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Friday, November 3: Foodways and Waterways
Guest Chef: Sallie Ann Robinson
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm, Coulter Plaza & Stage
One of the United States’ most recognizable and celebrated culinary traditions is that of the Gullah communities located on the Sea Islands off the coast of South Carolina and Georgia. With deep roots in West African and Caribbean culinary cultures, the Gullah use ancestral growing, fishing, and other culinary practices to sustain their communities. How have rising sea levels and other environmental changes impacted the lives of Gullah community members? How are they pairing traditional knowledge and modern innovations to address these issues? How are Gullah communities sustaining culinary traditions in the face of additional social, cultural, and economic changes taking hold throughout the Lowcountry? Join guest chef Sallie Ann Robinson as she shares stories and perspectives from her home on Daufuskie Island, South Carolina.
After the cooking demonstration, there will be a book signing with Sallie Ann Robinson from 3:00–3:30 p.m. Her cookbooks will be available for purchase on site:
- Gullah Home Cooking the Daufuskie Way (2003)
- Cooking the Gullah Way (2007)
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Saturday, November 4: Climate, Chile, and Change in Hatch Valley, New Mexico
Guest Chef: Pati Jinich and Andrea Alvarez
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm, Coulter Plaza & Stage
Hatch chiles are a prized ingredient in kitchens across the United States. Whether a verdant green or a fire-engine red, these chiles have been the lifeblood of generations of growers and distributors in New Mexico’s Hatch Valley, including Andrea Alvarez of La Reina Hatch Chile Company. For Alvarez, the valley is synonymous with community as her family has lived and worked there for generations, but their work has been affected by severe drought and other environmental and economic changes. Join Alvarez and guest chef Pati Jinich, as they share stories and a recipe that shine a light on the vibrant cultural traditions of the Hatch Valley and the ways community members are addressing climate change through innovative agricultural technologies and business practices.
After the cooking demonstration, there will be a book signing with Pati Jinich from 1:30–2:00 p.m. Her cookbooks will be available for purchase on site:
- Mexican Today (2016)
- Treasure of the Mexican Table (2021)
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Saturday, November 4: Revitalizing Indigenous Food Knowledge and Healthier Ecosystems
Guest Chef: Mariah Gladstone
3:30 pm - 4:30 pm, Coulter Plaza & Stage
Guest chef Mariah Gladstone (Blackfeet, Cherokee) will share how indigenous growers and food practitioners are using ancestral foods and land management to sustain and strengthen their communities and their surrounding environments. In the face of extreme weather events and political obstacles, they are drawing upon traditional growing and cooking methods and new technologies to create community-based opportunities for supporting health and well-being. As the founder of the online show Indigikitchen, Gladstone has a well-defined mission to re-indigenize diets across the Americas using digital media to support healthier ecosystems, bodies, and families.
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2022
Friday, November 4: Nourish Your Body, Nourish Your Spirit with Ancestral Foods
Guest Chef: Elena Terry and Zoe Fess
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm, Coulter Plaza & Stage
Mother-daughter duo Elena Terry and Zoe Fess address the health and well-being of their community, the Ho-Chunk Nation, by reviving and sustaining ancestral foods. During this program, which is geared toward youth audiences, guest chefs Terry and Fess will speak about the work of their non-profit Wild Bearies, a seed to table organization, that shares indigenous food cultures and traditions within the Ho-Chunk Nation and beyond. They will speak about their roles as community mentors but also their commitment to being life-long learners, which has proven key to Wild Bearies’ success. They will also discuss the impact that their advocacy work has on their own relationship to one another as mother and daughter, as women, and as future ancestors to the Ho-Chunk people.
Honoring the Woodland region of the Ho-Chunk Nation, Terry and Fess will prepare Seedy SassSquash, a seed crust with squash custard, topped with wild rice or apple dust and cranberry sauce. This dish features Ho-Chunk ancestral squash, lost to their community for generations until recently when the Wild Bearies team returned and revived the life of this sacred ingredient in their ancestral homelands.
This program is produced in collaboration with the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian and the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization’s North American Office.
The recipe and content of the program is geared toward the National Museum of the American Indian’s Youth in Action audience while also holding a broader appeal for SI museum and UN-FAO audiences.
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Friday, October 14: Preserving the Wisdom of the Chinese Kitchen
Guest Chef: Grace Young
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm, Coulter Plaza & Stage
Join 2022 Julia Child Award Recipient Grace Young as she shares her journey in preserving Chinese American culinary traditions through her cookbooks and more recently in her advocacy work with Chinatowns. For Young, studying and cooking with traditional Chinese ingredients and cooking tools has been a decades-long pursuit. During her research, she met with many Chinese American chefs and cooks, mainly women, who kept alive their culinary cultures through creative adaptations and reimaginings of what Chinese food in America could taste like. Young has given special focus to the wok—an endangered yet deeply meaningful culinary tool in the United States. Shedding light on the history and culture of the wok, Young will tell stories of her own family’s relationship to this essential kitchen tool and how immigrant families, including her own, struggle to retain wok traditions. She’ll demonstrate key wok cooking techniques by preparing fried rice with Chinese barbecued pork.
Bringing this story into the present moment, Young will also speak about her recent advocacy with Chinatowns whose residents are struggling in the midst of the pandemic and increased anti-Asian hate. Since the winter of 2020, Young is committed to garnering support for Chinatowns across the nation during this particularly vulnerable moment in their history, with Grub Street deeming her the “Accidental Voice” of New York’s Chinatown.”
Accompanying the cooking demonstration will be a special “Objects Out of Storage” event showcasing Young’s family wok, which is now part of the collections at the National Museum of American History, as well as culinary objects donated from chefs and restaurateurs like Cecilia Chiang and Paul and Linda Ma that shed light on the Asian American experience in the United States.
After the cooking demonstration, there will be a book signing with Grace Young. Her cookbooks will be available for purchase on site.
