Archive 2 - Calendar of virtual food history talks March 2021
With almost 300 talks in March, this list would not add on to the 2021 archives which has over 350 talks, so I've had to start another Archive page. The original Calendar of virtual talks page now is only the current month's talks. This post is to "archive" all (including not taped) virtual talks. Only about a fourth are taped and marked in red as Tape. Those which are taped will also be placed in the various categories when I have time.
Topics lists of past TAPED talks in separate posts: African American // Barns /// Beverages, Alcohol /// Bread, flour, salt, horno /// British // Chinese /// Chocolate /// Cookbooks, Manuscripts // Dining out // Fish /// Food aid /// Gardens, Farms /// Hearth cooking, ovens /// Holiday Christmas /// Holiday Easter Eggs /// Holidays Nv,Dec // Ice Harvesting /// Indigenous // Irish /// Italian /// Jewish // Maple Sugar // Medical /// Medieval foods, gardens // Rationing // Scotland // Tea and Prohibition
Archive 1 - list of all past talks 2020 HERE
Archive 2021 list of all past talks Jan-Feb HERE /t/ March HERE /t/ April HERE /t/ May HERE June HERE July & Au HERE
Current talks HERE
MARCH EVENTS -- Eastern time zone
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*Jewish foodways upcoming and past taped talks HERE
*Pi Day Pies π 3.14 (3/14/2021 March 14) Many pie talks, bake-alongs. Mar 11-14. Folger Shakespeare Library's Great Library [Historic Potato] Pie Bake-Off. See how to participate at March 12 listing (when it ends, with a talk). Some recipes HERE
*Irish food, famine, and drinks talks and tapes HERE
Mar 1 Mon 6-7 AM The Irish Traveller Shelter Tent and Griddle Bread. NUI Galway Irish Traveller Ethnicity Day 2021. HERE
Mar 1 Mon 12 The Purim Experience: the Jews of the Great Silk Road. Bukharian Jewish merchants, “contribution of Central Asia's Jewish communities of today's Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, and Afghanistan to this ancient path... for over 2000 years.” Manashe Khaimov. Center for Jewish History $10 HERE
Mar 1 Mon 1-2:30 Suffragette City: The Women’s Suffrage Movement in NYC. “how eating lunch became a major feminist statement.” Lucie Levine. New York Adventure Club $10 tape for week HERE
Mar 1 Mon 6pm Oysters: The New York Connection. “Once the Oyster capital of the world, learn how and why New York City and Long Island are restocking local waterways with oysters, clams and scallops.“ Cornell Cooperative Extension. East Hampton Library HERE
Mar 1 Mon 8 Betty Crocker and Her Cookbook That Changed How America Cooks. Leslie Goddard. Mount Prospect Public Library IL HERE
Mar 1 Mon 8-9:30pm Speakeasies of NYC: A Tale of Crime, Creativity, and Celebration. Sylvia Laudien-Meo. New York Adventure Club. $10 included tape/week HERE
Mar 1 Mon 10-11:30 PM The Culinary Misadventures of Eleanor Roosevelt. with friend/WH cook Elizabeth Nesbitt made meals for the Depression. “so gray, so drooping, and so spectacularly inept that they became a Washington legend.” Maryellen Burns. Renaissance Society Sacramento, Renaissance Cafe HERE TAPE HERE
Mar 2 Tue 12 Deep Space Food Webinar. “astronauts and experts from NASA and the Canadian Space Agency discuss cosmic culinary experiences and the history of space food system technology.” Deep Space Food Challenge. Methuselah Foundation HERE TAPE HERE /
Mar 2 Tue 12:30 Circulating Libraries and Private Networks: Locating Sources for Mary Hays’s Female Biography, 1795-1803. Timothy Whelan. IHR UK HERE TAPE may be HERE
Mar 2 Tue 2 Restoring our Rivers – Removing Barriers to Fish Migration. “how these weirs, locks and other infrastructure affect fish (barbel) migration along the River Severn - and what could happen if they were removed.” Dr Catherine Gutmann Roberts. Bournemouth University UK HERE [River Severn also Mar 18] TAPE HERE
Mar 2 Tue 3 Shrimp Tales - Small Bites of History. “history of people, places and boats of the commercial shrimping industry in the Southeast” US. author Beverly Bowers Jennings. Heritage Library History & Ancestry Research Center. SC $5 HERE Different location TAPE HERE
Mar 2 Tue 8-10pm Olive Oil and Balsamic Vinegar Tasting to Greece & Italy. “a culinary adventure through two incredible countries.” Christina and Carolyn, from Myths and Muses Tours. Ingenious Travel HERE TAPE HERE
Mr 2 Wellcome's Recipe Books. Julia Nurse. Welcome Collection 13 min. TAPE HERE
Mar 3 Wed 12:30-2 Indigenous Food Sovereignty in the Americas. Latin American Studies Center CU Boulder CO HERE
Mar 3 Wed 1:30-3 C for Chile. “Exploration of main grapes and regions, as well as history, culture and gastronomy.” Wine Alphabet. €16.86 tape HERE
Mar 3 Wed 1:30-3:30 The Black History of Food (1) Cornbread, Conkies and Cooking. Elaine Buchanan. Black History Walks. Donation HERE
Mar 3 Wed 6-7:30 Native American Gardening Traditions. “traded foods and other goods across the continent for generations before Europeans arrived…” create dishes with "Mother Corn." Cassandra Stancil Gunkel, PhD and Bonnie Tobin. Friends Life Care: VigR HERE
Mar 3 Wed 8 War Fare: Absinthe and Wine. “before 1914, absinthe was celebrated in cafes and literature alike, but by the end of World War I, wine was synonymous with French culture.” Doug Frost, Matthew Naylor. National WWI Museum MO $10 HERE [another Absinthe on Mr 5]
Mar 3 Wed 7:30 Wisconsin Cocktails: Why We Drink What We Drink. “state’s obsession with brandy, ice cream drinks, and a smorgasbord of garnishes. Beyond delving into mythic origins of several classic creations.” author Jeanette Hurt. Culinary History Enthusiasts of Wisconsin (CHEW) HERE
Mar 3 Wed 8-9:30 PM Mexico's History in 10 Dishes. “domestication of several important crops in Mesoamerica… Mexico's cuisine has evolved with influences from various locations around the world.” Discover Oaxaca Tours $20 HERE /
Mar 3 Ancient Origins of the Mediterranean Diet. Ancient Greek Cuisine. Ed Sherman Renaissance Café TAPE HERE
Mar 4 Thur 10-12 Revealing Recipes: Top Tips from Early Modern Women. Household medicinal recipes, power of remedy books, Wellcome recipe collection, transcribing, digitizing, conserving. Bluejeans platform tape via EMROC. Early Modern Recipes Online Collective, Royal College of Physicians and the Wellcome Collection. HERE TAPE HERE The Ayscough Project HERE
Mar 4 Thur 11 History of Cattle in Texas. Texas A&M AgriLife Extension HERE TAPE HERE
Mar 4 Thur 11 Greece: Discover a Delightful Food & Wine Holiday Destination. 3,5000 years of winemaking, tour wine regions, indigenous varieties. Wine Events Worldwide HERE TAPE HERE
Mar 4 Thurs 12:15-2:30 Street Life in Renaissance Italy. Author Fabrizio Nevola. The Institute of Historical Research (IHR) UK HERE TAPE may be HERE
Mar 4 Thurs 12:15-2:30 The Quest for Quality: A History of Coffee in Producer Nations. Jordan Buchanan, Philip Magowan. The Institute of Historical Research (IHR) UK HERE TAPE may be HERE
