Culinary Historians: Cafe History a la Berghoff [past event]

Culinary Historians of Chicago

Cafe History a la Berghoff: How we ate then and now
Presented by
Carlyn Berghoff, Restaurateur, Caterer, Author
With
Nancy Ross Ryan, Co-author, Berghoff Cafe Cookbook

Saturday, March 6, 2010
10 a.m. to Noon
at
Berghoff Cafe
Lower level, 17 W. Adams St., Chicago
(Parking 1 block east, at Adams & Wabash, Validate ticket at restaurant.)

What better way to enjoy Chicago’s culinary history than to congregate at not only the city’s oldest restaurant (opened 1898), but also the oldest family-run restaurant in the United States. Join us as Carlyn Berghoff, great-granddaughter of founder Herman Berghoff, dishes out a generous portion of Berghoff family history (along with some fresh-made coffee cake) and describes the Cafe dishes of old Chicago: beer braised pork loin, Lyonnaise potatoes, bacony green beans. A graduate of the Culinary Institute of America, Carlyn will talk about how she’s evolved some of the dishes, and give us tips on how we all can reuse, recycle and reinvent in our own kitchens--“tradition with a twist,” she says. Ms. Berghoff will be joined by Culinary Historians member Nancy Ross Ryan, with whom she wrote the Cafe cookbook, as well as the previously published Berghoff Family Cookbook, which will both be available for purchase and signing.

Cost of the lecture program is $5; $3 for students; and no charge for CHC members.
Space is limited, so please reserve early: Call Barbara Olson at (708) 788-0338.
Or e-mail your reservation to: rsvpchc@yahoo.com.

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Optional: ChicaGourmets Buffet Luncheon at Noon with Carlyn and Nancy.
Cost: $49, inclusive--Reserve online at http://www.ChicaGourmets.org; (708-383-7543)

WBEZ’s Chicago Amplified partners with Culinary Historians by recording our programs and making them available for broadcast on demand at their website or downloadable to an iPod. Our most recent program:

Cafe History a la Berghoff: How we ate then and now
with Carlyn Berghoff, Restaurateur, Caterer, Author
and
Nancy Ross Ryan, Co-author, Berghoff Cafe Cookbook
Recorded Saturday, March 6, 2010 at Berghoff Cafe
http://www.chicagopublicradio.org/Conte ... ioID=40717