Past 2023 talks Jan-Feb HERE / Mar-May HERE / June-Dec HERE
JUNE-DEC EVENTS -- Eastern time zone
38 / 35 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.
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Juneteenth talks (June 1,13)
Jun 1 Thu 12:30 Food rituals in the nineteenth century. As She Ate My Salad, She Quite Opened Her Heart to Me: Food as Gilded Age Culinary Code. Elizabeth DeWolfe; Opening a Can of Worms: Drink and Diet on Victorian and Edwardian Maritime Polar Expeditions, Ed Armston-Shere. IHR Institute of Historical Research. HERE TAPE may be HERE
Jun 1 Thu 7-8:30 Honoring Juneteenth: Food as a Form of Celebration. This talk is about some of the traditional Juneteenth foods since founding in 1865. Dr. Leni Sorensen. Les Dames d'Escoffier DC Regional Chapter. $10 HERE
Jun 6 Tue 12:30 Alcohol licencing and regulating youth in Sheffield. Sarah Kenny. IHR Institute of Historical Research. HERE TAPE may be HERE
Jun 6 Tue 2:30 Beyond Taste: Multisensory Experiences of Dining in the Roman Domestic Realm. “convivia (Roman dinner party) and considers the ways in which hosts sought to control and manipulate the corporeal experience of guests in order to display their power…” Dr Hannah Platts. Classical Association of Ireland HERE
Jun 6 Tue 6:30 The History of Tea. Francine Segan. AARP not have to be member HERE
Jun 6 Tue 6:30-8 Remembering Cara De Silva. Fred Plotkin, Jane Dystel, Peggy Katalinich, Anne Mendelson, and Lynne Rossetto Kasper. Culinary Historians of New York HERE
Jun 7 Wed 2:30 Small inventions that made a big difference. Paperclips, biscuits and pockets … Helen Pilcher. The National Archives £0-10 HERE
Jun 7 Wed 6:30-8 Food is Medicine, Food is Love: The History of God's Love We Deliver. Karen Pearl. Culinary Historians of New York. $12.51 HERE
June 7 Wed 7 Black Pitmasters. East Hampton Library HERE
Jun 7 Wed 9:30pm Whiskey and Wiretaps: The Northwest’s Rumrunning King. Steve Edmiston. Humanities Washington’s Speakers Bureau HERE
Jun 8 Thu 12:30 The Material Culture of Medieval Inns: Buildings and Furnishings. Martha Carlin. IHR Institute of Historical Research. HERE TAPE may be HERE
Jun 8 Thu 6-7:30 A Century of Dining Out : The American Story in Menus, 1841-1941 virtual tour followed by a live Q&A with curator Henry Voigt. The Grolier Club HERE. Online exhibit HERE. Tour TAPE HERE. TAPES may be HERE
Jun 8 Thu 6:30-8 Remembering Cara De Silva. Fred Plotkin, Jane Dystel, Peggy Katalinich, Anne Mendelson, Lynne Rossetto Kasper. Culinary Historians of New York HERE
Jun 9 Fri 7 Did you eat today? Thank a bee! Paul Kelly. YP Speakers Series Ontario HERE
Jun 10 Sat 10AM Discovering New England Stone Walls. Kevin Gardner. Dublin Public Library. Hybrid HERE
Jun 10 Sat 1:30 Food Writing Unfolded. “covering its evolution in America via newspaper food sections as well as trends concerning ingredients and cuisines, the impact of diverse voices, and alternative ways of presenting recipes.” Bonnie Benwick. Culinary Historians of Southern California HERE
Jun 10 Sat 8 A Slice of Rice — Italian Style. Valentina Masotti, live from Rome. Culinary Historians of Chicago HERE TAPES HERE
Jun 11 Sun 1 From Figgy Duff to Loblolly: History on the Newfoundland & Labrador Table. Jennifer Leigh Hill author of The Foods of Newfoundland and Labrador: Tracing the History of the Province’s Cookery. Culinary Historians of Canada C$10 HERE
Jun 12 Mon 3 London Windmills and Watermills. “from ones which have been restored to those that exist as street names only.” Rob Smith, Footprints of London HERE
Jun 13 Tue 2-3:30 George Washington Carver and Agricultural Innovation. The National Association of Scholars HERE TAPE may be HERE
Jun 13 Tue 7 Setting the Table: Juneteenth. “African American food ways, the history and evolution of Juneteenth traditions and foods.” Debra Freeman. The Hampton Library in Bridgehampton HERE TAPE HERE
Jun 13 Tue 9-10:30pm The Evolution of Beekeeping. Peter Somers. Taylorsville Library. Utah HERE
Jun 14 Wed 2 Digging for Victory: the Wartime Garden. “the impact of WW2 on the garden.” Twigs Way. York Army Museum, UK HERE
Jun 14 Wed 6:30 A Recipe for Success: Finding Women Through Community Cookbooks. Erin E. Moulton. Chelmsford Public Library, MA HERE
Jun 14 Wed 7 Shuk Machane Yehuda, Jerusalem's famous outdoor market, is the beating heart of the city. Joel Haber. Walnut Street Synagogue, Chelsea, MA HERE
Jun 15 Thu 12:30 From Label to Table: The Origins of the U.S. FDA ‘Nutrition Facts’ Label and what it meant for Food Politics. Xaq Frohlich. IHR Institute of Historical Research. HERE TAPE may be HERE
