Treats for the Halloween table - 1915

Good Housekeeping October issue had many orange outfits and this Halloween section. Hope you had an enjoyable Trick or Treat evening, a tad chilly in Maryland.

This is a quick post to get November's talks up. Some rather interesting ones such as the hidden ice houses in Britain...another image (and other talks this Fall) at link HERE.

Upcoming zoom talks for November...

Nov 1 Sun 3 The Sin-eater: lives and afterlives. “A sin-eater was a ‘long, leane, ugly, lamentable poor raskal’ (Aubrey, 1687) who, by eating a special meal over the coffin, consumed a dead person’s sins and thus helped them enter heaven.” Dr Helen Frisby. Viktor Wynd & The Last Tuesday Society. From £3.35 HERE

Nov 2 Mon 3 London's East India Company Legacy. Rob Smith. Footprints of London. £10 - £16 HERE

Nov 4 Wed 12:30 ‘What should we do with drunken sailors? The conflicted politics of drink and drunkenness in the Royal Navy, c.1660-1689.’ Angela McShane. British History in the Long 18th Century. IHR HERE

Nov 4 Wed 7 The Ten Most Influential Cookbooks. Leslie Goddard, Ph.D. Smithsonian Associates. $30 HERE

Nov 5 Thu 12:30 Gastrocracy, or governing through food. Rebecca Ingram. Food History. Institute of Historical Research HERE. TAPE maybe HERE

Nov 7 Sat 10:30-11:15 Martha Washington’s Custard Trifle. History in the Kitchen. Gunston Hall HERE TAPE maybe HERE

Nov 8 Sun 2-4 American Bread, A History. author Andrew Coe. CHOW Culinary Historians of Washington DC HERE, $10 non-member HERE

Nov 9 Mon 8 Corned Beef on Rye: Remembering Chicago’s Jewish Delicatessens. Neal Samors and Eric Bronsky. Chicago Foodways Roundtable HERE

Nov 10 Tue 7-8:15 Q&A One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish: Types of Fish & What To Do with Them. Helen Rennie. Chelmsford Public Library HERE

Nov 10 Tue 7 Worn Ragged:Textile Supply, Maintenance, and Repair During the Revolutionary War. Emily Whitted. Chester County History Center HERE

Nov 11 Wed 4 The History of Chocolate + Truffle Making Workshop. Maite Gomez-Rejón. Artbites. HERE

Nov 11 Wed 5 Five Tastes of Chinese Cooking: Sour, Bitter, Sweet, Pungent, and Salty. Fuchsia Dunlop. Culinary Historians of New York $10 HERE TAPE may be HERE

Nov 12 Thu 3:30-5 Beer Ghosts: In Search of Lost Hops and the Women Who Grew Them. Jennifer Jordan. UGuelph Rural History Roundtable HERE

Nov 12 Thu 7 Holidays on the Homefront WWII. Ken Neely. Friends of the Texas Historical Commission. HERE

Nov 16 Mon 8 Spiced: Recipes Celebrating Spices from Around the World. from Denmark, Priya Mani Chicago Foodways Roundtable HERE TAPE may be HERE

Nov 17 Tue 6:45-8 America's Sweet Tooth: 250 Years of Sweets, Treats, and Traditions. Francine Segan. Smithsonian Associates. $30 HERE

Nov 18 Wed 12 The Water Carriers: A Journey through Cherokee History and the Secret Life of Rivers. Dr. Gregory D. Smithers, author. Virginia Museum of History & Culture. HERE

Nov 18 Wed 8 Cuban Culinary Heritage. Terry Fucik. co-owner of Dirk’s Fish and Gourmet Market. Culinary Historians of Chicago. HERE TAPE may be HERE

Nov 19 Thu 12:30 Cookbooks, Recipes and Women in Colonial Assam: Scripting culinary identity of Assam. Raktimjyoti Hazarika. Food History. Institute of Historical Research HERE. TAPE maybe HERE

Nov 22 Sun 2 Cold Comforts: The Hidden Ice Houses of Britain. Melanie King. The History Forum. £10 HERE

Nov 22 Sun 4-5:30 The Amazing History of Asian Heritage Presidential Chefs. Adrian Miller and Deborah Chang. Culinary Historians of Ann Arbor. HERE

Nov 24 Tue 7-8:15 The Real Thanksgiving. Bill Thierfelder. Chelmsford Public Library. Massachusetts HERE


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