JANUARY - DECEMBER 2025
JANUARY 2025 EVENTS -- Eastern time zone
21 talks this month.
Jan 3 Fri 1 The History of Diets and Healthy Eating. Lucy Jane Santos. Replay for one week. New York Adventure Club $12 HERE
Jan 5 Sun 9AM Twelfth Night: Revelry, Fun and Food: A Twelfth Night. Paul Couchman, The Regency Cook. Sarah Tobias. £20.50 HERE
Jan 5 Sun 2 Dining Out with History at Atlantic Canada's Historic Sites. Author Jan Feduck. Culinary Historians of Canada CA$27.96 HERE
Jan 7 Tue 4 Chocolate Kings: Hershey vs. Mars. Dr Leslie Goddard. Bronxville Public Library. HERE
Jan 7 Tue 5-6:30 A History of Gardens 4 - Garden Technology. Dr. David Marsh. The Gardens Trust. £8 HERE
Jan 7 Tue 8 Mit Schlag: How Vienna Changed Baking Everywhere. Rick Rodgers. Chicago Foodways Roundtable. HERE TAPE HERE
Jan 8 Wed 5 Heritages of Hunger. Historical Famines. Marguérite Corporaal and Willie Jenkins. Canada Ireland Foundation HERE
Jan 9 Thu 8-9:30 Quenching Gotham: History of New York City's Water Supply. Dave Gardner. Replay for one week. New York Adventure Club $12 HERE
Jan 11 Sat 10:30AM History in the Kitchen - English Corn Bread. Gunston Hall VA HERE TAPE HERE
Jan 12 Sun 2 Lost Farms and Estates of Washington, D.C. Kim Prothro Williams. CHOW DC HERE. 2020 TAPE HERE
Jan 14 Tue 6-7:15 The Spice Ports: Mapping the Origins of Global Sea Trade. Nicholas Nugent author and William M. Fowler. American Ancestors. HERE. GBH TAPE HERE
Jan 14 Tue 6 Documenting Healing Networks: Elizabeth Coates Paschall’s Eighteenth-Century Medical Recipe Book. "...widowed Philadelphia Quaker merchant who ran a dry goods business. She was also well known in her community as a skilled healer." Dr. Susan Brandt, author of Women Healers: Gender, Authority, and Medicine in Early Philadelphia. The College of Physicians/The Mütter Museum HERE TAPE maybe HERE. 2023 LibCoPhila HERE
Jan 14 Tue 7 19th-Century Health & Wellness, Taproom Tastings. Catherine Prescott and Mary Tsaltas-Ottomanelli. Keeler Tavern Museum HERE TAPE maybe HERE
Jan 16 Thu 12:30 Intoxicants and Revolution in the (Very) Long Seventeenth Century. Phil Withington. British History in the 17th Century. The Institute of Historical Research (IHR) HERE
Jan 19 Sun 4 Preserving the Past: 18th century food preservation. Susan McLellan Plaisted. CHAA Culinary Historians of Ann Arbor HERE TAPE HERE
Jan 23 Thur 12:30 Drinking with the Vikings? The case of mead. Simon Trafford. IHR Institute of Historical Research. Food History Seminar. HERE
Jan 23 Thur 12:30 Asceticism in question: 'Graze, forage, cooking: asceticism, authenticity and monastic reform'; 'Aesthetics of ascetism and the court culture of Louis IX'. Andrew Jotischky, Lindy Grant. The Institute of Historical Research (IHR). European History 1150-1550. HERE
Jan 24 Fri 7AM-12 Animal History Group ECR Symposium. Various topics. Colonial Power and the Indian Gaur: A Study of British Hunting and Conservation Policies in British India; commercial pig production and the transformation of pigs’ spaces, bodies and experiences in Finland, 1900s–1930s; Shall Pigs be Huge as Elephants: Transnational Making of Pig Experiments in Mao’s China; Navigating New Pastures: Introduction and Evolution of Reindeer Herding in Alaska and the Northwest Territories… Animal History Group HERE
Jan 26 Sun 8 The First California Cuisines. Richard Foss. Bay Area Culinary Historians HERE TAPE may be HERE or HERE
Jan 27 Mon 2 Big Apples, Big Business: How Washington Became the Apple State. Amanda Van Lanen. Humanities Washington. HERE. N OlympicLib TAPE HERE
Jan 31 Fri 12:30 Food history as history of knowledge: preservation technologies in the early modern Low Countries. Marieke Hendriksen. The Institute of Historical Research (IHR). Low Countries History. HERE
FEBRUARY EVENTS -- Eastern time zone. 22 talks
Feb 4 Tue 7 Plantation Goods: A Material History of American Slavery. Seth Rockman. Mayflower Society HERE. Dec 2024 AmAntiquarianSoc HERE
Feb 5 Wed 12 Searching for Foods in History. Gary Thompson. Sifter: The Ask. Oxford Symposium. HERE. Gary Thompson author of “Memories of Recipes in Twentieth-Century Irish Cookbooks.” 15p. 2024 Dublin Gastronomy Symposium HERE
Feb 6 Thur 12-1:30 Every History is a Story. Book of Bread. William Rubel HERE. TAPE HERE
Feb 6 Thur 12:30 Food as a Weapon of the Weak in American Slavery Accounts. Urszula Niewiadomska. Institute of Historical Research. IHR HERE
Feb 6 Thu 7 Chocolate kings. Hershey vs Mars. Dr. Leslie Goddard. Putnam County Public Library District. HERE
