The Poison Squad by Deborah Blum One Chemist's Single-Minded Crusade for Food Safety at the Turn of the Twentieth Century Today thinking cooks and eaters have learned to carefully examine […]
Dame Dobra Bielinski will be hosting this year's holiday cookie exchange at her bakery, Delightful Pastries. Along with the cookie exchange, we will enjoy a potluck as to avoid passing out from a sugar rush! Please bring one dozen packaged cookies for each attendee, a few extra cookies to taste at the event, along with […]
"Black Cake," a New Novel by Charmaine Wilkerson is the Book for March From Dame Judith Hines: I recently watched an author interview about this debut novel and found it quite interesting, so I ordered the book to see if it was "Dames-Book-Club-worthy." It is! I then went on a hunt for the perfect place to hold our […]
Learn pierogies from a pro! Dame Dobra Bielinski is Chicago's foremost pierogi maker and people flock to her bakery, Delightful Pastries in Jefferson Park, for authentic pierogies both savory and sweet. In this class, you'll make pierogi dough that you can take home, and you'll make two varieties of pierogi - cheese/potato and blueberry/sweet cheese that you can […]
