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African American /// Alcohol, Prohibition /// Art / Barns, farms /// Bees / Bread, flour, salt, horno /// British // Chinese /// Chocolate /// Cookbooks, Manuscripts // Cows / Dining out /// Family Recipes // Fish /// Food aid /// Foraging // Gardens, Farms /// German /// Halloween / Hearth cooking, ovens /// Holiday Christmas /// Holiday Easter Eggs /// Holidays Nv // Home Ec / Ice Harvesting /// Indigenous /// Irish /// Italian /// Jewish // Korean /// Maple Sugar // Maryland / Medical /// Medieval foods, gardens // Mexican //Mills // Rationing // Scotland // Tea // Women authors


MARCH EVENTS -- Eastern time zone
88 / 70 start of month.

Links for new virtual talks are added as I find them, so keep checking back. Also added at end of my weekly blog posts.

***Please donate to the non-profits and support small businesses.***

Women cookbook authors upcoming and taped talks blog post HERE
Irish taped talks and writings post HERE

Mar 1 Wed 11-12:30 Champagne! A Sparkling History of French Bubbly. Edith de Belleville. New York Adventure Club. $10 1 wk replay HERE

Mar 1 Wed 1:45 The Earth Transformed – An Untold History. “how a changing climate has profoundly shaped human history.” Peter Frankopan author The Silk Roads. How To Academy £16.08 HERE

Mar 1 Wed 6 Ireland's Great Famine in Irish-American History: Memory and Meaning. Mary C. Kelly. Wiggin Memorial Library NH HERE

Mar 1 Wed 6-7:15 Umami Heroes: Soy Sauce, Miso, Koji & More. Japan's culinary heritage is built on a history of complex fermented ingredients. Matthew Card and April Dodd. Milk Street Live Online Cooking School HERE TAPE may be HERE

Mar 1 Wed 8 A Bit About Tea. “history, basic processes, facts and stories.” Char Thompson. Culinary History Enthusiasts of Wisconsin (CHEW) link HERE TAPE HERE

Mar 1 Wed 8-9:30 Maple Syrup: A History. Sarah Lohman. Brooklyn Brainery $10 HERE

Mar 2 Thu 11:30AM Julia Child. “French Chef to life in this portrayal, where Child discusses everything from her relationship with her husband to the mishaps of cooking on television.” Dr. Leslie Goddard. Niles-Maine District Library IL hybrid HERE

Mar 2 Fri 12 Lightning talks: Polish cookies (Gretchen Kurtz), American burgers (Danielle La Scala), and British eggs(Joel Mead). The Institute of Historical Research (IHR) HERE TAPES may be HERE

Mar 2 Thu 2:30 Histories in Homes: the development of the house from the medieval to modern. Ross Cook. Abbey Cwmhir Heritage Trust. Donation. HERE TAPE may be HERE

Mar 3&4 Fri/Sat From Table to Text: Borders and Boundaries in Food History. Conference. History Department, University of California at Santa Barbara. Schedule HERE Registration HERE

Mar 4 Sat 9pm Macau Food Tour. “journey through history through food.” Heygo HERE

Mar 5 Sun 1 Quesada: Cantabrian Food & Culture. Cheescake Spain. Heygo HERE

Mar 5 Sun 3 Talks with Desert Dames. “discussing some native ingredients and how to use them!” Les Dames d'Escoffier, Phoenix Chapter $25 HERE

Mar 5 Sun 5 Dinner with Socrates: Feasting in Ancient Greece. Francine Segan. Context Travel $26.50 with tape 30days HERE

Mar 6-7 M&T FIT Symposium. Various speakers ie. Dr. Paul Freedman on Cuisine as an Academic Subject, Johnson and Wales U, College of Food Innovation & Technology. Hybrid $50 HERE

Mar 6 Mon 11AM Chocolate: A Sweet and Bitter Tale. Michael Krondl. Context Travel $26.50 with tape 30days HERE

Mar 6 Mon 12 Mordechai the Villain: The Shocking Story Behind Drinking on Purim. origins of the custom to drink alcohol on Purim. Rabbi Ayalon Eliach. My Jewish Learning HERE TAPE HERE

Mar 6 Mon 1 Plant Hunting and Plant Transfers - The Early Passion for Plants. Toby Musgrave. The Gardens Trust £5 HERE

Mar 6 Mon 8-9:15 Food Porn: A History of Images in Cooking. Sarah Lohman. Brooklyn Brainery $10 HERE

Mar 7 Tue 5-6:30AM Garden Technology: Things ‘that noye Gardens’ – a History of Pest Control. Jill Francis. 6 talks in series. The Gardens Trust £5 HERE

Mar 7 Tue 6:30 America’s Breakfast Foods. Francine Segan. AARP not need to be member HERE

Mar 7 Tue 6:30-8 Myth of Milk as Superfood. “milk from the Stone Age peoples who domesticated cows, goats, and sheep to today’s troubled dairy industry.” Anne Mendelson author Milk: The Surprising Story of Milk Through the Ages (2008). Culinary Historians of New York $10 HERE

Mar 8 Wed 6 Can I Get You A Drink? Stories of Female Poisoners. Erin E. Moulton. Nesmith Library NH HERE

Mar 8 Wed 6:15 Northern Indigenous Food Ways: Learning Circle Series. Julian Napoleon. Farm to School BC Canada HERE

Mar 8 Wed 7 Croûte aux Champignons from the Swiss Canton Vaud. Chef Debra Pletscher. Swiss-American Society of Houston HERE

Mar 8 Wed 8:30 Drink Me, I’m Irish. “…Irish Whiskey different from bourbon or Scotch, …Irish ingredients into cocktails, including Bailey’s Irish Cream and Guinness Stout.” Tammy’s Tastings $19 HERE

Mar 9 Thu 12 American Bread Part III, the 20th Century. “Factory breads…first decades of the 20th century… today's artisan bread movement…immigrant breads -- bagels, "Jewish rye," and tortillas -- and I will touch on subsistence cornbreads -- but my focus for this talk is factory bread…” William Rubel. 0-$10 HERE

