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Recipes can tell us about family origins and traditions. Bring your family recipes and learn more from the Culinary Historians of Northern Illinois. Then, contribute a recipe to their growing archive!
**In-person registration and attendance is required for those who hope to participate in PART 2: Historic Recipe Roadshow.**
*In-person registrants will receive a link to schedule their road show appointment a few days before the event.*
PART 1: What Grandma Said: Recipes as Historical Documents
(1-2 pm) - Hybrid
Old family recipes are the stories that women told each other about themselves, their lives, their families and friends, and the times in which they lived. Collections of these are original sources for historians to use in studies of the past in more detail than, say, a historical narrative. Come learn more from the Culinary Historians of Northern Illinois (CHNI).
CHNI was founded to collect manuscripts of recipes originating in Northern Illinois and then expand to eventually collect recipes from the entire state of Illinois and then the Midwest region of the United States. This initiative is part of a larger national project that originated during a conference held at New York University in 2016.
The CHNI will create an organized digitized collection of historic cookery manuscripts. The collection will be made available to scholars and researchers as well as the general public. The Culinary Historians of Northern Illinois is sending out a call for cookery manuscripts, more specifically, historical, heirloom, and old family recipes, at least 50 years old. We invite you to participate by submitting your recipes.
PART 2: Historic Recipe Roadshow
(2-4 pm) - In Person ONLY
Bring your family recipes and learn more about your family and the recipe! The Culinary Historians of Northern Illinois (CHNI) will share information and reveal special details about your favorite foods. The Historic Recipe Roadshow will take place directly after the "What Grandma Said" presentation and will only be offered in person.
