Behind Every Great Cook Is a Great Mother, May 6-10, ZOOM

Behind Every Great Cook Is a Great Mother

Culinary Historians of Canada member and author John Ota hosts conversations with prominent Canadian chefs, cooks and food writers about the influence of their mothers' cooking and kitchens on their own careers.

May 3 to 10 at 12 PM EDT

Featuring John Ota, author of The Kitchen (Penguin Random House, 2020), in conversation with prominent Canadian chefs, cooks and food writers about the impact that their mothers and childhood kitchens had on their careers.

You can still sign up if you haven’t already!

To sign up for the remaining webinars, you will be required to register IN ADVANCE only once at the link below.

Register in advance (only ONCE) for the remaining sessions in this webinar:
https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/registe ... _QraNS6oog
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email from Zoom containing information about how to sign in on Zoom before the webinar. You will want to flag that email with the login info and password because you need to use that same sign-in information (including password) to join every day for the rest of the series (up to and including May 10, at noon daily).
(Please do not use the one-day sign-in information from Sunday, May 3.)


About Our Host
CHC member John Ota is an architectural writer and the author of the acclaimed book The Kitchen: A Journey Through Time – and the Homes of Julia Child, Georgia O’Keeffe, Elvis Presley and Many Others – in Search of the Perfect Design (Penguin Random House, 2020). He has invited a stellar group of culinary luminaries to share memories and discuss how their food careers were inspired by their mothers. See below.


(NOTE: Lineup as of May 3; may change slightly.)
Sunday, May 3: Elizabeth Baird
Monday, May 4: Doris Fin and Marion Kane
Tuesday, May 5: Anne Lindsay and Karon Liu
Wednesday, May 6: Ned Bell/Julian Armstrong/Joe Thottungal
Thursday, May 7: Dana McCauley, Rose Murray
Friday, May 8: Julie van Rosendaal, Selwyn Richards
Saturday, May 9: Daphna Rabinovitch, Simon Thibault, Jennifer Cockrall-King
Sunday, May 10: Naomi Duguid, Michael Olson

We will post video recordings as soon as we are able on our Resources page.