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Making and Tasting Historical Recipes: Foods of the Columbian Exchange

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

*ONLINE* In this class, conducted as a cooking demonstration and workshop, we will study, prepare, and taste early modern European recipes influenced by the Columbian Exchange. This transfer of plants, animals, populations, and diseases between the Old and New Worlds following Christopher Columbus’s first voyage to the Americas led to many modern regional culinary identities and dishes. We will explore this exchange of foods and the adoption of culinary identities through reading and interpreting recipes from a variety of European culinary sources.