Feb 8 Sat 10:30AM History in the Kitchen – Grits. Gunston Hall. families HERE. TAPE maybe HERE
Feb 9 Sun 2 How American Children Became the Pickiest Eaters in History. Helen Zoe Veit author of upcoming book Picky: How American… CHoW Culinary Historians of Washington DC HERE
Feb 11 Tue 5:30-7 London's Underground Nightlife of the 1920s & 30s. Lucy Jane Santos. Replay for one week. New York Adventure Club $12 HERE
Feb 11 Tue 7 Taproom Tastings: Asian-American Foodways. Catherine Prescott and Mary Tsaltas-Ottomanelli. Keeler Tavern Museum. donation HERE TAPE HERE
Feb 12 Wed 6:30 From the White House to Our House: Why Functional Pots Reflect Culture and Time. Anne Bailey. The International Museum of Dinnerware Design HERE and TAPE HERE or HERE
Feb 12 Wed 10-11:30pm A Pickle Problem: The Deli Revival and American Jewish Religion. Ashkenazi (Eastern European) culinary revival. Rachel B. Gross. New Lehrhaus. $15 HERE
Feb 14 Fri 7AM St Valentine's Day: History, Customs and Historic Food. Love and Loathing. Paul Couchman - The Regency Cook. £21.50 HERE
Feb 14 Fri 10AM There is Death in the Pot. Frederick Accum's (1769-1838) A Treatise on Adulterations of Food and Culinary Poisons. 1820. Lena Heide-Brennand. Viktor Wynd & The Last Tuesday Society £6.76/10.94. Tape 2 weeks. HERE
Feb 14 Fri 5:30-7 The Sacred Sweet: A Journey Through the History of Chocolate. Lucy Jane Santos. Replay for one week. New York Adventure Club $12 HERE
Feb 16 Sun 4 Henry Orr, a Black Caterer in Early Federal Washington, DC. Dr. Leni A. Sorensen. CHAA Culinary Historians of Ann Arbor HERE. TAPE may be HERE CANCELLED
Feb 19 Wed 12 Death Matters: We Need to Talk About Animal Slaughter. Kitchen Table Conversation. Oxford Food Symposium on Food and Cookery. HERE
Feb 19 Wed 8 Two Great Chefs: Chicago’s Evolution as a Food Mecca. Chef John Hogan and Chef Tony Mantuano. Culinary Historians of Chicago. HERE TAPE HERE
Feb 20 Thu 7AM? Sucre à la crème: Origin and Trajectory of an Authentic Québec Confection. Patrick Charbonneau. Mexican Gastronationalism and Vitiviniculture: Contrasting Foundational Myths with Contemporary Multicultural Foodways in Querétaro. Axel Elías. Institute of Historical Research. IHR HERE
Feb 20 Thu 12-1:30 The Book of Bread. Every History is a Story (part 2). William Rubel. HERE TAPE HERE
Feb 20 Thu 8 Food in the Midwest: More Interesting Than You May Think. Cynthia Clampitt. Chicago Foodways Roundtable. HERE. TAPE HERE
Feb 23 Sun 8 The Obscure Origins and Mysterious Disappearance of the Savoury Course. Dr. Adam Balic. Bay Area Culinary Historians BACH HERE. TAPE may be HERE or HERE
Feb 24 Mon 5:30-7 Fine Dining on the Rails: History of the Pullman Train Car. Becky Libourel Diamond. Replay for one week. New York Adventure Club $12 HERE
Feb 26 Wed 6:30 Chocolate in the Hispanic World. Margaret Connors McQuade. Culinary Historians of New York $10 HERE
MARCH EVENTS -- Eastern time zone. 26 talks
Mar 4 Mon 7 Betty Crocker and Her Cookbook That Changed How America Cooks. Dr. Leslie Goddard. Southold Free Library NY HERE
Mar 5 Wed 5:30-7 Ice Cream! The History of America's Favorite Dessert. Erik Hodgetts. Replay for one week. New York Adventure Club $12 HERE
Mar 6 Thu 12:30 Richard II’s Recipes. Andrea Hugill; 2d session: Medicinal Past of Vodka. Alexandr Gorokhovskiy. IHR The Institute of Historical Research. HERE
Mar 6 Thu 8 Preserving Family Recipes: How to Save and Celebrate Your Food Traditions. Author Valerie Frey. Chicago Foodways Roundtable. HERE TAPE may be HERE or HERE
Mar 8 Sat 10:30-11:15 History in the Kitchen – Charlotte. George Mason’s Gunston Hall HERE TAPE maybe HERE
Mar 9 Sun 2 The American Community Cookbook: Eccentric and Yet Powerful. Don Lindgren. his bookselling business, Rabelais Inc. CHOW Culinary Historians of Washington DC HERE TAPE may be HERE
Mar 10 Mon 11-12:30AM Clay-eaters: A Brief History of Geophagy. “How earth has been used as folk medicine, famine prevention, and as a natural dietary supplement for centuries.” Jennifer Lucy Allen. Viktor Wynd & The Last Tuesday Society. £6.72 HERE
Mar 11 Tue 7 Ireland’s Great Hunger and Mass Migration to America. Elizabeth Stack. AARP not have to be a member HERE. Am Irish His Soc 2025 TAPE HERE
Mar 11 Tue 7 Taproom Tastings: Food in Propaganda and Politics. Catherine Prescott and Mary Tsaltas-Ottomanelli. Keeler Tavern Museum & History Center HERE TAPE HERE
Mar 12 Wed 3:30-5 Manitoba: The Stories Behind the Foods We Eat. 70 interviews in a “used food truck into a mobile oral history lab…restaurant owners, beer brewers, grocers, farmers, scholars, and chefs… investigate food security and regulation, Indigenous foodways and agriculture, capitalism’s impact on the agri-food industry… roles of gender, ethnicity, migration, and colonialism in Manitoba’s food history.” UGuelph Rural History Roundtable HERE
Mar 12 Wed 5 Critical Topics in Food: Twenty Years On. Panel including Dr. Marion Nestle and Jessica B. Harris. NYU Special Collections HERE
Mar 12 Wed 6:30 The Women Behind Pyrex, America's Favorite Dish. Regan Brumagen. The International Museum of Dinnerware Design IMoDD HERE; TAPE maybe HERE or HERE
Mar 12 Wed 8 Chef Jason Hammel. Culinary Historians of Chicago. HERE TAPE may be HERE or HERE
Mar 16 Sun 10AM Food Stories from the Middle East: Hello from Scotland! Ramadhan Festival. Dr. Zarina Ahmad. MACFEST - Muslim Arts and Culture Festival. HERE. TAPE HERE
Mar 16 Sun 4 Reading Between the Lines: American Cookbooks of the Interwar Period WWI-WWII. Thomas Gordon. CHAA Culinary Historians of Ann Arbor HERE TAPE HERE or HERE
Mar 18 Tue 6:30 How Refrigeration Transformed Our Food, Our Planet, and Ourselves. Nicola Twilley author of Frostbite. Culinary Historians of New York $10 HERE TAPE may be HERE
Mar 20 Thu 12:30 Food and Memory Across Eras: from Nazi Concentration Camps to Contemporary Prisons in Italy and Brazil. Gaia Messori. The Institute of Historical Research. IHR. HERE
Mar 20 Thur 1-2:30 The Renaissance banqueting table of the Hunting Lodge of Lord Wilhelm of Rosenberg. Milan Svoboda. The Society for Court Studies - European Branch HERE
Mar 20 Thu 5 How the Humble Anchovy Flavored Western Cuisine. Christopher Beckman. HFSDV HERE TAPE may be HERE
Mar 20 Thu 6:30-8 German-style Sauerkraut. Shawn Shafner. Briny, Boozy, Bubbly Fun with Fermenting: German Sauerkraut and Wavy Colada. US Botanic Garden HERE TAPE HERE
Mar 20 Thu 7 The Franklin Stove: An Unintended American Revolution. Joyce E. Chaplin. George Washington Presidential Library. Mount Vernon HERE TAPE may be HERE
Mar 22 Sat 10AM Celebrating Ramadan in Iraq: History, Culture, Art, and Food. Hello from Iraq! Ban Saleh and Luhaib Abboud. MACFEST - Muslim Arts and Culture Festival. HERE TAPE HERE
Mar 23 Sun 10AM Gastronomy in Medieval Baghdad: cooking for Pleasure and Health as depicted in a Tenth-century Baghdadi Cookbook. "Written more than a thousand years ago, Sayyār al-Warrāq’s cookbook Kitāb al-Ṭabīkh offers a rich insight into the culture of food that flourished in Abbasid Baghdad during its prosperous times." By MACFEST - Muslim Arts and Culture Festival. HERE TAPE HERE
Mar 24 Mon 7 Special Cooking with the First Ladies: Women’s History Month Program. Calutron Girls wartime Oak Ridge Tenn.[Manhattan Project, atomic bombs] cookbook Cooking Behind The Fence. Sarah Morgan. National First Ladies' Library & Museum. HERE TAPE HERE
Mar 27 Thu 12-1:30 Finding a Focus to Bread Culture in two Neolithic Breads. “exploring the concept of breads as social gateways defined by recipe.” William Rubel HERE
Mar 27 Thu 6:30-8 Wavy Colada. Danny Ronen. Briny, Boozy, Bubbly Fun with Fermenting: German Sauerkraut and Wavy Colada. US Botanic Garden HERE TAPE HERE
APRIL EVENTS -- Eastern time zone. 16 talks
Ap 2 Wed 12 Sifter Ask. Gary Thompson. Oxford Food Symposium. HERE
Apr 3 Thu 2 Feeding the Poor and Feasting with the Wealthy. Paul Couchman - The Regency Cook £21.50 HERE
Apr 3 Thu 5:30-7 Dining Out in the Gilded Age: Eating Clubs to Debutante Balls. Becky Libourel Diamond. New York Adventure Club. Tape for one week $12 HERE
Apr 3 Thur 8 Preserving Family Recipes: How to Save and Celebrate Your Food Traditions. Valerie Frey. Chicago Foodways Roundtable HERE. Library of Congress talk 2017 TAPE HERE
Apr 6 Sun 11AM Cooking History: Sephardic history and food. Dr. Hélène Jawhara Piñer author of Matzah and Flour. Recipes from the History of the Sephardic Jews. Jewish Unity Through Diversity. HERE. TAPE HERE
Apr 6 Sun 1 Matzah and Flour: Recipes from the History of the Sephardic Jews. Hélène Jawhara Piñer author. Wilshire Temple, LA HERE
Apr 8 Tue 7 Wine. Taproom tastings Catherine Prescott and Hendrick I. Lott. Keeler Tavern Museum. HERE TAPE HERE
Apr 12 Sat 4 Fish Wars: Tribal Rights, Resistance, and Resiliency in the Pacific Northwest. Kestrel A. Smith. Humanities Washington HERE. TAPE HERE
Apr 13 Sun 2 How the Food of South Louisiana became as Different and as Interesting as Italian Food. “Is there a true South Louisiana Cuisine?” Liz Williams. CHoW Culinary Historians of Washington, D.C. HERE
