A list of taped talks, then a list of this week's talks.
TALKS 2023
Feb 4 Sat 12-1:30 Black Homesteaders of the South. “African American families who became landowners through the Homestead Act of 1862.” author Bernice A. Bennett. Smithsonian National Museum of African American History & Culture. Hybrid HERE
Feb 16 Thu 7 Cornbread & Collard Greens: how West African cuisine and slavery influenced soul food. author Deah Berry Mitchell. Smith Public Library. HERE
Feb 19 Sun 4 Bound to the Fire: How Virginia’s Enslaved Cooks Helped Invent American Cuisine. Kelley Fanto Deetz. Culinary Historians of Ann Arbor HERE TAPE may be HERE
Feb 22 Wed 8 Southern Black Chefs in the White House. Adrian Miller. UNC Asheville. HERE
Feb 28 Tue 12:30 Cultivating subsistence, planting resistance: Africa’s food legacy in the Atlantic World. “the enslaved grew food on the small plots allotted them for subsistence… emphasized food forests or polycultures for their dietary needs…” Judith Carney. IHR Institute of Historical Research HERE TAPE may be HERE
PAST TAPED TALKS
Juneteenth
Juneteenth at James Madison's Montpelier, Dr. Leni Sorenson. June 19 2020 5 TAPES available now HERE and at Monticello HERE
Red Drinks for Juneteenth: Exploring the Black Foodways of the Juneteenth Holiday and Beyond. LA Times Food Bowl 2021 Food Forum panel. Los Angeles Times Jun 15 2021 HERE TAPE HERE
Juneteenth Kabbalat Shabbat. “strawberry soda, barbecue, watermelon and red velvet cake are several red foods, symbolizing the blood and resilience of former slaves. For others, it means indulging in traditional black Southern cuisine like fried chicken, collard greens and cornbread.” Be'chol Lashon, 18 Doors… Reconstructing Judaism. Jun 18 2021 HERE TAPE HERE
On Juneteenth, author Annette Gordon-Reed. Montpelier staff and OCAAHS. National Archives. Jun 2 2021 HERE TAPE HERE James Madison’s Montpelier VA Virtual Juneteenth Celebration all month HERE
African Diaspora
Know Your Black History: Tracing the African Diaspora’s Flavors and Techniques. Jackie Summers, Julia Coney, Valerie Erwin, Casandra Rosario. James Beard Foundation Feb 17 2021 HERE TAPE HERE
Afrimerican Foodways “will look at similar recipes that exist in the African diaspora and make the connection to similar meals in Africa.” Black Eyed Pea fritters, Acaraje (Brazil), Akara (Nigeria). Deitra Dennis. Afrimerican Culture Initiative Inc. Feb 18 2021 HERE TAPE HERE
DC Food Roots & Culture: Our Newest Roots Joining the Mother Roots. Africa. Dr. Psyche Williams-Forson, Xavier Brown, Dine Diaspora. HumanitiesDC, Humanitini. Nov 10 2020 TAPE HERE
African Diasporic Seeds & Seed Keeping: A Virtual Workshop. Amirah Mitchell. Providence Community Library HERE. Feb 10 2022 TAPE HERE
Meet Bryant Terry, author of Black Food: Stories, Art and Recipes From Across the African Diaspora. “original essays, poetry, recipes and art from over 100 Black cultural luminaries from across the globe capture the broad and divergent voices of the African Diaspora through the prism of food.” Foster City Library Mr 14 2022 HERE TAPE HERE
Evolution of African American Cuisine
Chef Marcus Samuelsson author of The Rise: Black Cooks and the Soul of American Food. Culinary Historians of Chicago Fe 15 2021 HERE TAPE HERE
High on the Hog: How African American Cuisine Transformed America, Stephen Satterfield. “docuseries, Philly's robust food scene and culinary history, Juneteenth, and African American contributions to America’s kitchens.” The Philadelphia Inquirer. Jun 10 2021 HERE TAPE HERE
From the Continent to the Americas: Foodways, Culture and Traditions in the African American Family. Gina Paige, Carla Hall, Stephanie Evans, and Daphne Maxwell Reid. Association for the Study of African American Life and History. Fe 6 2021 HERE TAPE HERE
