NPR affiliate WILL AM 580 in Urbana, Illinois, interviewed May Berenbaum on October 25. She discussed her new cookbook Honey, I’m Homemade: Sweet Treats from the Beehive across the Centuries and […]
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May Berenbaum confirmed for Market at the Square
May Berenbaum, editor of the new book Honey, I’m Homemade: Sweet Treats from the Beehive across the Centuries and around the World, will sign books at Urbana’s Market at the […]
The Taste for Civilization on MSNBC
A recent story on MSNBC referenced Janet Flammang’s The Taste for Civilization: Food, Politics, and Civil Society and Michael Pollan’s review of the book in NYRB. “Working women are too busy to […]
“The Taste for Civilization” in The New York Review of Books
The June 10, 2010, issue of The New York Review of Books features an essay by Michael Pollan titled “The Food Movement, Rising.” The piece touches on food safety, animal welfare, the environment, […]
May I offer you a piece of honey candy?
Every year at Book Expo we give away a tchotchke at our booth that is somehow related to a current or upcoming book. I am amazed at how many appointment bound people […]
Mushrooms in the Sun-Times
Just in time for morel season, the April 11, 2010, edition of the Chicago Sun-Times featured a Dale Bowman Outdoors piece on the University of Illinois Press book Edible Wild […]
Hunting oyster mushrooms
Carbondale’s PBS affiliate WSIU featured Joe McFarland, co-author of the recent book Edible Wild Mushrooms of Illinois and Surrounding States: A Field-to-Kitchen Guide, in a segment on hunting oyster mushrooms […]
Black Trumpet Dip
Joe McFarland, co-author of the recent book Edible Wild Mushrooms of Illinois and Surrounding States, shares his recipe for Black Trumpet Dip on the Illinois Mushrooms site. How easy is it you […]
Janet Flammang on NPR affiliate WILL
Janet Flammang, author of the new book The Taste for Civilization: Food, Politics, and Civil Society, will be the featured guest on WILL-AM’s Afternoon Magazine at 1:06 PM (CST) on […]
That’s right, Hedgehog Mushroom Salad
Joe McFarland, co-author of Edible Wild Mushrooms of Illinois and Surrounding States, shot Chef Lasse Sorensen in the kitchen of Tom’s Place in DeSoto, Illinois, during the recent mushroom dinner, holding the Oyster […]
Tour support
Janine MacLachlan, author of the forthcoming University of Illinois Press book Seasonal Markets of the Heartland, has been blogging about her recent road trips. And, she’s taking pledges to help fund her […]
Mushrooms in the Chicago Tribune
The September 2, 2009, issue of the Chicago Tribune includes a profile of Joe McFarland and Gregory Mueller’s new book Edible Wild Mushrooms of Illinois and Surrounding States. If you […]