Never the Same, the Prisoner of War Experience, Apr 6 & 7

Never the Same, The Prisoner of War Experience

Culinary Historians of Chicago President Bruce Kraig's wife Jan Thompson film on WWII POW's in the Asian Theater will premier at Gene Siskel theater. Saturday, April 6 at 7:45pm and on Sunday, April 7 at 5:30pm at the Gene Siskel Film Center at 164 N. State St., Chicago, IL.

For prices and how to purchase tickets, please click on the following link:
http://www.siskelfilmcenter.org/content/tickets

Jan Thompson will speak on November 16 on the American POW experience in the Asia Theater during World War II for Culinary Historians.

Woven into this narrative, there is quite a bit of food. While these prisoners were on a minimal amount of food, they supplemented their diet with whatever they could scrounge. This included undigested grain from horse manure, which certainly underlined their desperation for food wherever they could obtain it.

Malnurished, some prisoner's thoughts were consumed by food. They recreated in their imaginations feasts, which they memorialized on scrapes of paper. They would do their best to recall recipes and how they were made.

Jan Thompson has worked on this project for over 20 years. Her father was POW on a ghost ship during World War II.

You can check the trailer here: http://www.nts-pow.com/trailer.html

Regards,

Is Jan going to be at the Siskel screenings? Will there be any question and answer time?

Josephine wrote:Is Jan going to be at the Siskel screenings? Will there be any question and answer time?

I know Jan will be at both screenings. I will check to affirm whether or not she is doing a Q & A.

Regards,

There will be a short Q&A afterwards ...