Our programs are presented via Zoom, courtesy of the Ann Arbor District  Library.

Upcoming Programs

Sunday, October 31, 4 p.m. Eastern
German-American Foodways
Antje Petty, Max Kade Institute, University of Wisconsin

Sunday, November 21, 4 p.m. Eastern
Prohibition and Repeal with Tammy Coxen, author of Cheers to Michigan

Sunday, December 19
CHAA Winter Meal
Location: Ladies Literary Club, Ypsilanti, MI

Past Programs

Sunday, September 19
Early Mexican Cookbooks with Maite Gómez-Rejón

Sunday, June 20
The Marmalade Mavens with Sarah B. Hood
No recording available

Sunday, May 16
Puerto Rican Cuisine in America with Oswald Rivera.
View the recording

Sunday, April 18
Black Smoke: African Americans and the United States of Barbecue with James Beard Book Award Winner Adrian Miller (adrianemiller.com). View the recording.

Sunday, March 21
Creating Sunset Magazine’s Cooking Department: A Study of Men, Women and Cooking in the 1930s with food historian Jennifer Pagano. View the recording.

Sunday, February 21
Baking Powder Wars: The Cutthroat Food Fight That Revolutionized Cooking with food historian, educator and author Linda Civitello. View the recording.

Sunday, January 17
Sweet Greeks: First Generation Immigrant Confectioners in the Heartland with author Ann Flesor Beck, a third-generation confectioner and independent scholar.

Sunday, December 6
All Stirred Up: Suffrage Cookbooks, Food and the Battle for Women’s Right to Vote with Laura Kumin (laurakumin.com).