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Cold War Foodways: From Bunker to Space
Thu, Nov 06
|DuPage County Historical Museum
Food historians Bruce Kraig and Cynthia Clampitt of the Culinary Historians of Northern Illinois discuss how the Cold War changed foodways in the United States and the world.
Time & Location
Nov 06, 2025, 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM CST
DuPage County Historical Museum, 102 E Wesley St, Wheaton, IL 60187, USA
About the event
Food historians Bruce Kraig and Cynthia Clampitt of the Culinary Historians of Northern Illinois discuss how the Cold War changed foodways in the United States and the world. The fear of nuclear attack and the belief that an abundance of food would help win the war coupled with the race to space impacted food and thereby every aspect of American lives.
This event will be offered both in person and on Zoom. Please register for the event, a Zoom link will be sent out two days before.
Support for this event provided by Arts DuPage and the History DuPage Fund of the DuPage Foundation.