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Saturday, September 17: Celebrating Comida Chingona & the Lowrider Lifestyle
Guest Chef: Silvana Salcido
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm, Coulter Plaza & Stage
Guest chef Silvana Salcido Esparza made her mark on the U.S. food scene with the comida chingona (“badass food”) she serves at her Phoenix-based restaurant, Barrio Café. The restaurant’s offerings draw inspiration from Esparza’s Mexican heritage and seek to honor her family’s 800-year-old gastronomic legacy with a twist. Esparza is not only passionate about putting her own spin on Mexican food, but also cars, specifically lowriders. Much more than your average car, these prized vehicles are artworks defined by eye-catching paint jobs, plush interiors, and hydraulics that enable them to hop, jump, and skip in city streets. As Esparza will explain during this cooking demonstration and conversation, there is an entire culture, including food culture, that surrounds the low-rider lifestyle in Phoenix. To this culture, she brings her own passions, including her commitment to honor and celebrate the contributions of women, past and present, as she endeavors to build a more equitable and inclusive community.
For this program, Esparza will make smoked cochinita pibil, providing insights into this important and deeply historical dish.
This program is produced in collaboration with the National Museum of the American Latino and highlights objects from the Latino collections at the National Museum of American History. It is also part of the Latino Museum’s Latino Heritage Festival.
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Tuesday, May 10: Food for the Body and Soul: Advocating for Community through Culinary Traditions
Guest Chef: Janet Yu
Virtual demonstration at 6:45 p.m.
Chef Janet Yu, owner of Hollywood East Café in Wheaton, Maryland, shares stories and prepares recipes from her home kitchen that draw upon her family’s heritage from Taishan, a village in the Guangdong Province of China. Yu talks about her work preserving and sharing Chinese food culture in the Greater Washington, D.C., area and how doing so is a vital form of advocacy. She also discusses her role as a mentor and the ways mentorship can maintain cultural bonds and identities as well as empower a new generation of chefs, cooks, and food entrepreneurs.
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Tuesday, March 15: Food Knowledge is Power: How to Eat Well on a Budget
Guest Chef: Juliet Harris
Virtual demonstration at 6:45 p.m.
Join Chef Juliet “JuJu” Harris as she prepares a recipe from her recently revised cookbook, Healthy and Homemade: Eating Well on a Budget. Chef Harris sheds light on the food insecurity that many D.C. residents face and how organizations and educators are working with community members to build a healthier and more equitable and just food system. At the heart of this work is the belief that food education is a key aspect of food access. Building on that idea, Chef Harris demonstrates that healthy eating does not need to be expensive, time-consuming, or difficult.
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Thursday, February 22: Bakers Against Racism: The Power of Community Activism through Food
Guest Chef: Paola Velez
Virtual demonstration at 6:45 p.m.
Chef Paola Velez, a co-founder of the international movement Bakers Against Racism, demonstrates a recipe that reflects and embodies her identity as an Afro-Latina chef rooted in her family’s Dominican heritage. In conversation with Ashley Rose Young, historian of the Smithsonian’s American Food History Project, Velez discusses her organizing efforts on social media through Bakers Against Racism, and her belief that no matter how small, every effort counts—including small-scale bake sales—in raising awareness and building support to end racism.
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2021
Thursday, September 30: Stir-Frying to the Sky’s Edge: Chinese Americans and the Power of Stir-Frying
Guest Chef: Grace Young
In Stir-Frying to the Sky’s Edge, culinary historian and award-winning cookbook author Grace Young writes of how the ancient technique of stir-frying played an important role in the culinary lives of Chinese migrants. In the United States, many families used their culinary skills to open businesses, including chop suey parlors, where that bland, made-up dish gained popularity. Young—known as “the stir-fry guru” and “wok therapist”— demonstrates her stir-fry expertise and shares tips on wok mastery for home cooks as she prepares a savory stir-fry of garlicky cabbage and bacon—a dish improvised in the 1940s by immigrant Lin Ong who used two common American ingredients to feed her nine children. She recounts her own San Francisco family’s unlikely wok story and her work to document COVID’s impact on Manhattan's Chinatown and to support the AAPI community nationwide.
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Thursday, August 5: Lena Richard’s New Orleans Cook Book: A Groundbreaking Story of Innovation and Resilience
Guest Chef: Dee Lavigne
Lena Richard, a Black chef and entrepreneur in New Orleans, built a dynamic culinary career in the segregated South, defying harmful stereotypes of Black women that hindered their participation in the creation and development of American food culture and its economy. She owned and operated catering businesses, eateries, a fine-dining restaurant, a cooking school, and an international frozen-food business. Her 1940 New Orleans Cook Book is the first Creole cookbook written by a Black author in a time when racial stereotypes permeated the food industry. Guest chef and New Orleanian Dee Lavigne prepares a classic Creole dish and recounts Richard’s story, which is currently featured in the case “The Only One in the Room: Women Achievers in Business and the Cost of Success,” in the American History Museum’s exhibition American Enterprise.
This program is hosted in collaboration with the Southern Food and Beverage Museum where Lavigne is the Director of Culinary Programming.
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Monday, July 26: Pleibol and Eat Well! Latino Culinary Traditions and Américas’ Game
Guest Chef: Dayanny de la Cruz
If you’re a baseball fan, you probably have some favorite ballpark foods ranging from nachos to tacos, but have you thought about the food heritages they draw on? Explore the tangible connections between baseball and Latino culinary traditions, food fusions, and experiences that reflect broader themes and trends in American history—the focus of the American History Museum's new exhibition ¡Pleibol! In the Barrios and the Big Leagues / En los barrios y las grandes ligas. This influence is easily seen in the food at stadiums across the country, from the Miami Mex hot dogs and Cubano sandwiches served at Tropicana Field in Florida to the Tex-Mex cuisine served at Yankee Stadium in the Bronx. In celebration of the exhibition’s opening, Dayanny de la Cruz, executive chef at Hard Rock Stadium in Miami, Florida, prepares a meal that represents Latinos’ culinary cultures and heritage of baseball-loving families.
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2020
Friday, February 21: Jubilee: Recipes from Two Centuries of African American Cooking
Guest chef: Toni Tipton-Martin
Food journalist Toni Tipton-Martin shared research and recipes from her cookbook, Jubilee: Recipes from Two Centuries of African American Cooking. She revealed the inspiring history of women chefs and home cooks while teaching us how to prepare their historic recipes in a modern kitchen. After the demonstration, Tipton-Martin signed copies of her cookbook.