Apr 13 Sun 2 Chop Chop - Cooking the Food of Nigeria. Ozoz Sokoh. Culinary Historians of Canada Culinary Historians of Canada. CA$22.63 HERE
Apr 16 Wed 8 The Legacy and Impact of the Farm-to-Table Movement in Chicago. Chef Jason Hammel. Culinary Historians of Chicago. HERE. TAPE HERE
Ap 17 Thu 2 Prue Leith: A Life in Food. British Library Food Season. £6.50 HERE
Apr 17 Thu 6:30 The History and Heritage of Nigerian Food. Ozoz Sokoh. Culinary Historians of New York $10 HERE TAPE HERE
Apr 21 Mon 6-7:30 Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America. Dr. Marcia Chatelain author. Pepin Lecture series. Boston University, Food & Wine Programs HERE. 2022 TAPE HERE
Apr 22 Tue 12 Saffron- A Tale of Tradition, Trade, and Taste. The Kitchen Lab. Laila Ahsan, Nader Mehravari. Oxford Food Symposium. HERE
Ap 27 Sun 4 A Tale of Two Cities: Community Cookbooks and Urbanization in California at the Turn of the 20th Century. Kate Helfrich. Culinary Historians of Ann Arbor. HERE. TAPE HERE
Apr 30 Wed 6 A Food Historian on Jewish Italy: History, Culture, Food & Travel. Francine Segan. AARP not have to be member HERE
MAY EVENTS -- Eastern time zone. 14 talks
May 4 Sun 2 A History of Cheesecake. Mark Kurlansky. CHoW Culinary Historians of Washington DC HERE
May 7 Wed 9pm Heaven on the Half Shell: Washington State’s Oyster Odyssey. David George Gordon. Humanities Washington HERE. TAPE HERE
May 8 Thu 12 Bullets, Booze, and a Noose: A Sioux County Prohibition Story. Sara Huyser. State Historical Society of Iowa. HERE TAPE HERE
May 12 Mon 1:30 Inspiring Entrepreneurs: Meet the Foodies. Amelia Christie-Miller, Marianne Olaleye, Natasha Orumbie, Segun Akinwoleola, Shelina Permaloo. British Library Food Season. £4.50 HERE
May 13 Tue 12 We need to talk about 'Food Design': What is it and can it improve our relationships with food, individually or on a global scale? Sophie Lovell, Sonia Massari, Laila Snevele, Fabio Parasecoli, and Priya Mani. Oxford Food Symposium on Food and Cookery. HERE
May 13 Tue 7 19th-Century Health and Wellness. Catherine Prescott and Mary Tsaltas-Ottomanelli. Keeler Tavern Museum & History Center HERE TAPE HERE
May 13 Tue 7 Main Line Country Squires. Jeff Groff retired Estate Historian at Winterthur. Chester County History Center. Donation. Tape for 7 days HERE
May 14 Wed 6:30 Mid-Century Beverage Ware: From Kitchen Table to Cocktail Table. Scott Hamblen. The International Museum of Dinnerware Design, Kingston, NY HERE. TAPE HERE
May 15 Thu 12:30 Food Choice in an Age of Abundance: Six Women Who Shaped What Americans Eat. “Hazel Stiebeling, Poppy Cannon, and Julia Child) uncritically celebrated industrial abundance and three of them (Frances Moore Lappé, Marion Nestle, Alice Waters) criticized its impact.” Michelle Mart. Food History. The Institute of Historical Research (IHR). HERE. TAPE maybe HERE
May 15 Thu 2 Nadiya Hussain: Writing Rooza. British Library Food Season. £6.50 HERE
May 18 Sun 4 Pepper Pot Stew and Black Female Street Peddlers in Antebellum Philadelphia. “A Single Spoonful will Excoriate the Mouth." Carolyn Zola (Library Company of Phila.). Culinary Historians of Ann Arbor (CHAA). Hybrid HERE. TAPE HERE
May 21 Wed 8 Asian Heritage Chefs in the White House: Cooking to a President’s Taste. Adrian Miller and Deborah Chang. Culinary Historians of Chicago. HERE TAPE HERE
May 25 Sun 8 The Spanish Cook Without Equal- My Adventures in Translating Encarnación Pinedo’s 1898 Cookbook. “It was the first cookbook published in the United States written by a Latina…” Tracy Johnston. Bay Area Culinary Historians BACH HERE
May 29 Thur 12:30 Nahua Foodways - Maize as Tribute and Food Scarcity in central Colonial Mexico. Richard Herzog. Food History. The Institute of Historical Research (IHR). HERE. TAPE maybe HERE
JUNE EVENTS -- Eastern time zone. 14 talks
Jun 4 Wed 12 Sifter: The Ask - Searching for Foods in History. Oxford Symposium on Food & Cookery. HERE
Jun 5 Thur 12:30 “One hook, one fish at a time”: Generic hybridity and elite authenticity in Whole Foods Market’s “Behind the Scenes” YouTube videos about seafood. Cynthia Gordon, Alla Tovares. Food History. The Institute of Historical Research (IHR). HERE
Jun 5 Thu 12:30 The School Meals Service: aims, achievements and limitations. Gary McCulloch. The Institute of Historical Research (IHR)HERE
Jun 5 Thu 6 Coffee Nation: How One Commodity Transformed the Early United States. Michelle McDonald. American Philosophical Society. Hybrid HERE TAPE may be HERE