Mar 4 Thur 12:30-2 Nitrogen, the staff of life: measuring food intake before the Calorie. Arnaud Page. The Institute of Historical Research (IHR) UK HERE TAPE may be HERE
Mar 4 Thur 1-2:30 Nineteenth-Century Archives and Handwriting in the Digital Age roundtable. Dr Leon Litvack, Angelique Richardson, Beth Mills, Dr Christopher Ohge, Adrian S. Wisnicki. TAPE and info HERE
Mar 4 Thur 2-3:30 America's Sweet Candy History. The companies and brands from early treats to modern chocolate bars. Dr. Leslie Goddard. Great Neck Library, N.Y HERE TAPE HERE
Mar 4 Thur 2:30 Women in the American Revolution. Hope Roselle. Old Barracks Museum HERE TAPE HERE
Mar 4 Thur 3 What's Cooking? “important cookery books and food- and drink-related ephemera offered California Virtual Book Fair. Antiquarian Booksellers' Association of America HERE TAPE HERE
Mar 4 Thur 4pm A 40,000 Year History of Mead in Southern Africa. Neil Rusch. Fermentology NC State U info HERE Register HERE TAPES HERE
Mar 4 Thur 5:30-6:30 Oystering in Norwalk, CT - A Virtual Chat with Photographer and author Bill Whitbeck. Norwalk Historical Society $5 donation Mar 4 2021 TAPE Youtube HERE of Facebook HERE
Mar 4 Thur 5:30-7 [6 weeks] A Taste of African Heritage with Coleman Library. Series over 6 weeks, recipes upon signing up. Culinary Literacy Center. Free Library of Philadelphia PA HERE
Mar 4 Thur 7 Black, White, and The Grey. Founding of The Grey restaurant in Savannah by authors Mashama Bailey and John Morisano. Georgia Center for the Book HERE /
Mar 4 Thurs 7:30 The Marmalade Mavens. Sarah B. Hood. Culinary Historians of Canada $18 HERE
Mar 4 Thur 8 Swedish Pancakes for Breakfast? “foods we eat can tell us about immigration, identity, and Nordic-American life in the Upper Midwest, by focusing on coffee, lutefisk, and, of course, Swedish pancakes.” B. Marcus Cederstrom. Chicago Foodways Roundtable HERE
Mar 4 Thur 8-9:30 Cooking with ArtBites: The Grand Tour. Georgian England, the French Court, Ancient Rome, Renaissance Italy. Food and art. Maite Gomez-Rejon. ArtBites $25 HERE
Mar 5 Fri 9 AM Serving Winston: the life of Churchill's Cook. “Georgina Landemare cooked for the Churchills for over 14 years.” By author Annie Gray. The National ArchivesHERE
Mar 5 Fri 10-11:30 Interactive Book Symposium. Interacting with Early Modern Recipe Books. Renaissance Shortcuts books with moving parts [great]; Marissa Nicosia (Cooking in the Archives); Children’s Interactive Books in the 18th and 19th Cen; Selfing in the Postcard Album. NYU Libraries HERE TAPE HERE
Mar 5 Fri 12-2 Agents of Assistance: Reconstructing Socio-Economic Networks of Care in Early Modern England. Charmian Mansell. IHR UK HERE TAPE may HERE
Mar 5 Fri 12:30-2 Economies of Knowledge. The Epistemic Cultures in the Dutch East India Company (1602–c1650) Susanne Friedrich. IHR UK HERE TAPE HERE
Mar 5 Fri 1:15-2 The Origins & Rituals of Absinthe: A Virtual Lecture & Tasting. for International Absinthe Day. Allison Crawbuck & Rhys Everett. The Last Tuesday Society. £8.95 HERE [another Absinthe on Mar 3]
Mar 5 Fri 2-3:30 Taste 102: Bitter / Umami. Samantha Schmell, Margaret Dobbs. ShopRite Nutrition Team HERE
Mar 5 Fri 3 Fish of the Peninsula and the South Bay Watersheds. “where these fish live, where they used to live, and why many of their populations have sadly deteriorated due to historical and current-day environmental impacts.” Salmon, trout, other native fish of San Francisco. Richard Tejeda. Peninsula Open Space Trust. CA HERE TAPE HERE
Mar 6 Sat 6-7 AM [7 dates] Explore Bengali flavours from the streets of Kolkata. “Kolkata Egg Roll… history and origins of this popular street food delight.” Fild. £20 HERE /
Mar 6 Sat 9AM An Anglo-Saxon Industrial Malting Complex at Sedgeford. Middle Anglo-Saxon malting/brewing complex, on an at least semi-industrial scale. Dr Neil Faulkner. Norfolk and Norwich Archaeological Society HERE FULL
Mar 6 Sat 2-3:30 History of Childhood and Early Kid Food. Dr. Shayne Figueroa. 4 part series. A Century of Kids and Food: From Applesauce to Zagnut. Jefferson Market Library HERE
Mar 6 Sat 4-6 Gather: The Fight to Revitalize Our Native Foodways. film Watch Party. Rebecca Harrell Tickel and Josh Tickel. One Earth Film FestivalHERE
Mar 6 Sat 6-7:30 Amaro – The Basics of Bitter Liqueurs. “history of amaro, suggest staples to stock your home bar, and cover several cocktails. Zachary Faden. Museum of Distilled Spirits $30 HERE
Mar 6 Sat 7:30-9 New York Brew History & Guided Beer Tasting. 400 years of brewing, since the Dutch. Craig Gravina of the Albany Ale Project (research site HERE) and author of Upper Hudson Valley Beer. Putnam History Museum $10 +for beers HERE /
Mar 7 Sun 6AM Travel Like a Local: U.S.A. - Traditional & Favorite Desserts. “history of favorite American desserts, where in the U.S. they were invented and how each are prepared.” For non-native English speakers. Global Immersions, Inc. $23 HERE
Mar 7 Sun 11-1 Dairy. “make cultured butter, fresh ricotta, and gnudi with browned butter sauce.” Maria van Zyl of Cream of the Crop Butter (Cape Town SA). Seeds & Salt $45 HERE
Mar 7 Sun 2 Medieval Catalan Cooking. “trace the roots of a traditional Catalan recipe, 600 years in the making, and learn about the history of recipe documentation… first eggplant recipe that was written down” Hannah of Atlas Obscura $25 HERE another talk on May 8
Mar 7 Sun 2:30-4 In A Wild Irish Kitchen. transform foraged plants into “recipes using traditional & modern methods… from wild ice cream to remedies… early spring: wild garlic, wild leeks, cleavers, nettles…” Tanya Jordan. Wild Food Events. Donation. Ireland HERE /
Mar 7 Sun 3-4:30 The History of Chocolate. Luis Luis-Martinez. $36.50 HERE
Mar 7 Sun 5-6:30 Umayyad and Abbasid Gardens of the Islamic World with Dr. Sabahat Adil. Context Travel. $36.50 HERE
Mar 8 Mon 12 [many dates] Cooking an authentic Kenyan meal. Minji Stew, Chapati and Steamed Cabbages. “serve this dish on all their traditional ceremonies… family meals. Nimoh. Fild £20 HERE /
Mar 8 Mon 2 'Excuse me dearest Madam I did not send this sooner’. Regarding the domestic in the collections of the National Library of Ireland. Culinary collection of 18th cen recipes. Dr. Dorothy Cashman. National Library of Ireland HERE TAPE may be HERE /
Mar 8 Mon 5 Tap the Sap! Maple Sugaring Science & History. age 8-14 NY sugaring from pre-Colonial to modern methods. The Ashokan Center NY $12 HERE
Mar 8-9 Mon-Tue 9-5 Hop on the grain train. Various panels, tours, demo including 1730s stone ground flour mill, Local Grain & Traditional Foodways: Tsampa demo. Philadelphia Grain & Malt Symposium. CRAFT at Chatham University $12 HERE
Mar 9 Tue 1 The Story of Bread. “Symbolic breads are found in rituals throughout the world… [current bread] is a nutritional, culinary, social and environmental mess.” Rob Penn author of Slow Rise and Colin Tudge. 5x15 HERE TAPE HERE
