Historic Foodways Society of the Delaware Valley

Don't miss our next program! Thursday, April 22, 7:00 p.m. virtual THINKING OUTSIDE THE BOOK: Researching beyond receipts... Our own Clarissa Dillon will share her over 50 years of experience researching food history with us and offer insights on how best to locate authentic and primary-sourced material outside of old cookbooks. Go to www.historicfoodways.org and click under upcoming programs to register. See more

Philadelphia was the original candy crush!

Hey, check out HFSDV member Chef Adam Diltz’s video on preparing shad!

Once again, Pat Reber has collected and shared a world of food history!

Don't miss tonight's virtual program, Thursday, March 25, 7:00 p.m. EST! Is food memory the sixth sense with professor and author of the Omnivorous Mind, John Allen. Please register in advance by going to www.historicfoodways.org, under upcoming programs tab! Hope to "see" you there!

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Our next foodways program: Virtual Pandemic Potluck Catching our Hares Sharing Recipes from Hannah Glasses' The Art of Cookery, Made Plain and Easy. Saturday, December 12, 2:00 p.m.... We will come together virtually to learn more about Hannah Glasse and share receipts which we have prepared from her seminal cookbook, The Art of Cookery Made Plain and Easy. We would love to see and discuss a dish you prepared. Savory or sweet, you decide. We want to learn how it was for you to prepare the period recipe and what you may have done to modernize it. How does it look? how does it taste? How was it received at your house? We just want to share each other's experiences in the kitchen with Hannah. Just show and tell us virtually what you have cooked. Go to www.historicfoodways.org under the upcoming programs tab to register for the program!

Discover Philadelphia's John Trower and his role in 19th century culinary history. Join me next Sat., Dec. 12 for a history lesson and cooking demo courtesy of Ebenezer Maxwell Mansion !https://ebenezermaxwellmansion.org//holidays-with-john-tr/ #philadelphia #virtualevents #cookingdemo #cooking #foodhistory #BlackHistory

An interesting food-related blog entry (complete with recipe) from the Grammarphobia blog.

Learn about Mrs. Goodfellow, The Story of America's First Cooking School, courtesy of the Middletown Historical Society. Will include a demo on how to make Mrs. Goodfellow's signature jumbles. Click here for the recipe to join along: http://www.beckyldiamond.com//jumbles-a-delicately-spiced- Monday, November 16 at 7:00 p.m. Online via Zoom: https://zoom.us/j/95478925989... Meeting ID: 954 7892 5989 Passcode: 592373 Questions? Visit www.mthsdelco.org, email info@ mthsdelco.org or call 610-316-5620

Congratulations to our Becky Diamond for an article in the November issue of Newtown Lifestyle magazine.

Our last program speaker made the papers!

Did you know cookbooks helped fuel the Women's Suffrage movement? Learn more by joining us for this important voting event! #womenempowerment #suffrage #community #cookbooks #VOTE @RiderWLC @RiderUniversity Sign up here: https://rideru.thankyou4caring.org/voteyourvoice

Chef Walter we all are extremely saddened to hear of this news. Your enthusiasm and willingness to teach others about food history has been inspiring and contagious! City Tavern will always live on in every Philadelphian and visitor!

Still spots left for Saturday's virtual class on Victorian chocolate! 10/10 from 9-11 am @Bucks_edu Sign up here: https://www.bucks.edu/enrichment/cookingcourse...s/ and make these delicious chocolate macaroons with me http://www.beckyldiamond.com/beckys-blog/chocolate-macaroons #Victorian #chocolate #recipes #food #history #weekendvibes See more

Fascinating to not only be able to taste history but listen to it as well. Thanks for sharing Sarah!

Kick off your weekend the nostalgic way! Still spots left for Saturday's virtual How to Dine Like a Victorian - Tea class 9-11 am: https://www.bucks.edu/enrichment/cookingcourses/ Here's a video to whet your appetite: http://www.beckyldiamond.com/fun-food-history-videos.html @Bucks_edu @BucksLocalNews @OnlyinBucks @BCTaste #Victorian #food #history #tea #class

For those interested in historic foodways and Jane Austen.

What a great project!

Don't miss our next free virtual historic foodways program: Thursday, October 1, 2020 7:00 p.m. Behind the Savory Scenes:... The Ingredients for Putting Together On-line History Content with Max Miller You Tube Host of Tasting History Max Miller began his interest in food history after watching the Great British Baking Show. Using his theatrical background and talents partially honed at Disney, he decided to channel his interest in food history by creating short videos at the beginning of this year. He then found himself with increased free time once the pandemic halted his day job as he then ramped up his production schedule, creating nearly one new video a week. Since March, he has created tens of food history programs -- most under 10 minutes long. Each one focuses on a single history dish, which he makes out of his small kitchen and shares history and his experiences creating the recipe -- all with excellent production values and a bit of snarky humor. His most popular video on Garum has been viewed by over a million people! We are privileged to get to hear him tell us how he began creating the videos and all the ingredients it takes to research, produce and film each episode. He even was able to wrangle the most esteemed of food historians, Ken Albala, to assist him on his latest episode. Register in advance for this meeting at www.historicfoodways.org under the upcoming program tab. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting. This program will be recorded and available to view later at www.historicfoodways.org under the past programs tab. All of our past virtual programs can be viewed there.

Another great program!

Hope you can make it!

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Our next, free virtual program! The Dish on Redware: The Legacy of the Region’s Historic Pottery With Curt and Michelle Pearson, Robesonia Redware... Sunday, September 20, 2020 2:00 p.m. The folks at Robesonia Redware carry on the tradition of producing Pennsylvania German pottery that has been going on since the early 18th century. The rich clay deposits found in Pennsylvania helped to make earthenware more prevalent than stoneware and allowed the immigrants to make good use of their pottery making skills honed in their homelands. While this redware was once produced for strictly utilitarian use, the redware of today is used more for decorative use, although still produced to be food-safe. Robesonia Redware carries on the legacy started by Breininger Pottery in 1965. Robesonia Redware is a family of potters who worked with Lester Breininger, spending their lives learning and making pottery. Today, they pride themselves in making museum grade, heirloom quality, Pennsylvania German inspired pieces, as witnessed by the fantastic commemorative plate that they produced for the 25th anniversary of the Historic Foodways Society of the Delaware Valley. Learn from Curt and Michelle Pearson about the fascinating history of this piece of cultural and regional anthropology as well as the process and efforts to carry on this lost art. go to www.historicfoodways.org and go to upcoming programs to register.