Pratt Test Kitchen presents Toni Tipton-Martin. latest book Jubilee: Recipes From Two Centuries of African American Cooking. Enoch Pratt Free Library, MD Feb 2022 HERE TAPE HERE
Black Label: A Very Black Posters & Cocktails. “true history of Black drinking culture in contrast with popular representations of Blackness in alcohol posters over the past 120 years… AJ will mix up some of her favorite cocktails featuring Black-owned alcohol and spirits.” Andra 'AJ' Johnson. Poster House Fe 17 2021 HERE TAPE HERE
Cooking with History. “lives of enslaved cooks, the impact of racial systems on foodways, and ongoing efforts to engage with African American culinary heritage.” Dr. Kelley Fanto Deetz, Dr. Psyche Williams-Forson, Chef Therese Nelson. Josiah Henson Museum and Park Feb 12 2022 HERE TAPE HERE
George Washington Carver: Inventor, Scientist, Educator. “developed hundreds of products from peanuts, sweet potatoes, and mineral clays; promoted home-canning and the addition of natural fertilizers to improve soil fertility.” Dr. Gary R. Kremer. Linda Hall Library Feb 17 2021 HERE TAPE HERE
George Washington Carver in Iowa. Iowa History 101. State Historical Society of Iowa TAPE HERE
Freedom’s Eve -Traditional Dishes to Bring in the New Year. “historical and cultural significance of the three prepared dishes: collard greens, Hoppin’ John, and cornbread.” Ramin Coles. Nt Museum African American History. Smithsonian Dec 31 2022 TAPE HERE
Jubilee, Recipes from 200 years of African American Cooking , Toni Tipton-Martin. Gwinnett County Library GA Sept 6 2020 HERE TAPE HERE
Inside the Jemima Code: The Joy of African American Cooking. Toni Tipton-Martin. Virginia Museum of History & Culture. (previously recorded) 2020 TAPE HERE
Stories Lived & Told Through African-American Food. Toni Tipton-Martin, Kimberly Prince, Celia Ward-Wallace, Chef Marilyn. Regarding Her. Donation Jan 29 2021 HERE TAPE HERE
Contributions of Black Women to America’s Kitchen. Sephira Shuttlesworth. Culinary Historians of Chicago HERE TAPE HERE Feb 9 2022
Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019. Keisha Blain, Howard Bryant, DaMaris B. Hill, Kathryn Sophia Belle, and David A. Love. Midtown Scholar Bookstore. 2020 TAPE HERE
Colonial/Federal
The African Family Experience in Early New Amsterdam. “the history of two African families through primary sources.” Tenement Museum NYC and the African Burial Ground National Monument. HERE Feb 24 2021 TAPE HERE
Colonial Chocolate in the Atlantic World. Dr. Leni Sorenson. A cacao grinding stone was at Stratford Hall, proof that enslaved cooks like Caesar made chocolate for the Lee family. Stratford Hall VA Fe 13 2021 Info and TAPE at bottom of page HERE
Sugar, Slavery, and Revolution: The Real History of White Gold. Dr. Kelley Fanto Deetz. Stratford Hall Feb 28 2022 HERE TAPE HERE
"The Only Unavoidable Subject of Regret" George Washington, Slavery, and the Enslaved Community at Mount Vernon. Mary V. Thompson. The Redwood Library & Athenæum Feb 24 2021 HERE TAPE HERE
Dr. Leni Sorensen cooked on the stew stove at Jefferson’s Monticello VA Se 29 2020 TAPE HERE
James Hemming’s Contributions to American Cuisine. Ashbell Mcelveen founder James Hemings Society. The National Arts Club. Donation Feb 18 2021 HERE TAPE HERE
Slave and prison breads. Bread Seminar and baking by author William Rubel. Join Rubel's Facebook page Bread History and Practice for future topics and details HERE Feb 4 2020. Register HERE TAPE HERE Recipes HERE
An Archive of Taste: Race and Eating in the Early United States. Dr. Lauren F. Klein. The Library Company of Phila. May 14 2021 TAPE HERE
