Chicago Foodways: Lutefisk - a short film & talk, Dec 10

Chicago Foodways Roundtable

Come Where the Sacred Meets the Quivering Profane:
Exploring the Public and Private Spheres of Lutefisk
with Carrie Roy, PhD

Saturday, December 10, 2011 at 10 AM
Kendall College
900 North Branch Street, Chicago
(West of Halsted Street, North of Chicago Avenue)
Free Parking
Cost: Donation of a canned good for a food bank or $3.
Free to Kendall students and faculty with ID.

Join us for Carrie Roy’s lively talk, “Lutefisk Traditions in the Upper Midwest,” and showing of her DVD, “Where the Sacred Meets the Quivering Profane: Exploring the Public and Private Spheres of Lutefisk.” (If you think you’ve heard it all on the subject of lutefisk, you have not!)
Carrie is a North Dakota native whose scholarly interest in Scandinavian art and culture evolved during her undergrad days at Harvard. She attended the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Scandinavian Studies program to earn her M.A., after which she earned another in Medieval Icelandic Studies in Iceland. She returned to the University of Wisconsin to enter the Scandinavian Studies’ Ph.D. program and is currently working towards a professorship in material culture and folklore

With a wealth of academic honors and awards, Carrie has presented at the American Folklore Society’s 2006 and 2008 annual conferences. Equally noteworthy, Carrie’s Harvard professor shows Carrie’s DVD to students taking his “Introduction to Folklore” class.

This program is hosted by the Chicago Foodways Roundtable. To reserve, please PM Cathy, then leave your name, telephone number and how many people in your party or e-mail: chicago.foodways.roundtable@gmail.com

Please note there will be homemade lutefish to sample.

Cathy2 wrote:Please note there will be homemade lutefish to sample.

I'll be coming anyway.

This was the video featured in this talk:

Cathy2 wrote:This was the video featured in this talk:

Wonderful video, Cathy2! Not only for the examination of the fish preparation, but the really good historical snapshot of typical church dinners in the Upper Midwest, which I fear may disappear one day. "The piece of Cod which passeth all understanding" is a much more elegant phrase to use than my cousin's description of lutefisk: simply "cod marinated in Drano".

Cynthia wrote:

Cathy2 wrote:Please note there will be homemade lutefish to sample.

I'll be coming anyway.

It was very pretty and didn't taste too bad.

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Come Where the Sacred Meets the Quivering Profane: Exploring the Public and Private Spheres of Lutefisk with Carrie Roy