Jun 15 Thu 2 The Wood that Built London by author Chris Schuler. Great North Wood that once covered much of what is now South London. London Natural History Society HERE TAPE HERE
Jun 15 Thu 3:30 Mexican Market and Lucha Libre Night. “cultural significance of Mexican cuisine and the culinary heritage of Mexico City”, from San Juan Market to Arena México! World Virtual Tours HERE
Jun 16 Fri 11AM Jane Austen Picnic Experience. Paul Couchman. The Regency Cook. £20 HERE
Jun 16 Fri 1 Rewriting America: Reconsidering the Federal Writers' Project 80 Years Later. Symposium. Keynote Address by Alessandro Portelli. Library of Congress HERE
Jun 17 Sat 6-11AM Mayen: Making Millstones for the Roman (and Medieval) world. Dr. Birgitta Hoffmann. MANCENT, The Manchester ContinuingEducationNetwork. £20(tape)–£35 HERE. Past related 4 hour talks: North Africa and the Grain Supply of the City of Rome (Mar 2023); Watermills - not just for flour. (Jan 2023)
Jun 21 Wed 6-7:30 How Dining Out Changed, 1841-1941. current exhibition, A Century of Dining Out: The American Story in Menus, 1841-1941. Paul Freedman. The Grolier Club HERE TAPES may be HERE
Jun 25 Sun 8pm-9:30 The Great Gelatin Revival. By author Ken Albala. BACH Bay Area Culinary Historians CA HERE
Jun 27 Tue 1-2:30 Guns, Ships, and Cows: Spain and the American Revolution. “1779 and 1782, Spanish rangers from Texas herded 10,000 cows over 500 miles to Louisiana to help feed Spanish soldiers fighting the British in the American Revolutionary War…” Dr. Richard Bell. OASIS DC $18 HERE
Jun 27 Tue 2-3:30 American Innovation: The '50s and the Green Revolution. How “lay the groundwork for our modern system of food production and consumption?” The National Association of Scholars HERE TAPE may be HERE
Jun 27 Tue 7-8:30 Food Porn: A History of Images & Cooking. Sarah Lohman. Chelmsford Public Library HERE TAPE may be HERE
Jun 27 Tue 8 Flora, Fauna and Foodways. Nancy Webster. Highland Park Historical Society. Chicago Foodways Roundtable HERE
Jun 29 Thu 12:30 Dutch Foodways, 2 talks. Food preparation and food consumption practices in Early Modern Delft… Merit Hondelink// The Dutch and their love for liquorice: a post-WWII tale of food technology and identity building. Marieke M.A. Hendriksen. IHR Institute of Historical Research. HERE TAPE may be HERE
CONFERENCES, SYMPOSIUMS, LONG TALKS
Jun 17 Sat 6-11AM Mayen: Making Millstones for the Roman (and Medieval) world. Dr. Birgitta Hoffmann. £20(tape)–£35 HERE
July 16-30 (in person July 7-9) Food Rules & Rituals. Oxford Food Symposium. virtual £ 75 HERE
JULY EVENTS -- Eastern time zone
14 / 10 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.***
Jul 2 Sun 3-4:30 Breads of the Jews. Aliza Grayevsky Somekh. New Lehrhaus HERE. TAPE HERE
Jul 10 Mon 2-3:30 Hand to Mouth: The Multiple Lives of the Sandwich. Rebecca May Johnson, Nigella Lawson, Jonathan Nunn. British Library £3.25–17 HERE
Jul 12 Wed 8 Dinner with the President. Alex Prud’homme. Culinary Historians of Chicago HERE TAPES HERE
July 16-30 (in person July 7-9) Food Rules & Rituals. Oxford Food Symposium. virtual £ 75 HERE
Jul 17 Mon 6 Revolutionary Things: Material Culture & Politics in the Late Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World. Ashli White. Massachusetts Historical Society HERE TAPE may be HERE
Jul 18 Tue 1-2:30 The Delicious History of French Cuisine. Edith de Belleville. New York Adventure Club $10 tape for week HERE
Jul 18 Tue 7 They Tried to Kill Us, We Won, Let’s Eat! Jewish Food Conquers Antisemitism. Joel Haber. Walnut Street Synagogue, Chelsea, MA HERE
Jul 19 Wed 5:30-7 Hallmarks: Decoding England's Secret Language of Silver. Ben Miller. New York Adventure Club $10 tape one week HERE
Jul 23 Sun 8 Tales from the Gourmet Ghetto. L. John Harris. BACH Bay Area Culinary Historians CA HERE
July 25 Tue 6:30 Savoring Sicily: 2,000 Years of Food History. Francine Segan. AARP not need be member HERE
July 26 Wed 9:40AM A Brief History of Maps. Tom Manteuffel. AARP not need be member. Not food history but I just did a post on Sanborn fire insurance maps on a Maryland flour mill HERE
Jul 26 Wed 7AM Windmills and the Danger of Wind Loss. “Dutch planning law recognises and regulates wind loss resulting from new buildings close to a Windmill.” Steve Temple. SPAB The Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings. UK £9 live, tape 10 days HERE
Jul 27 Thu 7AM A Brief History of Cafes in Contemporary Singapore. Lim Kopi. National Library Board, Singapore HERE
Jul 27 Thu 5:30-7 A Victorian Summer: Ice Cream Socials to Extravagant Picnics. New York Adventure Club $10 tape one week HERE
--> Summer break: July and August have had very few talks in the past, so I am taking a break.
