EVENTS
Upcoming CHNY Events:
Save the Date(s):
June (date TBA):
"Tuskegee Experiment Station / Papers of George Washington Carver" Project
Speaker: Elizabeth Simms, Winner of the 2006 CHNY Amelia Scholar's Grant
Location: TBA
BEST BET: For a link to current program details and to purchase tickets online, click here è
"America Eats" Symposium:
Click here for more information about the CNHY "America Eats" Symposium which took place April 21, 2007.
Past CHNY Events:
"Dates in Medieval Baghdad: Sweet Eats to Heady Drinks"
(presented in association with the National Arts Club’s Culinary Arts Committee)Speaker: Nawal Nasrallah
Location: National Arts Club, 15 Gramercy Park South (betw. Park Avenue South and Irving Place)
"Lisbon and Spices: Transforming the World's Culinary Horizons"
Speaker: Michael Krondl
Location: Astor Center, 399 Lafayette Street, 2nd Floor (at East 4th St.)
"The History of Chop Suey in America"
Speaker: Andrew Coe
Location: Grand Harmony Restaurant, 98 Mott Street (betw Canal and Hester Streets)
"The Olympia Oyster"
Speaker: Jon Rowley
Location: Moore Bros. Wine Company, 33 East 20th Street (btwn. B'way/PAS)
"Refined Cuisine or Just Plain Cooking? Moralists in the Kitchen"
Speaker: Rachel Laudan
Location: Astor Center, 23 East 4th Street, 2nd Floor (btwn. Lafayette/Bowery)
"The Spectacular Failure of Prohibition in New York City"
Speaker: Michael Lerner
Location: International Wine Center, 350 Seventh Avenue (29th/30th Sts) #1201
"Molecular Gastronomy and the Role of Science in the Kitchen: The Past, Present, and Future of 'Scientific Cooking"
A conversation with Hervé This and Mitchell Davis
Location: Astor Center, 399 Lafayette Street (at 4th Street), 2nd Floor
"Bones of Retention: Exploring the Prehistory of the Human Diet"
Speaker: Andrew Sillen
Location: Greenwich House Music School, 46 Barrow Street
"A Celebration of Our Members"
The members giving presentations include Rynn Berry, “The History of Vegetarian Restaurants”;
Carolina Capehart, "Fireside Feasts: Early 1800s Culinary Adventures”;
Bunny Crumpacker, The Sex Life of Food (St. Martin’s Press, 2006);
Zilkia Janer, Latino American Food Culture (Greenwood Press, forthcoming);
Cathy Kaufman, Cooking in Ancient Civilizations (Greenwood Press, 2006);
Elizabeth Knight, Tea in the City: New York (Benjamin Press, 2006);
Alexandra Leaf; Ammini Ramachandran, Grains, Greens, and Grated Coconut (iUniverse, 2007); and
Francine Segan, The Opera Lover’s Cookbook (Stewart, Tabori & Chang, 2006).
Location: Park Avenue United Methodist Church, 106 East 86 Street (btwn Park & Lexington)
"Appalachian Food"
Speaker: Mark F. Sohn, Ph.D.
Location: Moore Brothers Wines, 33 East 20th Street (Broadway/Park Avenue South)
"A Cultural History of Artisan Cheesemaking in America"
Speaker: Paul S. Kindstedt, Ph.D., Vermont Institute for Artisan Cheese, University of Vermont
Location: Artisanal Premium Cheese Center, 500 West 37th Street (10th Ave), 2nd Floor
"America Eats" Symposium
Culinary Historians of New York is thrilled to present an all-day symposium investigating American foodways during the Depression and World War II, inspired by the Works Project Administration’s unfinished “America Eats” project. The mission of the project—abandoned at the outset of World War II—was to document local and regional foodways through extensive field research and interviews of participants at food events from church suppers and clambakes to barbecues and holiday meals. The luscious diversity of community meals, especially in rural enclaves, is served up in these typewritten documents that were relegated to scattered and forgotten archives when the project was abandoned that are only now being plumbed by scholars to help understand American food of the 1930s and ‘40s. Many of the documents have yet to be located, and the final session of the symposium will attempt to create an action plan for ferreting out still-hidden remnants of the America Eats project to preserve primary source materials for current and future food scholars.