Mar 9 Thu 2 More than Parcels : Wartime Aid for Jews in Nazi-era Camps and Ghettos. Many speakers. The Wiener Holocaust Library HERE TAPE HERE

Mar 10 Fri 9AM The Prize Papers: a New Frontier in Global and Maritime History. The National Archives. Pay as can HERE

Mar 11 Sat 10:30-11:15AM History in the Kitchen. “Every 45-minute session spotlights a dish eaten by one of the following groups: the Mason family, people enslaved at Gunston Hall, and the white laborers, shopkeepers, and tenant farmers of Virginia.” Kids 10-18, adults. Gunston Hall HERE

Mar 11 Sat 12:30 Cooking the Incas menu, Guinea Pig. “ancient cooking techniques and learn the history behind this dish.” Heygo Food Academy. HERE

Mar 11 Sat 4 Chef Ericka Sanchez Shares Her Mexican Recipes. “and the stories behind them.” Ericka Sanchez. Los Angeles Public Library HERE

TIME CHANGE: Mar 12 Sun 2AM *** UK/Western Europe: Mar 26. so for two weeks, they are 4 hours ahead of Eastern, instead of 5

Mar 12 Sun 12 Edible Art! Sicilian Bread Workshop. “These ornate loaves are an important part of the altar traditionally made on St. Joseph's day in Sicilian culture.” Creative Edge Travel HERE

Mar 12 Sun 2 The Great Gelatin Revival. Savory Aspics, Jiggly Shots, and Outrageous Desserts. Ken Albala. CHOW Culinary Historians of Washington DC HERE TAPE HERE

Mar 13 Mon 1-2:30 Plant Hunting and Plant Transfers - Economic Botany and Plant Exchange. Toby Musgrave. The Gardens Trust £5 HERE

Mar 13 Mon 4pm London Windmills and Watermills “from ones which have been restored to those that exist as street names only.” Rob Smith, Footprints of London £10 HERE

Mar 13 Mon 7-9 Guns, Ships, and Cows: The Spanish in the American Revolution. From “1779-1782, Spanish rangers from the region around San Antonio herded more than 10,000 cows over 500 miles to Louisiana to help feed Spanish soldiers fighting the British” Dr. Richard Bell. Historic Annapolis. $15 tape for 2 wks HERE

Mar 13 Mon 8 The Multiple Heritages of Irish Soda Bread. Lucy Long. Chicago Foodways Roundtable. HERE TAPE HERE

Mar 14 Tue 6:00-7:30AM Garden Technology: A Glittering Tale - a History of the Glasshouse in Britain. James Rothwell. 6 talks in series. The Gardens Trust £5 HERE

Mar 14 Tue 1:30 The potato: emblem of modernity. “its connections to the advent of capitalism, and its nationalist power.” Rebecca Earle. The Institute of Historical Research (IHR) HERE TAPES HERE

March 14 Tue 6:30 Sugar & Rum. Catherine Prescott, Mary Tsaltas-Ottomanelli. Keeler Tavern Museum. donation HERE TAPE may be HERE

Mar 14 Tue 8 5 Great Teas of Sri Lanka. “unique flavors of black teas grown in this tropical island country formerly known as Ceylon.” Bruce Richardson. $25 HERE

Mar 15 Wed 3:30 Gardens in the Age of Chivalry (Medieval). Michael Brown. Friends of St Peter's, Marefair HERE TAPE may be HERE or HERE

Mar 15 Wed 5:30 Amelia Simmons and America’s First Cookbook 1796. Pamela Cooley. Oneida County Historical Society NY HERE TAPE may be HERE

Mar 15 Wed 7 Crackers, Crepes, and Cheese: Jewish Culinary Traditions From Passover to Shavuot. Walnut Street Synagogue, Chelsea, MA HERE

Mar 16 Thur 12 Egyptian Bread Working Group. “to develop plausible Pharaonic recipes in a two-week push. We will be looking at images and discussing recipe approaches.” William Rubel HERE

Mar 16 Thur 4 The Journey for a Lost Oat. Pillas (pill-corn, naked oats) “Long-ago abandoned by farmers, but once significant in parts of Britain and Ireland and surviving in seedbanks, this little-known hulless oat…” Harriet Gendall. The Sheffield Wheat Experiment. HERE. Article by the speaker with pics HERE. Other videos and TAPE may be HERE

Mar 16 Thu 5 Seasonal Foraging: Part 1. Julieann Hartley. “easy-to-find, beneficial plants …in the spring.” Concord Food Co-op NH HERE

Mar 16 Thu 7 Women in the Trades. “women working in nearly every trade, owning businesses, running taverns, printing a newspaper, buying and selling goods, and engaging in all aspects of the colonial economy.” Teacher Institute of Colonial Williamsburg HERE

Mar 18 Sat 7-12AM North Africa and the Grain Supply of the city of Rome. “How Ancient North Africa got rich from supplying grain to the city of Rome.” Dr. Birgitta Hoffmann. MANCENT, The Manchester ContinuingEducationNetwork £35. 5 hours HERE

Mar 18 Sat 12:15 Sugar Bush and Maple Syrup Tour. “Sugar Bush at Agape Valley, located in the Niagara Peninsula near the village of Fonthill, Ontario.” Heygo HERE

Mar 19 Sun 4 Tea for Dummies. authors Lisa McDonald, Jill Rheinheimer. Culinary Historians of Ann Arbor Hybrid livestream HERE. livestream and TAPE may be HERE

Mar 20 Mon 1-2:30 Plant Hunting and Plant Transfers - Victorian Excesses. Toby Musgrave. The Gardens Trust £5 HERE

Mar 20 Mon 6:30 A Culinary History of Montgomery County, Maryland. authors Claudia Kousoulas, Ellen Letourneau. Kensington Park Library. HERE

Mar 21 Tue 6-7:30AM Garden Technology: From Scythes to Cyber – 190 Years of the Mower. Keith Wootton. The Gardens Trust £5 HERE

