Mrs. Hering’s 1890 chicken pot pie may be the oldest restaurant recipe created in Chicago. You might have tried the pastry-topped crock at The Walnut Room, the historic restaurant on the seventh floor ...

Constantine Hering, M.D., the father of homeopathy in America, was born on January 1, 1800 in Oschatz, Saxony, in Germany. In 1817, he began studying medicine at a surgical academy in Dresden. By 1820 ...

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We’ve long been told she was the woman who created the famous chicken pot pie at the historic Walnut Room in the store formerly known as Marshall Field’s, and now Macy’s, on State Street in Chicago.

Like any good student with a sensitive question, Harold Hering approached his teacher after class, out of earshot from his classmates. “How can I know,” he asked, “that an order I receive to launch my ...

It’s a sunny, early fall morning at the offices of Portland commercial realtor Norris, Beggs & Simpson, and J. Clayton Hering, the company’s president since 1989, is feeling upbeat. Dressed casually ...

IN SWITZERLAND, postdoctoral fellows contribute to pension funds. So when Janet G. Hering finished her postdoc at the Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science & Technology (Eawag) and was asked ...