Culinary Historians | Food Preservation in 18th-Century America

When

Sunday January 19, 2025: 4:00pm to 5:30pm  Add to Calendar /   Add to Google Calendar

Where

Downtown Library: 4th Floor Meeting Room

Description

When most people think of 18th-century food preservation, only a few of the many methods that were actually used occur to them, and most of those are for long-term food storage. In this slide presentation, distilling her many years of work in the experimental archaeology of food, Susan McLellan Plaisted will explore a multitude of historical techniques used in long- or short-term storage, providing a comprehensive view of the sophistication of past practices in preserving foods.

Susan McLellan Plaisted, who has been interested in food history for as long as she remembers, has been Proprietress of Heart to Hearth Cookery in Morrisville, Pennsylvania since 1988. There, she organizes classes and demonstrations, and produces educational materials, on a wide variety of topics in colonial and early American cooking. Her primary focus has been to use the experimental archaeology of food in order to research and re-create the receipts of the past.

This event is in partnership with the Culinary Historians of Ann Arbor.