Calendar of virtual food history talks

The Calendar will continue in a limited way, since I must cut back on the long hours I have spent on it the last four years.
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

OCTOBER EVENTS -- Eastern time zone.
20 talks

Oct 1 Wed 1 A Buzzing of Bees: Tales of Honeybees Through History. Dr. Dino Martins. Cambridgeshire Beekeepers’ Assn. HERE

Oct 2 Thur 5:45AM? 9:45UK Herefordshire 'Cart Horse' History. Heavy horses and farming. Bob Powell . Rural Museums Network. HERE

Oct 2 Thur 7-8:30 How to Organize Your Recipes & Cookbooks. Declutter series with decluttering humorist Jamie Novak. Chelmsfords Public Library. HERE TAPE may be HERE

Oc 6 Mon 5:30-7 How to Dine Like a Victorian, Part 1: Tea Webinar. Becky Libourel Diamond. New York Adventure Club. Replay for week. $15.71 or 3 for $41.03 HERE

Oct 7 Tue 12 The ‘Great Temperance Times’ in Nineteenth-Century Black Connecticut. “Black temperance activism in 19th-century Connecticut …how they used temperance as a strategy for civic inclusion. Mackenzie Tor. CT Museum HERE

Oct 9 Thu 12:30 Tsatsal: The Symbolism & Significance of Mongolian Ceremonial Milk Spoons. Sharon Hudgins. Institute of Historical Research HERE TAPE maybe HERE

Oct 10 Fri Exploring Social History and Behavior in the 19th Century through Wedgwood Ceramics. “how British dining habits, cultural values, and everyday life in the 1800s are reflected in the design and use of Wedgwood ceramics.” Dr. Neil Buttery. Wedgwood International Seminar HERE . TAPE maybe HERE

Oct 12 Sun 2 The Lives and Cookbooks of Three Nineteenth-Century Women. Keith Stavely and Kathleen Fitzgerald. CHoW Culinary Historians of Washington DC HERE

Oc 13 Mon 5:30-7 How to Dine Like a Victorian, Part 2: Chocolate. Becky Libourel Diamond. New York Adventure Club. Replay for week. $15.71 or 3 for $41.03 HERE

Oct 14 Tue 5:30-8 Plantation Goods: A Material History of American Slavery with Author Seth Rockman. Maryland Center for History and Culture. HERE. TAPE maybe HERE or HERE

Oct 18 Sat 5:30–11:30AM [10:30am-4:30UK] Serve it Forth Food History Festival 2025. Feeding Falstaff, Sam Bilton; How do we keep food traditions alive? Neil Buttery; A Life of Luxury (Ancient Greek chefs), Thomas Ntinas; The River Remembers (London), Alessandra Pino, others. From £18.04 HERE

Oct 18-19 Smithsonian Food History Weekend. More posted closer to event HERE

Oc 20 Mon 5:30-7 How to Dine Like a Victorian, Part 3: Desserts. Becky Libourel Diamond. New York Adventure Club. Replay for week. $15.71 or 3 for $41.03 HERE

Oct 20 Mon 6 Environmental History & the War of Independence. David Hsiung. Mass. Historical Society HERE

Oct 20 Mon 7-8:15 Revolutionary Whiskey - History and Recs of American Whiskeys. Travis Ireland. Chelmsfords Public Library. HERE TAPE may be HERE

Oct 20 Mon 7:30 Chocolate Kings: Hershey vs. Mars. Dr. Leslie Goddard. Bloomingdale Public Library IL HERE TAPE maybe HERE

Oct 22 Wed 6:30 Utsuwa. Connecting nature, art and the act of serving Japanese food. Elizabeth Andoh. Culinary Historians of New York. $10 HERE TAPE may be HERE

Oct 23 Thu 12:30 SPAM: A Global History. Kelly A. Spring. Institute of Historical Research HERE TAPE maybe HERE

Oct 29 Wed 9AM? [2:30UK] Indigestible! Ersatz food and nutrition in First World War Germany. From war bread to powdered egg. Jonathan Slater. Curious Histories. Fundraiser HERE

Oct 29 Wed 3:30-5 Drinking Ontario Wine: A Dream? Marcel Martel, Alex Gagne. Rural History Roundtable. U of Guelph. HERE

CONFERENCES, SYMPOSIUMS, LONG TALKS

Oct 18 Sat 5:30AM – 11:30 EDT [10:30am-4:30UK] Serve it Forth Food History Festival 2025. Feeding Falstaff, Sam Bilton; How do we keep food traditions alive? Neil Buttery; A Life of Luxury (Ancient Greek chefs), Thomas Ntinas; The River Remembers (London), Alessandra Pino, others. From £18.04 HERE

Oct 18-19 Smithsonian Food History Weekend HERE

Nov 6-8 Th-Sat Colonial Williamsburg Eat, Drink, Revolution: Our Friend the Tavern Fourteen speakers. In person is sold out, virtual $100 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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