There have been over 4,500 (in 2023) 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-Dec HERE
2025 list of all past talks - taped/untaped Jan-Dec 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.
31 talks
Dec 1 Mon 6:45-8:15 A History of American Dining. Allen Pietrobon. Smithsonian Associates $30 HERE
Dec 2 Tue 5-7AM [10-12UK] The History of Christmas Dinner. Stephen Smith. Wea Learn £24 HERE
Dec 2 Tue 2 Christmas Markets In Prague and Germany. Gene Flynn. Thomas Crane Public Library. Quincy MA HERE
Dec 3 Wed 12 Sifter Ask. “new import feature that gives Sifter members a template so we could upload batches of sections (menus, recipes, chapter headings, etc.) attached to a work already in the database.” Gary Thompson, Barbara Wheaton, Joe Wheaton and Kate Saines. Oxford Food Symposium HERE
Dec 4 Thur 10AM Rethinking the Rural Life Museum: “Irons, Pots and Griddles oh my!” Fiona Byrne. Rural Museums Network £5 HERE
Dec 4 Thu 12:30 [UK5:30] Seeds of change: Egypt’s early modern culinary history between resistance and appropriation. Nouran Rabie. Food, Cultural Memory and Identity of Crimean Tatars. Mariia Banko. Institute of Historical Research. IHR HERE Food History Seminar - IHR TAPE maybe HERE
Dec 4 Thu 5:30-7 Gilded Age Holiday Treats & Traditions. Becky Libourel Diamond. New York Adventure Club. $15.71 HERE
Dec 4 Thu 7 Aztec Hot Chocolate and Champurrado, a Warm Mexican Beverage. Maite Gomez-Rejón. AARP not have to be member HERE
Dec 5 Fri 5-7AM [10-12UK] Christmas Food Through the Ages. Jane Williams. Wea Learn £24 HERE
Dec 7 Sun 8AM Chinese Steamed Green Tea - Enshi Yulu. “The only remaining steamed green tea in China, the ancient method of making green tea. Traditional production techniques, passed down through twelve generations, are recognized as intangible cultural heritage by UNESCO.” Master Jiang Zixiang. Liu - Tea & Art HERE
Dec 8 Mon London's Food Factories virtual tour. Victorian (19th cen) brands including “Lyle's Golden Syrup factory in Silvertown or McVities biscuit factory in Harlesden, and “Gordon's gin distillery or Sarsons vinegar works.” Rob Smith, Footprints of London £10 HERE
Dec 9 Tue 12 Clay and Conviction: Thomas Commeraw’s Legacy in Post-Revolutionary New York. “master stoneware potter (active ca. 1797–1819), a family man, a community leader, a patriot, and an abolitionist… and a free Black man.” Jill DiMassimo. DAR Museum, DC HERE
Dec 9 Tue 2 The Legacy of Julia Child's Kitchen with Author and Smithsonian Curator Paula J. Johnson. Detroit Public Library HERE. TAPE maybe HERE
Dec 10 Wed 9:30AM [2:30UK] Jane Austen at Christmas. Regency style. 250th anniversary of Jane Austen's birth. Dr. Annie Gray. The National Archives. Rewatch 48hr. pay what you can HERE
Dec 10 Wed 1-2:30 Hunger, Health and Hope: A History of School Meals in Britain. Dr Heather Ellis. The Royal Historical Society HERE
Dec 10 Wed 6:30 Italian Tales of Oranges, Love, and Magic. Cristina Mazzoni. Culinary Historians of New York $10 HERE TAPE may be HERE
Dec 10 Wed 6:30 Fiesta dinnerware from the collection of The Fiesta Tableware Company. Mark Gonzalez. International Museum of Dinnerware Design. Info, registration and tapes of past talks HERE
Dec 11 Thu 2-3:45 [7-8:45 UK] A Christmas Feast of the Uncanny. “food references in some of the lesser-known ghoulish tales from Charles Dickens… elves, witches and monsters at this time of the year and their relationship to food… origins of traditional Christmas foods and the old customs that linked them to fortune-telling and other forms of the supernatural.” Dr. Neil Buttery. Serve it Forth. £6.13. recording for a week HERE
Dec 11 Thur 6:30-8 Shennong and the Five Seeds: The History of Chinese Food. “archaeology, literature, and art to follow the historical development of food in China, from prehistory to the early modern era.” Andrew Coletti. Brooklyn Brainery. $10 Tape for one week HERE
Dec 12 Fri 5:15-10AM [10:15AM-3] From Yuletide to Nativity: Christmas in Early England. A series of talks: Old English calendar, “what the evidence of archaeology shows us about the Old English Yuletide feast. Work on the sites of early Anglo-Saxon mead-halls… rich barrow-burials… fine feasting gear… with the references to feasting in Old English, Old Norse, and Middle English sources.” Dr Sam Newton.
Wuffing Education £33–45 HERE
Dec 12 Fri 1 PERUVIAN CHRISTMAS: Traditions, Food, and Faith. World Virtual Tours HERE
Dec 12 Fri 3 A Talk with Korean Cookbook Coauthor Sarah Ahn. “Korean cooking, culture and lessons shared between generations.” AARP not have to be member HERE
Dec 13 Sat 10:30 German Puffs. History in the Kitchen. George Mason’s Gunston Hall HERE TAPE maybe HERE
Dec 14 Sun 2 Frostbite: How Refrigeration Changed Our Food, Our Planet, and Ourselves. Nicola Twilley. CHOW HERE
Dec 17 Wed 8-9:30 Candy is Dandy: Confectionary Traditions from Around the Globe. “Japanese spun sugar sculptures… The cactus candy that nearly destroyed the Saguaro Forest… earliest sweets of the Renaissance…Elaborate candy dishes from the 18th century onward… the piñata and its cultural roots… classic box of chocolates…” David V. Griffin. New York Adventure Club. $15.71 tape for week HERE
Dec 18 Thur 7-8:30 Visions of Sugar Plums: Cooking Historic Recipes for Christmas. Laura Fisher. Friends of the Texas Historical Commission HERE TAPE may be HERE
Dec 20 Sat 2 Unveiling the Christmas and New Year Traditions of the Romanovs. Anna.
World Virtual Tours HERE
Dec 22 Mon 7 Cooking with the First Ladies: Lou Hoover. Sarah Morgan. National First Ladies' Library & Museum $11.44 HERE
Dec 22 Mon 9 The love stories behind the biggest whisky brands. Redhead Whiskey Academy. BYOB HERE
Dec 23 Tue 1 A Taste of Christmas Traditions. Dr. Lillian C. World Virtual Tours. Donation HERE
CONFERENCES, SYMPOSIUMS, LONG TALKS
May 26-27 2026 Tue-Wed Dublin Gastronomy Symposium. Food and Crisis/Hope. Not sure if zoom, but some past papers are online, and info on 2026 'call for papers' HERE
Jul 11-13 2026 Fri-Sun Oxford Symposium on Food & Cookery. Poverty Food. 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
©2024 Patricia Bixler Reber
Researching Food History HOME
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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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