Chicago Foodways: Lost Recipes Found-Monica Kass Rogers 9/22

Chicago Foodways Roundtable

Lost Recipes Found
Presented by Monica Kass Rogers,
Writer, cook, photographer and founder of LostRecipesFound.com

Saturday, September 22, 2012 at 10 AM
Kendall College, School of Culinary Arts
900 North Branch Street, Chicago
(West of Halsted Street, North of Chicago Avenue)
Free Parking
Cost: $3.
Free to Kendall students and faculty with ID.

Everyone has favorite recipes they’ve loved and lost. Lost Recipes Found exists to find them, get the best of them back in circulation, and tell some of the story that goes along with them.

Monica Kass Rogers started this adventure a few years ago with a column in the Chicago Tribune: That eventually became this web magazine. The 1000-plus requests received since then have conveyed so much feeling, humor, and just plain good story, it’s been impossible for Rogers not to get hooked into recipe sleuthing for the long haul.

Most of the recipe requests Rogers started with fell into several broad categories: Recipes from closed restaurants and department store tea rooms (Gone But Not Forgotten), recipes that once appeared on food packaging or promotional pamphlets (Once Upon a Box), even recipes from institutions (Love from the Lunchroom). To those, she has added a bunch more departments, including vintage celebrity-generated-recipes (Celebrity Citings) State Fair recipes (State Fair Fun), recipes from chefs that were inspired by their own families and regional histories (Chef Recipes with Vintage Flair), and food categories (Pie Revival; On the Sideboard; Meaty Mainstays, Classic Casseroles, etc.)

Monica’s been a writer from the start. Ever since a second grade spelling list suggested the theme for her first rhyming poem, Monica’s been charmed by wordsmithing and story. Post college, she plunged into publishing, writing for local, national & international publications about business, architecture, design, parenting, restaurants and more. Her favorite assignments combine food writing with food photography.

This program is hosted by the Chicago Foodways Roundtable. To reserve, please e-mail: chicago.foodways.roundtable@gmail.com

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Thanks for posting this, Cathy. What a terrific topic. And, I might add, one that makes me feel like less of a dork. I can't tell you the lengths I've gone to in order to find certain recipes from the womens' magazines of my childhood. I have to say that the process was fun, but it's nice to know I can turn the legwork over to someone else if need be.