Local history: Homemade meals of the 19th century far cry from today's fareThink for a moment about what you do every day to feed yourself or your family. Now take yourself back in time about 160 years to the Lackawanna Valley of the mid-19th century. If we could peek into the kitchens of that time, what would we see? How did r

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'Irish' food in Chicago isn't quite so in IrelandWhat, you may well ask, is Irish food? \"The Irish used to have a very rich, complex food culture, but that was hundreds of years ago,\" says writer Coleman Andrews. In The Country Cooking of Ireland (Chronicle Books, $50), he'scollected and refined more than 225 recipes, documenting both a historicand an emerging Irish cuisine. Both are pretty far from Chicago Irish fare.