Stealing Joy: Finding resilience in Black Holiday traditions. “history and recipes of the African American experience” Kamau Ware, Nicole Taylor. Van Cortlandt Park Alliance Dec 3 2021 HERE TAPE HERE
History in the Kitchen. 3 days. Colonial food & learn on modern stove. Enslaved people. Cooked greens and peanut butter. Age 10- Gunston Hall Oct 17 2020 HERE. TAPE HERE or TAPE HERE
Tavern Tastings: African American Foodways. “how recipes, cooking and eating methods, and traditions develop overtime…” Scott Alves Barton. Keeler Tavern Museum and Fraunces Tavern Museum. Mar 9 2021 HERE TAPE HERE
Food and Faith: African American community cooking in Laurel, Maryland. St. Mark's United Methodist Church. Laurel Historical Society Feb 2022 TAPE HERE
Carolinas, Gullah foods
Bress ‘n’ Nyam: Gullah Geechee Recipes from a Sixth-Generation Farmer. Author Matthew Raiford with Amy Condon; Dr. Jessica Harris. Politics and Prose May 13 2021 HERE TAPE HERE
Rice. Michael Twitty. Gullah/Geechee African Culinary Legacy Se 9 2020 TAPE HERE
Soul Food & Friends – 1 Gullah foods “recipes of the Gullah people past and present “ Hilton Head Island Gullah Celebration Fe 9 2021 HERE TAPE HERE
Soul Food & Friends – 2 Gullah foods “recipes of the Gullah people past and present “ Hilton Head Island Gullah Celebration Fe 16 2021 HERE TAPE HERE
The Green Book: NC Travels Down Memory Lane. Panel N.C. Transportation Museum Feb 24 2021 TAPE HERE
Tek Cyear uh de Root. “19th-century Charleston Schützenfest. .. between German immigrants and Black people…” Jamaal Lemon, Brian Alberts, Mike Stein, and Peter Jones. Heurich House Museum. Se 23 2021 HERE TAPE HERE
Barbecue
Black Smoke: African Americans and the United States of Barbecue, with author and "Soul Food Scholar" Adrian Miller. HFSDV The Historic Foodways Society of the Delaware Valley May 13 2021 HERE TAPE HERE
New Orleans, Creole, Women, cookbook authors
The Queens of New Orleans Creole Cuisine: From Tante Zoe to Leah Chase. “African-American women from the 18th-20th century were major contributors to establishing New Orleans world famous Creole cuisine.” Zella Palmer. The Hermann-Grima + Gallier Historic Houses. LA Mar 10 2021 HERE TAPE HERE
Lena Richard and Julia Child: Two Women Who Changed Culinary History. Lena Richard (1892-1950) wrote New Orleans Cook Book, and Julia Child (1912-2004) wrote The French Chef. Paula Johnson, Ashley Rose Young, 2021 Francophonie Celebration. Museum of Work & Culture. RI Mar 10 2021 HERE TAPE HERE
The Story of New Orleans Creole Cooking: The Black Hand in the Pot. Documentary. Dillard University. 2016Short version 22 minHERE
Activism
The Legacy of Food Activism: A Storytelling Event. “African American ancestors paved the way for our modern-day food activism.” Therese Nelson, Chef Omar Tate, Paola Velez, The Common People Poetry Group, Korsha Wilson. MOFAD Museum of Food and Drink, NY Feb 25 2021 HERE TAPE HERE
Soul Food and Civil Rights: History Around the Table. cooking and African-American history. Adrian Miller (author Soul Food; President’s Kitchen Cabinet) & Chef "The Lazy Makoti". U.S. Embassy South Africa. Feb 26 2021 HERE TAPE USEmbassySA Facebook live HERE
Food for Freedom: Feeding Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad. Chef Gail Hinson of the Johnson House Historic Site. HFSDV Historic Foodways of the Delaware Valley. Jan 28 2020 HERE TAPE HERE
Green Book
The Green Book: NC Travels Down Memory Lane. Panel N.C. Transportation Museum Feb 24 2021 TAPE HERE
Jan 26 Wed 3 Mapping the Historic Green Books: The African American Travelers’ Guide. “digital project to document and map Green Book sites across the country…annual list motels, restaurants, and other establishments where African American travelers could stay during the Jim Crow era.” 4 speakers. UVA Lifetime Learning HERE TAPE may be HERE