Mar 9 Tue 1:30 Clitterhouse Farm, an Anglo-Saxon farm. “exploration and the local archaeological society that has undertaken it.” Roger Chapman. London & Middlesex Archaeological Society LAMAS £2.50 HERE
Mar 9 Tue 2-3 North Carolina: Mountains, moonshine and barbecue. National Geographic Traveller UK HERE TAPE HERE
Mr 9 Tue 3 London's Food Factories. Victorian factories where famous food brands were made… Peak Freans, Sarsons and McVities. Rob Smith, Footprints of London £6 HERE
Mar 9 Tue 5:15-6:30 Climate in Words and Numbers: How Early Americans Recorded Weather in Almanacs. Joyce Chaplin. Mass Historical Society HERE TAPE may be HERE
Mar 9 Tues 5:30-7 Food and Kingship in Early Medieval England. Tom Lambert, Sam Leggett. the system of food renders (sometimes termed ‘feorm’) The Institute of Historical Research (IHR) UK HERE TAPE may be HERE
Mar 9 Tue 6:00 Voyage of Mercy: The USS Jamestown, the Irish Famine, and the Remarkable Story of America’s First Humanitarian Mission. “In 1847, the USS Jamestown set sail from Boston loaded with food for people suffering … famine in Ireland. Starts with Irish music and images. Author Stephen Puleo. The National Park Service, Boston Harbor. Charlestown Navy Yard HERE TAPE HERE
Mar 9 Tue 6:30 Tavern Tastings: African American Foodways. “how recipes, cooking and eating methods, and traditions develop overtime…” Dr. Scott Alves Barton. Keeler Tavern Museum and Fraunces Tavern Museum HERE TAPE HERE
Mar 9 Tue 9-10pm Celebrate America's female Prohibition pioneers. “Each woman bootlegger is paired with a unique craft whiskey and distillery to highlight and honor their individual story.” Saint Liberty Whiskey. Women Who Whiskey Seattle Chapter $35 HERE
Mar 10 Wed 1:30-3 N for New Zealand. “Exploration of main grapes and regions, as well as history, culture and gastronomy.” Wine Alphabet. €16.86 tape HERE
Mar 10 Wed 2:30 Hanworth – A Farming Community. “Hanworth was once a rural farming community supplying London with goods from its market gardens.” Katy Cox. FORCE UK HERE POSTPONED
Mar 10 Wed 3 Mapping Manuscript Migrations: Tracking the Travels of 220,000 Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts. The MMM project “combined three large collections of data relating to the history and provenance of more than 220,000 medieval and Renaissance manuscripts.” Dr Toby Burrows. Birmingham U. NY HERE
Mar 10 Wed 6-7 Virtual Maple Syrup Education Program. History, science, tools and process. Best for grades 2-8. John R. Park Homestead. Essex Region Conservation Authority. Canada $8.45 HERE /
Mar 10 Wed 6:30 Taverns, Temperance, Teetotalers & Tommy Guns: The History of Prohibition. Dr. Francis Coan & Stephen McGrath. Weston Historical Society CT HERE TAPE HERE TAPE HERE
Mar 10 Wed 7 Virtual Cider Talk with Dan Pucci & Craig Cavallo authors of American Cider. Savoy Bookshop & Cafe 0-$40 HERE
Mar 10 Wed 7-8:30 The Queens of New Orleans Creole Cuisine: From Tante Zoe to Leah Chase. “African-American women from the 18th-20th century were major contributors to establishing New Orleans world famous Creole cuisine.” Zella Palmer. The Hermann-Grima + Gallier Historic Houses. LA HERE TAPE HERE
Mar 10 Wed 7 Lena Richard and Julia Child: Two Women Who Changed Culinary History. Lena Richard (1892-1950) wrote New Orleans Cook Book, and Julia Child (1912-2004) wrote The French Chef. Paula Johnson, Ashley Rose Young, 2021 Francophonie Celebration. Museum of Work & Culture. RI HERE TAPE HERE /
Mar 10 Wed 10-11:30PM Oysters – The World’s Oldest Superfood. “the culinary, artistic, sexual, historical, and scientific history of this humble bivalve… role in the building of empires and the discovery of new lands.” Carolyn Tillie. Renaissance Society Sacramento, Renaissance Cafe HERE TAPE HERE
Mar 11 Thur 12:15-1:30 Breadstamps: Imprinting the Sacred. Centre for Byzantine, Ottoman and Modern Greek Studies, Birmingham UK HERE CANCELLED
Mar 11 Thur 4-5 Tea Talk: Explore Pu’er Tea with author Lisa See The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane. “role of Pu’er tea in Chinese culture and society. You will also learn how to steep tea correctly, how to smoke chicken at home, and how to make tea eggs and Pu'er shortbread cookies.” Professor Judy Wu, Chef Jessica VanRoo. UCI Illuminations U Cal Irvine HERE TAPE HERE /
Mar 11 Thur 8:30-9:30pm Pi(e) Squared: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Pie and Pizza. Pi Day (March 14th). Lauren Ko (Pieometry), Kate Lebo (poet/pie-maker), Kate McDermott (Art of the Pie) and Dave Lichterman (Windy City Pies). KCTS 9 HERE TAPE HERE
Mar 12 Fri 4 Great Library Pie Bake-Off. Roundtable on Youtube live. “Catalogers, curators, and librarians from libraries across the country” to bake historical potatoe pies and tweet their results. Folger Shakespeare Library. Info HERE TAPE HERE
Mar 12 Fri 6-7:30 The Art of French Brasserie Cooking. “Thomas Jefferson’s contributions to American cuisine and the enslaved cooks who prepared the food for his table.“ Poulet à l’Estragon (Tarragon Chicken) David Bastide. Susan Stein talk on Jefferson’s years in France. Monticello. VA $35 HERE
Mar 13 Sat 6-8 AM [many dates] Traditional African Cooking. “Minced Beef Sauce with Ugali Nuggets. Ugali is a popular maize flour porridge made in Africa… history of African cuisine.” Gillian. Fild £30 HERE /
Mar 13 Sat 10:30-11:15 History in the Kitchen: Stewed Parsnips. white laborers, shopkeepers, and tenant farmers of Virginia. Gunston Hall 3 part series for 10 and up. VA HERE
Mar 13 Sat 11 am A Curious, Secret Spice in Your Masala. Zoom from Denmark. Lichens. Priya Mani. Chicago Foodways Roundtable HERE TAPE HERE
Mar 13 Sat 1:30-3:30 Someone’s in the Kitchen with Dinah (Shore). “Flo Selfman, who was on Dinah Shore's staff while she was writing her cookbook, shares her experiences with the self-taught chef.” Culinary Historians of Southern California HERE
Mar 13 Sat 2-3:30 Kid Food and Kids in Advertising. Dr. Shayne Figueroa. 4 part series. A Century of Kids and Food: From Applesauce to Zagnut. Jefferson Market Library HERE
Mar 13 Sat 2 Pysanka Eggs. (Ukranian egg created with written wax) Yevheniia (Jena) Bazaliy and Svitlana. Atlantic Institute SC TAPE HERE
Mar 13 Sat 3-3:30 Ode to Irish Whiskey! How made, distilleries, pot stills. “course focuses on the history and cocktail stories.” Horseations HERE TAPE HERE
Mar 13 Sat 3:30-6 Guinness Beef Stew and Irish Boxty. Cook, learn “some Irish history, and some food science for good measure.” Melissa. Til It's Done $20 ($10 for just recording) HERE /
Mar 13 Sat 5 Unboxing the Pie: The Strange and Wonderful World of Pizza. Origins, shape, 15,000 boxes. Scott Wiener. Atlas Obscura $15 HERE /
Pi Day Pies π 3.14 (3/14/2021 March 14) Many pie talks, bake-alongs. Mar 11-14.
