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SUMMARY:Dames Who Read - July 2025
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a fun summer edition of Dames Who Read featuring The Ungarnished Truth: A Cooking Contest Memoir\, Ellie Mathews’ witty memoir about winning the Pillsbury Bake-Off. \n \nInspired by the book\, we’re hosting our own Dames-style cooking contest with prizes\, timed entries\, and categories like Snappy Apps and Sweet Dreams. Want to compete? Submit your recipe by July 15 to judith@judithdunbarhines.com—five finalists will be selected by July 17. Everyone else will help judge\, cheer\, and enjoy a shared meal after the cook-off! To learn more and get your ticket\, click the link below.
URL:https://lesdameschicago.org/event/dames-who-read-july-2025/
LOCATION:Private Home
CATEGORIES:Members Only
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SUMMARY:Olive Oil Tasting at City Olive with Emine Colin
DESCRIPTION:City Olive is hosting the wonderful Emine Colin\, producer of the award winning estate bottled extra virgin olive oil Oro di Milas of Türkiye! Join us for a private tasting and talk to hear about Emine’s remarkable  journey and taste her award winning oil! \nLight Turkish appetizers & wine will be served. \nLearn more and register via the link below.
URL:https://lesdameschicago.org/event/109405/
LOCATION:City Olive\, 5644 N Clark St\, Chicago\, IL\, 60660\, United States
CATEGORIES:Members Only
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SUMMARY:Les Dames Holiday Cookie Exchange
DESCRIPTION:Dame Dobra Bielinski will be hosting this year’s holiday cookie exchange at her bakery\, Delightful Pastries. \nAlong with the cookie exchange\, we will enjoy a potluck as to avoid passing out from a sugar rush! \nPlease bring one dozen packaged cookies for each attendee\, a few extra cookies to taste at the event\, along with a dish to pass. \nDobra will provide a recipe booklet for all attendees. Please send her your recipe by the end of November to allow ample time to print the booklets. \n*Note\, food allergies will not be accommodated. \nYou are welcome to drop off your cookies in advance\, as there will be plenty of refrigeration space. Free parking will be available on the street. \nThere is a limit of 12 attendees for this event. \nPlease RSVP to dobra@delightfulpastries.com by Monday November 28. \n 
URL:https://lesdameschicago.org/event/les-dames-holiday-cookie-exchange/
LOCATION:Delightful Pastries\, 5927 W. Lawrence Avenue\, Chicago\, IL\, 60630\, United States
CATEGORIES:Members Only
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SUMMARY:Dames Who Read - The Poison Squad by Deborah Blum
DESCRIPTION:The Poison Squad by Deborah Blum \nOne Chemist’s Single-Minded Crusade for Food Safety at the Turn of the Twentieth Century \nToday thinking cooks and eaters have learned to carefully examine the ingredient lists on prepared foods\, looking to avoid additives or preservatives that may not be necessary – and may even be harmful – in our diet. But in the past\, not only were those ingredients not listed in any reliable form\, but were often not necessary\, and in many cases actually poisonous! Or at the least\, entirely questionable. And generally false. \nGround chalk in baking powder\, lemon drops colored yellow with poisonous lead chromate\, chocolate faked by using burned sienna\, a pigment made from oxides of iron and manganese\, or “ketchup” made from red-dyed pumpkin\, were just a few of these examples. \nWe expect to be protected by laws set by the federal agencies such as USDA or FDA. Our ancestors had no such protections. But when those agencies were established\, it was a monumental fight between politicians and manufacturers\, a struggle between money and safety. \nOur fall\, Back-to-School\, selection will deal with those struggles and solutions and indicate how\, when and why food products and ingredients are managed today. It’s a true and well-researched tale or intrigue and eye-opening discoveries you may have never considered. \nNo\, we will not tempt fate by forming our own Poison Squad and trying any of these harmful items. In fact\, this book review will be on Zoom\, so any ingestibles are up to you in your own home! Grab a bite and a glass and join us for what is expected to be a lively discussion. \nThanks to DWR fan Toria Emas for proposing this fascinating book for our group!! \nTuesday November 1\, 6 pm via ZOOM. \nThe event is free\, but please register before October 28 to receive the link. \n  \n 
URL:https://lesdameschicago.org/event/dames-who-read-the-poison-squad-by-deborah-blum/
CATEGORIES:Dames Who Read,Members Only
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SUMMARY:Dames Who Read - A Place at the Nayarit
DESCRIPTION:THE BOOK: A Place at the Nayarit \nHow a Mexican Restaurant Nourished a Community by Natalia Molina \nIn 1951\, Dona Natalia Barraza opened the Nayarit\, a Mexican restaurant in Echo Park\, Los Angeles. With A Place at the Nayarit\, historian Natalia Molina traces the life’s work of her grandmother\, remembered by all who knew her as Dona Natalia – a generous\, reserved\, and extraordinarily capable woman. Dona Natalia immigrated alone from Mexico to L.A.\, adopted two children\, and ran a successful business. She also sponsored\, housed\, and employed dozens of other immigrants\, encouraging them to lay claim to a city long characterized by anti-Latinx racism. Together\, the employees and customers of the Nayarit maintained ties to their old homes while providing one another safety and support. \nAs Les Dames focus on our own during this year of recovery\, it is only appropriate that we feature Dame Maria Concannon\, who immigrated from Mexico\, but soon found herself a single mom in a strange country with no way to support herself…until she opened her own restaurant\, despite being a kitchen neophyte. Years later\, she and her son are still running their restaurant\, though in a new location. The food is always delicious\, and Maria is to be admired for her many achievements. \nWe will hear her tell her story whole we enjoy her delicious authentic Mexico City style foods. You will realize that her story is not unlike that of the book – the matriarch who encouraged and supported her staff and won the admiration of her customers\, not just for the food! \nYou must be registered by noon on Friday August 12
URL:https://lesdameschicago.org/event/dames-who-read-a-place-at-the-nayarit/
LOCATION:Don Juan’s Cantina and Taqueria\, 650 Northwest Highway\, Park Ridge\, IL\, 60068
CATEGORIES:Dames Who Read,Members Only
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