April 24, 2025, at 6:00pm.
Whistler House Museum of Art – Parker Gallery
James McNeill Whistler was born in Lowell, Massachusetts. He and his mother, depicted in his famous portrait, were interested in food and cooking. Both left records of the dishes they cooked, she in her recipe notebook and he in the menu cards written for the meals he hosted for his fashionable London friends. This class explores their two different cooking worlds with tastes to follow.
About the Instructor:
Claire Hopley is a teacher and writer. She has taught English at Mount Holyoke and the University of Massachusetts, and business writing in Greece and Poland. Currently she is on the Faculty of the Springfield Museums School, where she lectures on culinary history.
Her writing career includes numerous articles on food, books, and history for newspapers and magazines. She has published three books on culinary history including her recent Eating in Leverett 1774-2024, which covers the foods of Leverett since its establishment 250 years ago. She has also published recipe collections including two books on local vegetables Valley Vegetables and Extra! Extra! More Valley Vegetables, her first book was New England Cooking: Seasons and Celebrations.
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