Chicago Foodways: History of Early Cookbooks, CANCELLED

Chicago Foodways Roundtable

The Cookbook Family Tree: A History of Early Cookbooks

Presented by
Anne Willan

Saturday, April 21, 2012
Chicago History Museum
1601 N. Clark Street, Chicago
Cost: $3.

Before 1501, the first four printed cookbooks were written in English, Latin, German and French in four European countries. Who wrote these early cookbooks? Who read them? Who used them, and how did they evolve into the recipe books, dining guides and gastronomic memoirs we know today? Join us as Anne Willan, founder of the iconic French cooking school École de Cuisine La Varenne, explains the origin of these early volumes and traces their legacy in the many genres of food writing in the centuries that follow.

Anne Willan has more than fifty years’ experience as a teacher, cookbook author, and food columnist. Her accolades include the IACP Lifetime Achievement Award, James Beard Award, and Bon Appétit Teacher of the Year Award. The author of more than thirty cookbooks, Anne’s long-awaited The Cookbook Library: Four Centuries of the Cooks, Writers, and Recipes That Made the Modern Cookbook will be published in April 2012 by the University of California Press. The book is based on the extensive cookbook collection Anne and her husband Mark Cherniavsky have amassed through years of passionate collecting. Anne is also working on a memoir.

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

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This event is cancelled due to the speaker's family considerations.

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While Anne Willan will not be in Chicago this week. She will be on the WGN's Extension 720 with Milt Rosenberg on Thursday, April 19th at 11 p.m.

You can listen to her live or later via podcast.

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