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2019
Saturday, December 7: Conquering Croquembouche with Julia Child
Guest Chef: Lynne Just, Sur La Table
Chef Lynne Just of Sur La Table helped us celebrate the winter holidays by making Julia Child’s croquembouche. This traditional French dessert is made by building a conical tower of profiteroles and coating it in delicate layers of caramelized sugar. Although a somewhat intimidating dessert by virtue of its height alone, Julia’s recipe breaks down its preparation into manageable steps. We were delighted to share her technique for this whimsical dish with museum visitors. Allons-y!
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Friday, November 15: Lavash: An Expression of Armenian Heritage
Guest Chefs: Kate Leahy, John Lee, and Ara Zada
We teamed up with the Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage to host the authors of Lavash: The bread that launched 1,000 meals, plus salads, stews, and other recipes from Armenia, a cookbook that brings to life the rich food heritage of Armenia. "Team Lavash," as they call themselves, say they ate their weight in lavash while making this book--all in the sake of research. The authors were joined by guest host Halle Butvin as they demonstrated how to make this staple bread and shared stories from their fieldwork illuminating Armenian culture. After the demonstration, the authors signed copies of their book.
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Friday, November 8 and Saturday, November 9: Food History Weekend
In November, we hosted several cooking demonstrations during the fifth annual Smithsonian Food History Weekend. The weekend’s annual theme, "Power Through Food," explored the ways in which chefs, restaurateurs, food entrepreneurs, and activists use food to strengthen and empower their communities.
Saturday, October 12: Salsa con Salsa
Guest Chef: Daniela Hurtado
Museum visitors joined us and guest chef Daniela Hurtado of La Cocina VA to explore Peruvian food and music culture from the Andes to the Pacific Coast. Hurtado made several dishes that illuminate the diverse food cultures in Peru including lomo saltado, papas a la huancaina, and mazamorra morada. A lover of salsa music, Hurtado spoke about the genre’s rise in popularity especially along Peru’s coast while making salsa huancaina with potatoes. In other words, she discussed "salsa con salsa." This demo tied into a museum-wide festival, "Latino Art, Beats & Culture Fest: A¡Descubra! Hispanic Heritage Event," which explored Latino musical connections from Mambo to hip-hop, pop music to reggaeton music and history and culture through hands-on activities, encounters with Smithsonian collections and curators, and musical performances.
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Friday, October 11: Mollie Katzen’s Moosewood Cookbook
Guest Chef: Mollie Katzen
Our guest speaker, Mollie Katzen, is the author of The Moosewood Cookbook (1974), one of the best-selling cookbooks of all time and an integral piece of work on vegetarianism, seasonal cooking, and conscious eating. A first edition of Katzen’s cookbook is on display in a section of the FOOD exhibition that explores how alternative communities produced new food distribution systems in the 1960s and 1970s. Museum visitors joined Katzen and Smithsonian food history curator Paula Johnson as they discussed this rich culinary history, recipes from Moosewood, and readers’ reactions to the much-beloved work. As our two featured speakers chatted, our kitchen manager, Kathy Phung, prepared some of Katzen’s dishes on the cooking demonstration stage. There was a book signing with Katzen after the event and several of her works were available for purchase including The Moosewood Cookbook, The New Enchanted Broccoli Forest, Pretend Soup, and a new compendium, The Best of Mollie Katzen.
Visitors joined us before the cooking demonstration for a special "objects out of storage" event featuring rarely-seen archival materials from the Mollie Katzen Papers housed at our Archives Center. Materials included original, hand-written, hand-illustrated designs for The Moosewood Cookbook and "fan mail" from readers.
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Friday, September 20: The Mexican Food Revolution
Guest Chef: Carlos Salgado
This demo relates to a case in the FOOD exhibition entitled, "The Mexican Food Revolution," which explores the influence of Mexican and Mexican American food entrepreneurs on the culinary culture of the U.S. from 1950 to the present. Guest Chef Carlos Salgado shared his culinary journey and the way he expresses the "traditions transplanted into Southern California's multicultural soils" in his celebrated restaurant, Taco María. He prepared masa on stage, demonstrating the nixtamalization process, and made tacos de aire, a dish that illuminates the history and present-day culture of Mexican regional foodways in the U.S.
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Friday, August 9: In the Kitchen with Julia and Paul Child
Guest Chef: Lynne Just, Sur La Table
Each year the museum marks Julia Child’s August 15 birthday with a themed cooking demonstration. We welcomed guest chef Lynne Just of Sur La Table to explore a much-beloved section of the FOOD exhibition that houses Julia’s Cambridge, Massachusetts kitchen. We highlighted Julia and Paul’s shared love of food and Paul’s role in encouraging and supporting Julia as she pursued her culinary career. We explored the lively and supportive relationship between Julia and Paul, providing an intimate portrayal of their home life in America and abroad, including Paul’s role in the making of The French Chef, Julia’s first television show. His behind-the-scenes duties ranged from carrying equipment on onset to washing dishes after filming each episode. Museum visitors joined us as we learned how to make Julia’s recipes for French onion soup and crêpes Suzette, two classic dishes featured on the first season of the show.
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Saturday, July 13: Priya Krishna’s "Indian-ish" Recipes
Guest Chef: Priya Krishna
Guest chef Priya Kirshna shared stories and recipes from her Indian American childhood, focusing on how her mother’s improvisational cooking represents the ingenuity of migrant home cooks in the United States. Chef Krishna’s mother came to the U.S. from New Delhi and maintained strong sensory memories of the foods from her homeland. Once in America, she attempted to recreate those dishes, but did not have easy access to their key ingredients. Like many new migrants, she improvised. Chef Krishna chronicles her mother’s inventive cooking in her cookbook: Indian-ish: Recipes and Antics from a Modern American Family.
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Friday, June 28: The Harvey Girls & Meals for Rail Passengers
Guest Chef: Sarah Lohman
Taking another look at how railroads transformed travel and food production in the American West, our guest chef Sarah Lohman explored the history of the Harvey Girls Working as hostesses at restaurants along the rail lines in the Southwest. Chef Lohman discussed how they represented and contributed to important shifts in the region’s economic and cultural landscape. Their complex story was emblazoned in the American imagination when Judy Garland starred in The Harvey Girls (1946), bringing to life the bustling tourism industry in New Mexico. Museum visitors joined us as we dug into the food history behind this film, while also discussing broader changes in American transportation and tourism history.
