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

MARCH EVENTS -- Eastern time zone. 26 talks

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

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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

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

Mar 11 Tue 7 Taproom Tastings: Food in Propaganda and Politics. Catherine Prescott and Mary Tsaltas-Ottomanelli. Keeler Tavern Museum & History Center HERE TAPE maybe 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

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 may be 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

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

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

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 may be 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




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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