Business
Businessman First: Remembering Henry G. Parks, Jr. 1916-1989, Capturing the Life of a Businessman Who Was African American. In 1951 he started Parks Sausage Company in Baltimore. Dr. Maurice W. Dorsey. CHoW Culinary Historians of Washington DC Jan 9 2022 HERE TAPE HERE
How Fast Food Became Black Food. Marcia Chatelain author of Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America. Culinary Historians of New York Se 2020 TAPE HERE
Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America. “how McDonald’s pivoted from a mostly suburban brand to one that became a fixture in inner-city communities… complicated relationship among seemingly disparate forces: the federal government, leaders of the freedom struggle, and a fast-food giant.” Marcia Chatelain. American University Library Fe 2021 TAPE HERE
Farmers, land
Black Freedom on Native Land. “Black people who received the mythic 40 acres, the American settlers who coveted this land, and the Native Americans who originally inhabited the land.” Alaina Roberts. D’Arcy McNickle Center for American Indian and Indigenous Studies at the Newberry. Jun 2 2021 HERE Youtube live and TAPE HERE
Land of the Free. “examining Black people’s connection to the American land from Emancipation to today.” Natalie Baszile author of We are each other’s harvest about black farmers. Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Jun 14 2021 TAPE HERE
Land Ownership, Race, and Power: Black Farming in America. panel. Museum of Food and Drink (MOFAD)July 30 2020 TAPE HERE
The Role of Black Farmers in Michigan and Across the Country. AARP not have to be member HERE TAPE HERE
African Diasporic Seeds and Seed Keeping. Amirah Mitchell. Providence Community Library. Feb 2022 HERE TAPE HERE
Cooking at the hearth… or stew stove
Dr. Leni Sorensen cooked on the stew stove at Jefferson’s Monticello VA Se 29 2020 TAPE HERE
Lavada Nahon talk and hearth cooking on Culinary Traditions & Historic Foodways in Peter Kalm's Travels in America 1749. Cabbage, pumpkin and cornmeal. Crailo State Historic Site Dec 2020 TAPE HERE
Stratford Hall Colonial Christmas Cuisine. Dontavius Williams, Cheyney McKnight, and Nicole Moore. Stratford Hall. Dec 2020 TAPE HERE
Stratford Hall series 2020 of talks, TAPES at bottom of page HERE
Chocolate and Soul Food, from Colonial Virginia to Contemporary Kitchens. Cheyney McKnight, Nicole Moore, Ramin Ganeshram, chef Tanya Holland. Stratford Hall. Dec 8 2021 HERE
Caesar's Chocolate: The History and Legacy of one of Virginia's Earliest Chocolate Makers. Dontavius Williams, Chef Christopher Scott. Stratford Hall. Dec 2022 HERE
African American and Indigenous, German
Indigenous and Black Food Relations. Miijim: Food as Relations. Environmental & Urban Change. York University. Canada. Oct 20 2020 HERE TAPES HERE
Intersections of Indigenous and African Foodways. Alex Jimerson, Yusuf Bin-Rella, Chef Sherry Pocknett. Scott Barton. Food Studies Grad Society at NYU Nov 20 2020HERE TAPE HERE
Indigenous Roots: Exploring the Crossroads of African American and Indigenous American Cuisine. Panel. Museum of Food and Drink (MOFAD) Au 9 2021 TAPE HERE
Black Freedom on Native Land. “Black people who received the mythic 40 acres, the American settlers who coveted this land, and the Native Americans who originally inhabited the land.” Alaina Roberts. D’Arcy McNickle Center for American Indian and Indigenous Studies at the Newberry. Jun 2 2021 HERE Youtube live and TAPE HERE