Friday, May 10: Regional Chinese Cooking Along the Transcontinental Railroad
Guest Chef: Martin Yan
In May and June, we turned our attention to the museum’s American Enterprise exhibition and its adjacent feature on the 150th anniversary of the transcontinental railroad. Guest chef Martin Yan explored the food cultures and lasting culinary influences of Chinese migrants living and working in the U.S. in the mid 19th century, many of whom were employed to construct the transcontinental railroad. During the demonstration, Chef Yan spoke about regional food traditions of Chinese workers from the Guangdong Province and how their food culture (popularly known as "Cantonese") forever changed dining in the United States.
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Friday, April 12: Ethiopian Culinary Cultures in Washington, D.C.
Guest Chef: Sileshi Alifom
This cooking demonstration explored the social and cultural dimensions of Ethiopian cuisine in the District of Columbia. Sileshi Alifom, owner of DAS Ethiopian Restaurant, and his staff, discussed their efforts to create a restaurant environment that welcomes a diverse group of eaters and how they seek to introduce them to Ethiopian culture through food. The demo was accompanied by an Ethiopian coffee ceremony, a social ritual with historic roots. This program connected to a section of the refreshed FOOD exhibition that highlights the entrepreneurial efforts and influences of migrant entrepreneurs on America’s ever-changing food scene.
Friday, March 15: Carla Hall’s Soul Food
Guest Chef: Carla Hall
Museum visitors Joined guest chef Carla Hall as she explored the historic connections between African American foodways and the flavors and cooking techniques of West Africa, the Caribbean, and Latin America. During the demonstration, Hall prepared several dishes from her cookbook, Carla Hall’s Soul Food: Everyday and Celebration, that illuminated these culinary connections including: cassava with coconut milk and lime, Ghanaian peanut beef and tomato stew, and hot water cornbread.
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Friday, February 15: Artisan Chocolate and the "Good Food Movement"
Guest Chef: Cathy Phung
February’s program featured the roots of the Good Food Movement in 1960s and 1970s California and explored the rise of artisan chocolate making as part of that movement, as well as its current robust expression around the country. Our demonstration kitchen manager, Kathy Phung, and Smithsonian food historian Ashley Rose Young discussed this chapter in American culinary history while preparing chocolate desserts that reflected the ethos of the Good Food Movement.
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2018
Saturday, December 1: Smithsonian Holiday Festival
Wrapping up the year and our culinary journey, the team will take a look at regions in the middle of the country, exploring foods and flavors from the Midwest with two demonstrations at the Smithsonian Holiday Festival.
Exploring the Midwest
Guest chef: Anne Byrn
Anne Byrn, author of American Cake, has a second cookbook that is timely for your holiday sweet tooth, American Cookie. Continuing our annual theme of regional foodways in America, Anne prepared several sweet regional favorites from the Midwest.
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Cooking Up History for Kids
Guest chef: Tanya Steel
Dive taste buds first into this child-friendly cooking demonstration program with celebrity cook and author, Tanya Steel. During the program, Tanya told us about historically significant recipes from her book, Food Fight! A Mouthwatering History of Who Ate What and Why Through the Ages.
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Saturday, November 3: Smithsonian Food History Weekend
The fourth annual Smithsonian Food History Weekend Festival featured a full day of free activities for all visitors, including hands-on learning, garden tours, stories, discussions and cooking demonstrations that celebrated American regions remembered, revived and reimagined.
Saturday, October 6: Exploring Mexican Regional Cooking
Guest Chef: Zarela Martínez
Zarela Martínez helped introduce Mexican regional cooking to American audiences, popularizing new flavors and cooking techniques from regions like Sonora and Oaxaca. In 1987, Chef Martínez opened Zarela, a fine dining Mexican restaurant in New York City, that inspired her five cookbooks including Food from my Heart: Cuisines of Mexico Remembered and Reimagined. During this program, Martínez made salpicon de huachinango (red snapper hash). This is a multigenerational dish prepared in unique ways by Martínez, her mother Aida Gabilondo who wrote Mexican Family Cooking, and her son Chef Aarón Sanchez of the Food Network. Martínez discussed how the ideas of memory, family, and community are expressed and shared through regional Mexican foodways. This cooking demonstration, in partnership with the Smithsonian Latino Center and the Mexican Cultural Institute, was part of "Making History, Sharing Culture" 2018 Hispanic Heritage Month Family Festival.
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Friday, August 17: Julia Child's Legacy
Guest Chef: Lynne Just, Sur La Table
In an annual favorite, the museum celebrated Julia Child’s birthday and legacy with Sur La Table guest chef Lynne Just cooking up dishes from a region that was profoundly important to Julia: Provence. Chef Just and our resident food historian Ashley Rose Young explored the regional flavors and culinary traditions of southeastern France through two iconic dishes: bouillabaisse and lavender crème brûlée. As Julia would say, "Bon Appétit!"
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Friday, July 13: Exploring the Northeast
Guest Chef: Brian Patterson
Every July, baseball fans flock to stadiums to enjoy "America’s favorite pastime." This major league baseball experience is marked by jubilant organ music, t-shirt cannons, fireworks and, of course, food. These days, baseball parks are serving up more than just peanuts, popcorn, and hotdogs. Food vendors are featuring regional favorites: lobster rolls and baked beans at Fenway Park in Boston, kielbasa and pierogis at PNC stadium in Pittsburgh, sushi rolls and sashimi at AT&T Park in San Francisco. Museum visitors joined guest chef Brian Patterson and our resident Smithsonian food historian Ashley Rose Young as they talked about regional foodways of baseball, and those of the Northeast in particular. "Let’s play ball!"
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Friday, June 8: Exploring the South
Guest Chef: Edward Lee
As summer heated up, we focused our attention on a hot topic: the history, evolution, and politics of Southern cuisine. Special guest, Chef Edward Lee, prepared two mouth-watering dishes that reflected his experiences as a Korean American chef working in the U.S. South: "dirty" fried chicken and hotteok (Korean doughnuts). Through these recipes, Chef Lee talked about the power of place in creating regional foodways and regional identities with our resident Smithsonian food historian Ashley Rose Young. The demonstration drew inspiration from Chef Lee’s book, Buttermilk Graffiti: A Chef's Journey to Discover America's New Melting-Pot Cuisine.
