell St. History and Tour

Wood fire cooking class

Accomodations

Press

 

 

 

8-cent Relief Dinner circa 1938 (Image by Peter Engler)

 

 

 

Crown of Frankfurters (image by Catherine Lambrecht) 

 

 

 

 

 

Chicago Public Radio's Chicago Amplified has recorded symposium hosted by the Greater Midwest Foodways Alliance.   These presentations are uploaded and available to listen to

 

Midwest Eats!  The Foodways of the Great Depression

 

Beef: From Plains to Plate

 

Sweets:  How Sweet It Is!

 

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