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A University of Chicago tradition since 1946, the 65th annual Latke-Hamantash Debate takes place at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 22 at Mandel Hall in Hyde Park. Tobias Moskowitz, Fama Family Professor of Finance; Richard Rosengarten, associate professor in the Divinity School; and Malynne Sternstein, associate professor in Slavic Languages and Literatures and the College will [...] Take tea with Chicago’s historic hostess with the mostest! Bertha Honore Palmer, wife of millionaire real estate magnate Potter Palmer, presided over a glittering social scene at the end of the 19th century. Recreated by Leslie Goddard, she will preside over an elegant afternoon tea sponsored by the Greater Midwest Foodways Alliance at 1 p.m. [...] Noted Chinese-cooking expert Ken Hom returns to Chicago for a Chicago Foodways Roundtable conversation with local chef and food writer Louisa Chu at 7 p.m. Friday, June 3, at the WoodMode Auditorium at Kendall College on Goose Island. Hom has written 30 cookbooks and hosted five BBC and an award-winning Korean television series. He started [...] Have today’s hard times reached the depths of the 1930s? What did people eat during the Great Depression? Greater Midwest Foodways Alliance will revisit the era with “Midwest Eats! Foodways of the Great Depression” Friday through Sunday, April 29 through May 1, at Kendall College School of Culinary Arts on Goose Island. Chicago chef Jean Joho, chef-partner of Everest in the Loop and the as yet-unnamed concept due to replace his erstwhile Brasserie Jo in River North, will appear at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 28 at the Alliance Française of Chicago. The Alsace-born Joho is also proprietor of Eiffel Tower restaurant in Las Vegas and recently published [...] Help the environment, take some exercise and get a little green back. Learn to live and eat greener Saturday and Sunday, May 22 and 23, when Chicago hosts the Green Festival at Navy Pier. At 10 a.m. Saturday, April 10, technology expert Charles Valauskas will talk about the World’s Columbian Exposition and its firsts in food and food technology. And they say there’s no such thing as a free lunch. The Hull-House Kitchen resumes its weekly free soup and conversation sessions, “Re-Thinking Soup,” at noon tomorrow with gazpacho from Hull-House Farm heirloom tomatoes and a talk by Joshua Viertel, former president of Slow Food USA. The Tuesday lunches bring together food activists, farmers, chefs, [...] |
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