Location: The Institute of Culinary Education, 50 West 23 Street @ 6th Avenue, 6th Floor Lecture Classrooms
NOTE: To get in touch with CHNY about "America Eats" ongoing research or resources, please contact us.
"America Eats" Symposium Schedule of Events and Speakers:
9:30-10:15 Registration and coffee
10:15-10:30 Opening remarks
10:30-12:30 Panel discussion and Q & A by Elizabeth Alsop, Pat Willard, Charles Camp, and Anne Mendelson, all food scholars who have worked extensively with primary source "America Eats" documents
12:30-1:30 Buffet lunch of foods featured in the "America Eats" archives
1:30-1:45 Presentation of CHNY Amelia Award to internationally-recognized food scholar Barbara Ketcham Wheaton
1:45-3:30 Panel discussion and Q&A by Amy Bentley, Annie Hauck-Lawson, Joanne Lamb Hayes, all scholars on American food of the Depression and WWII, moderated by Cara De Silva
3:30-4:00 Group discussion for finding and preserving hidden "America Eats" materials
"In Pursuit of Tea"
Speaker: Sebastian Beckwith, Owner (Visit the In Pursuit of Tea website)
Location: National Arts Club, 15 Gramercy Park South
"Chocolate Past and Present: A Cultural History"
Speaker: Alexandra Leaf
Location: The Institute of Culinary Education, 50 West 23rd Street, between 5/6 Aves
"Absinthe, A Dark Tale"
Speaker: Dr. David Weir
Location: International Wine Center, 350 Seventh Avenue #1201, between 29th and 30th Sts
"Gingerbread Houses - Crumbs of History: A Little Trivia and a Little Technique"
Speaker: Joanne Lamb Hayes
Location: Chelsea Market, Main Floor Exhibition Room, 75 Ninth Avenue @ 16th Street
Thanksgiving Program - "A Tale of Two Books: Giving Thanks for Colonial Food History"
Speaker: Sandra Oliver, Editor of Food History News
Location: Mount. Vernon Hotel Museum, 421 East 61 Street (between 1st and York)
"Guilty Pleasures: The History of Fast Food"
Speaker: Andrew F. Smith
Location: NYU Department of Nutrition, Food Studies & Public Health
"A Brief History of Apicius in Italy"
Speakers: Sally Grainger, Christopher Grocock, Ken Albala
Location: French Culinary Institute, Culinary Amphitheater, 462 Broadway, 2nd Floor
Fall Cocktail Reception and Annual Meeting
Special Presentation: "The History of the Cocktail" by Allen Katz
Location: F.I.T. Faculty Dining Hall, West 27th Street @ 8th Ave., Building A, 8th Floor
"Dining with Don Quixote"
Speaker: Janet Mendel
Location: Instituto Cervantes of New York, 211-215 East 49th Street
"History of the American Whiskey Rebellion"
Speaker: William Hogeland
Location: Greenwich House Music School, 46 Barrow Street (@7th Avenue, Greenwich Village)
Click here for more information on the book.
SPECIAL BOOK EVENT - "Washoku: Recipes from a Japanese Kitchen"
Speaker: Elizabeth Andoh
Location: The Institute of Culinary Education, 50 West 23rd Street (btwn. 5/6 Aves)
"Spices and the Medieval Culinary Aesthetic"
Speaker: Paul Freedman, medieval social historian and Chairman of the History Department at Yale University
Location: National Arts Club, 15 Gramercy Park South
"Fish on Friday: How Fish Eating Changed History"
Speaker: Brian Fagan
Location: South Street Seaport Museum, Melville Gallery, 213 Water Street btwn. Fulton & Beekman
"The Dark Side of Rum"
Speakers: Jared Brown and Anistatia Miller
Location: New York University, Steinhardt School of Education, 35 West 4th St., Room 1080
"Gastronomy and Gluttony in Early Modern China"
Speaker: Joanna Waley-Cohen
Location: Park Avenue United Methodist Church, 106 E. 86 St. @ Park Ave. (3rd Fl.)
