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Historic Foodways Society of the Delaware Valley |
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Dedicated to the Promotion and Understanding of Food History |
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Looking for a program, lecturer or demonstrator for your next event? Many of our members are gifted speakers, demonstrators and teachers. This list has been compiled so those of you wishing to hire someone of top quality will have access to more information. Please note you must contact the person DIRECTLY and all negotiations as to program/price is between you and that person NOT the HFSDV. |
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Speakers List |
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Kimberly Costa, owner of Pudding Lane Designs has been bringing her unique and fun approach to living history to the public for over fifteen years. Through her company Pudding Lane, Kimberly offers a myriad of programs and lectures from Open Hearth Cooking/History of Food, to Period Clothing, Dance, Tavern Life, Theatre, Fiber Arts, Haunted History and more. All programs are designed with each client’s needs in mind, and include hands-on programs, tastings, theatrical presentations, and First Person Performances. Kimberly is also a professional First Person Interpreter and offers training and programs to individuals, groups and historic sites. Also a gifted seamstress Kimberly offers period correct garments for the most disconcerting female clientele. |
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To Contact Kimberly Costa Please E-mail: |
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Living History Programs, Lectures and Classes |
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Period Cooking Classes, lectures, demos |
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Members- Do you wish to be included on this list? Please Send your information, including name, credentials, web site, e-mail and any other pertinent information to manager@historicfoodways.org |
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This Website was Designed and is Maintained by Kimberly Costa
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED Updated January 2010 For Web site information or submissions please e-mail manager@historicfoodways.org |
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To Contact Susan Please E-mail: |
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Mercy Ingraham, open hearth cook and co-author of Colonial Burlington Cookery, is pleased to offer both instruction and demonstrations in the use of fire to prepare food. Favorite themes include Colonial cooking, Dutch Foodways, Campfire techniques and contemporary cooking. Programs for children may be arranged by special request. Each class will focus on a selected theme. Students will be provided with a suitable bibliography, recipes, hands-on instruction, and the opportunity to eat the fruits of their labors. Students will come away from the experience with an enhanced knowledge of food preparation, and an increased respect for the efforts our ancestors made in their daily lives. |
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To Contact Mercy Ingraham Please E-mail: |
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Instruction in Open Hearth Cookery |
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Services List |
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Food History News is closing its 20 year run! From Sandy Oliver: I wanted to let everyone know that I have put all of FHN's remaining back issues on sale for $1.50 each -- they used to be $3.25 -- I wonder if you could pass the word among the Past Masters and HFSDV folks in case someone wants to fill out their collection of pick up an issue they are interested in? They can go to the website www.foodhistoynews.com to see a listing and make an order. If they are not on-line ordering types, people can phone in an order. 207-734-8140. NOTE- for those of you unfamiliar with FHN it is an amazing publication that we are going to miss! If you’ve never read them or are missing issues then this is your chance, if then this is your chance before it is gone for good! Hurry! |
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Bob Hughes, potter from Landis Valley Museum, has announced he has gone into business for himself as to be known as River Rat Pottery. To see Bob’s or contact him please visit www.potterybob.com |
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Colonial Hearth Cooking |
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Connie Unangst is pleased to offer her services as an open hearth cook, providing instruction in both 18th and 19th century food preparations. Connie offers hands-on classes as well as demonstrations. |
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To Contact Connie Unangst Please E-mail: |
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Historic Programming, Lectures and Classes |
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Deborah Peterson, proprietress of DEBORAH PETERSON’S PANTRY and a founding member of PAST MASTERS in Early American Domestic Arts, is pleased to offer the benefit of her more than 25 years of experience and research into Southeastern Pennsylvania's English colonial domestic history. Using primary sources to document her research, she brings her years of real life experience and intense personal research into your classroom to give life to our foremothers and to dispel the popular myths that have become so firmly embedded in our interpretation of American colonial history. Programs are available to private and public schools, organizations, groups, individuals and historic sites in Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware, though not limited to those areas. Deborah is an animated, intelligent speaker who loves to share her expertise and experiences with interested parties. She comes to your site with many authentically reproduced items, dressed in carefully researched colonial clothing made by her own hand. You will see, recreated as closely as possible, what a woman of the ‘common or middling sort’ would have looked like in Southeastern Pennsylvania circa 1760-1770. Lectures and hands-on experiences have been popular teaching events for students of all ages. Parents who have noted the success of these classes have requested that Deborah create a series of more detailed and sophisticated presentation for adults, and she has been more than pleased to answer that request. |
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To Contact Deborah Please E-mail: |
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Susan McLellan Plaisted, Proprietress, Heart to Hearth Cookery offers a wide range of food history lectures and slides series that include: The 18th Century Hearth, 18th Century Bill of Fare, Dining with William Penn, Tea in the 18th Century, The History of Chocolate, From Hearth to Cook stove, The Bake Oven, Lenape Foodways and more on request. The Dining with William Penn and Lenape Foodways lecture topics are available through the Pennsylvania Humanities Council for those sites and organizations that qualify. |