Dive into history's most captivating dining rooms as bestselling author and architectural writer John Ota takes a fascinating journey across the globe, investigating the architecture, interior design, and dining experience of twelve remarkable spaces, including dining rooms of Claude Monet, Frida Kahlo, Frank Sinatra, Lucy Maud Montgomery, Downton Abbey and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr....

What's on the Menu? Tastes, Traditions and Tantalizing Questions Explore Menus with Nathalie Cooke Join us for an appetizing exploration of why menus matter and the stories they tell us today. We will come to menus belatedly, after the dishes have been washed up, so to speak. So in her exploration of ways that menus matter,...

Ingredients for Queer Food and the Makings of a Feminist Restaurant Alex Ketchum, McGill University Coinciding with the 50th anniversary of the trailblazing restaurant Mother Courage of New York City, Alex Ketchum's book Ingredients for Revolution: A History of American Feminist Restaurants, Cafes, and Coffeehouses was the first history of the more than 230 feminist and lesbian-feminist...

CHC is hosting a visit to 2 museums in Burlington, Ontario on the same day.  Join us in Burlington on July 11. In the morning, there will be a guided tour and hearth baking workshop at Ireland House.  This was the home of Joseph Ireland, one of the earliest settlers to the area.  Several generations of the...

Scarcity remains in the memory of those who lived during the World War II era. Sugar was a staple that was rationed by government proclamation from 1942 to 1947. It was a key ingredient in preserves, baked items, and favourite family dishes. Advertising of sugar during this period used messaging that reflected the societal values...