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Name: Authors Jane Conway and Randi Julia Ramsden discuss Extra! Extra! Eat All About It! Recipes and Culinary Curiosities from Historic Wisconsin Newspapers
Start: 2025-10-27
End: 2025-10-27
Location: Kiel Public Library

Monday, October 27, 2025

6:30 PM

Free and open to the public

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Kiel Public Library

511 Third Street

Kiel, WI 53042

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A blend of cookbook and bite-size history, Extra! Extra! Eat All About It! offers a unique glimpse into the Midwestern culinary landscape between 1870 and 1930. Fifty recipes selected from Wisconsin newspapers are served alongside brief essays that dig into the history behind the food trends of the time. In lively prose, historians Jane Conway and Randi Julia Ramsden reveal how coconuts and oysters made their way to 1800s Wisconsin, how the state came to lead the nation in commercial pea canning, how bakers gauged the temperatures of their wood burning stoves, and how our predecessors really did slip on banana peels, among other flavorful facts.

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For two years, Jane Conway and Randi Julia Ramsden worked together on the National Digital Newspaper Program at the Wisconsin Historical Society. In 2019, they began researching, cooking, and writing for the “Cooking Up History” series, which appeared on the WHS website and social media platforms and provided the inspiration for this book. Conway has a bachelor’s degree in art history from the University of Oregon, and Ramsden has a master’s degree in American studies from Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz.