MILWAUKEE (AP) — The signature dishes served at supper clubs that long served as Wisconsin’s culinary and social backbone will be under the microscope during next week’s statewide science festival. The festival kicks off Thursday with a free event at University of Wisconsin-Madison focusing on ingredients like the maraschino cherries that garnish drinks and vegetables served before dinner on relish trays. One speaker will be Ron Faiola, a Milwaukee-area resident who’s working on his second book on supper clubs. Faiola says the clubs started in New York City during Prohibition, when people went to private clubs to buy alcohol. He says the format — with drinks, dinner and dancing — spread across the nation, but took hold in Wisconsin to a greater degree. Faiola estimates Wisconsin still has 300 or more supper clubs.
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