Mar 14 Sun 10am Irish Tea History: Comfort and Rebellion in a Cup: The Story of Tea in Ireland. Tea, Irish soda bread, Kerrygold butter. Karen Donnelly. Starfish Junction Productions. $39 HERE
Mar 14 Sun 12 Sephardic Passover Cooking. “highlighting North African, Tunisian and Iraqi dishes from residents of Israel.” Bantage (Tunisian paddies made from potatoes and mushrooms), stuffed grape leaves and Sephardic Haroset. Grade 6 through adults. Jewish Children's Folkshul & Adult Community HERE
Mar 14 Sun 1 1850s San Francisco: Paris of the Pacific. “French origins from City Planning, SF Infrastructure, Retail Industry and Restaurants.” San Francisco City Guides HERE
Mar 14 Sun 2 The Influence of the Dutch on the American Kitchen. Ms. Peter G. Rose. CHoW Culinary Historians of DC HERE TAPE HERE
Mar 14 Sun 2 Tea Tasting with the Women of Shirley-Eustis House. 18th cen. Gov Shirley wife and daughter social role, later Gov Eustis wife Chinese export tea set. Shirley-Eustis House MA $12 HERE
Mar 14 Sun 2-3:30 Enchanted Irish Afternoon Tea. “origins of afternoon tea, followed by enchanting tales of food, heritage, folklore and history from the island of Ireland.” BBNY GROUP LLC $15 HERE
Mar 14 Sun 3pm 3.14 Peculiar Pies. 4 unique pies from around the world for Pi Day. Sam O’Brien. Gastro Obscura $12 HERE
Mar 14 Sun 3 War Fare: Food, Gender and German Identity. “and the national foodscape during and after WWI in Germany. Learn how food history can shed light on a better understanding of both world wars.” Dr. Heather Perry. National WWI Museum and Memorial HERE TAPE HERE /
Mar 14 Sun 3:30-5 Have you ever eaten a shamrock? Once common to eat, five main types, which ones edible. Tanya Jordan. Cul Stories donation HERE
Mar 14 Sun 4 Tequila 101 Pt 3: Production. “agave is harvested, cooked, fermented, distilled, aged (sometimes!) and bottled.” Khrys Maxwell. Museum of Distilled Spirits $35 HERE /
Mar 14 Sun 7:30 New Orleans Style Beignets (Donuts). Chef Michele. CocuSocial $19 HERE /
Charleston talks Mar 15/16, 22, and three on Mar 23
Indigo Girl: The Colorful Life of Eliza Lucas Pinckney. Bud Hill Georgetown Public Library. Au 2020 TAPE HERE
Mar 15 Mon 12 Indigo Girl: The Colorful Life of Eliza Lucas Pinckney Introduced growing indigo in SC. [handwritten recipes, not sure if discuss] Natasha Boyd. Historic Charleston Foundation $20 [Mar 16 same subject] HERE /
Mar 15 Mon 2-4 India and the Silk Roads: The History of a Trading World, author Dr Jagjeet Lally. “fate of these overland connections in the ages of sail and steam 18th 19th cen. UCL Institute of Advanced Studies HERE. TAPE HERE [Mar 1 talk on Silk Road]
Mar 15 Mon 5 Opening the Kitchen Door. Women Chefs Who Paved the Way. “historical perspective on what it took--and takes--to overcome the boundaries for women entering the world of restaurant kitchens.” Dame Tanya Holland, Dame Mashama Bailey, Rebecca Charles, Dame Christine Cikowski, Anita Lo, Sara Moulton. Les Dames d’Escoffier NY $20 HERE /
Mar 15 Mon 6 Mexico’s first female cookbook author. “Torres de Rubio was not only Mexico’s first female cookbook author but also the first to publish a regional cookbook in her 1896 trailblazing work, Cocina michoacana.” Maite Gomez-Rejon. La Plaza de Cultura y Artes LA HERE Facebook TAPE HERE Cocina Michoacana ckbk online HERE
Mar 15 Mon 7:30-9 Gin 101 pt 1: History. “From its genever origins to the gin acts and all the juniper-filled consumption in between.” Natasha Bahrami. Museum of Distilled Spirits $35 HERE /
Mar 15 Mon 8 Who Was Typhoid Mary? The Killer Cook who Changed what we know about Diseases. Dr. Leslie Goddard. Clarendon Hills Public Library IL HERE
Mar 15 Mon 9:15-10:45 Mexico's Early Cookbooks. “Mexican cuisine is recorded in the diaries of early Spaniards, colonial kitchen manuscripts and cookbooks published after Independence in 1821 through the 1910-1920 Revolution.” Maite Gomez-Rejon. Sherman Oaks Friends of the Library HERE
Mar 16 Tue 12 Indigo Girl: The Colorful Life of Eliza Lucas Pinckney Introduced growing indigo in SC. [handwritten recipes, not sure if discuss] Natasha Boyd. Historic Charleston Foundation $20 [Mar 15 same subject] HERE /
Mar 16 Tue 3-4:30 Traditional Irish Cooking. “Irish recipes full of traditional & heritage from our land.” by author Chef Brian McDermott. €25 HERE
Mar 16 Tue 5:30-7:30 The Origin, The History, and The Uses of Ancestral African Foods. “fruits, vegetables, grains, tubers, flowers, & trees” of Africa. Abena Offeh-Gyimah. Adda Blooms $30 HERE /
Mar 16 Tue 2 Delicious: The Evolution of Flavor and How It Made Us Human with Dr. Rob Dunn. OMSI Science Pub, Oregon Museum of Science and Industry TAPE HERE
Mar 16 Tue 6:30 Tapping into the Past: Tavern Life in Early Connecticut. Presented by the Connecticut Historical Society. Keeler Tavern Museum $5 HERE
Mar 16 Tue 6:30 Whiskey 101 Pt 3: Production. “differences between the production methods and maturation of Irish, Scotch, Bourbons, etc.“ Julia Ritz Toffoli, Kurt Maitland.” Museum of Distilled Spirits $35 HERE /
Mar 16 Tue 6:30 FrancoFun Food: La Suisse. Melted cheese, potatoes, pickles … popular Raclette dish. Chef Johann Lustenberger. Le Festival de la Francophonie / FrenchWorldFest. Alliance Française de Chicago. HERE TAPE HERE
Mar 16 Tue 7-9 The History of the New England Maple Sugar Harvest. “From slash to spile to suction the story of the maple sap harvest is one of romance, folklore and science.” Stanley-Whitman House CT $5 HERE
Maple Sugaring (and Ice harvesting tapes) posts HERE
Talks: March 8, 10, 16, 18, 27
Mar 16 Tue 7:30-9 The American Coffeehouse. “origins of coffee and coffee houses as a shared communal space.” Eve MacKnight. Brooklyn Brainery $6 HERE
Mar 16 Tue 8-9:30 Spices: A Primer. “origins and health benefits, distinguish between their whole and ground forms.” Laura Scheck. Brooklyn Brainery $29 HERE
Mar 16 Tue 8-9:15 A Brief History of Irish Food. Sarah Lohman. Brooklyn Brainery $7 HERE
St. Patrick's Day - Irish food, famine, and drinks talks and tapes HERE
Mar 17 Wed 9-9:30am Laborers and Bread Riots. Bread shortages, explosion killed women working at Richmond Ordinance Lab spring of 1863 street march led to attacking businesses. American Civil War Museum HERE TAPE HERE
Mar 17 Wed 1-2:30 Grande Cuisine to Grand Opera: The History of French Food & Opera. “17th century to19th century France to see how one country's cooking and opera took the world by storm.” Carl Raymond. New York Adventure Club. $10 and tape week HERE
Mar 17 Wed 2-3 Patrick’s Words and Worlds: A St Patrick’s Day Event. Dr Sharon Arbuthnot and Maire Ni Mhaonaigh authors of A History of Ireland in 100 [medieval Irish] Words. Food and feasting section. The Institute of Irish Studies HERE
Irish words by the authors of A History of Ireland in 100 [medieval Irish] Words Museum of literature Ireland MoLI podcasts. HERE
Mar 17 Wed 2-3 What’s on the Menu: The Cultural Meaning and Principles of Japanese Cuisine. Akemi Tanaka. LEVEL. £22.15 HERE
Mar 17 Wed 2-3:30 [also 6pm] Early Pennsylvania English/ Quaker Food Culture. “sample Quaker recipes and early trade goods.” Dr. Cassandra Stancil Gunkel, Bonnie Tobin. Friends Life Care: VigR HERE
Mar 17 Wed 2:30-4 A for Australia. “Exploration of main grapes and regions, as well as history, culture and gastronomy.” Wine Alphabet. €16.86 tape HERE
Mar 17 Wed 3-3:45 Bread or Blood. Richmond Bread Riot in spring of 1863. Women involved and controversy over the end. Kelly Hancock. American Civil War Museum HERE
Mar 17 Wed 3-4:30 The Craven Heifer: the biography of a beast. The largest cow in England died 1812. Carl Griffin. AHG Seminar. Animal History Group, King’s College London. HERE
Mar 17 Wed 4 Opening The Interactive Book. exhibit includes recipe books, paper wheels that tell calendrical time… Dr. Julie Park. NYU Libraries HERE /
Mar 17 Wed 6 Irish Famine Migrant Stories in Ontario. Virtual exhibit of personal histories of migrants and their Canadian caregivers. Dr. Jason King, Robert G. Kearns, Dr. Mark McGowan, Dr. Laura J. Smith. Ireland Park Foundation HERE TAPE HERE
Mar 17 Wed 6-7:30 Early Pennsylvania English/ Quaker Food Culture. “sample Quaker recipes and early trade goods.” Dr. Cassandra Stancil Gunkel, Bonnie Tobin. Friends Life Care: VigR HERE
Mar 17 Wed 7-9 Awamori: 600 years of culture & tradition. Okinawan rice-based spirit.