Jun 9 Mon 2? Leftovers: A history of food waste and preservation… from 16th century to now. Eleanor Barnett. York Festival of Ideas UK HERE TAPE HERE
Jun 11 Wed 12 We need to talk about Food Tariffs: does anyone benefit in this world where food security and diplomacy are increasingly at odds? Dr Carolyn Dimitri, Shane Holland, and Virginia Houston, moderated by Cathy Kaufman. Kitchen Table Conversation. Oxford Food Symposium on Food and Cookery Free – £15 HERE. Written highlights HERE
Jun 12 Thu 12:30 Menus and memories through food. Nathalie Cooke: Tastes and Traditions: A Visual Sampler of Menu History; Mallory Cerkleski: Food as Relationship Building: Unveiling Memories Through Food-Centered Oral History Collection. Food History. The Institute of Historical Research (IHR) HERE. TAPE maybe HERE
Jun 16 Mon 12:30 The Rains of 1661: Dearth, Religion, and Politics in Little Ice England. "…a major role in the significant harvest shortfall that followed later in the year.” Alastair Bellany. The Institute of Historical Research (IHR) HERE
Jun 16 Mon 1 Unlocking prehistoric culinary records through the analysis of food remains. Dr Lara González Carretero. Creswell Crags. UK HERE
Jun 18 Wed 5-6AM Interpreting Books Through Food with the Food Museum UK. David Thomson. Living Knowledge Network. British Library HERE. TAPE HERE
Jun 18 Wed 2 A Divine Government; glass beehives in the [English 1642-51] civil war. Marlis Hinckley. Cambridgeshire Beekeepers' Assn. HERE TAPE HERE
Glass bee hives 1772, 1828 ... and 1650s. My blog post, 2022. HERE
Jun 23 Mon 7 Cooking with the First Ladies: Barbara Bush. Sarah Morgan. National First Ladies' Library & Museum. $9 HERE
Jun 24 Tue 5:30-7 The 1920s Kitchen: How Tech & Taste Transformed the American Home. Becky Libourel Diamond. Replay for one week. New York Adventure Club $12 HERE
Jun 25 Wed 12 How Plants Manipulate Pollen Behavior. “…graduate student speakers and their research as it relates to the Garden’s current exhibit Fierce Flora: Tales of Survival and Demise.” Research Lab Look In. U.S. Botanic Garden HERE TAPE maybe HERE
Jun 26 Th 1 Memories and Recipes from a British-Bangladeshi Kitchen. Shahnaz Ahsan. sneak preview from 'The Jackfruit Chronicles'. Oxford Food Symposium on Food and Cookery HERE
Jun 29 Thu 12:30 Taste Does Not Endure: Network Science Dynamics of Food Recipes from 1977-2017. Juan C. S. Herrera. Food History. The Institute of Historical Research (IHR) HERE . TAPE maybe HERE
JULY EVENTS -- Eastern time zone. 10 talks
Jul 7 Mon 7 Heal the Beasts. Author and Veterinarian Philipp Schott. Chelmsfords Public Library HERE. TAPE HERE Ashland Public Library MA
Jul 7 Mon 7:30-9 Interpreting Canadian Indigenous Cuisine. Shane Chartrand author of tawâw - Progressive Indigenous Cuisine. Culinary Historians of Canada. CA$26.35 HERE
Jul 9 Wed 7-8:30 A History of Activism Through Cookbooks. Abolitionists, Suffrage, LGBTQ pamphlets of 1960s, Incarcerated. Sarah Lohman. Hermann-Grima + Gallier Historic Houses. HERE. chelmsfordlibrary 2024 TAPE HERE
Jul 10 Thu 8-9:30 Quenching Gotham: History of New York City's Water Supply. Dave Gardner. Replay for one week. New York Adventure Club $12 HERE
New York City's Water Supply other tapes:
History of New York City’s Water System 1677-Present (The Largest Tunnel in the World). Jarid Boosters. 2024 25 min. TAPE HERE
New York's Water Supply System: A Study in the Monumental Gerard Koeppel, author, Water for Gotham and other panelists. The Gotham Center for NY City History. 2005 2 hrs. TAPE HERE
Jul 16 Wed 12 Hardtack and Hard Times: Civil War Food and the U.S. Army. National Army Museum HERE. TAPE HERE
Jul 16 Wed 8 The Meathead Method: A BBQ Hall of Famer’s Secrets and Science on BBQ, Grilling, and Outdoor Cooking. Meathead Goldwyn. Culinary Historians of Chicago. HERE TAPE may be HERE
Jul 18-31 Oxford Food Symposium: Food and the Elements. Some TAPES HERE
Jul 23 Wed 10:30AM The Montgomery County Poor Farm: Its History and People. Julianne Mangin. Washington Metro Oasis. Hybrid $12 HERE. TAPE HERE
Jul 28 Mon 7 Dinner with King Tut. Sam Kean author of "Dinner with King Tut: How Rogue Archaeologists Are Recreating the Sights, Sounds, Smells, and Tastes of Lost Civilizations." Chelmsfords Public Library. HERE. TAPE HERE Ashland Public Library MA
Jul 29 Tue 7AM Striking Inwards and Downwards: A Celebration of International Bog Day through Seamus Heaney’s Poetry. National Library of Ireland. HERE
Peat or turf for hearth fires. Past blog posts HERE.
