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Why are foodways important?

Foodways is the study of what people eat and why. Why we procure, prepare and serve the food we do has cultural, sociological, geographical, financial and political influences.

 

 

Why is recognition of diverse foodways valuable?

Preserving our past and present for the future by research, documentation and oral histories. It is culinary anthropology on the hoof, paw, root and leaf.

 

 

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Road Food: Exploring the Midwest

One Bite at a Time

 

 

Kendall College, School of Culinary Arts, Chicago, Illinois

April 27, 28 & 29, 2012

 

Michael Stern

Keynote speaker Michael Stern of RoadFood.com on, "Will Success Spoil Regional Food?"

 

Program

Speaker Profiles

Saturday's Road Food Menu

Sunday Breakfast at Lou Mitchell's

Feast: Radical Hospitality in Contemporary Art

Maxwell Street Tour

Accommodations

Registration

 

 

 

 

 

Heirloom Recipe Competition, 2012

 

Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Ohio, South Dakota, 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

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

 

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

 

 

Crown of Frankfurters

 

Crown of Frankfurters (image by Catherine Lambrecht) 

 

 

 

Chicago AmpliedChicago Public Radio

 

 

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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