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2022

The Surprising History of American Cheese:
From Monterey to Vermont and Everyone in Between
​Speaker: Sarah Wassberg Johnson

January 29, 2022

Click here to link to presentation on You Tube
https://youtu.be/bRK4sgorBuE

2021
The Early Business of Bogs
Up Close History of Cultivating The Jersey Cranberry
Whitesbog Village
Browns Mill, N.J. 

October 9, 2021

A Stroll Through Historic Odessa with Hearth Cooking Demonstration
Historic Odessa Delaware
Speaker: Johnnye Baker

September 18, 2021

A Bowl of Cherries!
Awbury Arboretum, Philadelphia, Pa. 
Speaker: Constance Kirker

August, 25, 2021

A Wonderful Day to Pick Lavender
Warwick Furnace Farm
Speaker: Dolly Rosen

July 3, 2021


Black Smoke: African Americans and the United States of Barbecue
Adrian Miller
May 13, 2021
​Click below to link to the presentation on YouTube

https://youtu.be/T5_7BlUb11w

Thinking Outside the Book: Researching Receipts Beyond Cookbooks
Clarissa Dillon 
April 9, 2021
Click below to link to presentation on YouTube

https://youtu.be/AdqjmO5zFOk

Is Food Memory the Sixth Sense?
John Allen
March 25, 2021
Citron: How Citrus was Spawned by Faith
Aliza Green
February, 11, 2021
 

Click below for link to YouTube to Citron
https://youtu.be/0PFQB4vRYu8

Food for Freedom: Feeding Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad
Gail Hinson
January 28, 2021 
2020
​Pandemic Potluck
Cooking from Hannah Glasse's The Art of Cookery Made Plain and Easy
December 12, 2020

A Taste of the Lost Pennsylvania Grape
Mike Madaio, Wine Historian and Author
November 7, 2020

Behind the Savory Scenes: The Ingredients for Putting Together On-Line Food History Content
Max Miller, Host of Tasting History on YouTube
October, 1, 2020

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​​The Dish on Redware:
The Legacy of the Region's Historic Pottery
with Michelle and Curt Pearson of Robesonia Redware
September 20, 2020
​
Fat Rascals: Dining at Shakespeare's Table, from an actor's point of view
with Shakespearian Actor John Tufts
September, 3, 2020

​A Recipe for Subversion:
How Suffragists Used Cookbooks to Fight for the Right to Vote
with Lucy Beard, executive director Alice Paul Institute and Dan Macey, HFSDV
August 8, 2020


Click the link below to watch the presentation: 
https://www.bigmarker.com/alice-paul-institute/A-Recipe-for-Subversion-How-Suffragists-Used-Cookbooks-to-Fight-for-the-Vote?bmid=7fdeff10a582
Click to download selected recipes from the Suffrage Cookbooks discussed in the presentation

​I Screen for Ice Cream: A Virtual Historic Ice Cream Social
with Susan McLellan Plaisted
​July 20, 2020
Interpreter Under Fire: Lessons from Cooking at the Hearth at Colonial Williamsburg with Tiffany Fisk
June 16, 2020


Victorian Summertime Entertaining with Becky Diamond
May, 26, 2020 
(A virtual program)
The Dynamic Duo of Flavors -- Pepper and Vanilla with Sarah Lohman
​April 2, 2020
(a virtual program)
(fast forward to the 22.30 mark to begin presentation)

​January 12 -- The Lost Fish of the Delaware and Schuylkill 
Black Bass Hotel

Speaker Presentation: Teagan Schweitzer


2019
February 24, 2019 - Bound to the Fire: The Story of How Enslaved Cooks Fueled What We Eat Today, Cliveden
Speaker: Kelley Fanto Deetz, Stratford Hall, Va. 


April 28, 2019 - Lydia Morris' Sweet Tooth and Entertaining Victorian Ladies, Morris Arboretum
Speaker: Becky Diamond

June 8, 2019 -- A Taste of Hungry: Tasting and Tour of Buccleuch, a 1739 Georgian Mansion and American Hungarian Foundation 
Speaker: Susan Luczu

August 17, 2019 -- Foodways of the Hessians, Talk and German Colonial Farm to Table Dinner, The Farm Cooking School, Titusville, N.J.
Speaker: Peter 
Lubrecht

September 18, 2019 -- Soda Pharma: The Dawn of the Pharmaceutical Era, Shane's Confectionery, Philadelphia
Speaker: Laurel Burmeister

October 5 -- A Revolution in Baking: Christopher Ludwich and Colonial Gingerbread Tasting
Historic Sugartown

Speaker: Niel De Marino, the Georgian Baker

December 7 -- HFSDV's 25th Anniversary Party 
& 
The Foods of the Centennial International Exhibition of 1876 and Their Legacy
Discovery Center, Fairmont Park