Mar 21 Tue 6:30-8 Fishtown, USA: The Rise of Fall of New York's Wholesale Fish Market. “From the mid-1800s to the mid-1900s… largest fish and seafood center in the US” Jonathan H. Rees author The Fulton Fish Market: A History. The Gotham Center for New York City History HERE

Mar 22 Wed 1 The Global Impact of Bees and Beekeepers. “ways in which honey bees, and the beekeepers that manage them, influence our world.” Mary Bammer. Clinic for the Rehabilitation of Wildlife (CROW) [wildlife hospital in Lee County, FL] HERE

Mar 22 Wed 3 Bucket mill seeks twin! Conserving Finzean's Historic Water Mills. Sian Loftus. Aberdeen City Heritage Trust. £10 HERE

Mar 22 Wed 7 Maple, New Hampshire's Medicine of Connection. Damian Costello. Chocorua Lake Conservancy HERE or HERE

Mar 22 Wed 8:30 Ladies Sling the Booze. “golden age giants like Ada Coleman (head bartender at the Savoy in London), to wartime Bessie the Bartenders, to modern…” Tammy’s Tastings $19 HERE

Mar 23 Thu 1:30 Concealed from the eyes of the banquet’s guests: The ‘Officers of the Mouth’ at the court of Ercole II d’Este, Duke of Ferrara (1534–1559). Jorgina Català Jarque The Institute of Historical Research (IHR) HERE TAPES may be HERE

Mar 23 Thu 2:30 Eating Italian: the mystery of simplicity. Olga Cuckovic. City of Westminster Libraries & Archives UK HERE

Mar 23 Thu 3 The Impact of European Colonialism on Global Plant Redistribution. Bernd Lenzner. Linnean Society of London HERE TAPE HERE

Mar 23 Thu 5 The Politics of Food, Then and Now. Chloe Sorvino, author of Raw Deal: Hidden Corruption, Corporate Greed, and the Fight for the Future of Meat. Alex Prud’homme, author of Dinner With The President: Food, Politics and the History of Breaking Bread at the White House. Marion Nestle, author of Slow Cooked, An Unexpected Life in Food Politics. Tanya Holland California Soul. NYU Libraries HERE TAPE may be/ waiting for link HERE

Mar 23 Thu 6:30 A Taste of Old Colony History: Soda Bread. Old Colony History Museum HERE TAPE HERE

Mar 23 Thu 8 Cooking Alla Guidia. “how the Jews changed Italian food” Benedetta Jasmine Guetta. Gordon Jewish Community Center HERE

Mar 24 Fri 12 How the Other Half Eats: The Untold Story of Food and inequality in America. Priya Fielding-Singh. Boston University Gastronomy Program. HERE. Urban Food Policy Forum TAPE HERE

Mar 24 Fri 4 The Flavors of Italy: A Celebration of Food and Culture. Dr. Joseph Luzzi. Context Travel $26.50 with tape 30days HERE

Mar 25 Sat 10:15AM-12 The 1830 Beer House Act. “Act and its effect on Hertfordshire pubs.” Jon Mein. Hertfordshire Family History Society UK HERE

Mar 25 Sat 10:30pm Chinese Hui Cuisine Museum. “one of the eight main cuisines of China… cuisine of Anhui Province …its savory salty taste.” Heygo HERE

Mar 27 Mon 6 Dinner with the President: food, politics, and a history of breaking bread at the White House. author Alex Prud'homme. Mass. Historical Society hybrid HERE TAPE HERE

Mar 28 Tue 7:30AM Agrasen ki Baori (An ancient stepwell). India. “unique type of water-harvesting structure, thousands of which were built throughout India starting around 600 CE.” Heygo HERE

Water stepwells of India article & pics HERE Agrasen ki Baoli, New Delhi

Mar 28 Tue 5-6:30AM Garden Technology: What Made our Gardens Grow? a History of Poo. David Marsh. 6 talks in series. The Gardens Trust £5 HERE

Mar 28 Tue 5-6:15 Montana Dreamin’: Booster Fantasy and Farm Building in the Twentieth-Century Homestead Boom. author Sara M. Gregg. Mass Historical Society. Hybrid HERE TAPE may be HERE

Mar 28 Tue 6-7:15 Debating the Role of Women in the Dutch Golden Age: Women’s Lives in New Amsterdam and Beyond. NY, Brazil, other. Deborah Hamer, Susanah Shaw Romney, Valerie Paley. New Amsterdam History Center and NY Historical Society HERE TAPE may be HERE or NYHS HERE

Mar 28 Tue 8 Five Great Teas of India. Bruce Richardson. Elmwood Inn Fine Teas $25 HERE

Mar 29 Wed 2:30-4 Occupy the Soil: Home Missionaries and Canadian Farming, 1812 to 1867. “Protestant missionaries in what is now Ontario and Quebec framed freehold, market-oriented farming as the most virtuous and profitable way of living on the land. Eliding the hard work of farming, as well as the inadequate agricultural skills of many settlers, they depicted farming as the surest route to economic stability.” Matthew Dougherty. UoG Rural History Roundtable HERE

Mar 29 Wed 6:30 A Recipe For Success: Finding Women Through Community Cookbooks. Erin E. Moulton. Roxbury Branch of the Boston Public Library. HERE TAPE may be HERE

Mar 29 Wed 8 The Bloomsbury Book of Indian Cuisine. Colleen Taylor Sen. Culinary Historians of Chicago. HERE TAPES may be HERE

Mar 30 Thu 7AM 14:00CET Coping with food crises in premodern towns (late Middle Ages until the rise of modern states in the nineteenth century). Dr. Jessica Dijkman; Learning from the futures; Foresight for Agri-food system transformations in Asia and Pacific. Dr. Rathana Peou Norbert-Munns. BRIAS Brussels Institute for Advanced Studies Hybrid link HERE TAPE may be HERE

Mar 30 Thu 12:30 Wild Washoku: On traditional hunting-foraging Japanese recipes. Miguel Angel Pelayo Prieto. The Institute of Historical Research (IHR) HERE TAPE may be HERE

