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The Historical Cooking Project and The Feminist Restaurant Project in the News
Our editor Alex Ketchum's research recently appeared in the article, "This Consciousness Raising Cafe Wants You to Eat Like a Feminist" in Vice Magazine, which also linked to her website, The Feminist...
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Special Series: What Does Food Studies Even Look Like?: A Reflection on...
Food history is a growing field whose parameters are still in the process of being defined. Currently within the field, a myriad of works ranging from biographies, micro-histories, ethnographic...
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The Butcher
A colleague once told me that there are three people one absolutely needs to befriend in this chaotic modern world: a doctor, a banker, and a butcher. The reasons for the first two are obvious: health...
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A Field Guide to Dumplings
I love making dumplings. I love having friends over to wrap delicious bundles of meat in dough, cook them, and eat together. It’s a fun activity, best done as a group, with a pleasant reward in the...
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Limoncello: a short history
In a memorable scene in Under the Tuscan Sun, Diane Lane's character, Frances Mayes, meets a ridiculously attractive Italian man named Marcello in the streets of Rome and he whisks her off to his...
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Eat Your Politics for Breakfast: A microhistory of Brioche
This morning, over a cup of coffee, I ate my politics. I spend a lot of time thinking about the ways that food is political. In my dissertation, I argue that the food that feminist restaurants served...
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Submit a Guest Post to HCP!
Dear Readers,got something to say about food or drink in the past? Submit a guest post to HCP!Here's the information. French follows below:Got something to say about the history of a specific dish, a...
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In the news again
Our editor, Alex Ketchum, is quoted multiple times in Broadly's latest article on feminism and food, entitled, "Eating Out, as a Feminist."Check out the piece:...
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Political Foods: Food and Drink on Campaign
As the Canadian federal election campaign reached its final three weeks, the CBC, perhaps hoping to give readers a brief respite from what as been the longest campaign since the nineteenth century,...
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Circuits of Consumption: Art, Activism, and The Biopolitics of Food Control
I am excited to let you know about an upcoming event that I am part of planning: Circuits of Consumption: Art, Activism, and The Biopolitics of Food Control. I will also be a panelist on the first...
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Études du fait alimentaire en Amérique
Hang out with The Historical Cooking Project. Our editor, Alex Ketchum, will be presenting on March 11th at Études du fait alimentaire en Amérique – Studies of Food in North America. She will be...
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Exciting News!
Our editor, Alex Ketchum, has exciting news today! She is now a published author! Her piece "Draft Doctors: The Impact of the Vietnam War on the Migration of Foreign Doctors to Canada" is part of the...
View ArticleValuing Histories of Activism:Empowering Us in the Battle Against Climate Change
Join The Historical Cooking Project's editor, Alex Ketchum, during the month of May at the exciting Digital- Carbon Neutral Conference, "Climate Change: Views from the Humanities." It is free to...
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What Has The Historical Cooking Project Been Up To These Days?
Dear Readers,Sorry for the long absence. We have been busy working on our dissertations. I have exciting news. Two years after its initial launch, I have updated The Feminist Restaurant Project! There...
View ArticleShare your Memories of Feminist Restaurants, Cafes, and Coffeehouses
Today I am excited to launch the newest addition to The Feminist Restaurant Project!Using Esri/ArcGis Mapstory I have developed a map in which users can share their own memories of feminist...
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Exciting News about Dali's Diners de Gala
I have the pleasure of announcing some exciting news about the cookbook publishing industry. This November 20th, Salvador Dali's Diners de Gala, will be made available for the first time since...
View ArticleThe HCP in the News: Thanksgiving
We recently posted about the reprinting of Dali's wonderful cookbook. Atlas Obscura interviewed our editor, Alex Ketchum, about how to make a surrealist Thanksgiving dinner using Dali's cookbook....
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Guest Post: Pumpkin Pie: A History Linking France and the United States
Nothing signals the start of autumn like the arrival of pumpkins in stores and homes. When I first came to the Unites States, fall quickly became my favorite time of year and pumpkin pie became one of...
View ArticleOur Editor on Radio Canada
We are pleased to announce that on the morning of March 7th (8:20 EST, 7:20 Manitoba time) our editor, Alex Ketchum, will be interviewed by Radio-Canada: Winnipeg host Martine Bordeleau. The interview...
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Meat Makes the Man: Early Modern English Theater, Animal Flesh, and...
"The Butcher Shop" 1568 Joachim BeuckelaerOur past series examining the field of food studies within and outside of the academy focused on how food history is a growing field whose parameters are still...
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