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Meanwhile, for tonight’s whisky-free entertainment, San Francisco Chronicle food writer Linda Furiya reads from her food memoir Bento Box in the Heartland: My Japanese Girlhood in Whitebread America, about growing up in Versailles, Indiana, as part of the only Japanese family in town. It’s tonight at 7:30 at Women & Children First.
Saturday morning at 9 the Culinary Historians of Chicago present Anne Willan on “An Exploration of the Best and Worst of Historical Recipes,” at Robert Morris College Institute of Culinary Arts, 401 S. State. It’s $10; call 708-788-0338.
Sunday, April 15, the Chicago Foodways Roundtable presents Robyn Eckhardt and David Hagerman of Malaysia’s Klue Magazine, on palm sugar in Southeast Asian cuisine. In 2003 Eckhardt, under the screen name FoodFirst, was the first person to translate the Thai language “secret menus” at Spoon Thai and Forest Park’s Yum Thai, ushering in something of a local revolution for true Thai food. It starts at 10 AM at Kendall College, 900 N. Branch, and it’s $2; call 847-432-8255.
