CHAA Program September 2011 through May 2012
 

Sunday, September 18, 2011, 4:00 - 6:00 p.m., Ann Arbor Senior Center, 1320 Baldwin Avenue, Ann Arbor, MI
Program: David Strauss, "Beating the Nazis with Truffles and Tripe: The Early Years of 'Gourmet: The Magazine of Good Living'"
 
Sunday, October 16, 2011, 4:00 - 6:00 p.m., Ann Arbor Senior Center, 1320 Baldwin Avenue, Ann Arbor, MI
Program: Roger Brideau, home brewing authority, "History of the Microbrewery Beer Industry in Michigan and Introduction to Home Brewing."
 
Sunday, November 20, 2011, 4:00 - 6:00 p.m., Ann Arbor Senior Center, 1320 Baldwin Avenue, Ann Arbor, MI
Program: David Hancock, historian and author, "Oceans of Wine:  Madeira and the Organization of the Atlantic Market, 1640 - 1815."

Sunday, January 16, 2012, 4:00 - 6:00 p.m., Ann Arbor Senior Center, 1320 Baldwin Avenue, Ann Arbor, MI
Program: Susan Odom, culinary historian and manager of Hillside Homestead, "The History of Fishtown in Leland, Michigan."
 
Sunday, February 19, 2012, 3:00 - 5:00 p.m., Ann Arbor District Library - Downtown Branch, 343 South Fifth Avenue, Ann Arbor, MI.  ** Note location and time change.
Program: Chef Brian Polcyn, chef/owner of Forest Grill and Cinco Lagos and author, "Culinary Metier:  Italian Salumi."

Sunday, March 18, 2012, 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  ** Note location and time change.
Program: Brian Leigh Dunnigan, Associate Director, William L. Clements Library, University of Michigan, and author of "Frontier Metropolis: Picturing Early Detroit, 1701-1838." His talk will focus on "Urban Agriculture in Detroit, Part I: The History of Agricultural Land Use in Detroit."

Sunday, April 15, 2012, 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  ** Note location and time change.
Program: Kathryn Lynch Underwood, City Planner, Detroit City Planning Commission, "Urban Agriculture in Detroit, Part II:  Imagining the Future of Urban Agriculture in Detroit."

Sunday,  April 22, 2012, 3:00 - 5:00 p.m., Ann Arbor District Library - Downtown Branch, 343 South Fifth Avenue, Ann Arbor, MI.  ** Note location and time change.
Special Guest:  Anne Willan, founder of La Varenne Cooking School, noted author and teacher, culinary historian of French food, and author of the forthcoming book, The Cookbook Library, will speak on "The History of Early Cookbooks."

Sunday, May 20, 2012,  4:00 - 6:00 p.m., Ann Arbor Senior Center, 1320 Baldwin Avenue, Ann Arbor, MI
Program: Jan and Dan Longone, founders of the Janice Bluestein Longone Culinary Archive and of the Culinary Historians of Ann Arbor, "Reminiscences of Julia."