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Guest Post: Aural Fixation: Swapping Sound for Taste in Retellings of Food...
As part of the Special Series: Food and Technology, today's guest post by Anna Sigrithur, will continue the discussion on the role of technology in representations of food. Aural Fixation : Swapping...
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So You Want to Go to Grad School? Part I: On Deciding to Apply
So you want to go to grad school? This post will be the first of a series offering advice to grad students. Some of the details may be particularly useful to students pursuing history degrees,...
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Guest Post: Bison On Everything: Eating Lakota Foods in Los Angeles
On The Historical Cooking Project we think a lot about what it means to be authentic. In trying to create certain historical dishes we struggle to source specific products; we might use electric ovens...
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So You Want to Apply to Grad School: Part II How to Apply
So you want to apply to grad school? You read PART I: On Deciding to Apply and have decided you still want to bite the bullet? How do you actually go about applying?This post is the second of a series...
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So You Want to Go to Grad School: Part III...Are You Sure (It's Okay If You...
So you want to apply to grad school? Are you sure? You read PART I: On Deciding to Apply and PART II: On How to Apply. Maybe grad school isn't the right decision... This post is the third of a series...
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So You Want to Go to Grad School? Part IV: Surviving and Thriving
So you want to apply to grad school? Are you sure? You read PART I: On Deciding to Apply and PART II: On How to Apply, and PART III: Are You Sure? The fourth post of this series is about how to not...
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So You Want to Go to Grad School? Part V: How to Read
So you want to apply to grad school? Are you sure? You read PART I: On Deciding to Apply and PART II: On How to Apply, PART III: Are You Sure? , and PART IV: Surviving and Thriving in Grad School. The...
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SO YOU WANT TO GO TO GRAD SCHOOL SERIES
We began 2018 with a five part series with advice for current and potential graduate students.Some of the details may be particularly useful to students pursuing history degrees, especially food...
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How to Start a Feminist Restaurant (based on lessons from the past)
During a time when much attention has been given to sexual harassment and labor issues in the restaurant industry, *How to Start a Feminist Restaurant* is a DIY/DIT guide for creating your own feminist...
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Guest Post: Cooking as Commemoration: Reading Holocaust Cookbooks
The Historical Cooking Project is proud to publish this guest post by Jennifer Shutek on cooking as a form of commemoration. ***When I tell people that I am a doctoral student in Food Studies, I often...
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Guest Post: Tea, Coffee and Gender Anxiety in Eighteenth-century England
The Historical Cooking Project is pleased to share Mona O'Brien's guest post, "Tea, Coffee and Gender Anxiety in Eighteenth-century England." This piece is based on her Master’s Dissertation,...
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Alternative "Academic" Platforms
On February 14, 2018 I had the pleasure of co-hosting the event Alternative "Academic" Platforms: A Workshop for Grad Students with my colleague, historian of slavery, empire, and gender in the Indian...
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Guest Post: Finding Traditional Food in Japan (Special Series: Searching for...
On The Historical Cooking Project we think a lot about what it means to be authentic. In trying to create certain historical dishes we struggle to source specific products; we might use electric ovens...
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Guest Post: Oregon's Beer Archives
As part of the Special Series: Food and Technology, today's guest post by archivist Tiah Edmunson-Morton will continue the discussion on the role of technology in historical representations of food....
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The HCP was on CBC Radio Montreal's Daybreak
Our editor, Alex Ketchum, was on CBC Radio Montreal's Daybreak show on March 15, 2018 discussing her work on feminist restaurants. The interview touches on issues of making history accessible to the...
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How to Start a Feminist Restaurant Book Launch
Thank you everyone who made the launch of "How to Start a Feminist Restaurant" successful! On March 15, 2018, the head editor of the Historical Cooking Project, Alex Ketchum, spoke about her new book...
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Making the Classics Digestible, Interview with Dr. Lynn Kozak of Happy Hour...
Lynn Kozak, an associate professor in McGill University's Department of History and Classical Studies, performs a weekly, one-person production of Homer’s The Iliad at Bar des Pins in Montreal’s...
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Guest Post: Eating Turtles and American Identity
The Historical Cooking Project is pleased to share Becky Libourel Diamond's guest post, "Eating Turtles and American Identity." This piece is based on her book, The Thousand Dollar Dinner. “Green...
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Embodied Pedagogies
The Historical Cooking Project typically focuses on methodologies and practice. However, a large part of our work as historians is teaching -- either in the form of university faculty positions,...
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PhD Defense: Serving Up Revolution...and Sourdough Chocolate Devastation Cake
In today's post, The Historical Cooking Projects' Editor in Chief, Alex Ketchum, explains the important role food played in her dissertation defense. On June 5, 2018 I defended my PhD dissertation,...
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