It’s always mushroom season here at the University of Illinois Press. Edible Wild Mushrooms of Illinois and Surrounding States: A Field to Kitchen Guide by Joe McFarland and Gregory M. Mueller continues […]
Category: Illinois / regional
From the Jewish Heartland in the Chicago Tribune
This week, the Chicago Tribune‘s Food & Dining section included a feature on the recent book From the Jewish Heartland: Two Centuries of Midwest Foodways. Under the headline “Rosh Hashana, heartland-style: Heritage recipes […]
Gerald Danzer on WGN-TV
 Gerald Danzer discusses his new book Illinois: A History in Pictures on the July 18, 2011, edition of WGN-TV’s Midday News. […]
The Washington Times reviews from the Jewish Heartland
This morning The Washington Times published Martin Rubin’s highly complimentary review of From the Jewish Heartland: Two Centuries of Midwest Foodways. “Sometimes a book jacket has the perfect illustration and […]
From the Jewish Heartland authors at Illini Union Bookstore, June 10
Ellen Steinberg & Jack Prost, authors of the new book From the Jewish Heartland: Two Centuries of Midwest Foodways, will lead a discussion at the 2nd Annual Off the Page […]
WGN-TV hosts From the Jewish Heartland authors
Ellen Steinberg and Jack Prost discuss From the Jewish Heartland: Two Centuries of Midwest Foodways on WGN-TV’s Midday News. […]
University of Illinois Press at the Printers Row Lit Fest 2011
For the sixth consecutive year, the University of Illinois Press will have a large presence at the Chicago Tribune Printers Row Lit Fest. Festival goers can visit the University of […]
Not more than 500 ladies were present
In February 2012 we will publish Before the Curse: The Chicago Cub’s Glory Years, 1870-1945, which contains vintage newspaper accounts and historical essays on my favorite baseball team. I’ve been reading the […]
Larry Kanfer at the Illini Union Bookstore
Looking for that perfect gift for your UIUC graduate? Larry Kanfer will sign copies of his new photography book Illini Loyalty: The University of Illinois during graduation weekend. Visit him at […]
A historian’s perspective on the 2011 Missouri spillway flood by Jarod Roll
Right now a man-made flood is inundating part of Missouri after the US Army Corps of Engineers ‘activated’ the Bird’s Point-New Madrid Spillway by dynamiting the riverfront levee guarding parts […]
Books for Cooks looks at From the Jewish Heartland
This week’s food column in the Chicago Reader features mini-profiles of five new books including the inaugural volume in our Heartland Foodways series, From the Jewish Heartland: Two Centuries of […]
“From the Jewish Heartland” on Chicago Public Radio
The April 19, 2011, edition of Chicago Public Radio’s Eight Forty-Eight program featured a conversation with Ellen Steinberg and Jack Prost, co-authors of the forthcoming book From the Jewish Heartland: […]