CANCELED - Well of the Sea

When

Sunday April 15, 2018: 3:00pm to 5:00pm  Add to Calendar /   Add to Google Calendar

Where

Malletts Creek Branch: Program Room

Description

**Due to circumstances beyond our control this event has had to be cancelled**

Margaret Carney, Culinary Historians of Ann Arbor member and director and curator of the International Museum of Dinnerware Design discusses Well of the Sea, the acclaimed seafood restaurant located in Chicago’s Hotel Sherman between 1948-1972.  

Why did Bogey and Bacall attend the funeral of the hotelier and restaurateur who made his idea of the Well of the Sea a reality? Why was dining there so memorable? Were the ultraviolet lights, which enhanced the sensation of dining under water, really beneficial to one’s health?

Culinary historians may be captivated by the menu — bouillabaisse, rijstafel of seafood, cafe disable, and flaming rum punch.; Mid-Century Modern art connoisseurs have fixated on the abstract undersea murals designed by Richard Koppe; while dinnerware collectors can not own too many place settings of the sturdy Shenango China restaurant quality dishes with abstract fish motifs.  

Cuisine, recipes, restaurant reviews, menus, distinct dinnerware, architecture and interior design will all be presented. It’s your best opportunity  get the true flavor of the Well of the Sea and then wish you could go back in time and dine there.

This event is in partnership with the Culinary Historians of Ann Arbor (CHAA), an organization of scholars, cooks, food writers, nutritionists, collectors, students, and others interested in the study of culinary history and gastronomy.