Beatrice Ojakangas: Homemade
Beatrice Ojakangas shares from her book, Homemade: Finnish Rye, Feed Sack Fashion, and Other Simple Ingredients from My Life in Food. This memoir-cum-cookbook from celebrated cook Beatrice Ojakangas is chock-full of recipes, anecdotes, and a kind humor that bring to vivid life the Finnish culture of northern Minnesota.
Beatrice Ojakangas grew up on a small farm in Minnesota and graduated from the University of Minnesota Duluth. Childhood 4-H, college Home Ec, and work as a hospital dietary assistant, food editor, teacher, homemaker, and mother influenced her cooking career and her food writing for such publications as Gourmet, Bon Appetit, Woman's Day, Family Circle, Better Homes and Gardens, Midwest Living, Cooking Light, and numerous newspapers. Ojakangas is the author of twenty-nine cookbooks and was inducted in 2005 to the James Beard Cookbook Hall of Fame. She received an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters from the University of Minnesota in 2007.
This program took place at 4 locations in the LARL Region from August 28 to August 29, 2018.
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Attendees will learn about a prominent Minnesota cookbook author.
Attendees will hear stories and learn about Finnish culture in Northern Minnesota.
Attendees will learn about the recipes and food traditions of this people group in Minnesota.
Surveys were collected from attendees of this highly attended program. The program was very highly rated. Attendees appreciated hearing about her Minnesota roots, her personal stories and hearing about her Finnish background.
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