Mar 30 Thu 1 Ancient Grains: Back on the Plate. “Get the lowdown on Ancient Grains from amaranth to kamut to quinoa.” Kerri Lindberg Stewart. SC Office of Rural Health HERE

Mar 30 Thu 2 Feeding the Poor and Feasting with the Wealthy. Paul Couchman - The Regency Cook £17.50 HERE

Mar 30 Thur 2:30 The Mines of Shropshire: how they have changed the Shropshire landscape. Coal & minerals. Sally Green. CPRE Shropshire. donation HERE TAPE may be CPRE website HERE

Mar 30 Thu 8 All About Mexican Candy. “From amaranth bars to creamy confections and spicy chamoys, the evolution of candies in Mexico…” Maite Gomez-Rejon. ArtBites $25 HERE

Mar 31 Fri 9AM London in Five Dishes. Historical Discussion Group. “some iconic dishes and drinks that originated in this city” Shoe Lane Library HERE

Mar 31 Fri 9AM Cork Factory Tour! Special Behind The Scenes Access (Test Tour). “cork factory in Sao Bras de Alporte. Portugal is the largest grower and exporter of cork… Let's learn how cork is harvested and see first-hand how raw cork is processed to be used to create various products including wine bottle corks…” Heygo HERE

Mar 31 Fri 5 Prohibition & the Perfect Manhattan: NYC Cocktail History. Diana Pittet. Context. $26.50 HERE

CONFERENCES, SYMPOSIUMS, LONG TALKS

Feb 21-Mar 28 Tue 5-6:30AM Garden Technology. 6 talks in series (Tools, Plant breeding, Pest Control, Glasshouse, Mowers, Poo). £24. The Gardens Trust HERE

Mar 6-7 M&T FIT Symposium. Various speakers ie. Dr. Paul Freedman on Cuisine as an Academic Subject, Johnson and Wales U, College of Food Innovation & Technology. Hybrid $50 HERE

Mar 18 Sat ?7 -11 North Africa and the Grain Supply of the city of Rome. “How Ancient North Africa got rich from supplying grain to the city of Rome.” Dr. Birgitta Hoffmann. MANCENT, The Manchester ContinuingEducationNetwork £35. 5 hours HERE

Ap13-Jun1 10-12 Eight Meals that Changed the World. King Tut, Pompeii, Medieval Baghdad, Montezuma, Paris potatoes 1783, Perry in Japan, Titanic, JFKennedy. Dr. Laura Carlson. Lifelong Learning Mississauga, Canada. Thursdays at 10am-12 April 13 to June 1. Tape for one week. Must register by Apr 2 CA$40.00 (~$30 US) HERE

Apr 14 Fri 4AM-12 Climate, Food & Famine in History. many speakers. Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine, University of Manchester. HERE. Program HERE

Ap 15 Sat 4:15AM-12 Cambridgeshire Beekeepers' Association One Day Seminar 2023. 8 hours, £15 tape for two weeks and film. HERE


APRIL EVENTS -- Eastern time zone
73 / 66 start of month.

Links for new virtual talks are added as I find them, so keep checking back. Also added at end of my weekly blog posts.

***Please donate to the non-profits and support small businesses.***

Jewish foodways taped talks HERE Jewish Cookery books HERE

Easter Eggs & Hot Cross Buns blog posts and taped talks HERE

Apr 1 Sat 10AM-1 Pysanka eggs workshop - ancient Ukrainian tradition during Easter! Diana Shalashna. 5 pm Kyiv time HERE

Apr 1 Sat 10AM Eurochocolate Festival Perugia. Heygo HERE

Apr 1 Sat 6:30 Rodgers Tavern and Lower Ferry Park Non-Invasive Archaeological Survey of 2020 Findings. Jennifer Pitts. Rodgers Tavern Museum. Perryville MD HERE TAPE HERE

Apr 2 Sun 2 Pubs, Penicillin, Pineapples and Plaques. Paddington. Joanna Moncrieff. Footprints of London. £10.00 HERE

Apr 3 Mon 7AM 14:00CET Challenges and opportunities in pasta innovation. Dr. Antonella Pasqualone. How much is too much? Negotiating early modern drink consumption 1450-1800. Dr. Beat Kümin. BRIAS Brussels Institute for Advanced Studies Hybrid link HERE TAPE may be HERE

Apr 3 Mon 12 Cecilia Cardosa Matza and Sweet Lamb for her Passover dish. 16th cen. Porto, Cecilia Cardosa accused of eating Matza, grains and chestnuts for Passover. Special Passover cooking class. Sephardic Culinary History. Dr. Hélène Jawhara-Piñer. American Sephardi Federation. $12 HERE

Apr 3 Mon 1 Changing landscapes, animals and people in Britain during the Ice Age. Dr Hazel Reade. HERE

Apr 3 Mon 3 French Wine: From Bordeaux to Burgundy. Andres Medrano. Context. $26.50 HERE

Apr 3 Mon 6 Ask Me Anything Featuring Richard Munson author Tech to Table: 25 Innovators Reimagining Food. University of California, Merced HERE TAPE HERE

Apr 4 Tue 6:30 Foods & Festivities in Elizabethan England. Francine Segan. AARP not have to be member HERE

Apr 4 Tue 8 Julia Child. portrayed by Dr. Leslie Goddard. Winnetka Public Library, IL HERE TAPE HERE

Apr 4 Tue 8:30 The Old Fashioned Cocktail. “used to refer to a very specific style of drink, celebrating the trinity of spirit, sugar, and bitters… trace the evolution of that drink.” Tammy’s Tastings $19 HERE

Apr 5 Wed 8AM The Early Medieval Teaglach - Material of early Irish households. “inside and around their houses in early medieval Ireland, with a focus on rural Ireland in the 7th/8th centuries AD.” Aidan O’Sullivan. National Museum of Ireland – Archaeology HERE TAPE HERE

Apr 5 Wed 11-12:30 Clean Eating and Orthorexia: An Exploration of Twenty-First Century British Food Cultures. Louis Morgan. Warwick Food GRP HERE

