Researching Food History

Ramps - Allium tricoccum (three seeded garlic, or wild leeks) - are found in the spring and early summer in wooded areas along the Appala...

Sharpening millstones (photo on left and in blog post ). Wye Mills in Maryland is having three talks on mills and grains. Orrell’s Beaten ...

During the Irish Famine, or The Great Hunger of 1845-49, this image of a loft, oddly built over the hearth fire in a County Kerry tenent...

Native Americans collecting sap, then boiling it in a 1724 image. Two talks are about Native American traditions in Vermont and Michigan. ...

The National Library of Wales's A People's Story of Wales is a wonderful collection of film clips, oral histories, books, photo...

Many taped talks on chocolate.

There was an interesting talk last fall on "Plymouth Women and the Birth of the American Dairy Business," taped, but there have...

Bee behavior, wax, honey, an entire day of bee talks and two talks on eating insects. Image of bee tanging , link below.

As usual, here are the talks for Black History Month. More will be added here and on the main Calendar. Farmers & Great Migration. Herc...

A very interesting online recipe manuscript with a terrific 4 page list of "Severall sorts of sweet meates fitting for a bankquett...

Some puckish humor from Puck, 1906 - "What we get to eat in the country." Cans of chickens running around the barnyard, fishin...

Poet Robert Burns called Scotland the "land o cakes" - oatcakes. So after the article on tools, I want to sneak in some upcoming ...

Vermeer’s The Milkmaid c1660 (left) is his perfect painting in a talk next month. Bellini's Feast of the Gods , 1514 was one of the fi...

George Washington personally wrote the following recipe??? "...fold slowly into mixture... Taste frequently." No. Another false c...

This Tuesday, Landis Valley Museum staff will do a talk on the Pa. German customs for Christmas and New Years. Below is an 1853 account of...

What a Renaissance Man Chef! -- humanitarian (Irish Famine and later he literally shortened his life by going to Crimea to help organize fe...

Isotopic analysis on bones (humans and animals) can determine what they ate and where they were raised. So even when buried elsewhere, such...

Christmas – dinner by Annie Gray(De3) food & drink(1) feast in art(22) at sea(7) London railways(16) among enslaved(15) family recipes(...

Oat cake, Haver-cake, or Clap-bread were made very thin in Yorkshire. Costing one penny, the size of the ladle would change depending on...

It's Family Stories Month , so talks on kitchen tales (show and tell), share family traditions and recipes, Holiday Foods and Your Fami...