On October 30th, the Seattle Seahawks will face the Detroit Lions at Ford Field in Motor City. And on November 18th, the Seattle Kraken play the Red Wings in Detroit’s Little Caesar’s Arena. But you don’t have to be a sports fan to have fun in Detroit, a city with multiple nicknames: “Motor City,” reflecting Detroit’s car-manufacturing history. “Motown City,” thanks to its enduring music legacy; “Hockeytown,” self-explanatory.

The pumpkin bread was still warm when I entered the kitchen in the John R Park Homestead in Harrow, a “living history” museum, where volunteers dressed in period costumes interact with visitors to demonstrate how food was cooked, wool was spun, and metal was forged.