@meerlala Indeed! I wonder why the rich ceased to enjoy eating #eels in the #19thCentury - snobbery presumably?

& it is shocking how many foods then cheap enough for everyman have become #CriticallyEndangered.

🙏 @greenleejw for your fascinating insights into both history & ecological change - & your usual #GreatAltText!

https://www.zsl.org/what-we-do/projects/european-eel-conservation

#eel #conservation #FoodHistory #EndangeredSpecies @histodons #SaveOurEels

Final talk for this set was by Kathleen Burke of the University of New York University Shanghai, which is finding women of mixed local and European extraction and examining women's role more broadly in the Indian Ocean through some pretty fascinating sources - including cookbooks! Folks interested in food and material history and cultural components of food should definitely keep an eye on this work.
#histodons #foodhistory #maritimehistory

I really like this Atlas Obscura piece by Reina Gattuso about Emily Dickinson’s big-ass recipe for black cake and the context of colonial extraction and exploitation that underpins it. Food history can be treated as an area of whimsy and unimportance but it can also illuminate difficult historical realities around labor, gender, and racism. (Among many other things!) #FoodHistory #baking

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/emily-dickinsons-black-cake-recipe

How did olive oil become a staple ingredient in American kitchens? This archival story from Taste magazine explains that it all goes back to a nonprofit called the Oldways Preservation & Exchange Trust, which took food writers, chefs, importers and scientists on luxurious junkets to Spain, Turkey, Greece and Portugal.

https://flip.it/Ysf1Vh

#Food #Culture #FoodHistory

Found time between meetings to check in on the kitchens and see how the sugar vessels are coming along.
Another larger charger in progress plus a couple of test pieces...a pigment test and a test to see how well you can write with a quill and oak gall ink onto sugar plate ..pretty well it seems!
#history
#histodons
#tudor
#sixteenthcentury
#foodhistory

Looks like I'm a liar...A sugar work update from today after all!
Some quick snaps of the sugar paste salt that Robin has been working on. Figures are made from marchpane and have a worrying resemblance to Boris Johnson 🤢
More images when I'm back on site next week...and not taken when it's sat on the mantlepiece in the break kitchen.
#foodhistory
#history
#histodons
#sixteenthcentury

As I was on site today, I had the opportunity to take some more images of the sugar plate plates. Though I did derail the team by asking them to start work on making some replacement brushes, so that'll stop progress for a day or so.

#histodons
#foodhistory
#sixteenthcentury
#tudor
#food

Marshmallows have been a treat for centuries, but until the mid-19th-century, each marshmallow had to be manually poured and molded, and they were a treat that only the wealthy could afford. treat.

Want s’more history for #NationalSmoreDay? Here you go: https://theconversation.com/a-brief-history-of-the-smore-americas-favorite-campfire-snack-98750 #FoodHistory #Treats @histodons

there's nothing quite as debauched as stuffing a leg of mutton with pickled herring

[Source: Eliza Smith, The Compleat Housewife, 1727]
#foodhistory

Some progress, courtesy of team member David, of the sugar dinner service that's being made this summer in the Henry VIII kitchens at Hampton Court Palace. The recipe for the paste is from the Second Book of the Good Huswifes Jewell by Thomas Dawson, 1597.
They've made real progress in the last week or so...can't wait to see more items finished.
#histodons
#foodhistory
#sixteenthcentury
#tudor
#food

Zoveel mirabellen aan de boom. Tijd voor een historisch recept. Susanna Eger, Leipziger Kochbuch, recept een pietsie aangepast aan onze smaak. Blog: https://lizetkruyff.nl/mirabellen-uit-de-oven/

#mirabellen #vruchten #recept #foodhistory

Question for my #FoodHistory #histodons:

Where can I get whole dried mesquite beans? I’m putting together a collection of cereals and pulses for a classroom activity, and I cannot find *anyone* on line who sells mesquite beans (as opposed to flour made from them).

Any suggestions?

Einkorn genomics sheds light on history of the oldest domesticated wheat
#archeobotanics #archeology #foodhistory #culinaryhistory

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06389-7

@ErikUden it may well be Canada’s most significant contribution to global cuisine https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawaiian_pizza?wprov=sfti1 #foodhistory

Restaurant menus can reveal fascinating historical and cultural details about times and places — for example, in 1941, the Warner Bros. Studio Cafe renamed sauerkraut "Liberty cabbage" as a rejection of all things German. Atlas Obscura talked to menu collector Henry Voigt about the meaning of menus, the evolution of food, and the importance of chronicling the everyday.

https://flip.it/G3ylz0

#Food #Culture #FoodHistory #Lifestyle

Finally doing a deeper dive into lists, hashtags, finding new people to follow, etc. Miss my lists on the other site which I had spent 10 yrs curating for #history, #archaeology, #food, #foodhistory, #technology, and more. Time to start over and read new people.

Archaeologists discover a ‘Pizza’ painting in ancient Roman ruins of Pompeii

Archaeologists in the ancient Roman city of Pompeii have discovered a 2,000-year-old fresco that depicts what could be the ancestor of the Italian pizza.

The painting, found in the hall of a house adjacent to a bakery, showcases a flatbread that may have served as a precursor to the modern dish.

Continue Reading: https://archaeologymag.com/2023/06/pizza-painting-in-pompeii/
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#archaeology #foodhistory #pizza #romanempire #pompeii

I haven't read the book yet, but this interview made it seem really fascinating! Anya Von Bremzen's book National Dish: Around the World in Search of Food, History, and the Meaning of Home
https://www.saveur.com/culture/national-dish-anya-von-bremzen/?utm_source=pocket_discover
#histodons #foodhistory

the words "enema" and "cookbook" don't belong together
#foodandsex #cookbooks #foodhistory

With the influx of #Tibetan refugees in the 1960s, they brought along with them a precious treasure from their homeland – #momos .

https://www.financialexpress.com/lifestyle/virasat-ki-thali-the-momo-odyssey-tracing-the-origins-and-journey-of-how-our-favourite-momo-found-its-new-home-in-india/3190422/lite

#India #CulturalFoods #dumplings #HistoryOfMomos #Chinese #Turkish #Tibet #Mongolian #AsianMastodon #FoodHistory #FoodTrivia #CrossCultural #AsianFoods #TraditionalFoods #AsianFoodCulture #FoodOrigins #TootSEA #SEAculture #SEAfood