Japanese beverage culture and tradition. Jun Ogawa & Giulio Amodio. The UK Bartenders Guild UKBG HERE
Mar 17 Wed 7 Drink Me, I'm Irish. History of Irish Whisky, Bailey’s Irish Cream, Guinness Stout. Tammy Coxen. Needham History Center MA HERE TAPE may be HERE
Mar 17 Wed 9pm Historical Table / Colorado Boarding Houses in 1890s, "Warming Meals and Clean Sheets". Curatorial Services & Collections Access, History Colorado $8 HERE
Mar 17 Wed 9-10:30PM Tradition Echos. “intergenerational exchange of elders’ and youth… share stories, recipes, rituals… ancient Mexican dish made of masa called Tlacoyos, and also learn how to make Jamaica (Hibiscus) tea.” Sol Collective CA HERE /
Check out Dr. Clarissa F. Dillon is cooking at the hearth of the 1696 Massey House, west of Philadelphia, using period correct recipes and some items that would have been available in the garden, where she has been taped working all summer and fall in the One Cool Colonial series. Check out her past and upcoming 10 min. segments. Soon she will be back in the garden. HERE
Mar 18 Thur 6:30AM The Melting Pot: World Recipes from Wales. Traditions and recipes from Welsh BAME Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic community. Editor Maggie Ogunbanwo. Graffeg publisher HERE /
Mar 18 Thur 10-11AM Virtual Maple Syrup Education Program. History, science, tools and process. Best for grades 2-8. John R. Park Homestead. Essex Region Conservation Authority. Canada $8.45 HERE /
Mar 18 Thur 10:30 AM Source of The Sauces – The Tale of two Northampton-born Victorian Jeyes Brothers. “Philadelphus a "chymist & druggist", created Jeyes's Northamptonshire Sauce in 1835 and his brother, John, botanist and inventor of many disinfectants including in 1877 the world-famous Jeyes Fluid.” Georgina Jeyes. Northampton Museums & Art Gallery. £5.80 HERE
Mar 18 Thur 11 Suffolk Deer Parks. “the making and management of medieval deer parks” for status, food. Dr Rosemary Hoppitt. Suffolk Gardens Trust HERE
Mar 18 Thur 11 Plimoth Family Workshops: From Kernel to Cornmeal. Tour of the Plimoth Grist Mill. Kim VanWormerfor. Plimoth Patuxet Museums. $10 HERE no longer available
Mar 18 Thur 11 Indigenous Fisheries Science. life history of salmon, reconnect to her roots, and “the brilliance of Indigenous fisheries science.” Andrea Reid. Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies BC Canada HERE
Mar 18 Thurs 12:30-2 Pizza, hot dogs, and snow cones: How the drive-in theatre revolutionised the concession stand. Lucy Hulls. The Institute of Historical Research (IHR) UK HERE TAPE may be HERE
Mar 18 Thur 1:30-3 Persian Cuisine and Culture. “favourite Persian dishes, the popular ingredients, spices and herbs used. Learn about the Persian ancient festival of Nowruz, that Haleh will celebrate on 20th March.” Haleh Moravej. MACFEST - Muslim Arts and Culture Festival. HERE TAPE HERE
Mar 18 Thur 3 Hidden Journeys within our Rivers “fascinating biology behind migration and the challenges” such as mid 18th century weirs disrupt twaite shad from going upstream to spawn in the River Severn. Dr. Catherine Gutmann Roberts, Pete Davies. Unlocking the Severn series UK HERE website HERE TAPE HERE [River Severn also Mar 2]
Mar 18 Thur 3-5 Brindisa Ham Home School. Spanish jamon. 4 regional varieties including 100% acorn fed Iberico ham. 4 samples for UK residents only 8 days prior. Brindisa £38.32 HERE
Mar 18 Thur 3:30 A Time Traveller’s Guide to Regency Britain. “the sights, sounds, smells of Regency Britain” author Dr Ian Mortimer. South West Heritage Trust £5 – £10 HERE
Mar 18 Thur 4 Make Mead Like a Viking. Jereme Zimmerman. Fermentology NC State U info HERE Register HERE TAPES HERE
Mar 18 Thur 5:30 Sip Savvy. Malbec Uncorked. An Epic tale of a Noble Grape of Argentina. Dr. Laura Catena. Les Dames NY $20 HERE
Mar 18 Thur 6 James Hemings’ Contributions to American Cuisine. While in France with Jefferson he learned French cuisine, blended it with Virginian and was freed at 30. Ashbell Mcelveen. The National Arts Club HERE TAPE HERE
Mar 18 Thurs 7 Cooking by the Book. Cookbooks in America from “the late 18th century to the present.” Sarah Wassberg Johnson. West Hampton Library NY HERE
Mar 18 Thur 9pm Build Your Own Negroni. History, its name, Negroni Week, recipes. JMW Spirits LLC $10 HERE /
Mar 18 Thur 9:30-11 PM The Magic of Irish Whiskey w/ Curated Irish Whiskey Kit Tasting by New York Adventure Club. Tape for 1 week $10 HERE
Mar 18 Thur 10pm Spicebox Kitchen: Eat Well and be healthy with globally inspired, vegetable-forward recipes. Author Dr. Linda Shiue. Brown Clubs of Greater San Francisco and Silicon Valley CA HERE TAPE HERE /
Mar 19 Fri 9am Taste of Place: A Conversation on Culinary Tourism. “intersection of history, heritage, and culture…a meaningful and sustainable contributor to local economies in destinations worldwide.” Rebecca Mackenzie, Calla Norman. Center for Regional Agriculture and Food Transformation (CRAFT) Chatham University PA HERE TAPE HERE
Mar 19 Fri 10-12 Session 2: Indian Community Cookbooks: Archiving Food Histories: Khushi Gupta, Muskaan Pal, Ananya Pujary. CoReMA (Middle Ages) Semantic Annotation of Cooking Recipes as Intangible Heritage: Julia Eibinger, Christian Steiner and Helmut W. Klug. Edwardian Postcards, Julia Gillen. Digital Heritage Workshops HERE TAPE HERE
Indian Community Cookbook Archives. Printed, manuscript and audio/video. India. Timelines. Spacial mapping. HERE
CoReMA Cooking Recipes of the Middle Ages. German, French, Latin recipes scanned, annotated and analysed. HERE
Mar 19 Fri 12:30-2 A Cheesemonger’s History of the British Isles. author Ned Palmer. Culinary Historians of New York $10 HERE TAPE HERE
Mar 19 Fri 2-3:30 Taste 103: Sweet & Sour. Samantha Schmell, Margaret Dobbs. ShopRite Nutrition Team HERE
Mar 19 Fri 3-4 Lettuce Begin. History, how to grow. Lesley Parness. Duke Farms $5 HERE
Mar 19 Fri 3-3:40 Charcuterie and Cheese platter. “food history of charcuterie, what & how to prepare a Charcuterie Board” Vinoscenti Vineyards HERE
Mar 19 Fri 5:30 Ex Libris: Chef Sean Sherman. author of The Sioux Chef's Indigenous Kitchen. Providence Athenæum HERE TAPE HERE
Mar 19 Fri 9-10:30pm The Stories of our Kitchens: Persian Cook Along. “Nowruz, The Persian New Year…make Ghormeh Sabzi (Persian Stew) and Tahdig (Crispy Rice). Laleh Khoshkbariie, Melissa Fabreo-Montelongo. Banyan Tree Women's Collective. CA HERE /
Mar 20 Sat 9 am Taste the World - Shepherd's Pie. “stories about their country and their culture as they guide you through how to prepare the dish.” Jenny Goycochea. USA Girl Scouts Overseas. Donation HERE
Mar 20 Sat 10am Flow and Fall: The Lost Mills of Mississauga, Canada. Youtube live TAPE HERE
Mar 20 Sat 10-11:30 A Short History of the Glasshouse. 16th cen orangeries, 18th cen pineries (pineapples), 19th cen vineries (grapes) to modern. Susan Campbell. Surrey Gardens Trust. UK £6 Great HERE
Mar 20 Sat 11:30 Matzoh Brie (Tradition Passover Breakfast). Cuisines of Different Cultures series. Atlantic Institute SC HERE TAPE HERE
Mar 20 Sat 1:30-3 A Tale of two Caesars: Salad and Pasta. “Caesar’s salad (Alex and Caesar Cardini, Tijuana) to Caesar’s beloved pasta and brown mushroom sauce (Caesar Pastore, San Diego)” Culinary Historians of San Diego. Info, recipe HERE and TAPE HERE
Mar 20 Sat 2-3:30 Baby Food - The Youngest Consumers. Dr. Shayne Figueroa. 4 part series. A Century of Kids and Food: From Applesauce to Zagnut. Jefferson Market Library HERE
Mar 20 Sat 2-3:30 Celebrating Egyptian Culture and Heritage. “Egyptian Queens in the age of the Pharaohs, mouth-watering Egyptian food to celebrate ‘Shom Ennisim’ (Easter Celebration) and crafts made by Egyptian women…music.” Mona Mohammed, Alaa Zalat. MACFEST - Muslim Arts and Culture Festival. HERE TAPE may HERE