Speaker: William Woys Weaver


2018
Jan. 20 2018 – The Shambles of Market Street, Reading Terminal Market
Speaker: Rick Nichols
 
March 25, 2018 – Uncorking the Past: Recreating fermented brews from the past, Chadds Ford Historical Society
Speaker: Patrick McGovern
 
April 8, 2018 -- Food of the Dead, The Woodlands
Speaker: Sarah Lohman
 
July 14, 2018 -- Sacred Sweet Tooth. Pottsgrove Manor
Speaker: Connie Kirker
 
Sept. 23, 2018 – Let’s Churn, Clarify and Chew the Fat, at Washington Crossing Park
Speaker: Sandeep Agarwal

Novenber 4, 2018 -- Breaking Bread, How Communal and Religious Beliefs Influenced Foodways of the Pennsylvanai Frontier, The Eagle Tavern
Speaker: Michael Showalter, Historic Ephrata Cloister
 
2017
March 19, 2017 – Penn Dutch Baking Traditions, Conrad Weiser Homestead
Speaker: Will Weaver

May 7. 2017 -- Tudor Kitchens of Hampton Court Palace Revisited at Newlin Grist Mill
Speaker: Marc Meltonville
 
August 13, 2017 -- Plimoth Goodwife Interpreter, Ephrata Cloisters
Speaker: Kathleen Wall
 
Oct. 4. 2017 -- Field Trip to New York’s Lower East Side, Tenement Museum and food tour
 
November 12, 2017 – A Journey into 18th Century America through History, Food and A Georgian House, at Pennsbury
Speaker: Paula Bennett
 
2016
 
March 13, 2016 – The Thousand Dollar Dinner, Chadd’s Ford Historical Society
Recreated dinner with the help of board members
Speakers: Becky Diamond and Vicki Miller
 
April 19, 2016 – History in a Bowl of Gumbo, Univ of Penn
Robert Moss
 
June 4, 2016 – Annual Pot Luck, Castle Valley Mill, Doylestown, PA.
 
September 17, 2016 – Medieval Cooks Meet Open Hearth Cooks, Daniel Boone Homestead
Speaker: Dining with Lorenzo members
 
Nov 13, 2016 – What the Lesser Sort Ate – Craven Hall, Warminster, PA.
Speakers: Nancy Webster and Margaret Quinn
 
2015
 
Feb. 21, 2015, --- Colonial Squash at German Heritage Center, Kutztown University
Speaker: Will Weaver
 
March 24, 2015 – Fermented Foods, Lady Bird Tea Room, Huleville, PA.
Speaker: Tara Whitsitt
 
June 7, 2015 – Picnic Howell Living History Farm, Titusville, N.J.
 
July 25, 2015 – John Tyler Speaks to us on Cast Iron, Hopewell Furnace National Historic Site
Speaker: John Tyler
 
Sept 27, 2015 – Public Markets and Civic Culture in 19th Century America
at Historic New Castle, Del

Speaker: Helen Tangires
 
Nov 7, 2015 – Annual Meeting, Pioneer West Virginia Cooking at Landis Valley Museum
Speakers: Martha and Dick Hartley
 
2014
 
March 9, 2014 – Why is this night different from all other nights? Medieval Sedar Customers,
 
Betty & Milton Katz Jewish Center, Cherry Hill, N.J.
Speaker: Katie Mendelsohn
 
June 1 – Information Potluck: Nourishment for Body and Brain, Thomsd Massey House, Broomall, PA.
 
Sept 7, 2014 – 17th Century English and Dutch Foodways in New Amsterdam, Newlin Grist Mill
Speaker: Clarissa Dillon
 
2013
June 22, 2013 – Philadelphia and Mrs. Goodfellow: The First Cooking School, Washington Crossing Pa
Speaker Becky Diamond
 
Sept. 15, 2013 – The Pickle Project, Exploring Food, Sustanability and Community in Ukraine, Ukrainian Historical and Educational Center NJ, Somerset, N.J.
Speaker: Linda Norris
 
Nov. 9, 2013 – Annual Meeting What’s for Dinner Martha, Normandy Farm Hotel and Conference Center
Speaker: Nancy Loane
 
2012
 
March 10, 2012 – Recreating Receipts of a 1715 Manuscript, Stenton
Speaker: Susan McLellan Plaisted
 
May 20, 2012 -- Hampton National Historic Site, Towson, Md.
Speaker: Susan Schoelwer and Pat Reber
 
Sept 12, 2012 -- Smithville Mansion, Eastampton, N.J.
 
