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The Culinary Historians of Washington Are Pleased to Present

Dr. Katherine Leonard Turner

The Bakery, the Saloon, and the Quick
Lunch: Ready to Eat Food in Working-Class
Neighborhoods, 1880-1930

To be held in:

Sunday, November 14, 2010
2:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.

Bethesda/Chevy Chase Regional Services Center
Meeting Room A
4805 Edgemoor Lane, Bethesda, MD

We might think we’ re the first generation to depend on fast food, but urban Americans
were getting it “ to go” more than 100 years ago! In her talk, “ The Bakery, the Saloon,
and the Quick Lunch: Ready to Eat Food in Working-Class Neighborhoods, 1880-1930,”
Katie will discuss the surprising number of options people had for buying food already
cooked, long before McDonalds.

Katherine Leonard Turner is a Visiting Assistant Professor of History at Philadelphia
University who studies the effects of industrialization on home cooking. Katie is
interested in how Americans understood this daily work that more than any other
household task, carried emotional, cultural, and social weight, and was intimately bound
with ideas about gender.

for more information, contact Claudia Kousoulas
301-320-6979 appetite@kousoulas.com
www.chowdc.org

This is a free event, no reservations necessary.

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