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Upcoming Talk: A Recipe for Success: Engaged Scholarship and The Utility of...
Our editor will be speaking at the 2017 Women's History in the Digital World Conference, held at Ireland's Maynooth University on July 6-7th, 2017. Over the past few years, there has been a lot of...
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The Family Recipe Book: Cookbooks as Medical Guides
Our 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 in the process of being defined. Within...
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Pane di Pasqua for your Easter Monday Picnic!
Natale con i tuoi, Pasqua con chi vuoi.(Christmas with family, Easter with whomever you like)You might have sampled Hot Cross Buns, also known as Good Friday Buns, but have you ever had Italian Easter...
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Guest Post: Anguille Sous Roche: The Slippery History of the Eel in New...
The Historical Cooking Project is proud to announce the start of a three part guest series about the significance of the eel to the history of New France. Introduction – Eluding Scrutiny“Come out here,...
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Guest Post: Origins of Local Food
We hear about “eating local” and “local food” a lot. But what does that actually mean? And what are the historical origins? Today’s post is co-written with local food blogger of And the Bee, Emilie...
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Guest Post: Anguille Sous Roche: The Slippery History of the Eel in New...
The Historical Cooking Project is proud to publish a three part guest series about the significance of the eel to the history of New France. This is part 2.Attempting GrowthAs the seventeenth century...
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Guest Post: Anguille Sous Roche: The Slippery History of the Eel in New...
The Historical Cooking Project is proud to announce the start of a three part guest series about the significance of the eel to the history of New France. This is part 3. Click here for Part 1 and Part...
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Celebrating our past
As The Historical Cooking Project passes 230,000 views, we want to celebrate our last 1300 days and over 180 posts! Founded in November 2013, The Historical Cooking Project began with monthly bilingual...
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The HCP will be at the Women's History in the Digital World Conference at...
On July 7, our editor, Alex Ketchum, will be delivering a paper entitled "A Recipe for Success: Engaged Scholarship and The Utility of Websites to Challenge Divisions between Academic and Public...
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CFP: “LEAVENING THE CONVERSATION: intersections of food, fermentation, and...
Here at The Historical Cooking Project we have always been interested in the role of gender in food production and consumption. Our editor, Alex Ketchum, is co-organizing an exciting conference this...
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Guest Post: Bernarr MacFadden’s Physical Culture Cookbook
Bernarr MacFadden’s Physical Culture CookbookIt's an odd thing that given the current obsessions with healthy eating that few bodybuilders produce cookbooks for the general public.[i] Bodybuilders,...
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Register Now for "Leavening the Conversation: Food, Feminism, and Fermentation"
The schedule is now out for our exciting conference, "Leavening the Conversation: Food, Feminism, and Fermentation" which will be held at McGill University in Montreal, Quebec from September 29th...
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CALL FOR PAPERS | Special issue of CuiZine: the Journal of Canadian Food Cultures “LEAVENING THE CONVERSATION: intersections of food, fermentation, and feminism”Appel à soumissions | numéro...
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Exhibition | The Gendered Cultures of Beer and Cheese: the Regulation of...
We are pleased to announce the opening of a new exhibition at McGill's Osler library.Exhibition | The Gendered Cultures of Beer and Cheese: the Regulation of Human and Microbial Bodies on the Home and...
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Beer Today, Beer Tomorrow
We are excited to announce that our editor, Alex Ketchum, was recently interviewed by Beer Today, Beer Tomorrow!Check out the interview here:...
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Digitized Exhibit: The Gendered Cultures of Beer and Cheese: the Regulation...
Did you miss the exhibition, "The Gendered Cultures of Beer and Cheese: the Regulation of Human and Microbial Bodies on the Home and Industrial Scales, 1616 - 2017?"The exhibition ran from September...
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Feminist Food Utopias in the Digital Age: Tasting Through Our Eyes
The internet is not utopia. An algorithm is not a substitute for human interaction.This piece serves to continue the conversations begun by the 2014 piece,"Regarding the State of Scholarly Food...
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Botanical Illustrations (Special Series: Food and Technology, 2)
As part of the Special Series: Food and Technology, today's post will continue the discussion on the role of technology in visual representations of food. In my last post, I had discussed how the...
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Awesome (Mostly Academic) Food Blogs
As we wrap up 2017, I want to give a shoutout to some fantastic (mostly academic) food blogs and websites that I have so much respect for and that I highly encourage our readers to check out. You will...
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Guest Post: Viking Women, Winter Ales, and Ritual
The Historical Cooking Project is proud to publish this guest post by Christina Wade on women in brewing history. ***Like its name suggests, my blog Braciatrix is specifically interested in the...
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