Researching Food History

Sunday, January 31, 2021

African American foodways virtual talks

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There are many upcoming talks - 42 so far - and tapes of talks to celebrate Black History Month. Dolly Johnson (1852-1918), chief cook of t...
Friday, January 29, 2021

Medical and culinary manuscripts digitized

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Recipes and Remedies: Manuscript Cookbooks is a new Digital Collections & Exhibits website at the New York Academy of Medicine (NYAM)....
Monday, January 25, 2021

Archive 2 - listing of past virtual food history talks Jan-Feb 2021

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The first archive of links is filling up since several months had over 200 talks. The original calendar post will maintain the current mont...
Tuesday, January 19, 2021

Streaming from the hearth - virtual hearth cooking and baking in ovens

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Some cooks and museums have done virtual demos of bake oven and cooking over the fire. But. There should be more! People are curious about ...
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Friday, January 15, 2021

Eating and sleeping in the Capitol at the start of the Civil War, April 1861

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To honor our troops now sleeping on the floor of the US Capitol and visitor's center to protect it from another terrorist assault...
Saturday, January 9, 2021

Tea Talks

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It is National Hot Tea Month with 15 talks. Saved the taped talks from 2020, 2021. Blog Post on Ice/Iced Tea HERE
Monday, January 4, 2021

Twelfth Night cakes in shop windows

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Elaborate window displays for Twelfth-day cakes in bakeries and confectioneries, like this 1836 image, showed off a huge cake "on larg...
Monday, December 28, 2020

Cookbooks and Manuscripts virtual talks tapes

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Taped talks on cookbooks and manuscripts: Medieval and Renaissance, US, Suffrage ckbks, Mexico, Ireland, India, Medical books with recipes,...
Saturday, December 19, 2020

Hard Sauce and taped Christmas talks

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Brandy Sauce or Hard Sauce is a butter and sugar mixture flavored with Brandy, Rum, Sherry or wine and put on Plum Pudding or Mincemeat pie...
Friday, December 11, 2020

15th cen. Boar's Head poem, Medieval manuscripts digitalized

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The Philadelphia Area Consortium of Special Collections Libraries (PACSCL) digitalized all 160,000 pages from Medieval works held by member...
Monday, December 7, 2020

Turkeys to market

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This year, when most of us will not be having a large turkey or many family members, I give this post to the turkey of Christmas past. And ...
Sunday, November 29, 2020

Salem's "Old Bakery" and bean pots

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The Old Bakery of Salem, Mass. was originally built in 1683 as a home by Benjamin Hooper, a cordwainer, became a bakery from c1865 at 23 W...
Saturday, November 21, 2020

Holiday virtual talks 2020

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The upcoming holidays - Thanksgiving, Hanukkah, Christmas, and a special day - 'Stir-up Sunday' to make Plum Pudding for Christmas ...
Monday, November 16, 2020

British foodways virtual talks

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There are many upcoming talks on British foodways and tapes of talks: Queen Victoria, Stir-up Sunday Christmas Pudding (Nov 22), Colonial s...
Wednesday, November 11, 2020

Civil War bake ovens in the US Capitol

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First and foremost, thanks to all Veterans and those who are serving now. Following the attack on Fort Sumter in April 1861, four thousand ...
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Tuesday, November 3, 2020

Being Human: A Festival of the Humanities, UK - 11 food history talks

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Food history events, listed below, and many more interesting talks (over 200) in this UK festival from Nov 12 to 22. HERE
Saturday, October 31, 2020

Adobe ovens photos; Bread, flour, oven talks

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Location, location, location. The ovens were on the ground... or on a building... or in a building... or on wheels (apologies to Dr. Seuss...
Sunday, October 25, 2020

Day of the Dead - Dia de Muertos

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Sugar skulls were sold in market stalls (1908 image). Other items for the family alters include candles, Pan de Muerto (a sweet yeast brea...
Saturday, October 17, 2020

Acorn Mush cooked in basket

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Incredibly, the steam was from a rock heated in a fire, then stirred in the Wiiwish... IN a basket. The pounded acorns and water eventually...
Monday, October 12, 2020

Notice to Milkman!

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Quarantine sign tacked to the front door during the Typhoid Fever epidemic of 1911, ordered that the milk bottles were not to be exchanged o...
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