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In february 1952, St. Pauls Evangelical and Reformed Church of Chicago dedicated its new parish house. The congregation, one of the oldest in the city, had been planning and raising funds for the building for years. It included offices, classrooms, a full gymnasium, and even a set of locker rooms. The heart of the Parish House, however, was the kitchen. The envy of some restaurants, the kitchen could serve a sit-down dinner on china plates for over four hundred people. It was the ultimate in church kitchens.
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Sack, D. (2000). Social Food: Potlucks and Coffee Hours. In: Whitebread Protestants. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-137-06170-6_3
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