AUGUST EVENTS -- 6 talks
6 talks
Au 8 Tue 6:30 The World's Most Exotic Foods. Francine Segan. AARP not need be member HERE
Au 9 Wed 7-8:30 The Evolution of The Great American Kitchen. John Ota, author of The Kitchen. Hermann-Grima + Gallier Historic Houses. HERE TAPE HERE
Aug 18 Fri 6 Food and Agriculture during the Civil War. Dr. R. Douglas Hurt. Author of many Ag. books, out this year: Agriculture in the Midwest, 1815–1900. Watkins Museum of History. Kansas HERE, TAPE HERE
Au 24 Thu 1 Why Foster Care Started on Farms: Iowa and the Midwest in Child Placement of the 19th Century. Megan Birk. State Historical Society of Iowa HERE TAPE HERE
Au 29 Tue 2 Sugar Don't Go on Grits: An Archival Look at The Great Migration's Effect on How We Eat. Donna Battle Pierce, Valerie Erwin. U of Mississippi Libraries, Culinary Literacy Center of the Free Library of Philadelphia. HERE TAPE may be HERE
Au 30 Wed 8 Much ado about masalas—a deep dive into Indian Cuisine. Nandita Godbole author of Masaleydaar: Classic Spice Indian Blends. Culinary Historians of Chicago HERE TAPE HERE or Youtube HERE
SEPTEMBER EVENTS -- Eastern time zone.
15 talks
Se 6 Wed 2 How bees sense the world and communicate about it. Jürgen Tautz. Cambridgeshire Beekeepers' Association HERE
Se 6 Wed 7 Not Just Apples and Honey: Rosh Hashana Foods and Their Many Meanings. Joel Haber. Walnut Street Synagogue, Chelsea, MA HERE
Se 6 Wed 7 Return of the American Chestnut. “In the early 20th century a blight accidentally spread to the United States and killed approximately 4-5 billion American Chestnut trees.” Vermont Humanities Rutland Free Library HERE. TAPE HERE
Se 10 Sun 2 Salt Rising Bread: A Nearly Lost Appalachian Tradition. Jenny Bardwell. CHOW/DC Culinary Historians of Washington DC HERE
Se 11 Mon 10-11:30 Barley: more than just a crop? Panel. The Royal Society of Edinburgh HERE. TAPE HERE
Se 12 Tue 6:30 Food & Feasting in Medieval Times. Francine Segan. AARP not need to be member HERE
Se 13 Wed 6:30 Tour of Fishs Eddy’s Museum of American-made Restaurant-ware. Julie Gaines. The International Museum of Dinnerware Design. HERE TAPE HERE or Youtube TAPE HERE
Se 15 Fri 2 How to Eat a Regency Breakfast. Paul Couchman - The Regency Cook £20 HERE
Se 17 Sun 1-3 Historic Foodways Tour at Heritage Park Historical Village. Kesia Kvill. Culinary Historians of Canada. $11.64 HERE
Se 17 Sun 4-5:30 The Story of Jiffy Mix: An American Tradition in a Little Blue Box. by the family-owned Chelsea Milling Company in Chelsea, Michigan. Howdy S. Holmes, 4th generation CEO. Culinary Historians of Ann Arbor. HERE TAPE HERE or HERE
Se 20 Wed 6:30 A Virtual Tour of Top Ten Highlights in Barcelona, Spain. Francine Segan. AARP not need to be member HERE
Se 20 Wed 8 The Dane County Farmer’s Market Cookbook, Local Foods, Global Flavors. Terese Allen. Culinary Historians of Chicago HERE TAPE HERE or HERE
Se 21 Thu 7-8:30 Endangered Eating: America’s Vanishing Food. Sarah Lohman. Chelmsford Public Library HERE TAPE HERE
Se 26 Tue 12 Tasting History. “All recipes were discovered in the collections of the NY State Library and Archives and brought to fruition – including amazing meat sculptures, wartime “salads,” yummy desserts, and perhaps too much gelatin?” Elizabeth Jakubowski, Heather Carroll. NY State Library and NY State Archives HERE TAPE may be HERE
Se 26 Tue 8 Hallmarks: Decoding England's Secret Language of Silver. Ben Miller. New York Adventure Club. $10 HERE