Nov, 4, 2012 – Annual Meeting, Rising Sun Inn
Speaker: Will Weaver
 
2011
 
March 26, 2011 – Baking Bread Together, Skippback Historical Society
Speakers: Connie Unangst and Kim Costa
 
May 21, 2011 -- Dig In: A Culinary Tour of Laurel Hill Cemetery

Sept. 10, 2011 – Historic Grains and Heirloom Gardens, The Mill at Anselma, Chester Springs, Pa.

November 5, 2011 -- Eat with Your Eyes: Confessions of a Food Stylist, Annual Meeting Allaire Village, Farmington, N.J.

Speaker: Dan Macey
 
2010
 
September 11, 2010 -- Tasting the Past with Friends, Covenhoven House, Freehold, N.J.
a period pot luck and show and tell


Nov 7, 2010 – Annual Meeting – A Taste of History, City Tavern
Speaker: Walter Staib
 
2009
 
March 14, 2009–  Iron Chef Goes Old School Competition at Peachfield Plantation
With: Kimberly Costa
 
June 20, 2009 – Ice Cream Walking Tour of Philadelphia, Independence Hall
 
Sept. 19, 2009 – Food, Drink and Celebrations of the Hudson Valley
Bouman-Stickeny Farmstead, Stanton, N.J.
Speaker: Peter Rose
 
November 15, 2009 – Annual Meeting, Bartram’s Garden, Eating History: Thirty Turning Points in the Making of American Cuisine
Speaker: Andrew Smith

2008
 
March 9, 2008 – Moravian Sugar Cakes, James Marshall House Museum, Lambertville, N.J. and walking tour
Speaker: Susan Meixell
 
June 7, 2008 -- Hands on Flat Bread and Soup Workshop, Daniel Boone Homestead
Speaker: Mercy Ingraham
 
Sept. 20, 2008 – John Dickinson Plantation, Dover, Del.
Speaker: Ron Carnegie, Colonial Williamsburg
 
November 16, 2008 – Annual Meeting at Old Barracks in Trenton
Shakespeare’s Kitchen: Feasting in the Renaissasance
Speaker: Francine Segan
 
2007
 
Feb. 24, 2007 – Behind the Scenes at the Restaurant School
 
April 28, 2007 – Ned Foltz Pottery, Reinholds Pa
Speaker: Ned Foltz
 
June 30, 2007 – HFSDV picnic – Bowman’s Hill Wildflower Preserve, New Hope, PA.
 
August 18, 2007  – Tour of Will Weaver’s Garden, Roughwood
 
November 3, 2007 – Tour on Food and Art at Philadelphia Museum of Art
 
2006

February 25, 2006 -- Rattle the Teacups:
Period Receipt Exchange, Readings and Tavern Sing-A-Long


March 11, 2006 – Writing Putting Meat on the American Table: Sources on Food History at the Hagley Library
Speaker: Roger Horowitz, Assoc. directory Hagley Museum and Library

March 18, 2006 -- A Day of Hearth Cooking at the Read House, New Castle, Delaware
Presenter: Connie Cooper
 
June 25, 2006 – Tea Culture, Japanese, Chinese and Taiwanese Tea Drinking, Bowman’s Hill pavilion
Speaker: Betty Tsai
 
September 23, 2006 – Laird and Company Apple Jack, Peachfield Plantation
Speaker: Lisa Laird Dunn
  
Nov. 11, 2006 – Annual Meeting, Bristol Friends Meeting House
Speakers: Doris Simpson, reflections as teacher, writer, restauranteur, speciality food history business; Katy Hayes, pictures from Ivan Day’s course on Dairy and Ices.
 
2005
 
Feb 12, 2005 – Harrington House
Speaker: Nancy Webster on the healing properties of various foods; Bob Houghton, lives of loyalist descendants and demonstrated Morris dancing.
 
May 7, 2005 – Foods Our Parents Remember: A look at 20th Century Foodways at Holcombe-Jimison Farmstead
Speaker: Elizabeth Nosek, from Winterthur
 
June 18, 2005 – Field Trip to American Swedish Museum
 
September 25, 2005 – Some Roots and Branches of American Cooking, Historical Society of Delaware
Speakers: Sandy Oliver, Will Weaver
 
Nov. 12, 2005 – Sweden and Swedish Foodways, Annual Meeting, the Arsenal at Old New Castle
Speaker: Susan Plaisted
 
2004
Feb 14, 2004 – Salt, Grsudny Museum and Library at Bristol
Speaker: Peter Laszio
 
May 2, 2004 – Native American Foodways, Churchville Nature Center
Speaker: Susan Plaisted
 
September 26, 2004 – 18th Century Pickling Workshop, Daniel Boone Homestead
Speaker: Clarissa Dillon
 
Nov. 12, 2004 – Annual Meeting, PBS’s Frontier House, Kemmerer Museum Bethlehem
Speaker: Susan Cain, domestic consultant Frontier House
 
