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- 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


NOVEMBER EVENTS -- Eastern time zone.

Links for new virtual talks are added as I find them, so keep checking back. Also added at the end of my blog posts.

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Nov 1 Fri 2 Food Without Borders: Exploring Native American Food Culture. AARP, membership is not required. HERE

Nov 6 Wed 6:30 Sustainability: An American Literary History. Abby Goode. Howe Library. NH Humanities. HERE

Nv 7 Thu 12:30 Frumenty: a European Recipe in the Medieval Culinary Tradition. Alena Minko/ How Innovations in British Silversmithing Shaped our Dining Tables. Carolyn Tillie. Food History Seminar. IHR Institute of Historical Research HERE

Nov 8 Fri 12-1:30 The Visual Banquet: Food and Festivity in Renaissance Art. Elaine Ruffolo. Smithsonian Associates $30 HERE

Nov 9 Sat 10:30-11:30AM History in the Kitchen - Native American Foodways. Gunston Hall VA HERE TAPE may be HERE

Nov 9 Sat 11AM Leftovers: A History of Food Waste and Preservation. Dr. Eleanor Barnett, author of Leftovers.. Chicago Foodways Roundtable. HERE TAPE may be HERE

Nov 10 Sun 2 Disgust and Cuisine. Dr. Paul Rozin. CHOW Culinary Historians of DC HERE

Nov 13 Wed 6 Explore Food in New York’s Gilded Age. Francine Segen. AARP, membership is not required. HERE

Nov 13 Wed 6-8 Elysian Kitchens: Recipes and Stories from Monasteries, Mosques, Temples and Synagogues Around the World by author Jody Eddy. Culinary Historians of New York $10 HERE

Nov 13 Thu 6 Ciao Italia: Plant, Harvest, Cook! Mary Ann Esposito. Pépin Lecture Series. Boston University, Food & Wine Programs. HERE

Nov 14 Thu 11AM Coal Pit to Ship. Alan Macfarlane. North Eastern Railway Association, UK HERE TAPE may be HERE

How Coal Changed the Way We Live with author, British food historian and BBC TV presenter Ruth Goodman. HFSDV Jul 23 2022 TAPE HERE

Nov 14 Thu 12:30 Changing relationships between grocers and shoppers: the role of food packaging. Anne Murcott. Food History Seminar. IHR Institute of Historical Research HERE

Nov 14 Thu 5:30-7 Ice Cream! The History of America's Favorite Dessert. Erik Hodgetts. Replay for one week. New York Adventure Club $12 HERE

Nov 14 Thur 7-8:30 The Cooking Revolution: How the Industrial Revolution Changed Our Kitchens. Cynthia Resor. Old North Church, Boston donation HERE

Nov 14 Thu 7 Taproom Tastings: Kitchen Tools. Catherine Prescott, Mary Tsaltas-Ottomanelli. Keeler Tavern Museum. Donation HERE TAPE may be HERE

Nov 14 Thu 8 Unpacking NYC’s Historic Meatpacking District and One of its Marvelous Meat Purveyors. Jacque Ottman. Culinary Historians of Chicago. HERE TAPE may be HERE

Nov 17 Sun 4 Countering the Effects of Domicide through Food: The Za‘atari Camp Syrian Refugee Cookbook. Dr. Karen Fisher. CHAA Culinary Historians of Ann Arbor HERE TAPE may be HERE

Nov 20 Wed 9AM Demystifying Sake: an exploration of ancient brewing traditions. Natsuki Kikuya. Wine & Spirit Education Trust (WSET) 30 min. HERE. TAPE may be HERE

Nov 20 Wed 7 Chef Sean Sherman & The Sioux Chef’s Indigenous Kitchen. Howard County Library System. Maryland HERE

Nov 21 Thur 11-12:30AM Medieval and Renaissance Banquets: A Conversation on Luxury and Diplomacy. The Society for Court Studies - European Branch. HERE

Nv 21 Thu 12:30 Representations of Japanese Food and Culture on Food Documentaries. Keri Matwick, Kelsi Matwick. Food History Seminar. IHR Institute of Historical Research HERE

Nov 22 Fri 12 Appropriations: Remaking Maritime Technologies in the Dutch East India Company World. Dániel Margócsy. Labor of Science Seminar Series HERE

Nov 22 Fri 3 Special Event Pilgrims, Food and Thanksgiving. Dr. Lillian C. World Virtual Tours HERE

Nov 30 Sat 9-11AM Medieval Christmas Food & Customs. Prof Giles Gaspar. Richard III Society Gloucester Branch. UK £5 HERE

CONFERENCES, SYMPOSIUMS, LONG TALKS

2025 - 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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