OCTOBER EVENTS
41 talks/ month
TIME CHANGE: UK Oct 29, US Nov 5
Halloween taped talks on Food History Horror Stories, Gothic Food, Cabarets of Death in Paris, and Dia de los Muertos. Blog posts on Snapapple, turnip lanterns, Colcannon Night, (Soule) Cake Night and more.HERE
Oct 3 Tue 12 How to Get Involved In The Wiki World. Wiki Club Meeting. OFS Wikipedia Project. Oxford Food Symposium. HERE
Oct 3 Tue 4-5:30 Grandpa Tallman's Engine. In 1878 a modern farmer bought the large Fireproof Champion Steam Engine #48 to use on his farm in Ontario, Canada. Mike Roberts. UoG Rural History Roundtable. info and picture of it on wagon pulled by horses HERE
Oct 3 Tue 6:30 Pasta: The Long and the Short of It. Francine Segan. AARP not need to be member HERE
Oct 4 Wed 12 The Sifter: The Ask. Searching for Foods in History. Oxford Food Symposium. HERE
Oct 4 Wed 8 Tiny Bites for Health: Why We Should Consider Insects as a New(ish) Ingredient. Dr. Valerie Stull. Culinary History Enthusiasts of Wisconsin (CHEW). Hybrid. Info and link for zoom HERE
Oct 4 Wed 8 Italy by Ingredient: Artisanal Foods, Modern Recipes. Viola Buitoni. Culinary Historians of Chicago HERE TAPE HERE or HERE
Oct 5 Thu 6AM Birmingham [UK] - A City of a Thousand Cuisines: Celebrating diversity from across our food system. Birmingham City Council Public Health. HERE
Oct 5 Thu 12:30-2 War and cheese. Harry G. West. Food History Seminar. The Institute of Historical Research (IHR) HERE TAPE may be HERE
Oct 5 Mon 8 Feeding the Art Deco Spirit. Dr. Teri Edelstein. Chicago Foodways Roundtable HERE TAPE HERE or HERE
Oct 6 Fri 9:30AM Off t'Shops: Traditional Shopfronts and Shopfront Schemes. UK “traditional shopfront designs and their development as shopping habits have changed through history.” Katy-Jayne Lintott. Heritage Lincolnshire HERE
Oct 6 Fri 2 Kanesh: A Bronze Age Merchant’s City. Dr. Neil E. archaeologist. World Virtual Tours HERE
Oct 7 Sat 12 Whole Grains + Beans & Rice : A Taste of African Heritage. Shayla Felton-Dorsey. Culinary Literacy Center HERE
Oct 8 Sun 2 The Nation’s Capital [DC] Brewmaster: Christian Heurich (1842-1945) and his Brewery. Dr. Mark Benbow. CHoW Culinary Historians of Washington, DC. HERE
Oct 9 Mon 7:30 From 15th Century to Today: How to Find Treasures in Linnean Collections. Isabelle Charmantier, Will Beharrell. Linnean Society of London HERE
Oc 10 Tue 12 From Massachusetts to Texas – American-Made Stoneware at the DAR Museum. Carrie Blough. DAR Museum HERE TAPE HERE
Oct 10 Tue 7 Wicked Plants: The Weed that Killed Lincoln's Mother & Botanical Atrocities. ergot author Amy Stewart. Chester County History Center. donation HERE. North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences 2020 TAPE HERE
Oct 10 Tue 8 A Culinary History of Funeral Food. Sarah Lohman. Brooklyn Brainery. $10 HERE
Oct 11 Wed 12 Preserving African American Heritage on the Eastern Shore, Maryland. “…Eastern Shore in particular had more free blacks than most other slave-holding areas in the nation … seafood industry became the economic backbone of the region, African Americans were an integral part of the workforce, particularly in the processing plants.” Chesapeake Bay Chapter of AIA HERE
Oct 11 Wed 6 Speculation Nation: Land Mania in the Revolutionary American Republic. author Michael Blaakman. Mass Historical Society HERE TAPE HERE
Oct 12 Thu 2 Ladybirds [Ladybugs]. Helen Roy. London Natural History Society.