Short film clip TAPE HERE
Jul 30 Wed 7 History of New England Sweets: Doughnuts, Bonbons & Whoopie Pies. Author Susan Mara Bregman. Tewksbury Public Library. HERE. TAPE HERE
AUGUST EVENTS -- Eastern time zone.
I have not searched for this month, since generally few talks, just received a few email alerts.
Aug 2 Sat 11AM The Wild and Weedy Plants We Need for the Future of Agriculture. Nan McCarry. U.S. Botanic Garden. DC HERE. TAPE maybe HERE
Au 4 Mon 12 The Flavor Lineage: How Africa, Europe & America Shaped Southern Cooking. Psyche Williams-Forson and Liz Williams. Les Dames d'Escoffier Washington DC Regional Chapter. $10 HERE
Au 14 Thur 12 Iowa Brewing: A Complicated History. Doug Hoverson. State Historical Society of Iowa HERE. TAPE HERE
Aug 27 Wed 8 Foods of the African Diaspora. Rahim Muhammad and Magic Johnson (Director of Community and Culture at Mahari), Mahari restaurant. Culinary Historians of Chicago.HERE. TAPE HERE
SEPTEMBER EVENTS -- Eastern time zone.
14 talks
Se 3 Wed 2 Pests of Honey Bee Colonies. Dr. Jamie Ellis. Cambridgeshire Beekeepers' HERE
Se 5 Fri 10-11:30AM Rationing for Victory: The Role of the OPA in WWII America. Seema-Jayne Kenney. Chelmsford Public Library MA HERE.
Se 8 Mon 1 Appalachia as Culinary Canvas Showcasing Tradition, Resilience & Flavor. Susi Gott Séguret. AARP not have to be a member HERE
Sept 9 Tue 12 Queers at the Table: Eat, Talk, Write, Draw. Many speakers. Oxford Symposium on Food & Cookery. 0-£15 HERE
Se 10 Wed 6:30 Splendid Settings: 100 years of Mottahedeh Design. “They are the recognized leader in antique reproductions and decorative ceramic objects” for 100 years. Wendy Kvalheim. International Museum of Dinnerware Design. HERE. TAPE maybe HERE; or HERE
Se 13 Sat 11 Acorn-ucopia! Shawn Shafner. US Botanic Garden HERE
Se 14 Sun 2 Twist of the Tail: How the Humble Anchovy Flavored Western Cuisine.
Christopher Beckman. Culinary Historians of Washington HERE
Se 14 Wed 5? Food Travels in Space and Time. “Where does your palate come from? Explore the interconnection of history, migration, travel and nostalgia.” Australia. Dr. Lauren Samuelsson, Andrew McEvoy. Dr. Clay Routledge. HERE
Se 15 Mon 1 Explore the Ingredients of Appalachian Cuisine & Watch Live Cooking Demos. Susi Gott Séguret. AARP not have to be a member HERE
Se 17 Wed 8 The Whys and Wheys of Wisconsin Cheese. Nicole Bujewski, Kristin Mitchell, Keith Burrows and Leslie Damaso authors of The Wisconsin Whey: Cheesemaking in the Driftless. (SW part of Wisconsin) Culinary Historians of Chicago. HERE or HERE TAPE HERE
Se 22 Mon 1 Appalachian Food Traditions: Facing the Future. How do we preserve culinary identity in the face of adversity? Susi Gott Séguret. AARP not have to be a member HERE
Sept 22 Mon 7 Cooking with the First Ladies: Eliza Johnson. Sarah Morgan. National First Ladies' Library & Museum. $11.44 HERE
Sept 25 Thu 12:30 Food and Memory Across Eras: from Nazi Concentration Camps to Contemporary Prisons in Italy and Brazil. Gaia Messori. and Barbed-Wire Doctors: Assessing Carceral Health and Illness in the Wake of the Second World War. Jan Lambertz. Food History. Institute of Historical Research HERE. TAPE may be HERE
Se 28 Sun 4 Henry Orr, a Black Caterer in Early Federal Washington, DC. Leni Sorensen. CHAA Culinary Historians of Ann Arbor HERE TAPE HERE
Se 30 Tue 7 The Politics of Chocolate with Cocoa Beantown. Victoria Kichuk. Chelmsford Public Library MA HERE. TAPE may be HERE
OCTOBER EVENTS -- Eastern time zone.
