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Let’s Eat: A History of Food and Foodways in the Pacific Northwest

Seattle, Mar. 2^nd & Mar. 3^th, 2007

Where and when

Friday, March 2, 2007:
Nordic Heritage Museum
3014 NW 67th Street (206-789-5707 for directions)
free parking
Join us for a Scandinavian Smorgasbord dinner and wine and a discussion of Scandinavian food history and culture. Explore the museum’s exhibit “Vision of America.”
Saturday, March 3, 2007:
Museum of History and Industry (MOHAI)
2700 24th Ave. East (call 206-324-1126 for directions)
free parking
Join us for a day long conference exploring the many roles of food.

Saturday Conference Program
9:15 am	Session I: Moderator: Doris Pieroth, historian, author, including Seattle’s Women Teachers: Shapers of a Livable City
	Mike McGuire, Education Curator, and Victoria Pann, Historic Interpreter, Fort Nisqually Living History Museum, “Foods of the Northwest Fur Trade”
	Clark McAbee, Project Manager, Morton Historic Depot Restoration, author of Rails To Paradise: The History of the Tacoma Eastern Railroad (1890-1919), “The Cookhouse, Calories and Gut Robbers-The Logger’s Diet”
	Suzanne Knauss, author of A Point in Time, A History of Yarrow Point, “Culinary History of a Pacific Northwest Town: Bellevue, Washington-100 Years”
10:30 am	Break
10:45 am	Session II: Moderator: Charles LeWarne: historian, author including Snohomish County: An Illustrated History
	Ron Magden, retired faculty member Tacoma Community College, historian, author including Furusato: Tacoma-Pierce County Japanese, 1888-1977, “The Lettuce King of Fife”
	Dave Conklin, MA in history candidate, Portland State University, “A History of Japanese Food in Oregon”
	Mike Intlekofer, volunteer Eastside Heritage Center, “Farming East of Lake Washington: A Study in Diversity”
12:00 pm	Lunch catered by Fare Start Market Fluctuations:Public Markets in Seattle,Portland,and the Pacific Northwest in Progressive Era and Today Richard Engeman,Public Historian of the Oregon Historical Society until 2006,presently heads Oregon Rediviva
1:00 pm	Session III: Moderator: Jackie Williams, historian, author including The Hill with a Future: Seattle’s Capitol Hill, 1900-1946
	Janet Oakley, Curator of Education, Skagit County Historical Museum, “Tales from the Kitchen”
	Linda Saunto, Reference Librarian, SPL, Science and Technology Department, “Culinary Resources at the Seattle Public Library”
	Jackie Williams, historian, author including The Way We Ate: Pacific Northwest Cooking, 1843-1900, “Potatoes: A Washington Tradition”
2:15 pm	Break
2:30 pm	Session IV: Moderator: Lorraine McConaghy, Historian, Museum of History and Industry
	Rich MacDonald , P-Patch Manager and historian, and Barbara Donnette, former P-Patch co-director, “Grassroots Food, The Importance of Eating Local: A P-Patch Community Gardening History”
	Chuimei Ho, Chinese-American Museum of Chicago and Ben Bronson, The Field Musuem, “When was the last time you ate chop suey? A fusion food with a smudgy cultural identity”
	Paul Dorpat, historian and author including Building Washington: A History of Washington State Public Works, “Keep Clam, Ivar, Ivar’s and the Culture of Clams”
3:45 pm	Session V: Moderator:
	Justin Bookey (Coolbellup Media, 2003), A viewing of the documentary: “3 Feet Under, Digging Deep for the Geoduck,”
	Introduction by Judy Bentley, faculty member, South Seattle Community College, historian
4:45 pm	Social Hour

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Let’s Eat: A History of Food and Foodways in the Pacific Northwest