HERE
Oct 12 Thu 6 Colorful Palate - Pépin Lecture Series. author Raj Tawney. Boston University Programs in Food & Wine HERE
Oct 12 Thu 8 History of Black Foodways in Illinois. Dr. Scott Alves Barton. Culinary Historians of Northern Illinois HERE
Oct 12 Thu 8 Cult Food. “often bizarre connections between food and America's cults.” Sarah Lohman. Brooklyn Brainery. $10 HERE
Oct 13 Fri 2-3:30 A Visual Feast: Images of Food and Dining in Western Art. Efrat El-Hanany. SFU Continuing Studies (Liberal Arts and 55+) HERE
Oct 15 Sun 4 Dining in the Gilded Age. Dr. Helen Zoe Veit. Culinary Historians of Ann Arbor. HERE TAPE HERE or HERE
Oct 17 Tue 6:30 Seed to Plate, Soil to Sky Modern Cooking with Native American Ingredients. author Dr. Lois Ellen Frank. Culinary Historians of New York. $12.51 HERE
Oct 18 Wed 12:30 Alcohol in the Colonial Era. Selections from the Collection Live. Zac Distel. SAR Outreach Education HERE. TAPE HERE
Oct 19 Thu 10AM-12 The Space Food Revolution: Farm-to-Table Meets Orbit-to-Plate. “From growing food in microgravity to the challenges of food preservation, our expert panelists will share the latest breakthroughs in space cuisine.” Dr. Christianna Taylor. $5 HERE
Oct 19 Thur 12:30 Cachaça, please! Matches and representations from the organizing perspective. Cachaça a drink in Brazil, from the 1990s. Rafaela Costa Cruz Barbieri. IHR Food History Seminar HERE TAPE may be HERE
Oct 19 Thu 4 When Two Worlds Met. book series. Gail White Usher, Conversation Club. Stanley-Whitman House. CT HERE
Oct 19 Thu 7 Pewabic Pottery: A History 120 Years in the Making. Detroit. Isabelle Charmantier, Will Beharrell. Pewabic Pottery HERE
Oc 21 Sat 2 Cuisine of Different Cultures - Tea from Around the World. Atlantic Institute HERE TAPE may be HERE
Oct 22 Sun 8 Food and Resistance in Ukraine. Ihor Lylo. Bay Area Culinary Historians BACH HERE
Oct 24 Tue 12 We need to talk about...Food and Migration: Finding Nourishment in Hardship. Dr. Karen E Fisher, Mohammed Shwamra, Janie Mac. Oxford Food Symposium. £ 0-15 HERE
Oct 24 Tue 12:30 From Kit Kats to Colonialism: A Rowntree Research Journey. Emma Robertson, author of Chocolate, Women and Empire “shares her research on the colonial contexts of the Rowntree Company's growth.” The Rowntree Society HERE
Oct 25 Wed 2 Beekeeping in the End Times. Larisa Jasarevic “talk about the effects of climate change on beekeeping in Bosnia and Herzegovina.” Cambridgeshire Beekeepers' Association HERE
Oct 25 Wed 5:30-7 Inside the Victorian American Kitchen: Hub of Cooking Innovation. (1837–1901) Becky Libourel Diamond. New York Adventure Club. Replay for week $10 HERE
Oct 26 Thur 2 A Dark History of Sugar. Neil Buttery author. “The dark history of sugar is one of exploitation: of slaves and workers, of the environment and of the consumer.” HERE
Oct 30 Mon 3:30 The Call of the Sea with Julie Bourges. Photograph French women fishermen. Frodsham & District Photographic Society. £5. HERE
Oct 31 Tue 3 Things that go BUMP in the night: A Halloween (online) Happening. Discover the origins of Halloween, listen to amusing poetry & make and taste spooky historical food. Fun and terror - if you.
Paul Couchman - The Regency Cook £20 HERE
NOVEMBER EVENTS -- Eastern time zone.