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Friday, May 4: Asian Pacific American Foodways
Guest Chef: Patricia Tanumihardja
To mark Asian Pacific American Heritage Month, chef and cookbook author Patricia Tanumihardja joined us at the museum. Born in Indonesia, raised in Singapore, and now living in Virginia, Chef Tanumihardja's cooking marries regional southeast Asian cuisine with local ingredients and a farm-to-table ethos. During the demo, Chef Tanumihardja prepared dishes inspired by her family and research on southeast Asian regional foodways including orak arik, nasi ulam, and pickles. After the demo, Chef Tanumihadja will signed copies of her book, Farm to Table Asian Secrets: Vegan & Vegetarian Full-Flavored Recipes for Every Season.
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Friday, April 6: Exploring the Chesapeake Region
Guest Chef: Lynne Just, Sur La Table
In 2018, we focused on the power of place and the histories of regional food traditions. For April’s "Cooking Up History," we explored the foodways of the Chesapeake, a region shaped by global waterborne trade, rich farmland and seafood resources, a temperate climate, and migrations of people over centuries. Chef Lynne Just of Sur La Table demonstrated two regional specialties, starting with Southern Maryland stuffed ham—a recipe for ham and spicy greens that has long been a part of holiday cooking in rural St. Mary’s County. We also headed up the bay to Baltimore for the cake that might have been served on holiday tables among the city’s affluent residents: the fanciful Lord Baltimore cake, which features coconut, dried fruit, and nuts. Audiences joined Chef Just and Smithsonian food historian Ashley Rose Young as we learned about Chesapeake cuisine and the micro-regions that contribute to this region’s vibrant food culture.
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Saturday, March 17: Alon Shaya: An Odyssey of Food, My Journey Back to Israel
Guest Chef: Alon Shaya
2018 marked the tricentennial of the founding of New Orleans and this program featured one of the city’s most celebrated chefs, Alon Shaya. With his innovative interpretation of modern Israeli cuisine, Chef Alon has brought dishes ranging from labneh to schnitzel not only to the forefront of New Orleans’ Creole food scene, but also to the nation’s. During this program, Chef Alon prepared several dishes from his cookbook, SHAYA: An Odyssey of Food, My Journey Back to Israel, while speaking to food historian Ashley Rose Young about his professional and personal experiences with food.
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Saturday, February 10: Carnival and Haitian Food Traditions
Guest chef: Jouvens Jean
If it’s February, it must be time for Carnival! We explored the cuisine of Carnival and how communities in the Caribbean and U.S. celebrate this holiday through food. The museum partnered with the Embassy of the Republic of Haiti in Washington, D.C. and the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture to bring this history to life. Food historian Ashley Rose Young and curator Joanne Hyppolite spoke with celebrity Haitian Chef Jouvens Jean about Haitian Carnival traditions while he prepares several dishes that highlight his personal history and wide-ranging culinary career—from winning Food Network’s Cutthroat Kitchen Season 6 to writing his own cookbook, Tap Tap Diaries.
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Friday, January 5: Forgotten Foods: Finding and Testing Recipes from our Archives
Guest chef: Ashley Rose Young
Have you ever stepped back from a meal and thought about the history and tradition behind it? How did cooking techniques and even the taste and texture of ingredients like flour and butter change since the colonial and antebellum periods? In January, audiences joined Smithsonian food historian Ashley Rose Young as she prepared a dish from the Archives Center at the National Museum of American History. We discussed the challenges of preparing historic recipes in modern kitchens, while also providing inspiration to try out historic recipes on your own to learn about the past.
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2017
Saturday, December 2: Holiday Traditions with the Smithsonian Folklife Festival
Guest chef: Jennifer Selman
We celebrated the holidays and the 50th Anniversary of the Smithsonian Folklife Festival with a trip to the Caribbean. Jennifer Selman, chef/owner of Crown Bakery in Washington, DC, shattered any negative notions you have about fruitcake with her Trinidadian version. She also brewed up the healthful and tangy holiday drink, sorrel. Jennifer was joined by long-time Folklife Festival researcher and presenter Camila Bryce-LaPorte, who is also the last person in her family to continue her own Caribbean and Panamanian fruitcake traditions. We learned how the Caribbean community of Washington, DC builds community through food and fellowship, especially during the holidays.
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Saturday, November 18: Cod and New England Coastal Cuisine
Guest chef: Ris Lacoste
In November, Massachusetts is remembered for Thanksgiving feasts, but what were New Englanders fishing for and eating the rest of the year? Codfishing drove the regional economy, while salt cod exports influenced cuisine both around the world and at New England tables. Ris Lacoste, DC chef and a native of New Bedford, MA, cooked with this iconic fish during this "Cooking Up History" program. During the demo, we shared new research about one man’s history on the working waterfront in 18th century Massachusetts from the museum’s exhibit Within These Walls.
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Saturday, September 16: The New Southern-Latino Table
Guest chef: Sandra Gutierrez
What is the "Nuevo South"? Why does it matter? And what does it taste like? On September 16th, we welcomed chef and author Sandra Gutiérrez. Sandra was born in Philadelphia, to Guatemalan parents, and raised in Guatemala. She moved to North Carolina from Canada in 1985. By 1996, she discovered that as more Latinos moved to the South, a new food pathway emerged. At this cooking demonstration, we discussed migration, activism, and the culinary movements in the Nuevo South. This program was co-sponsored by the National Museum of African American History and Culture, with funding provided by the Latino Initiatives Pool, a federal pool administered by the Smithsonian Latino Center.
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Friday, August 11: Julia Child's Kitchen Classroom
Guest chef: Lynne Just, Sur La Table
Julia Child was a great cooking teacher and she was also an eager culinary student long after earning her diploma from Le Cordon Bleu. To honor the week of Julia’s 105th birthday, we welcomed Sur La Table chef Lynne Just to prepare a few dishes from Julia’s collaborations with master chefs in the 1990s. As we cooked, we explored how Julia demonstrated her lifelong love of learning as she welcomed chefs into her home kitchen to collaborate on three television series. These recipes, and our conversation, celebrated Julia’s bountiful curiosity about ingredients, techniques, and recipes outside of French cuisine, and her enthusiastic promotion of other talented chefs as she encouraged her viewers and cookbook audiences to never stop learning.