Apr 5 Wed 8 Porchlight Products. “paid employment-training program and food production company that works with disabled and formerly homeless individuals.” Drew Niedercorn Director of Kitchen Programs at Porchlight oversees the five kitchen program sites. Culinary History Enthusiasts of Wisconsin (CHEW) Hybrid HERE TAPE may be HERE

Apr 6 Thu 12-1:30 Dominionism & Domestication: The History of Animal Exploitation. Jim Mason author An Unnatural Order: The Roots of our Destruction of Nature. Animal Activism Mentorship HERE TAPE HERE

Apr 6 Thu 5-6:15 What Makes Specialty Cocoa? A webinar on specialty cocoa with industry thought leaders. Dr. Kristy Leissle. Heirloom Cacao Preservation Fund [fermentation Apr 26] HERE TAPE HERE

Apr 6 Thu 8 Made in Chicago: Stories Behind 30 Great Hometown Bites. Monica Eng, David Hammond. Chicago Foodways Roundtable HERE TAPE HERE

Apr 6 Thu 8 Miners, Martyrs, Shepherds, and Sowers: Shifting Landscapes of Faynan, Southern Jordan over the Last 2,000 Years. Ian W. N. Jones. Archaeological Institute of America. Hybrid HERE

Apr 7 Fri 11AM Historic Hot Cross Buns Workshop. Paul Couchman, The Regency Cook. £35.37 HERE

Apr 7 Fri 3:30 Easter food basket from Slovenia. “basket of local specialities which we bring to the local church to be blessed. On Easter Sunday this is going to be our breakfast.” Heygo HERE

Apr 9 Sun 9AM Eat like a Sultan! Cooking In The Muslim Medieval Ages. Professor Daniel L. Newman about medieval Arabic cooking. MACFEST - Muslim Arts and Culture Festival. HERE. Facebook TAPE HERE

Apr 9 Sun 6-7:30 Judaism in a Bottle: The Manischewitz Story. Jhos Singer. New Lehrhaus HERE TAPE HERE

Apr 9 Sun 6:30-8 Ancient Egyptian Lifestyle. Meet The Pharaohs Exhibition & Workshops. $20 HERE

Apr 11 Tue 6:30 Cookbooks. Catherine Prescott, Mary Tsaltas-Ottomanelli. Keeler Tavern Museum. donation HERE

Apr 11 Tue 8:30 The Egg Class: Flips, Fizzes, Sours & Nogs. Tammy’s Tastings $19 HERE

Apr 12 Wed 6:30 Insect Foods: Back to the Future? “role of insects in human foodways past and present using examples from across the globe. .. potential of insects for sustainable food and feed into the future.” Dr. Gina Hunter. International Museum of Dinnerware Design HERE Entomophagous Dining (Eating Insects) juried exhibit at The Museum on Main Street, Ann Arbor with IMoDD HERE. TAPE HERE or youtube HERE

Apr 13 Thu 7AM 14:00CET Glacio-hydrological modelling: global importance and impact. Dr. Ankit Pramanik. Food systems in early cities: a sustainability issue? Rome, Gabii, and Tarquinia during the Iron Age and the Archaic period (8th -5th centuries BCE) Dr. Laura Motta. BRIAS Brussels Institute for Advanced Studies Hybrid link HERE TAPE may be HERE

Ap13-Jun1 10-12 Eight Meals that Changed the World. King Tut, Pompeii, Medieval Baghdad, Montezuma, Paris potatoes 1783, Perry in Japan, Titanic, JFKennedy. Dr. Laura Carlson. Lifelong Learning Mississauga, Canada. Thursdays at 10am-12 April 13 to June 1. Tape for one week. Must register by Apr 2 CA$40.00 (~$30 US) HERE

Apr 13 Thu 10AM-12 King Tut’s Final Feast (1325 BC). Eight Meals that Changed the World. Dr. Laura Carlson. Lifelong Learning Mississauga, Canada. Apr 13 to June 1. Tape for one week. Must register by Apr 2 HERE

Apr 13 Thu 1 Iowa's Boomtime: Prairie Chickens and the Replacement of Grass with Corn in the Nineteenth Century. Michael Belding. Iowa state & State Historical Society of Iowa. HERE TAPE HERE

Apr 14 Fri 4AM-1 (8hrs) Climate, Food & Famine in History “workshop to generate critical transdisciplinary engagement…” many speakers. Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine, University of Manchester UK HERE Website schedule HERE

Ap 15 Sat 4:15AM-12 Cambridgeshire Beekeepers' Association One Day Seminar 2023. 8 hours, £15 tape for two weeks and film. HERE

Apr 16 Sun 9AM Flavors of Al-Andalus: A Culinary History in Poetry and Recipes. Shadab Zeest Hashmi, Yvonne Maffe. MACFEST - Muslim Arts and Culture Festival. HERE. Facebook TAPE HERE

Apr 16 Sun 2 Domestic Workers and Their Employers: Reactions to One Book 35 Years Later. Oral histories “focusing on food and other aspects of this relationship.” Susan Tucker author of Telling Memories Among Southern Women: Domestic Workers and Their Employers in the Segregated South. Culinary Historians of Washington DC CHoW HERE

Apr 16 Sun 4 What’s for Dinner? Menus and More from the Janice Bluestein Longone Culinary Archives at the University of Michigan. Juli McLoone, Curator. Culinary Historians of Ann Arbor HERE. TAPE may be HERE

Apr 17 Mon 5:30-7 Edith Wharton's Table: Portraying Food & Dining in the Gilded Age. Carl Raymond. New York Adventure Club. Tape one week $10 HERE

Apr 17 Mon 6 ANZAC Biscuits, with Vegemite. Heygo Food Academy HERE

Apr 18 Tue 11:30AM? (5:30CET) Bacchus’ New Muse: Jacobean Wit Sociability and the Material Culture of Wine and Tobacco. Late 16th cen - Dr Lauren Working. Digital Materialities Webinar LARCA Paris HERE TAPE HERE

Apr 19 Wed 7AM Rex Wailes's English Windmills. 1957 book The English Windmill. Luke Bonwick. SPAB £9 HERE

