COMING UP NEXT
CHEW meetings are free and open to the public. They’re held on the first Wednesday of the month at the Goodman Community Center, (Ironworks Building, Bolz A or Evjue), 149 Waubesa St., Madison, WI, unless otherwise noted in a program’s description.
“The Deliciouser,” presented by Michelle Oyamada
7 pm, Wednesday, April 2, 2025
Michelle Oyamada, co-owner of The Deliciouser will share the origin story of this Madison, Wisconsin-based company. It opened in the fall of 2020 as a small-batch, chef-curated spice blending business, and in January of 2023 evolved to include a restaurant, bar and retail space. Michelle will relay how The Deliciouser has developed its product line and provided opportunities in the community. She’ll also bring product samples to smell and taste.
The Deliciouser’s mission is to invite guests into their kitchen either in person or through our online store, where they share stories, recipes and techniques for cooking with one-of-a-kind spices. Deliciouser spice blends are now shipping nationwide to cooks of all levels from the culinary curious to the well-seasoned.
And in May…
Wednesday, May 7, 2025 (7:00 PM): “Extra! Extra! Eat All About It! Recipes and Culinary Curiosities from Historic Wisconsin Newspapers”
Presenters: Jane Conway and Randi Julia Ramsden
Historically, newspapers have always been more than a medium covering current events. Many featured columns dedicated to everything related to the house and garden. While these parts of the press are largely overlooked by researchers analyzing historical events and trends, these pages hide a wealth of historic recipes just waiting to be cooked again. Covering dangerous cooking endeavors to frustrating conversions of units lost in time, Conway and Ramsden will discuss researching recipes from historic Wisconsin newspapers and the process of bringing them into the 21st century kitchen. This presentation will offer a “taste” of their new book with a dash of local culinary history through a unique lens. 
Jane Conway has a bachelor’s degree in art history from the University of Oregon. Randi Julia Ramsden has a master’s degree in American studies from Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz. For two years, Conway and Ramsden worked together on the National Digital Newspaper Program at the Wisconsin Historical Society. In 2019, they began researching, cooking, and writing for the Cooking Up History series, which appeared on the WHS website and social media platforms and which provided the basis for their book EXTRA! EXTRA! Eat All About It!
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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.
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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.
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