2003
February 23, 2003 – Victorian Tea, Contemporary Victorian Townhouse Museum, Trenton
Speaker: Patricia Pordash
 
May 4, 2003 – Levening, Greenbank Mill, Delaware
Speaker: Florence Williams
 
September 13, 2003 -- African American Foodways, Hope Lodge/Mather Mill
Speaker: Lauren Swann and Noah Lewis
 
Nov, 2, 2003 – Annual Meeting, First Person Interpretation from Plymouth Plantation, Ridley Creek Mansion Ridley Creek
Speaker: Kathleen Wall, foodways director Plimouth Plantation
 
2002
 
Feb. 23, 2002 – Making Cheese, Thomas Massey House
Speaker: Clarissa Dillon
 
May 5, 2002 – Welsh Foodways, Morgan Log House
Speaker: Joan Hauger, Morgan Log House
 
September 14, 2002 – Sauer’s Herbal Cures, Mennonite Heritage Center
Speaker: Will Weaver
 
November 10, 2002 – Suppawn to Spam Annual Meeting, David Library
Speakers: John Rees
100 members

2001
Feb. 4 2001 – A Taste of Rome, Univ. of Pa Museum
Speaker: Phylis Pray Bober, Bryn Mawr College, author of Art, Culture and Cuisine
 
April 21, 2001 – Souper History
Speaker: Andrew Smith
 
August 25, 2001 – Interpreting the Hearth with Iron and Receipts, Hopewell Furnace
John Tyler and Alice Ross
 
October 27, 2001 – Annual Meeting, Hasty Pudding and Rum Punch: Tavern Bill of Fare
Landis Valley

Speaker: Joseph Carlin, Food Heritage Press
 
2000
 
Feb 26, 2000 – Shad and Oyster Harvesting, Valley Forge
Speaker: Charles Hardy, West Chester Univ.
 
April 29, 2000 – Early Moravian Foodways, Burnside Plantation
Speaker: Karen Huetter, Burnside Plantation, Historic Bethlehem
 
June 3, 2000 -- Historia, Feeding the Court of Henry VIII: Experimental Archaelogy from the Kitchens at Hampton Court, Pennsbury
 
August 5, 2000 – Foodways and Herblore of the Lenape, Lenape Indian Museum
 
Oct. 28, 2000 – 5th Anniversary!
Annual Meeting, Traditional Dutch Foodways in America
Speaker: Peter Rose

1999
January 16, 1999 -- Blood and Guts
Speaker: Andy Grothe

April 17, 1999 – Love Feast and Moravian Kitchen, Liditz, Pa tour
Speaker: Brother Johannes
 
July 31, 1999 – Seasonality of Grains, Newlin Grist Mill
Speaker: Dabbs Woodfin
 
Oct. 3, 1999 – Mr. Jefferson’s Table
Speaker: Karen Hess
 
1998
 Jan. 17, 1998 – Starting a Foodways program Landis Valley Museum
Speaker: Tom Martin
 
April 19, 1998 – Vegetarian Foodways at Ephrata Cloister
Speaker: Michael Showalter
 
Sept. 26, 1998 – Annual Meeting, 18th Century Puddings, Old Bedford Village
Speaker: Nancy Carter Crump

1997
February, 23, 1997 –  An Unadultered History of Fermented Sauces from Garum to Ketchup
Jack’s Firehouse, Philadelphia
Speaker: Andrew Smith
133 members
 
April 19, 1997 – Talk by Karen Hess, culinary historian and editor of Martha Washington’s Booke of Cookery and Booke of Sweetmeats,
Village Inn, Englishtown, N.J.

Speaker: Karen Hess

August 24, 1997 -- 18th Century Tea, Pennypacker Mansion
Speaker: Bill Brobst

November 1997 -- Tour of the Hermitage, The Hermitage 
Speaker: Brother Johannes

1996
 
Jan. 28 1996 – A 17th Century Banqueting Table, Pennsbury Manor
Speaker: Susan Plaisted
 
April 27, 1996 -- The Hitherto Unrecognized 18th Century Garden, Bartram’s Garden
Speaker: Clarissa Dillon
 
September 29, 1996 – Woman’s Clothing During the Lives of Queen Victoria & King Edwart, Jacobsburg Historic District
Speaker: Suellen Tatrai
 
November 16, 1996 – Annual Meeting 1849 House, Baltimore
Speakers: Sandy Oliver and Henry Ward
 
1995
January 15, 1995 -- Colonial Soldiers Mess, Washington Crossing, Pa. 
Speaker: John Rees

April 9, 1995 – Tour of The Cook’s Fancies exhibit at the Philadelphia Antique Show
Speaker: Will Weaver 

July 29, 1995 – HFSDV Picnic Landis Valley

October 28, 1995 -- Annual Meeting, Hopewell Furnace

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 


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