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Making and Tasting Historical Recipes: Foods of the Age of Exploration and Western Colonialism

  • Newberry Library 60 West Walton Street Chicago, IL, 60610 United States (map)

*ONLINE* In this cooking demonstration and workshop, we will study, prepare, and taste early modern European recipes influenced by the Age of Exploration and empire-building of Western colonialism. We will explore this period of culinary exchange and discovery and learn about premodern food culture through reading and interpreting recipes from a variety of European culinary sources.