Time Travel Kitchen

Baking in my 1927 Kitchen

Welcome to Jolene’s Newsletter by me, Jolene. I’m happy when I’m in my tiny galley kitchen. It’s alive to me. My apartment, in a building in Chicago built in 1927, still has its original kitchen. In this small space, I wonder about the women who stood here before me in the 1920’s and 30’s. There’s a cutting board that pulls out from one of the kitchen drawers and I can see the marks their knives made on it. Who were they? What did they make? How was life both different and the same 100 years ago? As Brillat-Savarin wrote in 1825 in The Physiology of Taste “Tell me what you eat, and I shall tell you what you are.” I’m baking from the era with the help of history, muses and ghosts. I’ll share recipes and discoveries as I go. Come travel with me!

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