47 talks/ month
Nov 1 Wed 6 An Invitation to Tea with Mrs. D. “some peculiarities of Charleston tea culture, and changes from pre-Revolutionary to post-Revolutionary in tea rituals and consumption.” TEA TIME: Culture, Consumption and Controversy in Colonial America. 3 part series. David S. Shields. The Powder Magazine Museum. Charleston, SC $10 HERE
Nov 1 Wed 7 A Walk Back in Time: The Secrets of Cellar Holes. Adair Mulligan. New Hampshire Humanities HERE
Nov 1 Wed 8 When a Cell Biologist becomes a Culinary Travel Expert. Joan Peterson & Susan Peterson Chwae of EatSmart food travel guides. Culinary History Enthusiasts of Wisconsin (CHEW) Info and link for zoom HERE
Nv 2 Thu 9AM Lightning talks: menus, pork, foraging. Adrian Bresler, Evelyn Lambeth, Madeline DeDe-Panken. Food History Seminar. The Institute of Historical Research (IHR) HERE TAPE may be HERE
Nov 2 Thu 1-2:30 Family Heirloom Recipes from the Illinois State Fair. Catherine Lambrecht. “Since 2009, she has judged Family Heirloom Recipes contests on behalf of Greater Midwest Foodways in Illinois and across the Midwest. Contestants enter their best scratch family heirloom recipe suitable for a family or community dinner. The recipe should have originated 50 years ago or earlier” DeKalb County History Center IL HERE TAPE HERE
Nov 2 Thu ?1:30 Science, taste, and the development of school meals in World War Two Britain. Laura Newman. History of Education Seminar. The Institute of Historical Research (IHR) HERE
Nov 2 Thu ?3:30 Creature Comforts in Medieval Mid-Wales. “how Welsh language poets depict 'the good life' in the gentry houses of late-medieval Mid-Wales, and will consider the value of this literary material as a historical source.” Marged Haycock. Abbey Cwmhir Heritage Trust. Donation HERE TAPE HERE
Nov 2 Thu 3-4:30 Cattle and Blizzards: Lessons from the Big Die-Up in 1880s. Montana. “thousands of cattle died in frigid temperatures over the winter of 1886-1887… newly-imported, “naïve” Texas and midwestern cattle hampered cowboys’ work to keep them alive… interdependent with range health and human health…” Dr. Susan Nance. UoG Rural History Roundtable HERE
Nov 4 Sat 11 Water, Power, and Technology in the Roman World. Livia Galante. Context. $26.50 HERE
Nv 4 Sat 6:30 The food of childhood. Arts at the Weekend. Susan Gordon Byron. Culture Boar. donation HERE
Nv 6 Mon 12:30 The view from the kitchen: enslaved and free women of color, an eighteenth-century French slave port city, and a grassroots metropolitan node of racial capitalism. Nantes in the late 1740s. Julie Hardwick. Modern French History seminar. The Institute of Historical Research (IHR) HERE
Nv 7 Tue 9AM Thrones of Felicity: London by Pub. Pete Smith. Guildhall Library. HERE. *Don’t count on Eventbrite, and if not get an email from library the day before.
Nov 7 Tue 6:30 The History of America’s Favorite Cookbooks and Food Magazines. Francine Segan. AARP not have to be member HERE
Nov 7 Tue 8 The Greek Diner and the Making of American Cuisine. “…eve of World War I, Greek immigrants began buying up the diners abandoned by German Americans… In these kitchens, the new Greek owners would adapt traditional German travelers' fare with a touch of the Mediterranean…” National Hellenic Museum HERE
Nov 8 Wed 12 Sifter: The Ask. “adding a cookbook to the database, as well as answering questions” James Mallin, Gary Thompson. Oxford Food Symposium. HERE. The Sifter website HERE
Nv 8 Wed 6 Hoisted Casks, Teetering Tables, and Broken Cups: A Material Culture of Tea in Revolutionary America. Tea Time series. Part Two. Amy Smart Martin author of Buying into the World of Goods: Early Consumers in Backcountry Virginia. The Powder Magazine Museum. Charleston, SC $10 HERE
Nv 8 Wed 6:30 Glidden Pottery: unique stoneware for the Mid-Century table. “produced in Alfred, New York from 1940 to 1957.” Margaret Carney. International Museum of Dinnerware Design. HERE. TAPE HERE
Nov 9 Thu 12 Gastronomy: Novels about Food and Culture. Book group. Crescent by Diana Abu-Jaber. Vermont Humanities. Hybrid HERE
Nov 9 Thu 8 The Delmonico Way. "America’s first fine dining restaurant, that began in 1827 in Manhattan... 1926, and Italian immigrant Oscar Tucci (Max’s grandfather) buys Delmonico’s... continues attracting celebrities and world leaders ... and institutes many of the professional restaurant standards in use today, known as the Delmonico Way. Max Tucci. Culinary Historians of Chicago. HERE TAPE HERE
Nov 11 Sat 1:30 My Family’s Alsatian Wartime Journal, with Recipes. Kitty Morse. Culinary Historians of Southern California. HERE. Culinary Historians of Chicago Feb 2023 TAPE HERE
Nov 12 Sun 12-1:30 Sephardi: Cooking the History of the Jews of Spain. author Hélène Jawhara Piñer. Culinary Historians of New York $12.51 HERE TAPE may be HERE; Jewish Theological Seminary · Apr 27, 2022 TAPE HERE
