Culinary Historians: Food Memories & WW2 Pacific POWs, 11/16

CULINARY HISTORIANS OF CHICAGO PRESENTS:

The Power of Food and Prisoners of War
Presented by Documentarian Jan Thompson

Saturday, November 16, 2013
10 a.m. to Noon
At
Kendall College, School of Culinary Arts
900 N. North Branch Street, Chicago
(Located just north of W. Chicago Ave. at N. Halsted St.)
Free Parking in lot on north side of school


Come join us as Emmy-award-winning documentarian Jan Thompson talks about her recently released film, “NEVER THE SAME: The Prisoner of War Experience.” Learn how American prisoners of Imperial Japan during World War II created and collected recipes as one diversion during their brutal captivity.

Ms. Thompson will show excerpts from the film, which was narrated by actress Loretta Switt and features voices of several well-known actors including Ed Asner, Alec Baldwin, Robert Wagner and Kathleen Turner. Several recipes will be recreated for us to “enjoy.”

Ms. Thompson devoted over 20 years to make the documentary; her own father had been a prisoner of war. “This film has been built frame by frame with my hands and my heart,” she says.

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Jan Thompson is Director of the Documentary Unit and Professor in the Radio-TV Department at Southern Illinois University. She has created several documentaries for PBS, and has won national and international awards including three Emmys. She is the President of American Defenders of Bataan & Corregidor Memorial Society, a non-profit educational organization.

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Cost of the lecture program is $5, $3 for students
and no charge for CHC members and Kendall students and faculty.
To reserve, please e-mail your reservation to: Culinary.Historians@gmail.com.

HI,

Tomorrow's program reflects a lot on the human spirit overcoming adversity. When faced with very little food, these prisoners obsessed over food.

Do come!

Regards,