COMING UP NEXT
“Breathing Life into Your Community Cookbook Collection: A Culinary Yearbook”
By Catherine Lambrecht
Wednesday, May 1, 2024, 7 pm
Goodman Community Center, 149 Waubesa, Madison, WI
Community cookbooks are like high-school yearbooks. People pour over yearbooks in search of familiar faces from a moment in time. A community cookbook also offers family and friends’ favorite recipes from a specific time. While lists are available to search for yearbooks, the same does not apply to community cookbooks. This presentation explores cookbooks as an underutilized resource and the steps that can be taken to make them accessible.
Catherine Lambrecht is a veteran of culinary competitions at the Lake County and Illinois State Fairs, a former University of Illinois Extension volunteer whose specialties were Master Food Preserver and Master Gardner. She is a founder of Greater Midwest Foodways Alliance, Chicago Foodways Roundtable (sister organization to the Culinary Historians of Chicago) and LTHforum.com, a Chicago culinary chat site. Catherine is also the program director for the Highland Park Historical Society, an Illinois Humanities Road Scholar, and the editor of Heirloom Recipes from the Illinois State Fair: A Bicentennial Project.
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Join us for CHEW meetings, which typically meet on the first Wednesday of each month (except August) at the Goodman Community Center (Ironworks Bldg.), 149 Waubesa, Madison, WI. Meetings are free and open to the public and feature invited speakers, lively discussions, sometimes food samplings and more. See below for info about our newsletter, membership, traveling library and more.
Newsletter – To receive our email newsletter, send us a note at chewwisconsin@gmail.com. To view an issue, visit https://static-promote.weebly.com/share/9804d608-547d-4a18-9968-5e24c065c8e7
Membership – For info about why and how to join CHEW, click here.
CHEW Library – One of the benefits of in-person CHEW meetings is access to CHEW’s traveling library. Our collection totals almost 125 titles, ranging from James Beard award winner The Sioux’s Chef’s Indigenous Kitchen to the very drinkable Bottoms Up: A Toast to Wisconsin’s Historic Bars and Breweries. To peruse all the book titles in our library, click Culinary. You can put in an “order” for a specific book by emailing chewwisconsin@gmail.com. The book will be brought to the next in-person meeting (if it hasn’t already been checked out). Several titles will also be featured at each meeting–you’ll hear a short review and will have the opportunity to check one of the featured titles out for a month.
Facebook – We also invite you to join CHEW on Facebook, for fascinating food links, discussions and more: https://www.facebook.com/groups/chewwis/