Treats for the Halloween table - 1915

Good Housekeeping October issue had many orange outfits and this Halloween section. Hope you have an enjoyable Trick or Treat evening, a tad chilly in Maryland. This is a quick post to get November's talks up... some rather interesting ones.

Upcoming zoom talks for November...

Nov 1 Sun 3 The Sin-eater: lives and afterlives. “A sin-eater was a ‘long, leane, ugly, lamentable poor raskal’ (Aubrey, 1687) who, by eating a special meal over the coffin, consumed a dead person’s sins and thus helped them enter heaven.” Dr Helen Frisby. Viktor Wynd & The Last Tuesday Society. From £3.35 HERE

Nov 2 Mon 3 London's East India Company Legacy. Rob Smith. Footprints of London. £10 - £16 HERE

Nov 4 Wed 12:30 ‘What should we do with drunken sailors? The conflicted politics of drink and drunkenness in the Royal Navy, c.1660-1689.’ Angela McShane. British History in the Long 18th Century. IHR HERE

Nov 4 Wed 7 The Ten Most Influential Cookbooks. Leslie Goddard, Ph.D. Smithsonian Associates. $30 HERE

Nov 5 Thu 12:30 Gastrocracy, or governing through food. Rebecca Ingram. Food History. Institute of Historical Research HERE. TAPE maybe HERE

Nov 7 Sat 10:30-11:15 Martha Washington’s Custard Trifle. History in the Kitchen. Gunston Hall HERE TAPE maybe HERE

Nov 8 Sun 2-4 American Bread, A History. author Andrew Coe. CHOW Culinary Historians of Washington DC HERE, $10 non-member HERE

Nov 9 Mon 8 Corned Beef on Rye: Remembering Chicago’s Jewish Delicatessens. Neal Samors and Eric Bronsky. Chicago Foodways Roundtable HERE

Nov 10 Tue 7-8:15 Q&A One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish: Types of Fish & What To Do with Them. Helen Rennie. Chelmsford Public Library HERE

Nov 10 Tue 7 Worn Ragged:Textile Supply, Maintenance, and Repair During the Revolutionary War. Emily Whitted. Chester County History Center HERE

Nov 11 Wed 4 The History of Chocolate + Truffle Making Workshop. Maite Gomez-Rejón. Artbites. HERE

Nov 11 Wed 5 Five Tastes of Chinese Cooking: Sour, Bitter, Sweet, Pungent, and Salty. Fuchsia Dunlop. Culinary Historians of New York $10 HERE TAPE may be HERE

Nov 12 Thu 3:30-5 Beer Ghosts: In Search of Lost Hops and the Women Who Grew Them. Jennifer Jordan. UGuelph Rural History Roundtable HERE

Nov 12 Thu 7 Holidays on the Homefront WWII. Ken Neely. Friends of the Texas Historical Commission. HERE

Nov 16 Mon 8 Spiced: Recipes Celebrating Spices from Around the World. from Denmark, Priya Mani Chicago Foodways Roundtable HERE TAPE may be HERE

Nov 17 Tue 6:45-8 America's Sweet Tooth: 250 Years of Sweets, Treats, and Traditions. Francine Segan. Smithsonian Associates. $30 HERE

Nov 18 Wed 12 The Water Carriers: A Journey through Cherokee History and the Secret Life of Rivers. Dr. Gregory D. Smithers, author. Virginia Museum of History & Culture. HERE

Nov 18 Wed 8 Cuban Culinary Heritage. Terry Fucik. co-owner of Dirk’s Fish and Gourmet Market. Culinary Historians of Chicago. HERE TAPE may be HERE

Nov 19 Thu 12:30 Cookbooks, Recipes and Women in Colonial Assam: Scripting culinary identity of Assam. Raktimjyoti Hazarika. Food History. Institute of Historical Research HERE. TAPE maybe HERE

Nov 22 Sun 2 Cold Comforts: The Hidden Ice Houses of Britain. Melanie King. The History Forum. £10 HERE

Nov 22 Sun 4-5:30 The Amazing History of Asian Heritage Presidential Chefs. Adrian Miller and Deborah Chang. Culinary Historians of Ann Arbor. HERE

Nov 24 Tue 7-8:15 The Real Thanksgiving. Bill Thierfelder. Chelmsford Public Library. Massachusetts HERE


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