Apr 19 Wed 2:30 The Language of Food - Eliza Acton. author of biographical historical novels Annabel Abbs. National Archives UK £5-15 presale HERE

Apr 19 Wed 7 A Land of Milk and Mufletta: At the Crossroads of Israel’s Cuisine and Culture. “From falafel to petitim,meorav Yerushalmi to mufletta, Joel reveals the culture behind the distinctive foods.” Walnut Street Synagogue, MA HERE How Shabbat Stews Changed the Culinary World. Adeena Sussman, Joel Haber. Myjewishlearning NV 2022 TAPE HERE

Apr 19 Wed 7 History Of BBQ: Colonial Foodways. Chef Chris Scott and Dontavius Williams. Stratford Hall HERE

Apr 19 Wed 7 Pewabic Pottery: A History 120 Years in the Making (Detroit). Annie Dennis. Pewabic Pottery. HERE

Apr 20 Thu 9AM Children of the Blitz: Differing Perspectives on the War at Home. England. Joshua Daniels. Imperial War Museums HERE

Apr 20 Thu 10AM-12 The Last Meal of Pompeii (79 AD). Eight Meals that Changed the World. Dr. Laura Carlson. Lifelong Learning Mississauga, Canada. Apr 13 to June 1. Tape for one week. Must register by Apr 2 HERE

Apr 20 Thu 12 The Fabulous World of Ancient Egyptian Bread. Rubel's Seminar #40. “Why did the Egyptians only make wheat loaves with emmer wheat, and what were the qualities that will have defined the "best" breads?” William Rubel. $0-10 HERE. Bread History and Practice facebook page HERE

Apr 20 Thu 2 The Legacies of the Ball’s Plantation. Guy Ball’s (c1686-after 1722) Barbados plantation book of 1722. He was the great grandfather of William Holburne (1793-1874) whose collection formed the Holburne Museum. Alberta Whittle, Dr Jill Sutherland, Natalie McGuire and Allison Thompson. The Holburne Museum. HERE. The Holburne Family and Caribbean Plantations exhibit and writeup. HERE

Apr 22 Sat 2 Buzz: The Nature and Necessity of Bees. author Thor Hanson. Bees Abroad HERE

Apr 22 Sat 7 In Celebration of Israeli Food and Jewish Identity. Michael Solomonov, Nilou Motamed. 92nd Street Y $18 HERE

Apr 23 Sun 10:30-12:30 How old is that restaurant? Bay Area Culinary Historians HERE How old is that restaurant? essay HERE

Apr 23 Sun 1 Elizabeth Raffald, England’s Most Influential Housekeeper. Neil Buttery author Before Mrs. Beeton: Elizabeth Raffald, England’s Most Influential Housekeeper. Culinary Historians of Canada. Pay-as-you-may HERE or soon Eventbrite HERE

Apr 23 Sun 6-7:30 People of the Cookbook. “We have come a long way from the 18th-century kosher gourmet cookbook in German to the Jewish Food Society’s online archive.” Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, Yael Raviv. New Lehrhaus. HERE . TAPE HERE.
Jewish Food Society’s online recipes HERE.

Apr 24 Mon 1:30 From medicine to botany: the hidden history of 16th century herbaria. “New plants arriving as curiosities from the New World helped in this realization. 16th-century botanists collected and press-dried plants among paper sheets, mounted and bound into books, creating the first herbaria.” Anastasia Stefanaki. British Society for the History of Pharmacy HERE TAPE HERE

Apr 24 Mon 6 Cooking with the First Ladies: Mamie Eisenhower. Sarah Morgan. National First Ladies' Library HERE TAPE HERE

Apr 25 Tue 6:30-8 Paddington and the Marmalade Sandwich. “whimsical story and how it evokes themes of immigration, and of the comfort of food.” Laura Kitchings. Culinary Historians of New York $10 HERE

Apr 25 Tue 7-8:30 Endangered Eating: America’s Vanishing Food. Sarah Lohman. Chelmsford Public Library HERE TAPE HERE

Apr 26 Wed 12 The Politics & Science of Cocoa Fermentation. Dr. Kristy Leissle and panel. Heirloom Cacao Preservation Fund HERE TAPE may be HERE [Ap 6 specialty cocoa]

Apr 26 Wed 12 Foraging Wild Edibles 101. Crystal Bradford, Liam Kijewski in Southwestern Ontario. McDougall Cottage Historic Site HERE

Apr 26 Wed 12-1:30 Spices 101: Pepper. “history, botany, lore, and culinary uses.” Eleanor Ford, author of The Nutmeg Trail. Smithsonian Associates $30 HERE

Apr 26 Wed 2-3:30 The Extraordinary Life of Elizabeth Raffald. More spaces added. “The Experienced English Housekeeper. Published in 1769, it ran to over twenty editions and brought her fame and fortune. But then disaster; her fortune lost, spent by her alcoholic husband. Bankrupted twice, she spent her final years in a pokey coffeehouse in a seedy part of town.” Neil Buttery author Before Mrs. Beeton: Elizabeth Raffald, England’s Most Influential Housekeeper. HERE

Apr 26 Wed 6:30 Great Wines of Napa Valley. William Schragis. AARP not have to be member HERE

Apr 27 Thu 10AM-12 Caliphate Cooking in Medieval Baghdad (10th century AD). Eight Meals that Changed the World. Dr. Laura Carlson. Lifelong Learning Mississauga, Canada. Apr 13 to June 1. Tape for one week. Must register by Apr 2 HERE

Apr 27 Thu 12 In the Kitchen with Malinda Russell, Author of the First African American Cookbook. A Domestic Cook Book: Containing A Careful Selection of Useful Receipts for the Kitchen by Mrs. Malinda Russell, An Experienced Cook 1866. Pamela Cooley. Recipes: Muffins, raspberry tea cake and allspice cake. Kitchen Lab online. Birgitte Kampmann. parallel to the Oxford Food Symposium. ZOOM Meeting ID: 814 3501 8336 Passcode: 749624

