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Historic Recipe Road Shows 2017-2019
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Historic Recipe Road Shows 2023 - 2024
Saturday April 29, 2023
DeKalb History Center
1730 North Main Street
Sycamore, IL
noon to 4:00 p.m.
Sunday, April 7, 202
Elmhurst History Museum
Education Center
Elmhurst, IL
Saturday July 27, 2024, 1:00 p.m.
Wilmette Public Library
1242 Wilmette Avenue
Wilmette, Ilinois
The Culinary Historians on Saturday July 27th presented an Historic Recipe Road Show at the Wilmette Illinois Public Library.
The speaker prior to the Road Show was EvaAnne Johnson, the Local History and Genealogy Librarian for the Wilmette Library. Johnson’s presentation was titled Cooking Up Memories: Creating Your Family Cookbook.
Johnson shared how she compiled her family’s cherished recipes into a family cookbook. She explained the steps and provided and shared tips on how anyone can do the same. Attendees learned about preserving family recipes. She noted that interviewing and collaborating with relatives allows one to discover their culinary heritage. Johnson also described a step-by- step process of turning their recipes into a personalized family cookbook, ensuring that treasured culinary memories endure for generations to come.
Saturday October 12, 2024
Riverside Public Library
1 Burling Road, Riverside, Illinois
The Culinary Historians hit the road this past fall and landed at the Riverside Illinois Public Library for a Historic Recipe Road Show. Our Historians and volunteers see these Recipe Road Show events as like a PBS “Antique Road Show.” The one difference in a Recipe Road Show vs. Antique Road Show is that the items are recipes and not antiques and the recipes are priceless.
One of the participants in the Road Show was Ms. Ruth Berley Hess. Ruth is 91 years old and came with her daughter Rebecca Wojcik. Ruth was born in Elgin Illinois and lived in the northwest suburbs of Chicago all her life.
Our historians Dr. Bruce Kraig (right forefront) and Elizabeth “Elle” Carlson (right near wall) sat down with Ruth (left front) and her daughter (left near wall) to review the history and the ingredients behind the recipes brought to the Road Show.
