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  • Indigo House History Dinners and Canning Classes for Spring 2024

    Join me for history dinners celebrating 3 Centuries of African American Women Chefs The Global World of the Black Cooks in Mary Randolph’s Kitchen CANNING CLASSES My water bath classes are for the beginner and pressure canning classes are great…

    September 29, 2023
  • Indigo House History Dinners Oct-Nov-Dec schedule is up!

    I look forward to welcoming you to Indigo House for this fall’s history dinners. Reservations are now open. 

    July 25, 2023
  • The Indigo House Dinner and Class Dates for Summer and Fall 2023!

    Hello to all my Indigo House friends  Several weeks ago I promised to confirm my summer and fall dinner and class dates. At last I got to work on my calendar! Thanks for your patience. You can reserve your dinner…

    July 3, 2023
  • Cooking last fall’s huge Hubbard winter squash

    Buying large winter-type squashes can be fun and economical. The Pumpkin Patch folks near me sell many varieties of hard rind winter squashes each fall and each fall I load the back of my car with several Acorn types, and…

    March 3, 2023
  • It’s Winter; What am I doing here at Indigo House? Two canning classes in January!

                    You may only think of canning as only a summertime activity. Getting the tomatoes, and salsas, and jams and jellies and peaches and plums, pears and applesauce water-bathed canned into jars can suck up all our summer attention. I…

    January 3, 2023
  • Talking about RURAL life with Amy Drewry

    Dear Everyone, As some of you may know by now, I love to talk about my work and farming and food. This summer I had a lovely day of talk with Amy Drewry, farmer and podcast interviewer, here in Central…

    December 5, 2022
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Dr. Leni Sorensen Phd

I cook, I teach, I garden, I feed animals. I write, I research, I lecture, I demonstrate. My passion is emphatically about food; food in early America, food in contemporary America, food among the urban poor, food from small sustainable farms, food cooked by novices, food cooked by chefs.

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