Apr 27 Thu 1 Decolonizing Seeds to Revitalize Lifeways: regeneration through tallgrass prairie and bison, heirloom seeds, and food sovereignty. Daniel Maher. Iowa state & State Historical Society of Iowa. HERE TAPE may be HERE

Apr 27 Thu 2:30 American Menus. virtual lecture on exhibition A Century of Dining Out. Henry Voigt. The Grolier Club HERE sold out

Apr 27 Thu 6:30 Working the Sea: An illustrated talk on National Fisherman Magazine. Michael Crowley author of the forthcoming book Working the Sea. Camden Maine Public Library. Hybrid HERE

Apr 28 Fri 1 Venice and the Rialto Market: History, Symbols, and Local Flavors. Cecilia Sitran. Context. $26.50 HERE

Apr 28 Fri 2 Between Boston & Bombay: Cultural & Commercial Encounters of Yankees & Parsis, 1771–1865. Jenny Rose. Massachusetts Historical Society HERE TAPE may be HERE

Apr 28 Fri 8:30 Legends of Tiki: Trader Vic. “man behind the Mai Tai, how we got his start, and the role he played in popularizing Tiki. Plus you’ll learn to make a bunch of Trader Vic drinks.” Tammy’s Tastings $19 HERE also 7-8pm class

MAY EVENTS -- Eastern time zone
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Links for new virtual talks are added as I find them, so keep checking back. Also added at end of my weekly blog posts.

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May 1 Mon 8 Fieldwork: A Forager’s Memoir. Iliana Regan. Chicago Foodways Roundtable HERE TAPE HERE

May 2 Tue 6:30 Foods, Sights, & History of New York City. Francine Segan. AARP not have to be member HERE

May 3 Wed 12 The Sifter. The Ask. Searching for Foods in History. Oxford Food Symposium. HERE

May 3 Wed 1 The Jewish Deli: History of a New York Institution. Kyle Einhorn. New York Adventure Club and New-York Historical Society $10 HERE

May 3 Wed 8 The Willy Street Co-op. Amanda Ikens. Culinary History Enthusiasts of Wisconsin (CHEW) HERE

May 4 12:30 South American Food and Foodways. Rafaela Costa Cruz Barbieri, Amalia Castro San Carlos. IHR Institute of Historical Research. HERE TAPE may be HERE

May 4 Thu 2-3:15 Fit for a King - Ceremony and Feasting. “food served at George IV's Coronation in 1821 and selecting dishes you can try for yourself at home. Recipes” in workbook. Paul Couchman - The Regency Cook. £17.50 tape HERE

May 4 Thu 7 Kentucky Derby: History and Traditions since 1875. Dr. Leslie Goddard. Southold Free Library. HERE

May 5 Thu 11pm Australian Food Icons: Happy little Vegemite soldiers: rationing, Vegemite and national identity in WWII, Hannah Viney. Baking up an Australian icon: the Children’s Birthday Cake Book. 1980-, Dr Lauren Samuelsson. Old Treasury Building HERE

May 6 Sat 10AM Afternoon Tea the English Way. Heygo HERE

May 7 Sun 2 Flavors of the Maghreb: Authentic Recipes from the Land Where the Sun Sets (North Africa and Southern Italy). Sheilah Kaufman, Paula Jacobson, and Alba Johnson. Culinary Historians of Washington DC CHoW. HERE

May 7 Sun 6-7:30 Cook Across the Centuries: Recipes from Historical Cookbooks. “Cook a meal of dishes from Jewish cookbooks discussed in Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett: People of the Cookbook.” Jesse Yurow. New Lehrhaus. HERE . TAPE HERE. Jewish Food Society’s online archive HERE.

May 9 Tue 6:30-8 Okinawan Cooking. Jess Toliver, Koshiki Smith, and Kimiko Molasky. Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month Class. Mississippi Market Co-op HERE

May 10 Wed 1 White Bread, Black Bread. The Spanish postwar in Granada. “famine afflicting Spain between 1939–1942 and again in 1946… bread became a symbol of the different fates of those from the victorious side (Francoists; white bread) and the defeated side” (lines for black bread). Peter Anderson, Miguel Ángel del Arco Blanco, Gustavo Bernal. In English (& Spanish). Documentary English subtitles. Instituto Cervantes Manchester HERE

May 10 Wed 7 Black Brewers and Distillers. enslaved women and men, Black women moonshiners, and the incredibly creative mixologists of the 1800s… East Hampton Library HERE

May 11 12:30 The question of Honey adulteration in nineteenth-century Britain and America. Dr. Matthew Phillpott. IHR Institute of Historical Research. HERE TAPE may be HERE

May 11 Thu 2:30 The cascading impacts of grazing: long-term research at Glen Finglas. Robin Pakeman. The Woodland Trust HERE

May 11 Thu 3 A Desert Feast: Celebrating Tucson's Culinary Heritage. author Carolyn Niethammer. State of Arizona Research Library HERE TAPE HERE

May 13 Sat 10-11:30 Just add Milk! “how milk transformed tea, coffee and chocolate into three of the most widely-consumed products in the world." Milk an exhibition HERE "explores our relationship with milk and its place in politics, society and culture.” Wellcome Collection. London HERE TAPE may be HERE

May 13 Sat 6:30 Colonial Chesapeake Horse Culture: Equestrian History & Artifacts of 17th- & 18th-Century MD. Sara Rivers Cofield. Rodgers Tavern Museum MD HERE TAPE may be HERE

May 14 Sun 12-2 Ancient Mediterranean Snacks. fried olives, crunchy chickpeas, red wine flatbread from the pan, walnut and black pepper-stuffed dates, and a cheese dip. Ursula “archaeologist and cook. For years, Ursula worked on excavation projects in Syria, Turkey and Egypt.” VAWAA $40 HERE

May 17 Wed 12:30 East African Princes, London Trading Companies, and “New” Ideas about Africa’. Lindsay O’Neil. IHR Institute of Historical Research. HERE TAPE may be HERE

May 18 Thu 12:30 Historical Cookery Manuscripts influencing Contemporary Persian Cuisine. Nader Mehravari . IHR Institute of Historical Research. HERE TAPE may be HERE