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Friday, July 21: Cajun and Creole Food Traditions
Guest chef: David Guas
What is the history behind Cajun and Creole cuisines, and how are they different? On July 21, we welcomed Louisiana native chef David Guas of Arlington’s Bayou Bakery, and we cooked our way through the origins of the Louisiana Territories to explore how these two distinctive culinary traditions emerged from a commingling of French, French-Acadian, and Spanish settlers, native peoples, migrants from the Caribbean, and enslaved Africans, and how the region’s signature dishes represent its rich history.
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Friday, June 30: The Chinese Kitchen Garden in America
Guest: Wendy Kiang-Spray
How do three generations of a family’s Chinese gardening traditions take root in America? On June 30, we welcomed guest Wendy Kiang-Spray, author of The Chinese Kitchen Garden, whose parents and grandparents grew food in their own traditional Chinese kitchen garden in Shandong and Hong Kong, using techniques that Wendy incorporated into her own Maryland garden. As we prepared a few dishes from Kiang-Spray’s book, we explored the many ways Chinese vegetables, herbs, and spices have held significance and symbolic meaning, and how the process of planting food for one’s family is key to preserving a sense of home and tradition wherever you live.
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Friday, April 28: The Food of Jazz
Guest chef: Rock Harper
What is the relationship between food, jazz, and American history? In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, jazz spread into American life, blending many influences and finding distinct forms in each community it was played, from New Orleans to Harlem to Kansas City. We were joined by guest chef Rock Harper, who prepared a few dishes from America’s leading jazz communities. During the demo, we explored how each city produced unique culinary creations to feed both musicians and their audiences, and also discussed how the foods that fed jazz were as improvisational, innovative, and rooted in tradition as the music itself.
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Saturday, March 18: The Women Behind America’s First Cookbooks
Guest chef: Angie Lee, Sur La Table
What was the first cookbook written by an American for Americans, and how did the recipes differ from other volumes at the time? Prior to 1796, American home cooks used English cookery books, if they used books at all, to prepare meals. But with Amelia Simmons’ 1796 American Cookery, we had the first formal document exploring "American cuisine," incorporating ingredients native to the American landscape such as cornmeal, pumpkins, maple syrup, and various vegetables, nuts, and fruits. We were joined by chef Angie Lee of Sur La Table, who prepared a few recipes from American cookbook authors such as Simmons, Mary Randolph, Eliza Leslie, and Lydia Child, as we considered the ingredients, tools, and cooking techniques in this early era, and discussed how these authors had such a profound influence on American culinary history.
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Saturday, February 25: Food and the Great Migration
Guest chef: Jerome Grant, National Museum of African American History & Culture
What impact did the Great Migration have on American foodways? From 1915 to 1960, more than five million African Americans migrated from the deep South to the northern and western United States in search of new opportunities for work and community. We were joined by guest chef Jerome Grant from the National Museum of African American History and Culture who prepared a few dishes that reflect the culinary changes that emerged from that migration and help us consider how African Americans preserved some Southern roots as "soul food" tradition while adapting and creating new dishes to their neighborhoods.
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Saturday, January 14: Changing Ideas of Healthy Eating in 19th-century America
Guest chef: Brian Patterson, L'Academie de Cuisine
Did you resolve to eat healthier in 2017? You were not alone, but how did you define "healthy" when it came to food that year? On January 14, we looked to history for how our ideas about diet and nutrition have changed over time. While Chef Brian prepared recipes from 19th century American cookbooks, we explored the era of Sylvester Graham, Ellen White, and other dietary reformers, whose ideas about whole grains and vegetarianism influenced the foods many Americans put on the table, at least for a time!
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2016
Saturday, October 15: The Great American Pumpkin
Guest chef: Brian Patterson, L'Academie de Cuisine
How did pumpkin become a signature food of the fall, and of early American cuisine? Chef Brian took us beyond the jack-o-lantern to help us better understand the historical, agricultural, and culinary story of this autumnal fruit, as we explored how the pumpkin came to have such an important symbolic role in American life.
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Saturday, September 17th: Cuban-American Food Traditions
Guest chef: Ana Sofia Peláez
What are the signature ingredients, flavors, and stories of Cuban American cooking? For this program, we welcomed guest chef Ana Sofia Peláez, author of The Cuban Table, who first set out to explore Cuban cuisine as a way of tracing the stories and recipes of her grandparents’ generation. As we prepared a few dishes from Ana’s book, we explored the complex social, political, and cultural history that has led to Cuba’s distinctive cuisine, and how the dishes prepared by Cubans and Cuban Americans honor the country’s rich traditions.
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Friday, August 12: Julia Child in the 1970s
Guest chef: Lynne Just, Sur La Table
What recipes, ingredients, and culinary traditions was Julia Child exploring after she finished the second volume of Mastering the Art of French Cooking in 1970? We celebrated what would have been Julia Child’s 104th birthday with Sur La Table chef Lynne Just and prepared a few dishes from Julia’s collection of recipes in the 1970s. While we considered the aftermath of Mastering’s success and of Julia’s growing television career, we also considered how Julia’s perspective on food was changing in sync with other major shifts in American history and culinary culture.
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Friday, July 8: Basque Food in America
Guest chef: Brian Patterson, L'Academie de Cuisine
What happens when traditional dishes from the Basque lands of Europe are brought to the American West through migration? To join in the celebration of the Smithsonian Folklife Festival, we welcomed L’Academie de Cuisine chef Brian Patterson to help us explore Basque history and culture through food. As we cooked a few dishes from Basque cuisine in America that reflect the baserria (farmstead) tradition of Basque homelands in the mountainous regions of France and Spain, we discussed how Basque immigrants to the United States influenced the ranching, agricultural, and culinary traditions of the West.