Mar 20 Sat 4:30-6 Cuisine from Country Georgia – Vegetarian. On the Silk Road “influences from the foods of Iran, Asia, Turkey, and the Mediterranean.” Mari Berdzenishvili-Weber (Mariam)
Bebe's Kitchen $22 HERE
Mar 20 Sat 5-6:30 A Taste of Abyssinia From Home. Authentic Ethiopian & Eritrean Cuisine of Vermont. Alganesh Michael. KidSafe Collaborative $25 HERE
Mar 20 Sat 7 Dining on the Rhine: Food, Wine, and Wagner’s Ring Cycle. Fred Plotkin, Jamie Barton. San Francisco Opera $15 HERE
Mar 21 Sun 10am Sephardic Culinary History. Episode 8 Mexican Crypto-Jewish Pesach recipe. Dr. Hélène Jawhara Piñer author of Sephardi: Cooking the History. Recipes of the Jews of Spain and the Diaspora, from the 13th Century Onwards. Center for Jewish History, and American Sephardi Federation HERE TAPE HERE
Mar 21 Sun 1 Charoset Cooking Class for Passover. “Several kinds of charoset and… learn diversity of Jewish food traditions.” Sydney Warshaw, Kat Romanow. Culinary Historians of Canada $18 HERE
Mar 21 Sun 2-3:30 The China Trade. After the Am Rev. travel to the East. Jamaica Plain Historical Society HERE //
Mar 21 Sun 2-3:30 Spanish-Style Vermouth. DIY “fortified wine’s colorful history and exploring its connection to some of Spain’s most famous artists” Luke Watson . Sunday Sabor. Atlas Obscura $25 HERE
Mar 21 Sun 4-5:15 Creating Sunset Magazine’s Cooking Department: A Study of Men, Women and Cooking in the 1930s. Jennifer Pagano. Culinary Historians of Ann Arbor. Ann Arbor District Library HERE TAPE HERE
Mar 21 Sun 5pm Food Anthropology Course: Introduction To Food Anthropology. 10 week sessions for children, age 6+ with adult. Cultured Kids Cuisine $11.99 HERE
Mar 21 Sun 6-7 Persian Passover Sweets & Tea. “three essential Persian Passover sweets [loz’e nargil (coconut diamonds), badam sookteh (burnt caramel almonds), and toot (marzipan mulberries)] and a demo of using the vaunted double-boiler method for making a perfect glass of Persian tea.” Tannaz Sassooni, Iranian-Jewish cookbook writer. The Community Kitchen HERE TAPE HERE
Mar 21 Sun 7 Spreckels’ Sugar Empire. “Spreckels’ sugar empire would reach from Hawaii to the San Francisco Bay Area and beyond.” Bruce Bennett. San Francisco City Guides HERE
Mar 22 Mon 12 Black Labor, White Rice: Creating the Rice Kingdom. Rice introduced to SC middle of 17th cen, thousands of enslaved Africans reshaped the landscape. Richard Porcher. Historic Charleston Foundation $20 HERE /
Mar 22 Mon 3-4:30 The Columbian Exchange: Global Impacts of European Colonization. Dr. Teofilo Ruiz. Context Travel Conversations $36.50 HERE //
Mar 22 Mon 5:30-7 Persian Love Cake. for the Persian New Year. History, legend of name; spices, scented waters, and other ingredients common to Persian cuisine. Anna Mays. City Market Classes & Events HERE TAPE HERE
Mar 22 Mon 6:30 FrancoFun Food: Canada / Québec. Sausages with blueberries aigre-doux, beans with maple syrup. Sugar shack culture. Chef Ryan Brosseau. FrenchWorldFest. Alliance Française de Chicago HERE
Mar 22 Mon 6:30-8 Wildscaping with Edible Meadows. “grains, cover crops, and seasonal veggies… bursting with visual appeal, wildlife habitat, and harvests for humans.” Brie Arthur author Gardening with Grains. Rideau Thousand Island Master Gardeners CA$15 HERE /
Mar 23 & 30 Tue 5:15-7:15 AM Pages through the Ages – exploring history and heritage through the lens of antiquarian and vintage cookbooks. “reimagining cookbooks as an accessible cultural artefact…innovative way to gain knowledge and understanding of how cookbooks published.” Sadie Hirst. Heritage Lincolnshire UK £30 each HERE
Mar 23 Tue 6-10:30AM Chefs' Manifesto London Action Hub Spring Gathering. 5 talks listed on link including Avocados on Parole. OmVed Gardens HERE /
Mar 23 Tue 11:30-1 How the Best Biscuits You Ever Had Came to Be. “iconic Southern brand with national exposure and a cult following.” Carrie Morey, founder of Callie’s Charleston Biscuits. Historic Charleston Foundation $20 HERE /
Mar 23 Tue 12 Food and Drink Cultures Through the Ages. “What are the continuities and changes of food and drink production, distribution and consumption since the Middle Ages?” Susan Flavin, Allen J. Grieco and Peter Scholliers. Warwick Research UK HERE TAPE HERE
Mar 23 Tue 1-2:30 Tending the Garden: how microbes feed us. Importance of bacteria. Anne Bikle, David R. Montgomery. Kitchen Table. Oxford Food Symposium UK £15 HERE
Mar 23 Tue 1:15 Let it fake bleed: medieval objects and vegan meat substitutes. Kathryn Rudy. University of St. Andrews UK HERE TAPE HERE
Mar 23 Tue 1:30-2:45 Farming Mars. “exploring latest thinking surrounding plants as food, medicine, materials to support humans off-Earth” panel. Think Intersteller. Humanity in Deep Space HERE. TAPE HERE
Mar 23 Tue 3-4:30 Delicious: The evolution of flavour and how it made us human. Author Rob Dunn. The Royal Institution 0-£21.14 HERE Town Hall Seattle Mr 23 TAPE HERE
Mar 23 Tue 3-4:30 Cooking with Shakespeare. “Cakes and ale, a piece of beef and mustard, some pigeons, figs, a joint of mutton, and any pretty little tiny kickshaws-- just a few of the foods Shakespeare mentions in his plays. What he ate.” Seren Charrington-Hollins. Stockport Council Library UK HERE /
Mar 23 Tue 3 Exploring rural Japan. “the adventures, culture, food and history to be found in rural Japan… Tohoku, in the northeast of Japan.” National Geographic Traveller (UK) HERE TAPE HERE
Mar 23 Tue 4 A Colorful Kitchen: Do-it-yourself Plant Dyes and Paints. “vegetables, herbs, and spices.” New York Restoration Project. GrowNYC Education HERE TAPE HERE /
Mar 23 Tue 5:30 Charleston: An Archaeology of Life in a Coastal Community. Includes “dynamics of production, distribution, and consumption of goods… to the kitchens where the food was prepared and the tables where it was served… how global trade goods combined with indigenous flavors to create a cuisine that was uniquely Charleston.” authors Martha Zierden, Elizabeth Reitz. Drayton Hall Preservation Trust. Donation HERE /
Mar 23 Tue 6:30 FrancoFun Food: Vietnam. Sweet and Sour Soup – Soupe Aigre-Douce – Canh Chua Cá. Kim Thuy and Chef Thao. Le Festival de la Francophonie / FrenchWorldFest. Alliance Française de Chicago. HERE
Mar 23 Tue 6:30-8:15 The History of Gin. David McNicoll. Brooklyn Brainery $6 HERE
Mar 23 Tue 6:30-8 James Beard, NYC, and the Closeted Life of the Dean of American Cuisine. John Birdsall author of The Man Who Ate Too Much; Annie Hauck. The Gotham Center for New York City History HERE Commonwealth Club of CA Feb 27 2021 TAPE HERE
March 23 Tue 6:45 The Flavors of Charleston: Signature Foods, Recipes, and Their Stories. Chef Kevin Mitchell and historian David S. Shields forthcoming book, Taste the State: South Carolina… Talk and make Hoppin’ John. Smithsonian Associates $25 HERE FULL
Mar 23 Tue 7 The Chocolate King: Life & Legacy of Milton S. Hershey. Jennifer Henderson, Senior Archivist for Hershey Community Archives. New York Adventure Club. $10 tape for week HERE
Mar 23 Tue 7:30-9 Quimbombó a lo Criollo: Afro-Boricua Cooking. “Puerto Rican style Okra Stew served with Plantain and Yam Mofongo (“African roots”) ancient recipe from Puerto Rico's oldest published cookbook (1857)” Chef Roberto Pérez. Segundo Ruiz Belvis Cultural Center $15 HERE
Mar 23 Tue 8:30 Mac & Cheese and the History of Comfort Food. Maite Gomez-Rejon. Santa Clarita Public Library HERE TAPE HERE
Mr 24 Wed The Journey of Chinese Food in America. Jing Gao, Heather Lee, Dana Cowin. New-York Historical Society TAPE HERE
Mar 24 Wed 11-12 Dining on Rails. Lindsey Marlot of Union Pacific Railroad Museum The Los Angeles Breakfast Club $5 HERE
Mar 24 Wed 1 What’s cooking for Passover – the Cream Puff challenge! Sarah Lohman. Then Melanie Meyers talks about some Passover cookbooks to show changes in holiday food trends. Puff recipe using Manischewitz’s Matzo Meal from Tempting Kosher Dishes, 1930 HERE American Jewish Historical Society. HERE TAPE HERE
