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Digitized "What's the Recipe for a Queer Cookbook" Exhibit
What is a queer cookbook? Is there a set recipe for what makes a cookbook queer? Is it that the author is queer? Or is there something inherently queer about the cookbook itself? What do Lou Rand...
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Reception of the Recipe for A Queer Cookbook Exhibit + Vernissage
On August 17, 2021, our editor Alex Ketchum launched the What is the Recipe for a Queer Cookbook? Exhibit. The digital version is available here:...
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Class Visit 2022
Back in February 2020, Dr. Alex Ketchum brought her class GSFS 401: Food, Gender, and Environment on a field trip to McGill's Rare Books and Special Collections. We shared a blog post recounting the...
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Student Post: The Magical Journey through History with Baking Powder by Lisa...
In the Gender, Sexuality, Feminist, and Social Justice Studies (GSFS) 401 Winter 2022 semester class on Food, Gender, and Environment taught by Dr. Alex Ketchum, students are analyzing the ways that...
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Student Post: Baked Beans - a loved dish for 18th century lumberjacks to 20th...
In the Gender, Sexuality, Feminist, and Social Justice Studies (GSFS) 401 Winter 2022 semester class on Food, Gender, and Environment taught by Dr. Alex Ketchum, students are analyzing the ways that...
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Student Post: Linguine Vongole by Sydney Otoki
In the Gender, Sexuality, Feminist, and Social Justice Studies (GSFS) 401 Winter 2022 semester class on Food, Gender, and Environment taught by Dr. Alex Ketchum, students are analyzing the ways that...
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Student Post: Food, Gender & Domesticity - The Jane Austen Cookbook by...
In the Gender, Sexuality, Feminist, and Social Justice Studies (GSFS) 401 Winter 2022 semester class on Food, Gender, and Environment taught by Dr. Alex Ketchum, students are analyzing the ways that...
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Student Post: Cooking without Meat: A Supplemental Kitchen Guide for War-time...
In the Gender, Sexuality, Feminist, and Social Justice Studies (GSFS) 401 Winter 2022 semester class on Food, Gender, and Environment taught by Dr. Alex Ketchum, students are analyzing the ways that...
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Student Post: Coobook Analysis – The Coloured Women’s Club Millennium...
In the Gender, Sexuality, Feminist, and Social Justice Studies (GSFS) 401 Winter 2022 semester class on Food, Gender, and Environment taught by Dr. Alex Ketchum, students are analyzing the ways that...
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Student Post on Recipes and Menus for Schools and Camps with Culinary Data by...
In the Gender, Sexuality, Feminist, and Social Justice Studies (GSFS) 401 Winter 2022 semester class on Food, Gender, and Environment taught by Dr. Alex Ketchum, students are analyzing the ways that...
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Student Post: Cooking Without Spoons: Reflections on Sonali Menezes’...
In the Gender, Sexuality, Feminist, and Social Justice Studies (GSFS) 401 Winter 2022 semester class on Food, Gender, and Environment taught by Dr. Alex Ketchum, students are analyzing the ways that...
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Student Post: Health and Vegetarianism in “First Steps in Vegetarianism” by...
In the Gender, Sexuality, Feminist, and Social Justice Studies (GSFS) 401 Winter 2022 semester class on Food, Gender, and Environment taught by Dr. Alex Ketchum, students are analyzing the ways that...
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Student Post: The Usborne Cookbook for Boys (2008) by Abigail Wheatly by...
In the Gender, Sexuality, Feminist, and Social Justice Studies (GSFS) 401 Winter 2022 semester class on Food, Gender, and Environment taught by Dr. Alex Ketchum, students are analyzing the ways that...
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Ingredients for Revolution: A History of American Feminist Restaurants,...
Exciting news about the forthcoming book of our editor Alex Ketchum: Her book is coming out this fall!!!From Concordia University Press:Coinciding with the fiftieth anniversary of the trailblazing...
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New Podcast on Feminist + Queer Food History
So excited to share with you all that the trailer for Feminist Ingredients for Revolution: A Food and Queer History Podcast is now available!!...
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Now available: Ingredients for Revolution
We've been teasing the release for awhile, but Ingredients for Revolution: A History of American Feminist Restaurants, Cafes, and Coffeehouses is now out (in Canada- it'll be more widely available in...
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9 Year Anniversary
The Historical Cooking Project started 9 YEARS AGO!!!When we first started, we never imagined that 9 years later we would still be posting content. We have published over 305 posts and are excited to...
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Organizing a Book Tour
This blog post will primarily focus on organizing a book tour if you published your book with an academic press. However, this post should also be useful for folks who have published or are publishing...
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Book Review: Becky Diamond's The Gilded Age Cookbook: Recipes and Stores From...
In May 2018, food writer, librarian, and research historian Becky Diamond wrote a guest post for The Historical Cooking Project. Her post, "Eating Turtles and American Identity," was based on her book...
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Queer Food Conference
What is queer food? What makes food queer? The Historical Cooking Project is pleased to share the announcement for the upcoming conference on queer food and drink to be held at Boston University from...
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Organizing Hybrid Events: A How-To Guide
Have you ever wanted to organize a hybrid event in order to increase accessibility for in-person and virtual attendees? Below is my step by step guide for running a hybrid event for a lecture or...
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10th Birthday
Today, November 15th, 2023, the Historical Cooking Project is now TEN YEARS OLD! It's wild that the website is still up and running. We have existed for 1/3rd of the length of time that the public has...
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Registration now open for the Queer Food Conference
What is queer food? What makes food queer? We are pleased to announce a hybrid conference on queer food and drink to be held at Boston University from April 27- 28, 2024. This conference will bring...
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Queer Food Conference Community Cookbook
Everyone who participates in the Queer Food Conference from April 27-28, 2024 (in-person in Boston and online) will be invited to contribute a recipe to the Cook Out! The Queer Food Conference...
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Guest Post: Resistance Print Sandwiches
Resistance Print Shop Sandwichesby Ellen Barth The recently re-discovered The People’s Philadelphia Cookbook from 1976 is one of a number of grassroots community cookbooks that came out of the...
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