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Friday, June 17: Political Barbecues
Guest chef: Albert Lukas, Restaurant Associates
What role does barbecue play a role in America’s political campaign history? Restaurant Associates chef Albert Lukas explored the significance of outdoor cookouts in shaping America’s political season with us on June 17. We cooked up a platter of Georgia-style pork barbecue and discussed everything from the science of smoking to the different types of spices, meats, and wood used. While we cooked, we explored both the regional traditions of barbecue and how they evolved, the details of who hosted, attended, and stoked the fires of political gatherings from the 18th century to the present, and how a politician’s awareness (or lack thereof) of culinary customs could make or break their candidacy.
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Friday, May 20th: Lincoln in the Kitchen
What can the favorite foods of President Abraham Lincoln and Mary Todd Lincoln tell us about their differences in upbringing and their time in the White House? We journeyed to Lincoln’s childhood table on a farm in frontier-era Indiana, and to Mary Todd’s table on her family’s plantation in Lexington, Kentucky, to explore the different ingredients, tools, and cooking techniques that shaped their appetites in early life, and how those food traditions shifted when they lived in the White House during the Civil War.
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Friday, May 6th: The American Story of Sushi
Guest chef: Kevin Lee, Wegmans
How did sushi go from a Japanese delicacy to an American favorite? As part of our Asian Pacific American Heritage Month celebration, we welcomed Wegmans Chef Kevin Lee, who helped us explore the history of sushi in America through a hands-on sushi demonstration. We examined the significance of the sushi technique and prized ingredients—and the long traditions behind preparation the right fish, rice, and vegetables for each roll—and considered how the story of sushi in America is as much about Asian cultural heritage as it is about culinary trends, traditions, and adaptations for the American palate.
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Friday, April 8: The Mexican-American Table
Guest chef: Amelia Morán Ceja
For this program, we welcomed Amelia Morán Ceja, the president of Ceja Vineyards from Napa, California. Amelia shared with us the signature flavors and styles of cooking that she first learned from her grandmother in Jalisco, Mexico, including the art of making tortillas and salsa from scratch. As we cooked, we learned more about Amelia’s experiences as the daughter of vineyard workers in Napa, how she adjusted to American life, and how she has continued to honor her heritage with her family-run winery in the heart of the Carneros wine district.
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Saturday, March 12: African-American Culinary Heritage and Museum Day Live!
Guest chefs: Alice Randall & Caroline Randall Williams
How do family culinary traditions reflect broader changes in African American history? As part of our Museum Day Live! Programming, we welcomed Alice Randall and her daughter Caroline Randall Williams, who in their book Soul Food Love celebrate the soul food traditions passed down over four generations of women in their family. As Alice and Caroline cooked, they discussed how the ingredients and styles of cooking used can teach us about food’s fundamental role in history, from slavery to the Harlem Renaissance, from the Civil Rights Movement to the present day.
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Saturday, February 20: Lincoln in the Kitchen
Guest chef: Angie Lee, Sur La Table
What can his favorite foods tell us about President Abraham Lincoln? Chef Angie brought us to Lincoln’s table with a few dishes from across his childhood on a farm in frontier-era Illinois and his political life from Springfield to the White House. As Chef Angie cooked up some classic mid-19th century fare, we considered the complex relationship Lincoln had to food (which he often cooked himself), and how the foods he ate during his presidency reflected his thoughts on our national cuisine in the Civil War era.
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Saturday, January 16: Foods of the Civil Rights Movement
Guest chef: Lindsay Leopold, Sur La Table
What were the foods that nourished the Civil Rights Movement? To kick off our 2016 series of cooking conversations, Chef Lindsay took us through some of the signature soul food creations that fed the organizers of the sit-ins, boycotts, and marches of the African-American Civil Rights Movement from 1958 to 1968. As Chef showed us the ways in which Southern flavor is developed—often with made-by-hand, slow-and-low cooking—we explored the history behind these culinary traditions, the importance of these foods to the students, churches, and civil rights organizations of the period, and the objects in our collection that help to tell this story.
2015
December 18: Food Celebrations
With Restaurant Associates Chef William Bednar
Where do food traditions of the Christmas season come from? For our final Food Fridays of 2015, Chef Bednar helped us prepare a fanciful Christmas dessert from Julia Child’s repertoire—the Bûche de Noël, or Yule log. As our Chef walked us through the process for making this rolled, frosted, and elaborately decorated sponge cake, we considered various sources of Christmas traditions in America, and the special role that sugar and sweet treats have historically played in our holiday celebrations.
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December 11: Food Celebrations
With Sur La Table Chef Joel Gamoran
How do our celebrations of Hanukkah today reflect the history of Jewish-Americans? While Chef Joel took us through some signature dishes of the Jewish winter holiday, we explored the shifting meaning of the Hanukkah story and holiday in the United States, and discovered how, post-Civil War, a relatively minor holiday became a major moment of celebration on the Jewish-American calendar.
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December 4: Food Celebrations
With L’Academie de Cuisine Chef Sandy Patterson
How do we use food to help usher in a new year? Chef Sandy showed us how to prepare a traditional New Year’s Day dish of the American South—hoppin’ John. We explored the history of this Southern culinary treasure and touched on how different foods have become important symbols and elements of New Years’ celebrations around the country.
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November 20: Thanksgiving Celebrations and Native American Heritage
With L’Academie de Cuisine Chef Brian Patterson and Chef Jerome Grant of the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian
How did the first Thanksgiving depend on Native American foodways? Chef Brian and Chef Jerome Grant of the National Museum of the American Indian joined us to explore the rich fishing and agricultural traditions of the Wampanoag tribe, and examine ways in which their distinctive cooking techniques, ingredients and flavors sustained the Pilgrims in the face of near starvation, and shaped what we think of as the Thanksgiving table.
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November 13: Thanksgiving Celebrations and Native American Heritage
With Sur La Table Chef Jordan Carfagno
What was served at the first Thanksgiving—and why does today’s Thanksgiving table look so different? Chef Jordan prepared some foods that reflect the original 1621 Thanksgiving menu, as we reflected on the Pilgrim and American Indian traditions of both growing and cooking, the regional foods of the early American landscape, and how a three-day harvest celebration developed into the nation’s most food-centric holiday tradition.
