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
DECEMBER EVENTS -- Eastern time zone. 30
Links for new virtual talks are added as I find them, so keep checking back. Also upcoming talks are at the end of my blog posts.
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Dec 3 Tue 7 Plantation Goods: A Material History of American Slavery. Seth Rockman, author of Plantation Goods. American Antiquarian Society. HERE TAPE HERE
Dec 3 Tue 8 Story of Chicago’s South Asians and Their Food. Dr.Colleen Taylor Sen. Chicago Foodways Roundtable. HERE TAPE HERE
Dec 4 Wed 9AM The British High Street at Christmas, London. Annie Gray author of The butcher, the baker, the festive wreath maker: this is the history of the British high street at Christmas. The National Archives UK £ 0-15 HERE
Dec 4 Wed 12 Searching for Foods in History. Sifter: The Ask. Oxford Food Symposium on Food and Cookery.HERE
Dec 4 Wed 1 Holiday Traditions You'll Only Find in the Old North (North Carolina). Heather Leah. NC Museum of History HERE
Dec 4 Wed 6-7:30 Holidays at the White House with Former White House Chefs. Moderated by Alex Prud'homme, author of Dinner with the President: Food, Politics, and a History of Breaking Bread at the White House, the program will feature William Yosses, White House Executive Pastry Chef, 2007–14, and John Moeller, White House Chef, 1992–2005, and author of Dining at the White House: From the President's Table to Yours, and Capricia Penavic Marshall, Chief of Protocol, 2009–13, and author of Protocol: The Power of Diplomacy and How to Make It Work for You. National Archives. HERE TAPE HERE
Dec 5 Thu 12:30 Flavours Across the Borders: The 1947 Partition and the Reconstruction of the Bengali Foodscape. Srijita Biswas. Food History Seminar. IHR Institute of Historical Research HERE
Dec 5 Thu 8 Midcentury Christmas: Fads and Fun from 1945 to 1970. Dr Leslie Goddard. Fountaindale Public Library. IL HERE
Dec 8 Sun 2 Dining and Entertaining in the Gilded Age. Francine Segan. Culinary Historians of Washington CHoW HERE
Dec 8 Sun 4 Classic Michigan Food and Drinks: The Stories behind the Brands. Gail Offen and Jon Milan. CHAA Culinary Historians of Ann Arbor HERE TAPE may be HERE
Dec 9 Mon 7 Home Work: Domestic Servants at the Codman Estate. Historic New England $5 HERE
Dec 10 Tue 12 The Pleasure of Oysters. Kitchen Lab. Oxford Food Symposium on Food and Cookery. HERE
Dec 10 Tue 5 The Atlantic Manor: A Comparative Perspective on the Manor in Colonial New York. “England, the Netherlands, Ireland, the Chesapeake colonies, and New France”. BJ Lillis. Massachusetts Historical Society HERE
Dec 10 Tue 7 Taproom Tastings: Salt. Catherine Prescott, Mary Tsaltas-Ottomanelli. Keeler Tavern Museum. Donation HERE
Dec 11 Wed 1 Festive Pies and Puddings of the past. Dr Neil Buttery. The Museum of Royal Worcester HERE TAPE may be HERE
-- Dr Neil Buttery. Puddings Dec 17, 2024. Navigating Nineteenth-century English Meals, changing manners and fashions explored through Worcester porcelain TAPE HERE; The Life and Legacy of Elizabeth Raffald, Leeds Symposium TAPE HERE
-- The Museum of Royal Worcester porcelain. UK: Egg Coddlers; Tissue transfer-printing; Worcester’s London Showroom in 1755; Early Worcester from Dr Wall to James Giles; more TAPES HERE
Dec 11 Wed 6 Putting Family History on the Map. Julia Williams. Including “a demo of Leventhal Center's Atlascope tool, which overlays historic maps on top of modern-day ones so you can easily compare past and present.” Boston Public Library HERE. TAPE may be HERE
Dec 11 Wed 6:30 Maple, New Hampshire’s Medicine of Connection. Damian Costello. Silverstone Living. NH Humanities HERE
Dec 11 Wed 6:30 Anomalies and Curiosities of Dinnerware. Dr. Margaret Carney. The International Museum of Dinnerware Design. NY HERE TAPE HERE
Dec 12 Thur 12:30 Holiday Wine Tasting. Chilean wine experts. Food History Seminar. IHR Institute of Historical Research. HERE
Dec 12 Thu 12:30 We need to talk about: Seasonal Exchange… 'How do you define or practice seasonal giving.’ Kitchen Table. Oxford Food Symposium on Food and Cookery. 0 – £15 HERE
Dec 14 Sat 10:30AM History in the Kitchen - Non-Alcoholic Drinks. Gunston Hall VA HERE
Dec 15 Sun 2 Cook and Celebrate Hanukkah. Joan Nathan. Two recipes from her book A Sweet Year: Jewish Celebrations and Festive Recipes for Kids and Their Families. The Nosher $25 HERE
Dec 16 Mon 7 Cooking with the First Ladies. Lady Bird Johnson’s recipes. Sarah Morgan. National First Ladies' Library & Museum $9 HERE
Dec 17 Tue 1-2:30 Uncovering America's Victorian Era Holiday Celebrations. Becky Libourel Diamond. Replay for one week. New York Adventure Club $12 HERE
Dec 17 Tue 2-3:15 The Philosophy of Puddings. “The humble pudding started out as a meat boiled in either animal intestine or in a cloth. With the advent of pudding bowls and moulds, the pudding assumed a myriad of identities. Neil Buttery traces the long history of pudding and its importance in British culture and language.” Dr Neil Buttery. HERE. also Dec 11 Pies and Puddings.
Dec 17 Tue 6:30 Honor, Discipline and Eggnog. Jennifer Voigtschild. One story involves Christmas of 1826 when three West Point cadets smuggled in a load of whiskey to brighten the "Gloom Period.” The party turned into a riot on Christmas morning and 19 cadets were court-martialed. Culinary Historians of New York. HERE
Dec 21 Sat 2 Unveiling the Christmas and New Year Traditions of the Romanovs. from decorations to feasts (period photos and memoirs). Anna. World Virtual Tours HERE
Dec 22 Fri 3-5:30 French Canadian Holiday Baking. Laura Scheck. Brooklyn Brainery. $33 HERE
Dec 22 Fri 3 A Taste of Christmas Traditions. World Virtual Tours HERE
Dec 27 Fri 1 Champagne! A Sparkling History of French Bubbly. Edith de Belleville. Replay for one week. New York Adventure Club $12 HERE
CONFERENCES, SYMPOSIUMS, LONG TALKS
Jan 24 Fri 7AM-12 Animal History Group ECR Symposium. Various topics. Colonial Power and the Indian Gaur: A Study of British Hunting and Conservation Policies in British India; commercial pig production and the transformation of pigs’ spaces, bodies and experiences in Finland, 1900s–1930s; Shall Pigs be Huge as Elephants: Transnational Making of Pig Experiments in Mao’s China; Navigating New Pastures: Introduction and Evolution of Reindeer Herding in Alaska and the Northwest Territories… Animal History Group HERE
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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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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