Nv 12 Sun 1-2:30 Where We Ate - A Love Letter to Canadian Restaurants Past & Present. author Gabby Peyton. Culinary Historians of Canada $11.64 HERE
Nov 12 Sun 2 Marshmallow Metamorphosis. Shirley Cherkasky. Culinary Historians of Washington HERE
Nov 14 Tue 12 Old Line Plate: Maryland Stories, Recipes, and Celebrations. Kara Mae Harris. DAR Museum HERE TAPE HERE
Nov 14 Tue 7-8:30 Mushrooms 101 - Your Guide to All Things Mushrooms. “We're here to spill the tea on mushrooms. What are they, and why should you care? We'll be talking foraging, cultivation, and mush more!” Robert Courteau. Ottawa Mushroom Society donation HERE
Nov 15 Wed 1-2:30 Navigating Nineteenth-century English Meals - changing manners and fashions explored through Worcester porcelain. Dr Neil Buttery. Museum of Royal Worcester UK HERE TAPE HERE
Nov 15 Wed 5:30 The Thousand Dollar Dinner: Culinary Contests of the Gilded Age. Becky Libourel Diamond. New York Adventure Club. $10 week replay HERE
Nov 15 Wed 6 Ways of Eating - Pépin Lecture Series. “Mother-son duo Merry White and Benjamin Wurgaft explore the culinary world of food history and anthropology in their book Ways of Eating. Boston University Programs in Food & Wine HERE
Nov 15 Wed 6 Charleston: The Tea Party That Wasn't? TEA TIME: Culture, Consumption and Controversy in Colonial America: Part Three. Dr. James Fichter upcoming book Tea: Consumption, Politics, and Revolution, 1773–1776. The Powder Magazine Museum. Charleston, SC $10 HERE
Nv 16 Thu 12:30-2 From Oro Verde (Green Gold) to “Blood Diamonds”: Avocados in Mexico. Lois Stanford. Food History Seminar. The Institute of Historical Research (IHR) HERE TAPE may be HERE
Nv 16 Thu 12:30 Seeing Women in the 18th century English East India Companies and Dutch East India Companies. Mark Williams. Society, Culture & Belief, 1500-1800. The Institute of Historical Research (IHR) HERE
Nov 16 Thu 3:30 Feast for the Eyes Workshop. Joyce Raimondo. Pollock-Krasner House and Study Center NY HERE
Nov 16 Thur 7 Gobble with Gratitude: A history of Presidential Turkey Pardons. Curiosity Odyssey $10 HERE
Nv 17 Fri 9AM Tea and Sovereignty: British Responses to the Boston Tea Party. “250 years since the Boston Tea Party. this political and mercantile protest.” Daniel Gosling. National Archives UK. Pay what you can. HERE
Nov 17 Fri 3 Food Writing and Telling Heritage Stories Through Food. The Writers' Lunch. Viola Buitoni, Camper English, and Henry Hsu. Mechanics' Institute HERE TAPE HERE
Nv 19 Sun 4 Pumpkin: The Curious History of an American Icon. Dr. Cindy Ott. Culinary Historians of Ann Arbor. HERE TAPE HERE or HERE
Nov 19 Sun 6 How Innovations in British Silversmithing Shaped our Modern Dining Tables. Carrie Tillie. Bay Area Culinary Historians HERE
Nov 20 Mon 7 Oil, Almonds, and… Ears?! The Customary Foods of Chanukkah, Tu B’Shvat, and Purim. Joel Haber. Walnut Street Synagogue, Chelsea, MA HERE
Nv 22 Wed 12 Costa Rican Flavours of Traditional Cuisine. World Virtual Tours HERE
Nv 23 Th 1 Soviet Gardening as a necessity and pleasure: Soviet Estonia, a case study "Growing one's own food, bartering, treating and preserving it became an integral part of living …late 1970s and 1980s. Triin Jerlei. History of Gardens and Landscapes. The Institute of Historical Research (IHR) HERE
Nov 24 Fri 8AM Material Cultures of Climate and Health in Architecture. Dustin Valen. Paul Mellon Centre. London. Medical not food, but interesting image of fireplace HERE. TAPE may be HERE
Nov 26 Sun 11 Historic Christmas Pudding Cookery Course. Paul Couchman - The Regency Cook £20 HERE. More on ‘Stir up Sunday’ blog post HERE
Nov 28 Tue 6:30 Tenement Kitchens. Special Virtual Tour. Tenement Museum NYC HERE. TAPE may be HERE
Nv 29 Wed 1:30 Goodbye Cockaigne! Working, eating & laughing in the Anthropocene, 1250-2023. John Sabapathy. European History 1150-1550. The Institute of Historical Research (IHR) HERE
Nv 29 Wed 7 Midcentury Christmas. “Christmas in America from the 1940s through the 1960s” Dr. Leslie Goddard. Loudoun County Public Library, VA HERE
Nov 30 Thu 12:30-2 German war bread [WWI] and Dutch liquorice. Jonathan Slater, Marieke M.A. Hendriksen. Food History Seminar. The Institute of Historical Research (IHR) HERE TAPE may be HERE
Nv 30 Thu 2 York Ancient Markets: The Butter Market. “Butter produced by local farmers - sold at market - distributed by merchants… buying in bulk, located close to the river Ouse to allow easier distribution to other parts of England.” Karen Adams. PastSearch HERE. TAPE may be HERE
Nv 30 Thu 6 Tavern Tales from Early New England, Robert A. Geake, author of Historic Taverns of Rhode Island. Historic New England HERE
DECEMBER EVENTS -- Eastern time zone.
