What Would Lincoln Eat? June 23rd, 6:30 PM

What Would Lincoln Eat?
with Penelope Bingham

Date: Tuesday June, 23rd
Time: 6:30pm

Location:
Bezazian Branch
Chicago Public Library
1226 W. Ainslie Street
Chicago, IL 60640
312-744-0019

About this event:

Richard Nixon craved cottage cheese with catsup, Ronald Reagan kept his jelly beans handy in the Oval Office, and George H. W. Bush famously refused broccoli. But what would our sixteenth President, Abraham Lincoln, eat? From cornmeal mush in a log cabin on the American Frontier to Charlotte Russe à la Parisienne at the White House, the food on Lincoln 's table and the cookbooks of the period shed light on both Lincoln 's story and that of the United States . This program invites the audience to celebrate Abraham Lincoln's Bicentennial with the recipe for his Favorite Cake, and to think about this era of unprecedented expansion and turmoil, which set in motion changes in America and to its foodways that continue into the present.

Cookbook collector and culinary historian Penelope Bingham is particularly interested in the stories American cookbooks of the last two centuries tell about American culture and identity. Ms. Bingham is a Road Scholar for the Illinois Humanities Council and has been featured in Chicago Magazine and on WBBM-TV’s “Table For Two” program. She is a member of the Culinary Historians of Chicago and the International Association of Culinary Professionals. Ms. Bingham owns over 2000 cookbooks.

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