"Dining With The Gods: A Lecture, Viewing and Tasting of the Culinary Culture of Ancient Greece"
Speaker: Andrew Dalby
Location: Sotheby's Institute of Art, 1334 York Avenue (71st/72nd Streets)
Panel Discussion - "The History and Impact of Restaurant Reviews on the New York Dining Scene"
Moderator:
Mitchell Davis, James Beard Foundation
Panelists:
Michael Batterberry, editor-in-chief/publisher Food Arts
Bob Lape, restaurant reviewer
William Grimes, former New York Times restaurant reviewer
Gael Greene, food writer-at-large, New York magazine
Location: Mount Vernon Hotel Museum, 417 East 61st Street, in the Auditorium
"Some Like it Hot: A History of the World's Hottest Cuisines"
Speaker: Clifford Wright
Location: Park Ave. United Methodist Church, 106 East 86 St. @ Park Ave., 3rd Floor
"A Revolution in Eating: How the Quest for Food Shaped America"
Speaker: James E. McWilliams
Location: The Mount Vernon Hotel Museum, 421 East 61 St.
"The History and Pre-History of Pigs"
Speaker: Peter Kaminsky, author of Pig Perfect: Encounters with Remarkable Swine
Location: French Culinary Institute, 462 Broadway
Click here for more information on the book.
"Fresh from the Past: Recipes and Revelations from Moll Flanders' Kitchen: Writing Culinary History with 18th Century Cookbooks"
Speaker: Sandra Sherman
Location: Park Avenue Methodist Church @ 86th Street
April 5, 2005
"Candy Bars and the Birth of the American Spirit"
Speaker: Steve Almond, Author of CandyFreak
Location: Dylan's Candy Bar, 1011 Third Avenue @ 60th Street
Click here for more information on the book.
"Foods of New York"
Speaker: Arthur Schwartz
Location: The Mount Vernon Hotel Museum, 421 East 61 St
"Apicius: New 21st Century Translation"
Speakers: Sally Grainger & Dr. Chris Grocock
Location: New York Academy of Medicine, 1216 Fifth Avenue
"The Good Soup Comes from the Good Earth... West African Food Culture"
Speaker: Fran Osseo-Asare
Location: Park Avenue Methodist Church, 86th Street
"The Wine & Food of 17th Century Jewish Mystics: How to Feast like an Ancient Kabbalist"
Speaker: Alan Brill
Location: The Jewish Community Center, 334 Amsterdam Ave.
HOLIDAY PARTY - "Punch: A Brief History of the Monarch of Mixed Drinks"
Speaker: Mixology Historian Dave Wondrich
Location: National Arts Club, 15 Gramercy Park South (at Irving Place)
"A Thousand Years Over a Hot Stove: A History of American Women Told Through Food, Recipes, and Remembrances"
Speaker: Author Laura Schenone
Location: Park Avenue Methodist Church, Clarke Hall, 106 East 86 St. (btwn Park/Lex)
Click here for more information on the book.
PUBLICATION CELEBRATION for the Oxford Encyclopedia of Food & Drink in America
2:45 pm - 6:00 pm Symposium
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm Reception
Location: The Institute of Culinary Education, 50 West 23rd Street (btwn. 5th/6th Aves.)
Click here for more information on the book.
"Something from the Oven"
Speaker: Author Laura Shapiro on how the food industry of the 1940's and 50's tried to revolutionize the kitchen and how women fought back, based on her book, Something From The Oven
Location: Goldman Associates Luxury Showroom, 150 E. 58 St., 8th Floor
"New Hampshire: A Study in Agricultural and Culinary Innovation"
Speaker: Helen Brody
Location: The Culinary Loft, 515 Broadway Suite 5A (bet. Spring & Broome)
"Cooking for Kings: A Restauration Comedy"
Starring: Ian Kelly, actor and author of Cooking for Kings: The Life of Antonin Carême, the First Celebrity Chef
Location: Vintage Wine Cellar, 482 Broome Street (at Wooster St.)
"New York City's Greenmarkets: A History and Inside View"
Moderator:
Richard Ruben, cooking instructor at the Institute of Culinary Education and author of The Farmer’s Market Cookbook.
Panelists:
Barry Benepe, founder of Greenmarket in New York City
Amy Nicholson, third generation family farmer, Red Jacket Orchards in Geneva, NY
Dan Barber, chef/owner of Blue Hill Restaurant, NYC
Location: Earth Pledge Foundation, The Carriage House, 149 East 38th Street
"Ekiben: A Culinary Train Tour of Japan"
Speaker: Elizabeth Andoh
Location: Horticultural Society of New York, 128 West 58th Street
