Introducing our new Twitter-guru!
Amanda, Lisa and I are delighted to welcome Laura Mitchell as our new twitter-guru. Some of you might already know Laura from our Facebook page. From this month onwards, Laura will also be sending out...
View ArticleAmanda Herbert on the IHR’s Reviews in History
As some of you might be aware, one of our editors, Amanda Herbert’s new book Female Alliances: Gender, Identity, and Friendship in Early Modern Britain was published earlier this year by Yale...
View ArticleHappy Birthday to us!
By Elaine Leong This week, The Recipes Project celebrated its second birthday. It seems like yesterday when Lisa Smith approached me to start an academic blog to showcase the wonderful ways in which...
View ArticleThe Torture of Therapeutics in Rome: Galen on Pigeon Dung
By Caroline Petit Although Galen is more than reluctant to use disgusting ingredients and remedies wherever possible (De simpl. med. ac fac., X, 1), his catalogue of simple remedies, his recipes and...
View ArticleFirst Monday Library Chat: Heidelberg University Library
Welcome back to the First Monday Library Chat! Today we travel to Germany with Elaine Leong and feature library of the oldest German university – The Heidelberg University Library. We’re delighted to...
View ArticleFood Will Win the War: A K-12 Educators’ Workshop on Teaching World War I,...
By Dana Schaffer Each year the American Historical Association hosts a workshop for K-12 educators at our annual meeting. When my colleagues and I began planning for this year’s workshop, we knew that...
View ArticleServing Up Food History and Mastering the Art of Public Engagement
By Paula Johnson Over several wintry days in January, at a sprawling hotel in midtown Manhattan, members of the American Historical Association and affiliated societies gamely selected from a virtual...
View ArticleFirst Monday Library Chat: University of Glasgow Library
Welcome back to First Monday Library Chat. This month, we travel to Scotland to chat with Sarah Hepworth, Assistant Librarian of Special Collections at the University of Glasgow Library. As a recipe...
View ArticleOf recipes, collectors, compilers and contributors
By Karin Zimmermann In my recent First Monday Library Chat interview, I described the wonderful collections within the Bibliotheca Palatina at the Heidelberg University Library. As you might recall,...
View ArticleThe Long Boil: Recipes for Ale and Beer in late Seventeenth-century England
By Elaine Leong I read Marieke’s recent post on beer as medicine with great interest. Like many of you out there, I’m a lover of all things ale and beer and was cheered both to learn about medicinal...
View ArticleHow to brew beer with a ‘paile of cold water’
By Elaine Leong The sun is shining brightly outside my window and the temperatures are finally (!) getting warm in Berlin. When this happens, Berliners all head out to the parks, terraces and to their...
View ArticleFirst Monday Library Chat: Bodleian Library at the University of Oxford
Welcome to the August 2015 edition of the First Monday Library Chat. This month, Sarah Wheale, Head of Rare Books at the Bodleian Library, guides us through the rich recipe-related holdings at the...
View ArticleOn Cabbages
By Alison K. Smith In late January 1868, a short article appeared in the Vladimir Provincial News, the local newspaper for a region near Moscow, signed by the provincial medical inspector Aliakrinskii....
View ArticleFirst Monday Library Chat: National Library of Scotland
Welcome to the September 2015 edition of the First Monday Library Chat! This month we travel to Edinburgh where we have the pleasure of talking to Olive Geddes at the National Library of Scotland. The...
View ArticleFirst Monday Library Chat: The Library at the Royal College of Surgeons
Welcome to the final FMLC of 2015! This month, we travel to London and talk to Louise King (Archivist) and Geraldine O’Driscoll (Library & Archives Assistant) at the Royal College of Surgeons....
View ArticleA Recipe for a Gothic Novel
By Katherine Bowers “Terrorist Novel Writing,” an anonymous essay that appeared in The Spirit of the Public Journals for 1797 (Volume 1), closes with the following recipe for creating a gothic novel in...
View ArticleHappy Holidays!
Dear readers far and wide, It’s been a big year here at the Recipes Project. As 2015 draws to a close, it seems a right time to reflect a little on our joint research efforts. 2015 has been a year of...
View ArticleFirst Monday Library Chat: The Brotherton Library at the University of Leeds
Welcome to the March 2016 edition of the First Monday Library Chat. This month we have the great pleasure of traveling to Leeds and talking to Karen Sayers, Assistant Archivist at the University of...
View ArticlePapering the Household: Paper, Recipes and Technologies in Early Modern England
By Elaine Leong Oh how time flies… the days are already getting longer and the market flower stalls have been selling bright yellow daffodils for weeks. 2016, it seems, is almost a quarter over! A few...
View ArticleLooking at Paper and Recipes…
By Elaine Leong Earlier this year, when the daffodils were in full bloom, I shared the fruits of my recent research with the readers of this blog. My current project, ‘Papering the Household: Paper,...
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