2025 Beyond Popcorn and Crackerjack: The History of Ballpark Food Dan Macey, food historian August 17, 2025
Tour of First Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives Frederick Muhlenberg compound July 19, 2025 How the Humble Anchovy Flavored Western Cuisine Christopher Beckman, author March 20, 2025
2024 True Cinnamon: A Global Perspective with Tasting Speaker: Aliza Green December 8, 2024
Tour of Historic Fallsington and Turning the Page on Cookbook Collecting Speaker: Kim Praria November 2, 2024 Inside the Radical Victorian Kitchen Speaker: Becky Diamond October 17, 2024 to watch the program: https://youtu.be/WEC11qgCASE
Much Ado About Mushrooms Speaker: Tina Ellor July 13, 2024
Tavern Talk: Tasting and Walk of the Taverns of Old City Colonial Philadelphia Speaker: Rich Wagner May 25, 2024 Pennsylvania Barns: What They Can Tell Us About What We Ate Speaker: Jeff Marshall April 21, 2024
The Ark of Taste: Finding Our Culinary Identity Speaker: David Shields March 21, 2024 to watch the program: https://youtu.be/wrXTWNB0AfA
The Pompeii Food Guide: Uncovering the Eating Habits of the Romans Speaker: Sally Grainger February 3, 2024 To watch the program: https://youtu.be/9wJ0YPsbVHo
The Foodways of the Lenape Speaker: Susan McClellen Plaisted January 25, 2024
2023 Hot Pot: The Ancient and Modern Take on this Asian Dining Experience November 18, 2023 Volcano Restaurant, North Wales, PA.
Fine Dining on the Rails: Pullman Car Dining in its Heyday Speaker: Becky Diamond October, 14, 2023 Madison Hotel, Morristown, N.J.
Penn Museum Curator Tour of Ancient Food & Flavor Exhibition Speaker: Katherine Moore, Curator September 23, 2023 Penn Museum
200 Years of Kitchen Innovation Speaker: Cliveden's Carolyn Wallace, Libbie Hawk August 19, 2023 Cliveden Gullah Geechee Culture and the Philadelphia Connection Speaker: Chef Valerie Erwin July 22, 2023 Wyck Historic House and Garden
Setting the Table in the Gilded Age Speaker: Becky Diamond and Joyce Munro June 17, 2023 Morris Arboretum
Herbs as Medicine: A Colonial Perspective Speaker: Tiffany Robbins May 20, 2023 The Woodlands
Cider: Pennsylvania's Once and Future Favorite? Speaker: Mark Turdo April 15, 2023 Manoff Market Garden and Cidery, New Hope, Pa.
Unmoulding the World of Moulds: From Ceramic, to Tin to Copper, Shaping the Story of Forming Foods Speaker: Joyce White March 25, 2023 Chaddsford Historical Society
Taste of the Nation: The New Deal Search for America's Food Speaker: Camille Begin February 16, 2023 Click here to see presentation on YouTube https://youtu.be/AZkSiXrxpzQ
2022
The Smiling Nut: Cracking the Story and Cuisine of the Pistachio The Venetian Club, Philadelphia Speaker: Aliza Green December 3, 2022
Pawpaw Pow Wow Speaker: Dale Hendricks and Adam Diltz Elwood Restaurant, Philadelphia September 18, 2022
Historic Foodways Bazaar and Potluck Bowman's Wildlife Preserve, New Hope, Pa. August 21, 2022
The Domestic Revolution: How Coal Changed Everything Speaker: Ruth Goodman July 23, 2022 Click here to link to the presentation on You Tube https://youtu.be/pN2fLAUByQk
John Trower: Once America's Most Famed Caterers The Yardley Inn, Yardley, Pa. Speaker: Becky Diamond March 19, 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
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
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, 2019 -- A Revolution in Baking: Christopher Ludwich and Colonial Gingerbread Tasting Historic Sugartown Speaker: Niel De Marino, the Georgian Baker
December 7, 2019 -- 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
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
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
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 Renaissance 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. 12, 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
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