The Thousand Dollar Dinner

Code: LH41806

Dates: November 4, 2024

Meets: 1:00 PM to 2:30 PM

Sessions: 1

Location: Creutzburg Center 101

Course Fee: $39.00

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Culinary competitions featuring over-the-top dishes and techniques are common on today’s reality television cooking shows. But these contests were actually all the rage during the fine dining revolution that swept the U.S. in the mid-nineteenth century. Learn about the most excessive of all: The Thousand Dollar Dinner, a twelve-hour, seventeen-course feast that took place at James Parkinson’s Philadelphia restaurant in 1851, helping launch the era of grand banquets of the Gilded Age.
Fee: $39.00
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Creutzburg Center 101

260 Gulph Creek Road
(in Harford Park)
Radnor, PA 19087
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Becky Libourel Diamond

Becky Libourel Diamond is a food writer, librarian, and research historian. Her latest book, The Gilded Age Cookbook, blends Gilded Age details and celebrity stories with historic menus and recipes updated for modern kitchens. She is also the author of The Thousand Dollar Dinner and Mrs. Goodfellow: The Story of America’s First Cooking School. She lives in Yardley, Pennsylvania.

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