Tek Cyear uh de Root. “19th-century Charleston Schützenfest. .. between German immigrants and Black people…” Jamaal Lemon, Brian Alberts, Mike Stein, and Peter Jones. Heurich House Museum. Se 23 2020 HERE TAPE HERE
Speakers with 3 or more talks
-Dr. Leni Sorensen
Juneteenth at James Madison's Montpelier, Dr. Leni Sorenson. June 19 2020 5 TAPES available now HERE and at Monticello HERE
Dr. Leni Sorensen cooked on the stew stove at Jefferson’s Monticello VA Se 29 2020 TAPE HERE
Colonial Chocolate in the Atlantic World. Dr. Leni Sorenson. A cacao grinding stone was at Stratford Hall, proof that enslaved cooks like Caesar made chocolate for the Lee family. Stratford Hall VA Fe 13 2021 Info and TAPE at bottom of page HERE
-Toni Tipton-Martin
Jubilee, Recipes from 200 years of African American Cooking , Toni Tipton-Martin. Gwinnett County Library GA Sept 6 2020 HERE TAPE HERE
Inside the Jemima Code: The Joy of African American Cooking. Toni Tipton-Martin. Virginia Museum of History & Culture. (previously recorded) 2020 TAPE HERE
Stories Lived & Told Through African-American Food. Toni Tipton-Martin, Kimberly Prince, Celia Ward-Wallace, Chef Marilyn. Regarding Her. Donation Jan 29 2021 HERE TAPE HERE
-Adrian Miller
The President’s Kitchen Cabinet. African American chefs who have fed the first families. author Adrian Miller. National Archives Feb 2020 TAPE HERE
In Service and Servitude. Explore the lives and experiences of the enslaved and free workers in the Confederate Presidents House. online exhibit HERE
Black Smoke: African Americans and the United States of Barbecue, with author and "Soul Food Scholar" Adrian Miller. HFSDV The Historic Foodways Society of the Delaware Valley May 13 2021 HERE TAPE HERE
Soul Food and Civil Rights: History Around the Table. cooking and African-American history. Adrian Miller (author Soul Food; President’s Kitchen Cabinet) & Chef "The Lazy Makoti". U.S. Embassy South Africa. Feb 26 2021 HERE TAPE USEmbassySA Facebook live HERE
-Cheyney McKnight
Saying Their Names: Interpreting the Lives of the Enslaved at Historic Sites. Joe McGill (Slave Dwelling Project), Cheyney McKnight (Not your Momma’s History), panel. Apr 8 2021 HERE TAPE HERE
Let's Talk About Slavery in Van Cortlandt Park. Cheyney McKnight. Van Cortlandt plantation NY Je 2021 TAPE HERE
A Day in the Life of an 18th cen. Enslaved Lady's Maid. Cheyney McKnight. For exhibit Sparkling Company: Glass and the Costs of Social Life in Britain During the 1700s at The Corning Museum of Glass. NY 2020 TAPE HERE
Slavery experiences
In Service and Servitude. Explore the lives and experiences of the enslaved and free workers in the Confederate Presidents House. online exhibit HERE
Transatlantic Slavery Symposium. Monticello, Mount Vernon and Benjamin Franklin House in London Schedule 2020 HERE Register HERE TAPE HERE and HERE and more
'Memoirs'
Meals, Music, and Muses: Recipes from My African American Kitchen. Alexander Smalls Sept 8 2021 HERE TAPE HERE
Tracing My African American Story Through Food. Michael Twitty author of The Cooking Gene. Newton Free Library. June 2021 TAPE HERE
Other
Sugar Machine: Medical Technologies and Plantation Legacies in the Caribbean Diabetes Epidemic. Dr. Amy Moran-Thomas. LACIS, UW-Madison. Nov 10 HERE TAPE HERE
Conserving "Striking Iron: The Art of African Blacksmiths" exhibit. “stabilizing and treating the objects for display, travel, and long-term storage. …issues related to works in iron, such as weight, corrosion, and past use. Christian de Brer. Fowler Museum at UCLA. May 10 2021 30min HERE TAPE HERE
Some blog posts on African Americans. James Hemings, Hercules, Robert Roberts. HERE
CALENDAR OF VIRTUAL FOOD HISTORY TALKS HERE
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