Calendar of virtual food history talks

The Calendar will continue in a limited way, since I must cut back on the long hours I have spent on it the last four years.
There have been over 4,500 virtual food history talks, demos and tours by museums, historical associations, small businesses, groups, and others.

Some months during 2020 through 2023 had over 250 talks. About a fourth of the talks are taped and will continue to be freely available in the posts by topic/subject. If you know of any other talks, please use the "contact form" to the right. ENJOY!

ARCHIVED TALKS
2020 list of all past talks - taped & untaped HERE
2021 list of all past talks Jan-Feb HERE /t/ March HERE /t/ April HERE /t/ May HERE /t/ June HERE /t/ July & Au HERE /t/ Sept & Oct HERE /Nov & Dec HERE
2022 list of all past talks - taped & untaped Jan HERE / Feb HERE / Mar HERE / Apr HERE / May HERE / June HERE / July-Aug HERE / Sept-Oct HERE / Nv-De HERE
2023 list of all past talks - taped/untaped Jan-Feb HERE / Mar-May HERE / June-Dec HERE
2024 list of all past talks - taped/untaped Jan-Dec HERE
2025 list of all past talks - taped/untaped Jan-Dec HERE

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

APRIL EVENTS -- Eastern time zone. 16 talks

Keep checking back since I am adding links for virtual events as I find them.

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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

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

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 maybe HERE

Apr 12 Sat 4 Fish Wars: Tribal Rights, Resistance, and Resiliency in the Pacific Northwest. Kestrel A. Smith. Humanities Washington 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

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 may be 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

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 may be HERE



CONFERENCES, SYMPOSIUMS, LONG TALKS

July 11-13 Food & the Elements. Oxford Food Symposium HERE

LIST OF TAPED TALKS AND INFO

Ice harvesting 1889 (click to enlarge)
During the past three years I have written many posts highlighting subjects from the main calendar or related to the lockdown. Taped talks continue to be added to subject posts and eventually talks not taped will be deleted (except in Archives lists). Due to the ever increasing number of talks (over 200) each month, I have removed all the info and links from the end of this main post, perhaps make new post or add back when fewer talks.

Acorn Mush cooked in basket HERE
African American Foodways HERE
Alexis Soyer - more than just a celebrity chef HERE
Art and Food, Chinese porcelain HERE
Bank Barns, Pennsylvania Barns HERE
Bees and eating Insects HERE
Banqueting sweets for a Prince of Wales c1610 HERE
Bees and edible insects HERE
Being Human, humanities festival, UK HERE
Bread, flour, salt, ovens HERE
British Foodways HERE
Calendar of virtual talks... retrospective HERE
Canada - Food Day Canada - Aug. 1 HERE
Capitol in DC - Civil War bake ovens HERE eating, lodging HERE
Cattle, Dairy, Cheese, and Butchers virtual talks HERE
Chocolate HERE
Clarissa Dillon’s One Cool Colonial series (gardening, hearth cooking) HERE
Cookbooks, Manuscripts HERE
Cooking historically at home – online cooks’ sites, and recipes (ie Ben Franklin) links list HERE
Day of the Dead - Dia de MuertosHERE
Drink up! Taverns, Beer, Wine, Mead, Whiskey, Cocktails HERE
Dublin Gastronomy Symposium – 50 talks, papers, free HERE
Early lockdown virtual food history talks retrospective & tapes HERE
Edible England - national festival and UK talks 2021 HERE
Family Recipes and Traditions post HERE
Farm fences – Stone walls, Hedgerows, Waddle fences HERE
Fishing, River restoration, Seafood, Roman Fish Sauce talks HERE
Food aid. Feeding the poor and needy. HERE
Foraging HERE
German foodways - in Germany and US HERE
Glass bee hives 1772, 1828 ... and 1650s. HERE
Halloween - Snap-apple, snapdragon, turnip lanterns, Colcannon Night, (Soule) Cake Night and Day of the Dead HERE
Hearth cooking, ovens demonstrations HERE
Holiday: Christmas HERE
Holiday: Day of the Dead HERE
Holiday: Easter Eggs & Hot Cross Buns HERE
Holiday: Fat Tuesday - Pancake Day, Doughnut/Kinkling Day HERE
Holidays: Thanksgiving, Hanukkah, Stir-up Sunday HERE
Holiday: Twelfth Night HERE
Holiday: Washington’s Birthday Wash. Cake, Wash. Pie HERE
Home Economics HERE
Ice Cream Freezing Pots, Sorbetieres, Ice Cream Makers & Freezers from 1751 to 1916 HERE
Ice Harvesting film clips start 1898, taped talks, images HERE
Ideas for pair-ups museums and local businesses HERE
Indigenous Foodways HERE
Irish food, famine, and drinks talks and tapes HERE
Isotopes - From bones to diet to migration HERE Italian foodways in Italy and America talks HERE
Jewish Foodways HERE
JSTOR free - scholarly journals, ebooks, images HERE
Korean foodways HERE
Manuscripts: Medical, Manuscript Cookbooks Survey HERE
Manuscripts: Medieval, Renaissance HERE
Maple Sugaring HERE
Maryland HERE
Medical and culinary manuscripts HERE
Medieval foods, manuscripts, gardens HERE
Mexican foodways HERE
Mills HERE
Mustard seeds and vinegar makers in 1765 HERE
Oral history project on foodways during quarantine HERE
Ovens demonstrations HERE
Peat harvesting HERE
Prohibition HERE
Quarantine sign 1911 “Notice to Milkman! HERE
Rations and rationing HERE
Restaurants, Diners, Fast food, Street food, Picnics, Trains and TavernsHERE
Salt production in Adobe ovens pictures, Bread, flour, salt HERE
Scotland HERE
Sourdough Library - Puratos World Heritage Sourdough Library in Belgium HERE
Tea HERE
Transcribing manuscript recipes – volunteer! HERE
Victory and War Gardens, Plants, Farms HERE
Women cookbook authors talks HERE

Flour barrels rolled down stairs to Civil War bake ovens in US Capitol 1862
***ALL PAST TALKS ARE BEING ARCHIVED***
2020 HERE and 2021 HERE

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