25 talks
Oct 1 Wed 1 A Buzzing of Bees: Tales of Honeybees Through History. Dr. Dino Martins. Cambridgeshire Beekeepers’ Assn. HERE
Oct 2 Thur 5:45AM? 9:45UK Herefordshire 'Cart Horse' History. Heavy horses and farming. Bob Powell . Rural Museums Network. HERE. TAPE may be HERE
Oct 2 Thur 7-8:30 How to Organize Your Recipes & Cookbooks. Declutter series with decluttering humorist Jamie Novak. Chelmsfords Public Library. HERE TAPE HERE
Oc 6 Mon 5:30-7 How to Dine Like a Victorian, Part 1: Tea Webinar. Becky Libourel Diamond. New York Adventure Club. Replay for week. $15.71 or 3 for $41.03 HERE
Oct 7 Tue 12 The ‘Great Temperance Times’ in Nineteenth-Century Black Connecticut. “Black temperance activism in 19th-century Connecticut …how they used temperance as a strategy for civic inclusion. Mackenzie Tor. CT Museum HERE TAPE HERE
Oct 8 Wed 12 [5 UK] The Sifter: The Ask. Searching for Foods in History. Oxford Food Symposium on Food and Cookery. HERE
Oct 8 Wed 6:30 Half Half: A Chinese American Life Expressed through Ceramic Art. Beth Lo. The International Museum of Dinnerware Design HERE. TAPE HERE
Oct 9 Thu 12:30 Tsatsal: The Symbolism & Significance of Mongolian Ceremonial Milk Spoons. Sharon Hudgins. Institute of Historical Research HERE TAPE maybe HERE
Oct 10 Fri Exploring Social History and Behavior in the 19th Century through Wedgwood Ceramics. “how British dining habits, cultural values, and everyday life in the 1800s are reflected in the design and use of Wedgwood ceramics.” Dr. Neil Buttery. Wedgwood International Seminar HERE . TAPE maybe HERE
Oct 12 Sun 2 The Lives and Cookbooks of Three Nineteenth-Century Women. Keith Stavely and Kathleen Fitzgerald. CHoW Culinary Historians of Washington DC HERE
Oc 13 Mon 5:30-7 How to Dine Like a Victorian, Part 2: Chocolate. Becky Libourel Diamond. New York Adventure Club. Replay for week. $15.71 or 3 for $41.03 HERE
Oct 14 Tue 12 [5 UK] Churchkhela: A Thread of Georgian Tradition. "from the Caucasus... walnuts threaded on string and dipped in grape syrup."
KL Techniques. Oxford Food Symposium on Food and Cookery. HERE
Oct 14 Tue 5:30-8 Plantation Goods: A Material History of American Slavery with Author Seth Rockman. Maryland Center for History and Culture. HERE. TAPE maybe HERE or HERE
Oct 18 Sat 5:30–11:30AM [10:30am-4:30UK] Serve it Forth Food History Festival 2025. Feeding Falstaff, Sam Bilton; How do we keep food traditions alive? Neil Buttery; A Life of Luxury (Ancient Greek chefs), Thomas Ntinas; The River Remembers (London), Alessandra Pino, others. From £18.04 HERE
Oct 18-19 Smithsonian Food History Weekend. More posted closer to event HERE
Oc 19 Sun 4 The Myths of SPAM. Dr. Kelly A. Spring. Culinary Historians of Ann Arbor HERE TAPE HERE. Also Oct 23
Oc 20 Mon 5:30-7 How to Dine Like a Victorian, Part 3: Desserts. Becky Libourel Diamond. New York Adventure Club. Replay for week. $15.71 or 3 for $41.03 HERE
Oct 20 Mon 6 Environmental History & the War of Independence. David Hsiung. Mass. Historical Society HERE. 2024 TAPE HERE.
Oct 20 Mon 7-8:15 Revolutionary Whiskey - History and Recs of American Whiskeys. Travis Ireland. Chelmsfords Public Library. HERE TAPE may be HERE
Oct 20 Mon 7:30 Chocolate Kings: Hershey vs. Mars. Dr. Leslie Goddard. Bloomingdale Public Library IL HERE TAPE maybe HERE
Oct 22 Wed 6:30 Utsuwa. Connecting nature, art and the act of serving Japanese food. Elizabeth Andoh. Culinary Historians of New York. $10 HERE TAPE may be HERE
Oct 23 Thu 12:30 SPAM: A Global History. Kelly A. Spring. Institute of Historical Research HERE TAPE maybe HERE. Also Oct 19
Oct 29 Wed 10AM? [2:30UK] Indigestible! Ersatz food and nutrition in First World War Germany. From war bread to powdered egg. Jonathan Slater. Curious Histories. Fundraiser HERE
Oct 29 Wed 3:30-5 Drinking Ontario Wine: A Dream? Marcel Martel, Alex Gagne. Rural History Roundtable. U of Guelph. HERE
Oct 29 Wed 8 Heartland Masala with Jyoti Mukharji and Auyon Mukharji. Culinary Historians of Chicago. HERE
NOVEMBER EVENTS -- Eastern time zone.
