originally called the Illinois Brewing Company, in Socorro and were among the first in the territory to make ice using a steam engine and ammonia compressor, which are both mothballed and still on site. #envhist #histfood

Visit to the Hammel Museum in Soccoro, New Mexico with the Mining History Association. Jacob Hammel emigrated from Munich to the St. Louis area with his friend Eberhard Anheuser. They both started breweries (one would of course become the famous Anheuser-Busch Brewery). #histfood

Today I published a piece about the act of eating in Southeast Asia
#histfood #foodhistory #historicalfoodways #culinaryhistory #foodculture
"Where have all the knives gone? " https://open.substack.com/pub/historicalfoodways/p/where-have-all-the-knives-gone?r=1n7r7o&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

Halfway through the month feels like a good time to promote my new Substack newsletter.
If you are into food, food history, culinary history, and food culture, this substack is for you!

#foodhistory #histfood #culinaryhistory #foodculture

https://historicalfoodways.substack.com/

My first post on my Historical Foodways Substack is out in the world!
I want to thank everyone who subscribed before they even saw a single post.
#foodhistory #histfood #culinaryhistory

https://historicalfoodways.substack.com/p/origin-story?sd=pf

My quest to collect Cuban #cookbooks (written and printed in Cuba) continues. This is the latest addition, New Manual of the Catalonian and Cuban Cook. First printed in 1858.

It’s tiny!

#foodhistory #histfood #culinaryhistory #foodculture

I'm currently writing and researching two pieces, one an introductory post, and the other one a mix of botanical/medicine history mixed with linguistic confusion and gosh, I missed research and writing. (TBH, I missed having written!). I'm so excited.

https://historicalfoodways.substack.com/

#foodhistory #culinaryhistory #histmed #histfood #foodculture

“Guacamole” from a 1931 Cuban #cookbook. Wild!

She says “aguacate” here but elsewhere in the book she refers to avocados by their then common English name, alligator pears.

#foodhistory #histfood #culinaryhistory

#histfood #foodhistory #culinaryhistory

https://www.thedailymeal.com/1146561/the-record-breaking-2400-year-old-soup-found-inside-a-chinese-tomb/

Paging fellow historians of digestion, waste, and modernity//

This 2-day workshop will take place in April and is organized by the wonderful Elsa Richardson. It's sure to be 🔥🔥 so do get your abstracts in by Jan. 16th!

#HistSTM #HistFood #FoodStudies @histstm

https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/11755077/cfp-modernity-and-gut

@kkremitzki @internetarchive l’ve made Mary Randolph’s version, which uses curry powder and is considerably less seasoned than Glasse’s.
I wasn’t impressed.

https://www.historicalfoodways.com/to-make-a-dish-of-curry-after-the-east-indian-manner/

#foodhistory #Culinaryhistory #histfood #foodways