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14th December 2023
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Catherine Lambrecht

Stupey Cabin Open House – Spring Break Edition

Cabin Curious? Look for us next on Saturday, March 23rd: 10 AM to Noon, or by reservation First Saturday of the month from 10 AM to Noon, or by reservation. 2024 Schedule: May 4, June…
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27th May 2018
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Catherine Lambrecht

Food Biography of Chicago

Podcast The Highland Park Historical Society presents ‘Food Biography of Chicago’ with Dan Block PhD and Howard Rosing PhD on Tuesday January 16th at 7:30 PM at the Highland Park Library. Chicago began as a…
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22nd March 2015
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Catherine Lambrecht

Last Kitchen Tour at the Butz House, March 22, 2015

Last Kitchen Tour at the Butz House, March 22, 2015Conducted by Leah Axelrod Leah Axelord, charter member of the Highland Park Historical Society, conducts the last tour of the period kitchen before the museum closed….
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Featured Events

Apr

3

Preserving Family Heirloom Recipes – How to Save and Celebrate Your Food Traditions
Presented by Valerie J. Frey Heirloom dishes and family food traditions are rich sources of nostalgia and provide vivid ways to learn about our families’ past, yet they can be problematic. Many family recipes and food traditions are never documented in written or photographic form, existing only as unwritten know-how and lore that vanishes when a cook dies. Even when recipes are written down, they often fail to give the tricks and tips that would allow another cook to accurately replicate the dish. Unfortunately, recipes are also often damaged as we plunk Grandma’s handwritten cards on the countertop next to a steaming pot or a spattering mixer, shortening their lives.
Feb

20

‘Food in the Midwest: More Interesting Than You May Think,’ with Cynthia Clampitt
The history of the Midwest is remarkable for many reasons, not least of which is the diversity of its population, and therefore of its regional cuisine. Everyone contributed to what was developing, from the Ojibwe harvesting wild rice in Minnesota to Belgian hoteliers in Chicago inventing new dishes.
Jan

19

Grand Concert Sesquicentennial with Elijah Gray’s Electro Music by Telegraph, Inventions of Electrifying and Broadcasting Music Began in Highland Park, Illinois
Grand Concert Sesquicentennial Electro Music by Telegraph: On December 29, 1874,...