Culinary Historians | A Tale of Two Cities: Community Cookbooks and Urbanization in California at the Turn of the 20th Century

When

Sunday April 27, 2025: 4:00pm to 5:30pm  Add to Calendar /   Add to Google Calendar

Where

Downtown Library: Multi-Purpose Room

Description

Cookbooks from the past are a fascinating chronicle of the change that takes place as a community grows and expands. Food and Nutrition Educator Kate Helfrich has studied charity, or “community”, cookbooks produced in the late 1800s in Stockton and Sacramento, northern California. She shows how their recipes and advertising chronicle changes in the types of food that were eaten, the nature of home food production, and the influence of industrialization as these cities grew from Gold Rush-era local stagecoach stops to large metropolitan centers.

This event is in partnership with Culinary Historians of Ann Arbor.

The Library will be providing a live stream of this event and we intend to make it available for future viewing. A video player will appear on this page 1 hour before the start of the event.