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 (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

FEBRUARY EVENTS -- Eastern time zone.
21 talks

Feb 4 Wed 12 The Sifter: The Ask - Searching for Foods in History. Oxford Food Symposium HERE

Feb 4 Wed 7 From Soil to Soul Series: Cultural Traditions – The Flavors of the Land. Farm-to-Table across the Ages in Israel. Gila Levitan. Walnut Street Synagogue, Chelsea, MA HERE

Feb 5 Thur 6:30-8 The History of Scotch Whisky. David McNicoll. Brooklyn Brainery. $10 Tape for one week HERE

Feb 8 Sun 2 Kaffeehaus: How Vienna Changed Global Baking. Rick Rogers. CHoW HERE

?Feb 11 Wed 9 [6 CA] From Chuckwagons to Food Trucks: The History of Food on Wheels in America. Richard Foss. Torrance Public Library. [listed on his website] HERE

Feb 11 Wed 6:30 The Wild Ride of an Extraordinary Bean: How Vanilla Went from Rare Fruit to Plain Vanilla. Eric Jennings. Culinary Historians of New York $10 HERE TAPE may be HERE

Feb 12 Thur 12:30 Women, Food and Power - Joint Session. Cheesemaking and women’s dominance of the dairy in early modern England mid 17th cen. Alasdair McNeill. “We’re Meant to Be Reclaiming Our Appetites Here!” Women Eating in Contemporary Culture as Resistance to Historical Narratives. Maura Sanchez. Institute of Historical Research. IHR HERE . Food History Seminar TAPE may be HERE

Feb 12 Thur 12:30 The Role of Women in Fourteenth-Century English Village Networks. Spike Gibbs. Institute of Historical Research. IHR HERE

Feb 12 Thur 1 A History of the Iowa Farm. Dr. Joe Anderson author of Capitalist Pigs: Pigs, Pork, and Power in America. State Historical Society of Iowa HERE TAPE may be HERE

Feb 12 Wed 6:30 The Orchid Behind the Flavor: Vanilla's Global Journey. Author Eric Jennings. HFSDV HERE TAPE HERE

Feb 12 Thu 6:45-8 Nourishing Networks: How Food Shaped New Orleans. Smithsonian Associates. $30 HERE

Feb 12 Wed 7:30 Saloons to Soul Food - Being Black on King. Faith Ebanks. Culinary Historians of Canada CA$17.31 HERE

Feb 12 Wed 8 The Chicago Way: An Oral History of Chicago Dining. Michael Gebert. Culinary Historians of Chicago. HERE TAPE may be HERE

Feb 14 Sat 10:30-11:15 AM History in the Kitchen - African American History Month. Gunston Hall HERE

Feb 15 Sun 4 Bananas Above the Clouds: How the Japanese Taste for Sweetness Transformed the Philippine Highlands. Dr. Alyssa Paredes. Culinary Historians of Ann Arbor HERE TAPE may be HERE

Feb 17 Tue 8 Tasting the Past: The Art & Science of Historical Cooking. “explore five iconic recipes spanning empires, religions, and centuries — and discover how each dish serves as a cultural artifact, revealing the history, values, and traditions of the people who created it.” Jay Reifel. New York Adventure Club. 18.88 tape for a week HERE

Feb 20 Fri 1-2:30 Out with the Stars: Nightlife in the Golden Age of Hollywood. Lucy Jane Santos. New York Adventure Club. Replay for one week. $18.88 HERE

Feb 22 Thu 4:30am [9am UK] Forgotten Foods: History, Memory & Identity - Recipes of South Asia. Siobhan Lambert-Hurley. MACFEST - Muslim Arts and Culture Festival. HERE

Feb 25 Wed 10am (UK 3) London's Food Factories virtual tour. Rob Smith, Footprints of London £10 HERE

Feb 26 Thurs 12:30 Food Adulteration. (2 talks) Hygiene in the food trade and food adulteration in cities on Polish lands in the 19th and 20th centuries until the outbreak of World War II. Maria Ujwary. & Food Fraud, Consumer Health Protection, and Legal Challenges in the Kingdom of Italy during the Late 19th Century. Sara Morri. Institute of Historical Research. IHR HERE. Food History Seminar TAPE may be HERE

Feb 26 Thur 1 Urban Fruits: The Public Orchard as a Bridge to the Landscape. Moirika Reker. Institute of Historical Research. IHR 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

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