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Cool Sundays Programming

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Racing Through History (June 1, June 15 and July 27) – Using toy cars, race on a track like no other in Indianapolis for a chance to win tickets to another favorite Indianapolis pastime, an Indianapolis Indians game.

Recipes Gone By/Recipes Made Anew (June 8, June 29, July 20) – Join us as we taste and explore dishes from Indiana’s history and make them new. We are pulling recipes from our collections and having local chefs interpret them with contemporary flare and local ingredients.

Snappier Pics (June 22 and July 13) – Tired of taking photos that don’t turn out? Learn from The Indianapolis Star photographers how to take the best possible photos from your smartphone

Hoosiers Helping Hoosiers (July 6) – As you celebrate our country’s birth, spend a day here and find out how you can help others in our community.

Hearth Cooking Class teaches Outdoor Cooking Skills

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There’s more to outdoor cooking than stew in a Dutch oven, as you’ll discover in the Nickel Plate Arts Hearth Cooking class at Conner Prairie, Saturday May 26, from 9:30 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.

Sarah Withrow and Trudy Timkovich have over twenty years of outdoor cooking experience and will demonstrate how to use indirect heat, manage a fire, churn butter and other techniques, as lunch is prepared. Instructor Trudy Timkovich says that food cooked over an open fire has a taste that you can’t replicate with other methods.

These cooking techniques can be used at home, or when camping. All the recipes used for this class are historic to the 1830’s you’ll learn how to measure without a measuring cup and take home a booklet with all the recipes of delicious dishes they’ve prepared. No previous cooking experience is needed.

The Nickel Plates Arts Hearth Cooking menu includes:

• Chicken on a string
• Fish on a plank
• Mustard potatoes
• Roast root vegetables
• Corn fritters
• Biscuits with fresh churned butter
• Wilted lettuce salad
• Maple gingerbread cake
• Dried apple or rhubarb pie

Register at nickelplatearts.org or by calling 848-3181.

An Evening with Anthony Bourdain and Eric Ripert

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What: Two chefs. Two unlikely friends. Two very different careers and philosophies. Hear them share stories and muse on the place of food in our personal, community and global life.

When: Thursday, Sept. 30, 7 p.m.

Where: Clowes Memorial Hall, Butler University, 4600 Sunset Avenue, Indianapolis

Cost: Prices range from $25 to $100. The $100 ticket includes admittance to a private reception with the speakers in the Krannert Room at Clowes immediately following the show.

Tickets will go on sale July 19 at 10 a.m. You can purchase tickets at the Clowes Memorial Hall box office, online at Ticketmaster.com or through the Ticketmaster Charge-By-Phone number, 1.800.982.2787.

Organized by: Spirit & Place Festival, Indiana Humanities Council and IndyTalks.

Financial support is being provided by BSA LifeStructures, Butler University, Café Patachou, Citizens Energy Group and a grant from the Efroymson Family Fund, a CICF Fund.