May 18 Thu 2-4 Na’Ha’Met (Ours to Protect): Salmon Crisis in the Salish Sea. “Lummi Nation’s efforts to ensure salmon’s survival. Indigenous perspectives on the response to the salmon crisis.” Lisa Wilson, Althea Wilson. Ecotrus. Washington state.HERE

May 18 Thu 3 From Workhouse to White House: causes and consequences of the Great Hunger. Ireland. Christine Kinealy. National Library of Ireland HERE TAPE may be HERE

May 18 Thur 6 The Nature of Slavery: Environment & Plantation Labor in the Anglo-Atlantic World. Katherine Johnston. Massachusetts Historical Society HERE TAPE HERE

May 18 Thur 7 Memories of the Baltimore Woman’s Industrial Exchange (& tearoom). Dr. Amy Rosenkrans. Baltimore City Historical Society HERE TAPE may be HERE Pratt lib. TAPE HERE

May 18 Thu 8-9:30 Hallmarks: Decoding England's Secret Language of Silver. New York Adventure Club $10 HERE

May 19 Fri 4AM-1 Food and identity in South Asia since independence. UK South Asia Network HERE TAPE 3 hr. HERE Panel 3 & 4 Resistance and Beyond: Eating at the margins. Migration, Food and Identity TAPE HERE

May 21 Sun 4 Made in Chicago: Stories Behind 30 Great Hometown Bites. Monica Eng, David Hammond. Culinary Historians of Ann Arbor HERE TAPE HERE

May 21 Sun 6-7:30 Breads of the Jews. “Wheat pancakes, matzah, challah, bagels, rye and pumpernickel bread and pita are all breads associated with Jewish life and culture.” Aliza Grayevsky Somekh. New Lehrhaus. HERE TAPE may be HERE

May 23 Tue 7:30AM The Linnaeus Household: Identity and Materiality. (Carl and Sara Linnaeus). Annika Windahl Ponten. Linnean Society of London HERE TAPE may be HERE

May 23 Tue 10 AM Milk Matters. “how cows’ milk has been used over time, and how commonplace milk became as it changed from a rural to an urban commodity. … properties of different milks used in early modern domestic recipes, including almond, ass and human milk.” Deborah Valenze, Hillary M Nunn. Milk an exhibition HERE "explores our relationship with milk and its place in politics, society and culture.” Wellcome Collection. London HERE TAPE may be HERE

May 23 Tue 7-8:30 A History of Cookbooks and Recipes. Sarah Lohman. Chelmsford Public Library HERE TAPE HERE

May 24 Wed 2-3:45 Fermentation: How Cultures Shape Culture. From sauerkraut to sourdough, kombucha to kimchi. Leyla Kazim, Sandor Ellix Katz, Alissa Timoshkina, Kenji Morimoto, James Read. British Library £3.25-14 HERE

May 24 Wed 6:30-8:15 The History of Scotch Whisky. “explore the origins of spirit, its eventual arrival into Scotland and how the process was refined and perfected to the malts and … the people who made whisky so popular; the fight against government and taxmen; halcyon days and the dark days…” David McNicoll. Brooklyn Brainery. $8 HERE

May 25 Thu 12 Pharaoh Necanabeo's Bread. William Rubel. Cultures.Group; Bread History and Practice facebook page. $0-10 HERE. Facebook page HERE. Cultures.Group HERE

May 25 Thu 12 The Culinary Worlds of 18th Century Women in Britain, USA & Türkiye. Özge Samancı, Neil Buttery, Megan Elias, Polly Russell. Oxford Food Symposium. Kitchen Table Gathering. £0-15 HERE

May 25 Thu 1 Medical Plants and Plant Based Medicine: Gardening and Medicine Production in the Late Medieval English Gentry Household. Caitlin Williams. IHR Institute of Historical Research. HERE TAPE may be HERE

May 25 Thu 6:30 A Taste of Old Colony History. Pastéis de Nata - Portuguese Custard Tarts. Old Colony History Museum HERE

May 27 Sat 2-3:30 Caribbean Connections: Stories and Recipes Across the Diaspora. Marie Mitchell, Andi Oliver and Melissa Thompson. British Library £7-10 HERE

May 28 Sun 10pm Let's talk about eggs! Lizzie Stark. Bay Area Culinary Historians BACH HERE

May 30 Tue 2-3:30 American Innovation: Farming and the Steel Plow. “In 1837, John Deere developed the first steel plow…” National Association of Scholars HERE. TAPE may be HERE

May 31 Wed 9AM The Coronation Banquets of Three Kings… Richard III, James II and George IV show the changing styles of Royal food over nearly 350 years. Dr Peter Ross. Guildhall Library HERE

May 31 Wed 12:30 Police as Ploughmen in 1917/18: How Britain’s Policemen Helped Local Populations by Temporary Release into Agriculture. Mary Fraser. IHR Institute of Historical Research. HERE TAPE may be HERE


May 31 Wed 8 Colombian Exchange Hit World Like Culinary Comet. “maize, the potato and tomato, cacao, many squashes and beans, the chicken, turkey and the hog… the exchanges were in both directions.” Bill St. John. Culinary Historians of Chicago HERE

CONFERENCES, SYMPOSIUMS, LONG TALKS

Ap13-Jun1 10-12 Eight Meals that Changed the World. King Tut, Pompeii, Medieval Baghdad, Montezuma, Paris potatoes 1783, Perry in Japan, Titanic, JFKennedy. Dr. Laura Carlson. Lifelong Learning Mississauga, Canada. Thursdays at 10am-12 April 13 to June 1. Tape for one week. Must register by Apr 2 CA$40.00 (~$30 US) HERE

Apr 14 Fri 4AM-12 Climate, Food & Famine in History. many speakers. Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine, University of Manchester. HERE. Program HERE

Ap 15 Sat 4:15AM-12 Cambridgeshire Beekeepers' Association One Day Seminar 2023. 8 hours, £15 tape for two weeks and film. HERE

May 19 Fri 4AM-1 Food and identity in South Asia since independence HERE

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