Mar 24 Wed 2 What's with Wheat? History, why chemical leavenings, historical recipes. Sharon Roberts author. Learn Sourdough HERE /
Mar 24 Wed 2-3:30 [and 6pm] But Not the Animals! Philadelphia's Vegetarian Traditions. Famous people who were vegetarians, first vegetarian cookbook, published in 1812 in England; in America, first was Nicholson's Nature’s own book, 1835. Dr. Cassandra Stancil Gunkel, Bonnie Tobin. Friends Life Care: VigR HERE
Mar 24 Wed 2:30 Keep calm and Fanny on: the many careers of Fanny Cradock. A TV cook, writer in UK who died in 1994. author Kevin Geddes. City of Westminster Libraries & Archives UK HERE TAPE HERE
Mar 24 Wed 6 Food Pioneers: Women Who Have Shaped the Industry. Dominique Crenn, Nancy Silverton, Ruth Reichl, and Ferney McPherson. Plenty HERE TAPE HERE
Mar 24 Wed 8 A Social History of Tea. “integrated into so many cultures, and how tea made the journey from Asia to England. … 3000 years of history.” Jackie. The London Tea Merchant. MO $5 HERE
Mar 24 Wed 8 The Frugality of Rural Foodways Reshaped this Nationally Acclaimed Chef Vivian Howard author of Deep Run Roots - Stories and Recipes from my Corner of the South. NC. And tv show A Chef’s Life. Culinary Historians of Chicago HERE TAPE TAPE HERE ">HERE
Mar 24 Wed 8 Aphrodisiacs Through the Ages. Mandy Crypt. Effing Chicago HERE Live on Facebook HERE
Mar 24 Wed 9-12 Pagan Bay: San Francisco's Impact on American Tiki.Register HERE For 20 years after WWII veterins came home from the Pacific Tiki drinks were popular, and recently tiki bars are popular again. San Francisco City Guides HERE
Mar 24 Wed 10-11:30PM Cookbooks, Menus, and American Culture. “American cookbooks and restaurant menus across the history of the nation and how Americans have defined both regional and national cuisines." Maryellen Burns. Renaissance Society Sacramento, Renaissance Cafe HERE TAPE HERE
Mar 25 Thur 11:30 A social history of tea, coffee and chocolate. Steven Moore of Antiques Roadshow. The English Manner £32.93 HERE
Mar 25 Thur 12 The Quatern Loaf. Weighing in at a hefty 4 ¼ lbs, it was a common British bread for a century until it started to loose favor after 1860, generally for workers and institutions. Bread Seminar and baking by author William Rubel. Join Rubel's Facebook page Bread History and Practice for future topics and details HERE Register HERE
Mar 25 Thur 1 Dining with Jane Austen: Food in Georgian and Regency England. Carl Raymond. New York Adventure Club $10 tape week HERE
Mar 25 Thur 1 Mediaeval Servants - Archaeology of the Mediaeval Household. “kitchens, stables, staircases, cellars and garderobes” James Wright, Triskele Heritage UK HERE FULL over 400 //
Mar 25 Thur 2 The old manor kitchens in Waddesdon Manor. Built 1877-83 by Baron Ferdinand de Rothschild. “stories of the staff who worked in the kitchens, the menus prepared for special guests, and the use of top-of-the-range technology” Michael Shrive. Waddesdon - A Rothschild House & Gardens.
£10 HERE
Mar 25 Thur 2 Wildfood & Foraging. “variety of wildflowers with a known history of being used in cooking. It offers simple recipe ideas for each plant and which part is used. It will also look at what makes plants edible or medicinal.” Jim Langley £5.80HERE /
Mar 25 Thur 2:30 Meet the author - María José Sevilla Ibérica. Delicioso. Delicatessen food history, evolution and characteristics. “series on inspirational women from Spain's vibrant food and drink culture.” Iberica. HERE /
Mar 25 Thur 2:30 A short history of bees and flowers: the first 150 million years. “pollination is arguably the most important example of how life on earth depends on ecosystems.” Richard Glassborow. Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea Libraries UK HERE TAPE HERE
Mar 25 Thur 3-4:30 The Energy of Falling Water - Connecticut's Early Mills. and “development of water mill technology.” author John Cilio. Hagaman Library CT HERE
Mar 25 Thur 3:20-5 Sugar Easter Eggs. Created by Jacqui Kelly. British Sugarcraft Guild South East Region 8 UK £4.50 HERE
Mar 25 Thur 4 Taste of Art with ‘Café the Lodge’. Maite Gomez-Rejon. Café in South Bethlehem PA, Lehigh University Art Galleries. HERE TAPE HERE
Mar 25 Thur 5pm 18th Century Chinese Export Porcelains. Drayton Hall has “one of the largest assemblages of Chinese-export porcelains recovered from a colonial plantation site...” History, decorative techniques, importance of this collection. Sarah Stroud Clarke and Corey Sattes. Drayton Hall Preservation Trust SC Donation HERE
Mar 25 Thur 6 Weston’s Revolution: Taverns, Tea, and Turncoats. Dr. Benjamin Carp. 247th anniversary of the Weston Tea Party, the Golden Ball Tavern Museum and Weston Historical Society. donation HERE//
Mar 25 Thur 6:15-7:30 Québec Cooking with Chef Dominic Sylvain. “influenced by the cuisines of France and Ireland… pâté chinois—a beloved French-Canadian spin on shepherd’s pie. ” Francophonie Cultural Festival 2021. Smithsonian Associates. $20 HERE
Mar 25 Thurs 6:30-8 A Taste of Old Colony History. Cook along historic recipes and local Massachusetts favorites with the museum staff in their kitchens. Recipe of the month to be send after registering. Old Colony History Museum. Tauton MA HERE
Mar 25 Thur 7 Is Food Memory the Sixth Sense? John Allen, author Omnivorous Mind. HFSDV Historic Foodways of the Delaware Valley HERE TAPE HERE
Mar 25 Thur 7 Sermons in Stone: Stone Walls of New England. “In 1871 there were 252,539 miles of stone walls in New England and New York.” Often around farm fields. author Susan Allport. Falmouth Museums on the Green HERE TAPE HERE or earlier talk 2015 HERE
Mar 25 Thur 9PM Sake Webinar with "The Japanese Cuisine Goodwill Ambassador. Mr. Toshio Ueno. Japan Product Promotion. HERE
Mar 26 Fri 8:15-9:45AM Mexico’s National Drinks: Pulque, Tequila and the Temporalities of Authenticity. Dr Deborah Toner. SOAS Food Studies Centre. Link on page HERE
Mar 26 Fri 12 Hungry Nation: Food, Famine, and the Making of Modern India. “historical origins of contemporary India's hunger and malnutrition epidemic.” author Benjamin Siegel. Boston University Gastronomy Program HERE
Mar 26 Fri 1 Ethnobotany in Iowa - How Iowans used Native Plants past and present. “indigenous cultures and early settlers used plants from medicines and foods, all the way to building materials and toys.” David Stein. Prairie Rivers of Iowa $10 HERE
Mar 26 Fri 4-4:45 Coconut & Sambal: Recipes from My Indonesian Kitchen with author Lara Lee. Virginia Festival of the Book. Info and TAPE HERE
Mar 26 Fri 6-8 Post-Pandemic Predictions: Prohibition or Roaring 20's Renaissance? “role distilled spirits and cocktails played in the changes that remade our world 100 years ago.” Dr. Jessica Spector. Museum of Distilled Spirits $35 HERE /
Mar 26 Fri 7:30 The Ultimate Wine Crash Course: History, Science, & Expert Tips. Amy Karasavas. New York Adventure Club $10 HERE
Mar 27 Sat 10-11 Maple Morning - Maple Sugaring Presentation. History and process, visit NH Maple Museum as the sugarhouse next door is boiling sap (by showing a short film). Nigel Manley. Forest Society NH HERE TAPE may be HERE
Mar 27 Sat 12 Pysanky. “traditional Ukrainian Easter egg… pure beeswax, a candle or heat source to melt the beeswax, tools called Kistky, and jars of brilliant dyes.“ Annette Wichmann. Kensington Art Supply HERE
Mar 27 Sat 1-1:45 Maple Sugaring: Filtering, Bottling, Grading, and so on. Parker Dam State Park PA HERE
Mar 27 Sat 2 Fort from Home Victorian Cooking. Cabbage Pudding. Fort Nisqually Living History Museum $10- HERE
Mar 27 Sat 2-3:30 Kid Food as School Food. Dr. Shayne Figueroa. 4 part series. A Century of Kids and Food: From Applesauce to Zagnut. Jefferson Market Library HERE
Mar 27 Sat 4-5:15 Pisanki for Beginners. Polish Easter eggs decorated. Evan Kolber. Eagle-Orzel Educational and Cultural Exchange, Inc $15 HERE
