JACKSON HOLE HISTORICAL SOCIETY AND MUSEUM ANNOUNCES A READING AND DISCUSSION PROGRAM ABOUT FOOD AND FOODWAYS 

Starting in January, Jackson Hole Historical Society and Museum will host “Read Ingredients,” a reading and discussion series about food and foodways developed in conjunction with the Wyoming Humanities Council’s 2012 tour of “Key Ingredients,” a traveling exhibit from the Smithsonian Institution that will come to Jackson in December of 2012.  The book discussion group meets at 7 p.m. January 19, February 9, March 1 and March 22, at the Old Public Library and is free and open to the public.  To register and borrow books, contact history museum volunteer, Loretta Scott, 733-6903 or 690-6903. Enrollment is limited.

Participants in “Read Ingredients” will read and discuss My Life in France by Julia Child and Alex Prud’Homme; Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver; The Food of a Younger Land, the Works Progress Administration’s collection of American food traditions recently edited by Mark Kurlansky; and Second Hoeing, a novel about Colorado sugar beet workers by Hope Williams Sykes. The series is designed to explore the two ingredients that are key to American cuisine – regional traditions and international influences.

Stephen Lottridge returns to lead the discussions.

The program is offered by the Wyoming Humanities Council and is sponsored by the “We the People” initiative of the National Endowment for the Humanities.  For more information on the council’s programs, call 307-721-9243 or visit the council’s website at www.uwyo.edu/humanities.

The book discussion group is co-sponsored each year by the Jackson Hole Historical Society and Museum. Please call 733-9605 or visit the history museum’s website, www.jacksonholehistory.org, for information about other programs and events sponsored by the history museum.