There have been over 4,500 (in 2023) 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
JANUARY EVENTS -- Eastern time zone.
17 talks
Jan 5 7-8:15 Stirring Up History: The Cookbooks That Shaped America’s Kitchen. Dr. Leslie Goddard. Livingston Public Library (NJ) HERE
Jan 6 Tue 6 The Franklin Stove: An Unintended American Revolution. Joyce E. Chaplin. The American Philosophical Society HERE TAPE maybe HERE or HERE
Jan 7 Wed 2 [7pm UK] What the books don't tell you and why bees change their minds. Clare Densley, Martin Hahn. Cambridgeshire Beekeepers. HERE
Jan 7 Wed 8 The Five Misconceptions about SPAM (the Food). Dr Kelly A. Spring. CHEW Culinary History Enthusiasts of Wisconsin HERE TAPE may be HERE
Jan 10 Sat 10:30-11:15 AM Eggs in Croquets. Gunston Hall HERE
Jan 11 Sun 2 Fun Foods: The Unknown, Unexpected, and Long Forgotten. “breakfast table cereals and their entrance into the fun foods kingdom; and the transition of candy from medicines to fun foods and back again. Given the season, we’ll take a dip into fun foods for cold weather, such as old-time hot sodas and cold syrup.” Susan Benjamin. Culinary Historians of Washington DC CHoW HERE
Jan 12 Mon 7 10 Most Influential American Cookbooks. Dr. Leslie Goddard. Oyster Bay-East Norwich Public Library HERE
Jan 13 Tue 5-6:15 Industrializing Olfaction: How Soapmakers Changed the Urban American Smellscape in the Late 19th Century & Early 20th Century. Shiqi Wang. Massachusetts Historical Society HERE
Jan 15 Thu 12:30 Greek Food - Joint Session. Food waste in Greek history and Culture. Nafsika Papacharalampous. Konstantina Balafouti. The first Greek cookbook: recipes about national identity and the desire for the West. Institute of Historical Research. IHR HERE TAPE maybe HERE
Jan 15 Thu 7 Why We Need Oaks and How to Save Them. Doug Tallamy. Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies HERE
Jan 15 Thur 7:30 My search for Ukrainian-Canadian cookbooks. Joyce Sirski-Howell. Culinary Historians of Canada $17.31 HERE
Jan 18 Sun 5 Expat Cookbooks: Expressions of Identity and Community While Living Abroad. Daniel Freidus. CHEW Culinary History Enthusiasts of Wisconsin HERE TAPE may be HERE
Jan 20 Tue 5-6:30am Bucket Mill in Finzean, Scotland “getting the machinery working again, developing skills training, and working towards producing historic turned buckets once again…” Owen Bushell. North UK Mills Group. Heritage Network HERE
Jan 21 Wed 1 [6pm UK] Ceramic ice pails and the frozen delights they once held. Ivan Day. Museum of Royal Worcester HERE TAPE maybe HERE
Jan 22 Thur 6:30 Brewing in New Hampshire: An Informal History of Beer in the Granite State Glenn Knoblock. Meredith Public Library HERE
Jan 22 Thur 7 Dinner with Dumas: The Gourmand Author of The Three Musketeers. Michon Boston. HFSDV HERE TAPE may be HERE
Jan 29 Thur 12:30 Levant Food - Joint Session. Lina Saad. Sawda Nayeh: The Raw Truth of Lebanese Heritage. Stefan Williamson - Eating Ashure on Ashura: Gastro-Sectarianisation in Contemporary Turkey. Institute of Historical Research. IHR HERE TAPE maybe HERE
CONFERENCES, SYMPOSIUMS, LONG TALKS
May 26-27 2026 Tue-Wed Dublin Gastronomy Symposium. Food and Crisis/Hope. Not sure if zoom, but some past papers are online, and info on 2026 'call for papers' HERE
Jul 11-13 2026 Fri-Sun Oxford Symposium on Food & Cookery. Poverty Food. 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
©2024 Patricia Bixler Reber
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Thank you for these wonderful resources.
ReplyDeletePat, Thank you so much for keeping this list of wonderful presentations up to date. You are the greatest!
ReplyDeleteThank you SO much for this list! I've been checking out this list every few weeks for months now and it's always a delight to see an interesting event coming up. It's often the highlight of my day.
ReplyDeleteAmazing! Thank you so much! John Ota.
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ReplyDeleteThanks, Pat--you are amazing!
ReplyDeleteI did this tour when I was in Paris last year and it was FABULOUS! Wear comfortable walking shoes. " Food Tour: The Belly of Paris. “Les Halles, home to one of the best market streets of Paris. Built in the 1100’s… Stohrer, including the macarons, the oldest pastry shop of Paris, a place opened in 1730 where the baba au rhum were invented…” Heygo HERE"
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