Mar 27 Sat 5-6:30 Cooking Class: Mexican Tacos and Corn in Context. “history, culture, and consumption of the corn in Oaxaca, through the lens of the tortilla.” Frederick Jimenez. Context Travel Conversations $36.50 HERE //
Mar 27 Sat 6-9pm Passover Cooking Workshop: Matzo Ball Soup. “matzo ball soup, a staple of Ashkenazi Jewish Seder tables.” Rob Eshman. The Community Kitchen HERE /
Mar 27 Sat 8-9:30 Tempus Fugit Spirits. “recreated these liqueurs using historic 19th-century protocols cocktail “modifier”… aperitifs, digestifs, Absinthe…” Zachary Faden. Museum of Distilled HERE
Mar 28 Sun 10-12 Learn with us Polish Easter Traditions. kids and adults. decorate eggs, learn traditional dancing, rituals, Girl Guides made sugar lambs, foods, Sat. baskets, Easter, Easter Monday. Polish Klan Association HERE TAPE HERE
Mar 28 Sun 3 Delicious: The Evolution of Flavor and how it made us human. Dr. Rob Dunn author. Politics and Prose HERE TAPE HERE
Mar 28 Sun 3-4:30 From Camembert to Chèvre: An Exploration of French Cheese. Jennifer Greco. Context Travel Conversations $36.50 HERE //
Mar 28 Sun 4-5:30 Hong Kong Style Flower Butter Cookies. Kids Class. “history of this dessert and about China's baked goods.” Ye Ye $18 HERE
Mar 28 Sun 5-6:30 Tracing Rice. Long history, 7 recipes from around the world. [ingredient box for LA registrants] Silk Road Supper Collective, Los Angeles CA HERE TAPE HERE
Mar 28 Sun 6-8 Gastronomic Contributions from Mexico to the World. “Teotihuacan History and Food Tour: maize, tacos, and chocolate… from ancient to modern Mexico.” Cecilia. Impact Travel Collective. Donation HERE
Mar 29 Mon 10-11:30 Velikonoce (aka Easter). Czech and Slovak baking, decorating eggs and traditions. Czech and Slovak Society - University of Leeds HERE
Mar 29 Mon 12-1:30 Crazy Collections: Healing, Ordering, and Representing the Body in Medieval. By recipes for cures and medieval tendencies to collect, accumulate, compile, and order recipes. Hannah Bower. Lisa Gold HERE
Mar 29 Mon 5-6:30 Let Them Eat Cake: Paris, Patisserie and French Society. “French history and society, through the lens of desserts.” Michael Krondl. Context Travel Conversations $36.50 HERE //
Mar 29 Mon 5:30-7 Food and Dining in New York's Gilded Age. Carl Raymond. New York Adventure Club. $10 tape for week HERE
Mar 29 Mon 7-8 Wild City: The History of Oysters in NYC. Thomas Hynes author of Wild City. Untapped New York $10 HERE
Mar 29 Mon 7:30 Gin 101 Pt. 2: Agriculture. varieties of juniper, botanicals, “base spirits of gin from grain to grape distilled, to the range of rice, apple or potato distilled gins.” Natasha Bahrami. Museum of Distilled Spirits $35 HERE /
Mar 30 Tue 5:15-7:15 [Pt. 1 on Mr 23] AM Pages through the Ages – exploring history and heritage through the lens of antiquarian and vintage cookbooks. “reimagining cookbooks as an accessible cultural artefact…innovative way to gain knowledge and understanding of how cookbooks published.” Sadie Hirst. Heritage Lincolnshire UK £30 each HERE
Mar 30 Tue 11-1 The public history of poverty; workhouses in twenty first century Ireland. Dr. Georgina Laragy. Limerick History Research Seminar HERE
Mar 30 Tue 1 Burger King and Bao: Branding for the food industry. “stories behind Burger King’s whopping recent rebrand, and the grassroots visual origins of the cherished London restaurant, Bao.” Raphael Abreu, global head of design for Restaurant Brands International (Burger King’s parent company) and Bao’s co-founder and head designer, Erchen Chang. It’s Nice That. £3.14 HERE //
Mar 30 Tue 2 The History of the Truman Brewery. Spitalfields, London. “Benjamin Truman industrialized the process in the eighteenth century by creating a giant brewing plant and was knighted by George III… largest in the world before it closed in 1989.” Dan Cruickshank. Spitalfields Trust. HERE TAPE HERE Article HERE
Mar 30 Tue 5:30 Inspired by Bridgerton: Foods & Elegant Entertaining in 19th Century England. “etiquette and fine dining.” Francine Segan, AARP (not have to be member) HERE //
Mar 30 Tue 6 Exotic Spices, Food Heritage and Everyday Cooking. “food heritage and traditional dishes of North African and Turkish cultures and how regional spices give these foods their unique expression. “ Sara Baer-Sinott, Victoria Taylor. Les Dames d'Escoffier New England. $15 exotic spice pack HERE
Mar 30 Tue 6:30-8:30 The History of Scotch Whisky. David McNicoll. Brooklyn Brainery $7 HERE
Mar 30 Tue 7-8:15 The Old Fashioned Cocktail. “cocktail used to refer to a very specific style of drink, celebrating the trinity of spirit, sugar, and bitters. These days, we call that an Old Fashioned, and this class will trace the evolution of that drink from history to the modern day.” Tammy Coxen. Needham Public Library HERE /
Mar 30 Tue 7-8:30 Jambalaya Cooking Demonstration. “background of the Jambalaya dish, the importance of female chefs.” Chef Kelly Viall. The Division of Diversity Equity and Inclusion, The University of Alabama HERE /
Mar 30 Tue 8-9:30 Sorry, No Sugar Today: Rationing in WWII. Sarah Lohman. Brooklyn Brainery $7 HERE
Mar 30 Tue 8 Mexico's History in 10 Dishes. Discover Oaxaca Tours $20 HERE
Mar 30 Tue 8 The Roots of Wine and Society. “wine and economic development, and the history and future of wine culture” Stephen Satterfield. Let's Talk Food! $20 HERE //
Mar 31 Wed 1 Potatoes and Ale: An environmental history of a British plate. Potatoes and barley. “long histories, both crops were transformed in the twentieth century to suit a changing environment.” Whipple Museum of the History of Science UK HERE
Mar 31 Wed 1 Must we Cook? Culinary Modernism v. Luddism from Food Fights to Pandemic Baking. book - Food Fights: How History Matters to Contemporary Food Debates 2019. Rachel Laudan, Ken Albala, Chad Luddington, Jeremy Cherfas. Margot Finn. The Measure of our meals. HERE
Mar 31 Wed 2-3 Baking for Easter. Donegal, Ireland. Chef Brian McDermott €25 HERE
Mar 31 Wed 2-3:30 Baking in World Wars 1 and 2. “how baking was affected by rationing, shortages and campaigns to promote nutritional meals.” Meryl White author of Grandma Abson’s Traditional Baking. Eden Valley Museum Trust. £5 HERE
Mar 31 Wed 5-6:30 An Introduction to Italian Wine: Regions, Quality Levels and Winetasting. Rachel Erdman. Context Travel Conversations $36.50 HERE //
Mar 31 Wed 7 Wine, the White House & Presidential Pours with Fred Ryan Washington Post publisher and Chair of White House His. Assn’s new book “Wine and The White House.” Natalie MacLean, World's Best Drinks Writer HERE TAPE Podcast HERE
Mar 31 Wed 7 An Architectural Heritage in Ohio’s Rural Landscape. “the traditional barn and house types found on Ohio farms.” Tom O’Grady. Friends of Ohio BarnsHERE TAPE HERE
Mar 31 Wed 7-10pm Coffee in Mexico: a tradition for more than 200 years. Incl. 19th cen coffee houses, “boom during Porfirio Diaz presidency.” Dame Verónica Castro. LDEI Mexico Chapter $15 HERE /
Mar 31 Wed 8-9:30PM Treasures of Italy. Cheeses “histories and qualities” of a few of the 2,000 regional varieties. Formaggio Kitchen $15 for charity HERE //
Mar 31 Wed 9pm Water, Wood and Wild Things. “culture and cuisine of one Japanese town… ducks are hunted by net, saké is brewed from the purest mountain water, and charcoal is fired in stone kilns…” author Hannah Kirshner “apprenticed with a saké evangelist.” Elliott Bay Book Company HERE TAPE HERE
Mar 31 Wed 10PM Not on My Watch. Why the fight for wild salmon is about more than fish. author Alexandra Morton and Canadian coastal Indigenous leaders. Upstart & Crow HERE TAPE HERE
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Mar 16 Tue 7:30-9 The American Coffeehouse. “origins of coffee and coffee houses as a shared communal space.” Eve MacKnight. Brooklyn Brainery $6 HERE 