***Please donate to the non-profits and support small businesses.***
20 talks/ month
Dec 5 Tue 6:30 Holiday Traditions & Treats Around the World. AARP HERE
Dec 6 Wed 2:30 From peace to pigs in blankets: the British Christmas from 1945 onwards. Dr Annie Gray. The National Archives UK £15 tape for 2 days HERE
Dec 6 Wed 3-4:30 All Nature's Face, is dug, pitch'd up & tore': The Loyalist Environmental Imagination from Occupied New York City. “occupying army, “…nothing escaped their hands, and in the course of six weeks not a lamb, nor a calf, a duck, not a goose, a turkey, a pig, nor a dunghill fowl, was to be seen in the town; nor a potato, a turnip, nor a cabbage, in the fields.” Blake McGready. American Philosophical Society HERE TAPE may be HERE
Dec 6 Wed 6 Creating Christmas. “how Christmas, a centuries old European celebration, became something uniquely American.” Mickey DiCamillo. Wharton Public Library HERE
Dec 6 Wed 7 Brewing in New Hampshire: An Informal History of Beer in the Granite State from Colonial Times to the Present. Glenn Knoblock. NH Humanities HERE
Dec 6 Wed 8 The Dane County Farmers’ Market Cookbook: History, Recipes and Stories. Terese Allen. CHEW Culinary History Enthusiasts of Wisconsin. Rescheduled Feb 7, 2024 HERE TAPE may be HERE
Dec 7, 14, 21 Thu 2 History of Christmas Customs, Feasting and Food. “Christmas customs, traditions, myths, legends and fabulous food explored in a three-week course.” Paul Couchman - The Regency Cook £40-50 HERE
Dec 8 Fri 12:30 Dutch trade and credit in the Barbados Sugar Boom of the 17th Century. Joris van den Tol. Economic… IHR HERE
Dec 10 Sun 2 What Can We Learn from the Study of Food Words? Judith Tschann. CHoW Culinary Historians of Washington DC HERE
Dec 11 Mon 7 A History of the World in 10 Dinners: 2,000 Years, 100 Recipes. Jay Reifel author. Culinary Historians of Chicago HERE. TAPE HERE
Dec 12 Tue 8 All Roads Lead to the City: The Spice Roads of the Byzantine Empire. Diane Kochilas. Spice month talk. National Hellenic Museum. HERE. TAPE HERE. Dec talk Mastic: The Queen of Spices. TAPE HERE
Dec 13 Wed 1 Anecdotes from the Archive including festive recollections of Christmas-time at Royal Worcester. Julia Letts. Museum of Royal Worcester UK HERE TAPE may be HERE
Dec 14 Thu 8-8:45AM Revisualising Colonial Past in John Smith's Generall Historie of Virginia. Dr Rachel Winchcombe. John Rylands Research Institute and Library UK HERE
Dec 14 Thu 12:30 Recipes of Gendered Entanglements: Culinary Transformations in Princely Rampur. “Rampur...1774 evolved as a cultural centre of north Indian Muslim culture. An important aspect of this cultural transformation was the curation of a ‘haute’ cuisine…” Tarana Husain Khan. Food History Seminar IHR HERE
Dec 14 Thur 2:30-3:45 The Welsh Community in Nanaimo, Vancouver Island, circa 1860-1914 “which attracted hundreds of Welsh colliers as it grew as a coal mining town.” Glamorgan Family History Society HERE
Dec 14 Thu 5:30 Uncovering America's Victorian Era Holiday Celebrations. Becky Libourel Diamond. New York Adventure Club $10 tape one week HERE
Dec 18 Mon 1 Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (and other deer) of the European Ice Age. “their distributions, diet, and how they were used by humans.” Dr Angharad Jones. Creswell Crags. Donation HERE
Dec 21 Thu 4 Trade Lists. When Two Worlds Met book series. Gail White Usher, Conversation Club. Stanley-Whitman House. CT HERE
Dec 24 Sun 11AM Jane Austen Mince Pie Bake-a-Long. “A Christmas Mince Pie class held online on Christmas Eve. Bake-Along or watch and enjoy the food & history.” Paul Couchman - The Regency Cook £20 HERE
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