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 the past three years 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
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Links for new virtual talks are added as I find them, so keep checking back. Also added at the end of my bi-weekly blog posts.
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Apr 2 Tue 2 A Sweeping History of Food and Culture. “virtual tour of the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of American History.” book Smithsonian American Table: The Foods, People, and Innovations That Feed Us. Paula J. Johnson. Detroit Public Library HERE
Apr 3 Wed 12 The Sifter. James Mallin, Engineering and Science Librarian at the Cooper Union Library, and Gary Thompson, Data Architect and Student of Cookbooks. Oxford Food Symposium HERE
Apr 3 Wed 8 Food System Transformation as a Response to Climate Change. Michelle Miller. CHEW Culinary History Enthusiasts of Wisconsin HERE TAPE may be HERE
Apr 3 Wed 8 Food Porn: A History of Images in Cooking. Sarah Lohman. Brooklyn Brainery $10 HERE
Apr 4 Thu 7 The History of Making Mead. Nico Hogrefe. North Carolina Museum of History HERE
Apr 4 Thur 7:30 Examining History through Recipes: Crofton Cookbook. Manuscript cookbooks from Fort Sheridan, Illinois. Chicago Foodways Roundtable HERE TAPE may be HERE
Apr 4 Thu 8 America’s Diner Restaurants: A Greek Story. Prof. Alexander Kitroeff. The National Hellenic Museum HERE
Apr 6 Sat 5 Heaven on the Half Shell: Washington State’s Oyster Odyssey. David George Gordon. The Westport Timberland Library WA HERE
Apr 7 Sun 9-10:30AM Food Stories from the Middle East. “What our food tells us about culture and sustainability” Zarina Ahmad. MACFEST - Muslim Arts and Culture Festival. HERE
Apr 10 Wed 2:30 Planting a Medieval Herb Garden at Delapré Abbey, Northampton with Antoinette France. Friends of St Peter's, Marefair Northampton HERE
Apr 11 Thur 9pm Fish Wars: Tribal Rights, Resistance, and Resiliency in the Pacific Northwest. Kestrel A. Smith. Washington Speakers Bureau HERE
Apr 12 Fri 12 Savouring the Middle Ages through its Herbs: Iconography of Phytoalimurgia. Dr. Eleonora Matarrese. School of Arts, English and Languages. HERE
Apr 14 Sun 2 Traveling “Silver” for those Not to the Manor Born: Old Sheffield Plate and Electroplated Silver in Travel Equipage and Cutlery from 1730 to the Belle Epoque. Carrie Tillie Culinary Historians of Washington CHoW HERE TAPE may be HERE
Apr 17 Wed 9pm Big Apples, Big Business: How Washington Became the Apple State. Washington Speakers Bureau HERE
Apr 18 Thur 10AM ? Eating Out in Regency London. “Gaze into City chop houses, dockyard taverns, humble tripe shop and oyster rooms and find out what London was eating in the Regency era.” Paul Couchman - The Regency Cook £15.50 HERE
Ap 18 Thu 12 Consuming Recipes. “their evolution, how and where we find them, and how we use them.” Kitchen Table Conversation. Laura Brehaut, Shayma Saadat, Allie E.S. Wist. Oxford Food Symposium. £15 HERE
Ap 21 Sun 4-5:30 The Art of the Macaron. Keegan Rodgers. CHAA Culinary Historians of Ann Arbor HERE TAPE may be HERE
Apr 22 Mon 5:30 The History of New York's Meatpacking District and its Pioneers. Jacquelyn Ottman. Tape for one week. New York Adventure Club $12 HERE
Apr 24 Wed 6:30 How Pasta Became Italian. Karima Moyer-Nocchi. Les Dames d'Escoffier DC Regional Chapter HERE
CONFERENCES, SYMPOSIUMS, LONG TALKS
July 14-19 online “Gardens, Flowers, & Fruits” Oxford Symposium on Food & Cookery 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
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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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