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
SEPTEMBER 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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Se 7 Sat 2 Hunting, Fishing, and Native Sovereignty. Aaron Whitefoot. “The Treaty of 1855 is a document signed by Native American leaders, Washington Territory’s Governor Isaac Stevens, and Oregon Territory’s Superintendent of Indian Affairs…” Humanities Washington. HERE
Se 8 Sun 2 My Life in Recipes: Food, Family, and Memories. Joan Nathan. 12 cookbooks! "...will connect some of the more than 100 recipes with Jewish history and her experiences writing about them, reflecting on her own family’s history." CHOW HERE Talk CHof Chicago TAPE HERE
Se 10 Tue 2 Knead to Know: A History of Baking. Dr Neil Buttery. “…some of our most beloved baked foods... innovations, happy accidents and some of the most downright bizarre baked foods ever created.” HERE Previous talks & books: The Life and Legacy of Elizabeth Raffald (Leeds Symposium) HERE. Navigating 19th Century English meals through Worcester porcelain (Museum of Royal Worcester) HERE. A Dark History of Sugar
Se 10 Tue 7 Betty Crocker and Her Cookbook That Changed How America Cooks. Dr. Leslie Goddard. Bernards Township Library HERE. 2020 TAPE HERE
Se 11 Wed 6:30 Dining on the Concorde: In Flight Dining at Twice the Speed of Sound. Paul Wylde and Nathan Shedroff. The International Museum of Dinnerware Design's Unforgettable Dinnerware on-line lecture series. HERE TAPE HERE
Se 15 Sun 4 Brasseries, Bistros and Bouillons. Jim Chevallier, author of A History of the Food of Paris: From Roast Mammoth to Steak Frites. CHAA Culinary Historians of Ann Arbor HERE TAPE may be HERE
Se 16 Mon 6:45 Feasting with Royalty: Dinner with Alexander the Great. Francine Segan. Smithsonian Associates $30 HERE
Se 16 Mon 7 Sarah Polk. Cooking with the First Ladies. Sarah Morgan. National First Ladies Library & Museum. $9 HERE
Se 18 Wed 8 Recipe for Recipes. Raeanne Sarazen. The Complete Recipe Writing Guide. Culinary Historians of Chicago HERE
Se 22 Sun 8 The First California Cuisine. Richard Foss. Food in the Air and Space: The Surprising History of Food and Drink in the Skies and Rum – A Global History. BACH Bay Area Culinary Historians HERE
Se 24 Tue 12 Choux-paste in its many identities. Birgitte Kampmann. KL Techniques. Oxford Food Symposium HERE
Se 24 Tue 6:30 Covered Bridges of New Hampshire - Past and Present. Kim Varney Chandler. Wiggin Memorial Library. NH Humanities. HERE
Se 26 Thu 1 Fish Wars: Tribal Rights, Resistance, and Resiliency in the Pacific Northwest. Kestrel A. Smith. “Fish Wars, which rocked Washington State for decades. Encompassing tribal sovereignty, treaties, statehood… 1960s & 70s.“ Humanities Washington 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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Thank you for these wonderful resources.
ReplyDeletePat, Thank you so much for keeping this list of wonderful presentations up to date. You are the greatest!
ReplyDeleteThank you SO much for this list! I've been checking out this list every few weeks for months now and it's always a delight to see an interesting event coming up. It's often the highlight of my day.
ReplyDeleteAmazing! Thank you so much! John Ota.
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ReplyDeleteThanks, Pat--you are amazing!
ReplyDeleteI did this tour when I was in Paris last year and it was FABULOUS! Wear comfortable walking shoes. " Food Tour: The Belly of Paris. “Les Halles, home to one of the best market streets of Paris. Built in the 1100’s… Stohrer, including the macarons, the oldest pastry shop of Paris, a place opened in 1730 where the baba au rhum were invented…” Heygo HERE"
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