27 talks
Nov 3 Mon 7 Sourdough Cooking Demonstration. Sarah Owens. author Sourdough, 10th Anniversary Edition: Recipes for Rustic Fermented Breads, Sweets, Savories, and More. Hudson Library HERE
Nov 4 Tue 12:30 5:30UK Breaking bad habits: temperance spaces and the battle against alcohol in Britain. David Beckingham. Institute of Historical Research. IHR HERE
Nov 4 Tue 1 Eat and Celebrate. Investigate works of art across Asia to discover how people past and present celebrated through food and rituals. Smithsonian HERE TAPE maybe HERE
Nov 5 Wed 8 Oakford Pecans – a story of discovery, Linda Eilks. Pumpkin/Squash update, Catherine Lambrecht. Chicago Foodways Roundtable HERE TAPE HERE
Nov 6 Thu 12:30 Lentils, Lineage, and the Language of Myth: A Semiotic Inquiry into Kayastha Culinary Culture in Lucknow. Sunny Kumar. & "Promoting Smell, Taste, and Wellness: A Study of Commercial Asafoetida in Early Twentieth-Century Tamil Print Advertisements". Anannya Bohidar. Institute of Historical Research HERE TAPE maybe HERE
Nov 6-8 Th-Sat Colonial Williamsburg Eat, Drink, Revolution: Our Friend the Tavern Fourteen speakers. In person is sold out, virtual $100 HERE
Nov 8 Sat 10:30 Carrot Puffs. History in the Kitchen. George Mason’s Gunston Hall HERE TAPE maybe HERE
Nov 11 Tue 6 Guiding the Bay: A Pilot’s View of Maryland’s Maritime History. Brian Hope, Pete Lesher. Maryland Center for History and Culture. HERE. TAPE maybe HERE or HERE
Nov 11 Tue 8 Retro Food Fads. “food innovations and marketing approaches that transformed American food from the 1940s through the 1960s.” Dr. Leslie Goddard. Wheaton Public Library. HybridHERE
Nov 12 Wed 6:30 Creating Shapes: 40 Years of Design, Modelmaking, and Moldmaking for Dinnerware and More by Daniel Mehlman. HERE TAPE HERE
Nov 13 Thur 2:30 [7:30pm UK] Wind and watermills in medieval and post-medieval Wales. Gerallt Nash. Abbey Cwmhir Heritage Trust. Talk info and past TAPE HERE or youtube HERE
Nv 14 Fri 4 AM [9amGMT] Feasts and tournaments at the royal court of Edward III. Euan Roger. The National Archives UK £0 – £15 HERE
Nov 15 Sat 5:30AM-12:30 [10:30AM- UK] Food Glorious Food. LAMAS 59th Local History Conference. London and Middlesex Archaeological Society £15.00 for a wide variety of talks HERE
Nov 16 Sun 11AM-8 Virtual West Coast Culinary Symposium. SCA Kingdom of the West. Facebook HERE
Nov 16 Sun 4-5:30 A History of Cider. Patrick McCauley. Culinary Historians of Ann Arbor HERE TAPE may be HERE
Nov 18 Tue 10:30 Lost Farms and Estates of Washington, D.C. Kim Williams. Washington Metro Oasis. $12 HERE
Nov 19 Wed 1 Facing War: Life on the Home Front During World War I. AARP HERE
Nov 19 Wed 7 The Gilded Age Christmas Cookbook: Holiday Stories, Treats and History of America’s Golden Era. Becky Libourel Diamond. Somerset County Library System NJ. Link here HERE
Nov 19 Wed 8 Lebanese Baking. Maureen Abood. Culinary Historians of Chicago HERE TAPE HERE
Nov 20 Thur 12:30 “I’m speaking for the battery hen”: ‘Chickens’ Lib’, and the protest against battery cage eggs in Britain, 1971-1988. Joel Mead. Institute of Historical Research. IHR HERE. TAPE maybe HERE
Nv 20 Thur 6 What You Didn't Know About Chocolate: Fun Hidden Facts & Stories Behind Your Favorite Food. Mary Griffith. AARP HERE
Nov 20 Thu 7 Holidays on the Trail: Returning Home. “learn about trail food traditions, echoed in the old cowboy refrain “when the work’s done in the fall.” Waiting to celebrate after the job was finished shaped the holiday customs of ranching families for generations, reminding us that the truest celebrations come after hard work is through.” Dr. Will Cradduck. Friends of the Texas Historical Commission HERE TAPE HERE
Nov 24 Mon 12:30 [5:30 UK] Harvest variability in the 1580s: volume and prices at the mills of the Earl of Shrewsbury in Sheffield (Yorkshire), 1578-1588. Info from almost 17,000 individual transactions. Richard Hoyle. Tudor & Stuart History. Institute of Historical Research. Hybrid HERE
Nov 24 Mon 7 Discussing "The Gilded Age Christmas Cookbook" with Author Becky Libourel Diamond. Ashland Public Library. HERE
Nov 25 Tue 12:30 [5:30 UK] The business of grain milling in England, c. 1540-1800. Mike Braddick. Economic and Social History of the Early Modern World, 1500-1800. Institute of Historical Research. IHR HERE. TAPE maybe HERE
Nov 28 Fri 12:30 Low Countries Merchants in and around London c. 1350-1550: Specialising in the Trade of Everyday Goods. Eliot Benbow. Institute of Historical Research. IHR HERE. TAPE maybe HERE