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The Royster with the Oyster festival at Shaw’s Crab House kicks off Friday with a party at the Schaumburg location from 5:30-7:30 featuring free oysters with the purchase of any Goose Island beer. Oyster Week begins Monday at both locations with nightly oyster-slurping contests, live blues performances, and fresh cold-water oysters on the half shell ($11.95 a dozen, $6.50 for a half). The event culminates Friday, October 19, with a tent party at the Chicago location. From 3 to 10 PM live bands will accompany a shucking competition and the “National Championship Slurp-Off.” The party’s $10.
Saturday at 10 AM, the Chicago Foodways Roundtable hosts a talk at Kendall College on Learning to Cook in 1898: a Chicago Culinary Memoir, presented by author Eleanor Hudera Hanson and editor Ellen F. Steinberg. Part cookbook, part biography, the book recounts the efforts of a young Jewish housewife living in Chicago at the turn of the century to educate herself about cooking and nutrition. It costs $2.
Slow Food Chicago hosts an apple dinner Monday at 6:30 at Hot Chocolate. Each of the four courses features a different type of apple from Seedling Fruit and is paired with a Goose Island beer (even dessert). It’s $65, not including tax or tip.