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November 6: Thanksgiving Celebrations and Native American Heritage
With Wegmans Chef Ernesto Cadima and Nutritionist Krystal Register
What would have been on the table at George Washington’s Mount Vernon? Ernesto and Krystal took us back to 1789 and George Washington’s Thanksgiving proclamation with a dish pulled right from his own kitchen, as we reflected on the colonial era’s farming and cooking styles, and explored some of Washington’s innovative practices in growing and preparing food.
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October 30: Harvest Season in America
With Restaurant Associates Chef Albert Lukas
How are oysters a seasonal food, and how has our relationship with this curious bivalve changed over time? We shucked our way through the story of both wild and farmed oysters, and harvesting traditions and technologies, as Chef Albert Lukas prepared a dish that recalls the oyster’s valuable place in American cuisine.
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October 16: Harvest Season in America
With Sur La Table Chef Lynne Just
How did pumpkin become a signature food of the fall? Chef Lynne took us beyond the jack-o-lantern to help us better understand the historical, agricultural, and culinary story of this autumnal fruit, as we explored how the pumpkin came to have such an important symbolic role in American culture.
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October 9: Harvest Season in America
With Wegmans Chef Ernesto Cadima and Nutritionist Krystal Register
How do two of our autumnal favorites—apples and squash—transform our seasonal eating habits? Ernesto and Krystal showed us the benefits of roasting up these delicious ingredients and showed us some different seasonal varieties of apples and squash, as we discussed their regional, culinary, and historical significance in the American landscape.
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October 2: Harvest Season in America
With L'Academie de Cuisine Chef Brian Patterson
How do fresh ingredients from a farm’s harvest season affect the chef’s table? Chef Brian and farmer Greg Glenn of Rocklands Farm in Poolesville, MD discussed what’s coming off the farm in October, how Greg’s approach to “holistic agriculture” applies to raising both meat and produce, and how cooking with farm-fresh ingredients at the peak of seasonality reflects historical changes in our food system.
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September 25: Hispanic-Heritage Month
With L'Academie de Cuisine Chef Brian Patterson and Sous Chef Angie Rosado
How is maize (known today as corn) central to the rituals and traditions of Hispanic and American life? Chef Brian and Sous Chef Angie explored the impact of this New World crop through a batch of homemade sorullos (corn fritters), and discussed the role corn has played as the edible foundation of North and South American cuisine, and the role corn has played in food culture.
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September 18: Hispanic-Heritage Month
With Sur La Table Chef Anna Norman
What are the culinary connections between South America and Spain? Sur La Table Chef Anna Norman showed us how sweet and spicy flavors from the European Spanish culinary tradition have become part of the Latin and South American culinary landscape.
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September 11: Hispanic-Heritage Month
With Wegmans Chef Ernesto Cadima
What foods and styles of cooking have shaped America’s love of Mexican cuisine? Wegmans Chef Ernesto Cadima prepared three fresh and healthful recipes reflecting different parts of the Mexican-American landscape, using distinctive tools, culinary techniques and signature ingredients that show the country’s extraordinary range of flavors.
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September 4: Hispanic-Heritage Month
With Restaurant Associates Chef Alex Strong
To kick off our celebration of Hispanic Heritage month, Chef Alex Strong shared some of her favorite Puerto Rican recipes with us, both from her childhood and her time growing up in the Bronx. We explored the tremendous impact of Puerto Rican culture on American life, and the unique blend of Spanish, African, Taino, and American influences that have shaped this “cocina criolla.”
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August 28: Food Movements that Changed America
With Restaurant Associates Chef William Bednar
We cooked up peace, love, and memories of the Woodstock Music Festival of 1969 with the museum's own Chef Bednar, as he prepared some signature dishes from the festival’s free kitchen and explored how what the festival-goers ate reflected the period’s changing notions about food access and quality.
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August 21: Food Movements that Changed America
With Sur La Table Chef Lynne Just
This program was all about Julia Child, and her major impact on American food culture in the early 1960s. Chef Lynne prepared some of Julia’s most instructive and delicious dishes, as we discussed how Julia’s emphasis on precise techniques, quality ingredients, and the joy of cooking made the American home kitchen a new place of innovation.
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August 14: Food Movements that Changed America
With Wegmans Chef Llewellyn Correia and Nutritionist Krystal Register
As Llewellyn and Krystal prepared a menu of satisfying vegetarian dishes and showed us their stir-frying techniques, we looked back at the groundbreaking 1971 book Diet for a Small Planet, and considered the ways our diets have shifted toward alternative protein sources and away from meat.
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August 7: Food Movements that Changed America
With L'Academie de Cuisine Chef Brian Patterson
What does it really mean when we talk about grass-fed meat, wild-caught fish, and farm-free eggs? On August 7 we explored the complex questions behind what sustainability really means in the kitchen, and cooked up some dishes that represent the challenges and opportunities that come with eating this way.
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July 31: Summertime Cooking in America
With Restaurant Associates Chef William Bednar
While we endured historically high temperatures, the Museum's Chef Bednar helped us explore traditions of chilling out in the kitchen with cold foods. We considered naturally cooling food and drink, and looked for methods to put summertime produce to work in cold dishes.
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July 24: Summertime Cooking in America
With L’Academie de Cuisine Chef Brian Patterson
On the 24th, Chef Brian showed us how the backyard grill has become a tool of innovation and inspiration for the summer cookout. We explored the science and techniques behind the perfect grilled steak, and the history behind distinctive dishes such as whole grilled fish, Jamaican jerk chicken, and Middle Eastern-style shish kebabs.
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July 17: Summertime Cooking in America
With Sur La Table Chef Angie Lee
On the 17th, we took a journey up the Eastern seaboard with Chef Angie as we prepared seafood dishes from the Chesapeake Bay and New England, and considered the long voyage of signature summer seafood such as the Maine lobster roll as each ingredient moves from coast to boat to market to table.
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July 10: Summertime Cooking in America
With Wegmans Chef Llewellyn Correia and Nutritionist Krystal Register
Llewellyn and Krystal took us through the basics of marinating, seasoning, and grilling with chicken and vegetables, and we examined how firing up the backyard grill became a major ritual for summertime celebrations.
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July 3: Summertime Cooking in America
With Guest Chef Curtis Aikens
Chef Aikens cooked up some sauces, rubs, summer salads, and sweet treats that take him back to his native Georgia and to the rich traditions of the Southern barbecue and picnic.
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