CHNY proudly supports active researchers in the field of culinary history through its annual Scholars' Grants.
Even at colleges and universities with Food Studies programs, financial support for essential research in food culture and culinary history is hard to find. The situation is even worse for independent scholars.
Since 2005, CHNY has given awards every year to researchers, regardless of academic affiliation, seeking support for projects in culinary history. What started as a single $1,000 stipend increased in 2012, when The Julia Child Foundation for Gastronomy and the Culinary Arts recognized the importance of the CHNY Scholars’ Grant program with generous financial support, enabling CHNY to award two grants, for $3,500 and $1,500. That support increased the number of high quality applications, and The Foundation generously responded by increasing its support in 2017 to $7,500, allowing three grants: $3,500, $2,500, and $1,500. We are deeply honored that The Foundation continues to support our Scholars’ Grants program at this level.
The CHNY Scholars’ Grant is merit-based and blind judged; financial need is not considered in making the awards.
Scholars' Grant: $3500
"Royal Kitchens and Ritual Feasts: The Role of Food in Ashanti Court Culture"
Scholars' Grant: $2500
"Seeding the Field: The Impact of Sandra Oliver’s Food History News on Historical Interpretation in Museums"
Scholars' Grant: $1500
"Fresh Oysters and Turtle Soup: Dining Out in Toronto with Beverly Randolph Snow(1830-1860)"
The 2026 CHNY Scholars’ Grant application process will open in spring, 2026. At that time, a new grant application form will be available at the link below.
Applications are judged blindly by a committee and consist of two parts:
In spring, 2026 (date to come) you may click the “Scholars’ Grant Application” button below to begin the process.
Questions? Contact us at:
scholars@culinaryhistoriansny.org
The CHNY Scholars’ Grants support current, ongoing research projects that will culminate in a book, article, paper, film, digital application, ephemera, performance or other scholarly endeavor.
Scholars’ Grants do not cover expenses in connection with publication of completed research, such as illustration permissions, etc.
Applicants for the CHNY Scholars’ Grants must indicate how the Scholars’ Grants will further their projects, such as through defraying research and travel expenses, targeted conference attendance, or other activities related to the applicant’s project.
Scholars’ Grant recipients will present their research to Culinary Historians of New York, either in a live program, an article, or another appropriate forum.
Scholars' Grant: $3,500
"Climate Change in the Kitchen: Gender and Rural Food Systems in the Atlantic Little Ice Age, 1690-1816"
Scholars' Grant: $2,500
"Unpeeling King Shaka’s Bananas; the historical and contemporary significance of Zulu heritage fruit"
Scholars' Grant: $1,500
"Imposed terroir: The shifting status of Tokaji furmint from the Socialist regime to today"
Scholars' Grant: $3,500
"Fourteenth Century Catalan Cookbooks in Dialogue"
Scholars' Grant: $2,500
"Celebrating & documenting the traditional foods of the Amadiba community in Eastern Cape, South Africa"
Scholars' Grant: $1,500
"The ‘Big Apple’ and ‘Apple Isle’: the Tasmanian Apple Invasion of New York in 1911"
Scholars' Grant: $3,500
"Sweetening the Spanish Atlantic: the Forgotten Women of Urban Sugar Trades"
Scholars' Grant: $2,500
"Candy Coated Gambling: La Guardia’s Fight Against Candy Games for Children"
Scholars' Grant: $1,500
"Cheese in a Sack: The Oldest Living Cheese Tradition, Back from Extinction?"
Scholars' Grant: $3,500
"Beets are Too Old Fashioned, Henry Orr, A Black Caterer in Early Federal Washington, D.C."
Scholars' Grant: $2,500
"Tracing Unangax̂ culinary identities: Indigenous food practices and colonial influence in the Aleutian Islands"
Scholars' Grant: $1,500
"Culinary Biographies: Charting South Africa's History Through Cooking, Consumption, and Language"
Scholars' Grant: $3,500
"Heavenly Food and Earthly Fires: Cooking and Spirituality in Colonial Latin America"
Scholars' Grant: $2,500
"Ancient Bread: An Experimental Approach"
Scholars' Grant: $1,500
"Treasure of Appetite: Food in 15th Century Iran as told by Boshaq At’ame"
Scholars' Grant: $3,500
"Feeding the Revolution: Female Black Panther Party Leaders In New York City and the Power of a Hot Breakfast to Inspire Political Change"
Scholars' Grant: $2,500
"Troubling Paradise: Tiki Bars and American Imperial Imaginaries"
Scholars' Grant: $1,500
"Japanese Cuisine and a Mouse’s Tale"
Scholars' Grant: $3,500
"Culinary Culture of the Spanish Roma"
Scholars' Grant: $2,500
"’Old Polish’ Cuisine"
Scholars' Grant: $1,500
"Butlers and Common Room Men: Wine, Class, and Conviviality in 19th Century Oxford Colleges"
Scholars' Grant: $3,500
"Colatura di Alici: How One Town on the Amalfi Coast Preserved Ancient Roman Fish Sauce"
Scholars' Grant: $2,500
"Flight Fuel: Pan Am and the Creation of Inflight Cuisines, 1930-1980"
Scholars' Grant: $1,500
"When Kosher Isn’t Kosher: 100 Years of Murder, Crime, and Fraud"
Scholars' Grant: $3,500
"Recipes for Resistance: Culinary Writings from American Feminists, 1875-2005"
Scholars' Grant: $1,500
"From Kongri to Diri ak Djondjon: Slavery, Creolization, and Culinary Genesis in Saint Domingue and Independent Haiti"
Scholars' Grant: $3,500
"Every up-to-date cheesemaker knows: How starter cultures changed cheese, 1880-1930"
Scholars' Grant: $1,500
"Making Politics Palatable: Food and Partisanship in the Early American Republic."
Scholars' Grant: $3,500
"Honest Poverty versus Foreign Fakery: Popular Histories of Haggis and Culinary Historical Corrective"
Scholars' Grant: $1,500
"Feeding the Gods: Afro-Brazilian Street Foods and dendé"
Scholars' Grant: $3,500
"Eating High on the Hog: African-Americans, Food Reform, and Racial Uplift."
Scholars' Grant: $1,500
"Around the Mediterranean: Foodways and Identity."
Scholars' Grant: $3,500
"In Da Club: Dining and Taste-making in 18th Century London"
Scholars' Grant: $1,500
"Down By the Creek: Cooking with Rebecca Taylor in Early Eastchester’s Guion Tavern"
Scholars' Grant: $1,000
"Research on the carved mahogany cake boards used to raise designs on New Year’s Cakes in early nineteenth century New York."
Scholars' Grant: $1,000
"The Cooking of History: Early Travelogues as Gastronomic Adventure."
Scholars' Grant: $1,000
"The Transmission of Knowledge in Cantonese Cooking Schools."
Scholars' Grant: $1,000
"Cooking the Books: Nationalism, Regionalism, and American Cookbooks, 1865-1917."
Scholars' Grant: $1,000
"Tuskegee Experiment Station / Papers of George Washington Carver"
Scholars' Grant: $1,000
"America Eats Project"
Culinary Historians of New York is a tax-exempt organization under § 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. Please consult your tax advisor for advice on the tax deductibility of contributions.