Florida's Delicious History
March 5     Thursday  7:30pm
General seating.  Program free to the public.
An entry in the Florida Humanities Council Series "Look Where We Live!", this program is entitled "Florida's Delicious History: A Gastronomic Journey Through Modern Florida".

Florida's food and restaurants are as diverse as its people, and have changed throughout the 20th-Century. Food scholar Andrew Huse offers a gustatory romp through modern Florida's cuisine, with a look back at union soup houses, African American jook joints, shady speakeasies, drive-in burger stands, barbecue pits, fish fries, and palaces of luxurious leisure. From the rarefied cuisine of the super-rich to the humble home-style foods of city and hamlet, food habits queasy and quirky are explored.

Andrew Huse is assistant librarian at the University of South Florida's Special Collections Department and Florida Studies Center in Tampa. His research passions include oral history, social history, and gastronomy. He lectures about Florida's food culture and currently teaches a Florida Gastronomy graduate course for the Florida Studies Program at USF. Huse authored the Columbia Restaurant's centennial historic cookbook, and is currently conducting research for a book on the statewide history of restaurants and food culture.