Please join us for an enlightening and entertaining series of talks.  Light refreshments will be served after each program…of course!  Below is an overview of our 2019-2020 program.

Sunday, September 15, 2019, 3:00 – 5:00 p.m., Ann Arbor District Library – Malletts Creek Branch, 3090 E. Eisenhower Parkway (east of Stone School Road), Ann Arbor, MI 48108.
A Rich Brew:  How Cafes Created Modern Jewish Culture with Shachar Pinsker, professor, Judaic Studies and Middle East Studies, University of Michigan.
Sunday, October 20, 2019, 3:00 – 5:00 p.m., Ann Arbor District Library – Malletts Creek Branch, 3090 E. Eisenhower Parkway (east of Stone School Road), Ann Arbor, MI 48108. Order Up! The Henry Ford’s Lamy’s Diner with Donna Braden.
Sunday, November 17, 2019, 3:00 – 5:00 p.m., Ann Arbor District Library – Malletts Creek Branch, 3090 E. Eisenhower Parkway (east of Stone School Road), Ann Arbor, MI 48108. Detroit Prohibition with Mickey Lyons.
November 24: Themed Meal for CHAA members and friends, “The Mighty Mississip’.” Featuring dishes from the ten U. S. states bordering the Mississippi River: Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa, Illinois, Kentucky, Missouri, Arkansas, Tennessee, Mississippi, & Louisiana.
Sunday, January 19, 2020, 3:00 – 5:00 p.m., Ann Arbor District Library – Malletts Creek Branch, 3090 E. Eisenhower Parkway (east of Stone School Road), Ann Arbor, MI 48108. Defining Cups & Saucers, another entertaining presentation by Margaret Carney, director and curator of the International Museum of Dinnerware Design.
Sunday, February 16, 2020, 3:00 – 5:00 p.m., Ann Arbor District Library – Malletts Creek Branch, 3090 E. Eisenhower Parkway (east of Stone School Road), Ann Arbor, MI 48108. Desserts by the Decade: Roarin’ 20s, with local author Patti Smith.
Sunday, March 15, 2020, 3:00 – 5:00 p.m., Ann Arbor District Library – Malletts Creek Branch, 3090 E. Eisenhower Parkway (east of Stone School Road), Ann Arbor, MI 48108.
Smoking Fish the Old Way in the Scottish Highlands with Zingerman’s Brad Hedeman.
Sunday, April 19, 2020, 3:00 – 5:00 p.m., Ann Arbor District Library – Malletts Creek Branch, 3090 E. Eisenhower Parkway (east of Stone School Road), Ann Arbor, MI 48108.
Apples in the Midwestern Imagination with Dr. Lucy M. Long, Director of the Center for Food and Culture, and Adjunct Assistant Professor in the American Culture Studies and Tourism programs at Bowling Green State University in Ohio.
Sunday, May 17, 2020, 3:00 – 5:00 p.m., Ann Arbor District Library – Malletts Creek Branch, 3090 E. Eisenhower Parkway (east of Stone School Road), Ann Arbor, MI 48108. Jewish Vegetarian Cookery: Dr. Eve Jochnowitz speaks about a Jewish cookbook that she translated from Yiddish, The Vilna Vegetarian Cookbook (Schocken, 2015).