In this episode, Sarah Kernan speaks with Crystal Dozier [https://www.wichita.edu/profiles/academics/fairmount_college_of_liberal_arts_and_sciences/Anthropology/Dozier-Crystal.php], Associate Professor and anthropological archaeologist at Wichita State University in Wichita, Kansas. She is Chair for the Department of Anthropology, Director of Wichita State’s Archaeology of Food Laboratory [https://www.wichita.edu/academics/fairmount_las/anthropology/archaeology/food-lab.php], and City Archaeologist for the city of Wichita. Crystal describes researching food and foodways using archaeological approaches, including experimental archaeology. Follow the Archaeology of Food Laboratory on Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/foodarchaeology/]and Facebook [https://www.facebook.com/foodarchaeology/].

Show notes, links, and transcript available on The Recipes Project [https://recipes.hypotheses.org/].

Crystal Dozier and the Archaeology of Food

In this episode, Sarah Kernan talks to Victoria Flexner [https://www.victoriaflexner.com/], food historian and founder of the historical dining collective, Edible History [https://www.ediblehistorynyc.com/]. She is the author of A History of the World in 10 Dinners: 2,000 Years, 100 Recipes [https://www.rizzoliusa.com/book/9780847873456/], published by Rizzoli in 2023. Through these projects and her Substack newsletter, Victoria expertly communicates history through food. Follow Victoria Flexner on Substack [https://victoriaflexner.substack.com/]and Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/vflex/]for updates.

Show notes, links, and transcript available on The Recipes Project [https://recipes.hypotheses.org/].

Edible History with Victoria Flexner

In this episode, Sarah Kernan talks to William Tullett [https://www.york.ac.uk/history/people/tullett/], Lecturer in Early Modern History at the University of York and a Lead in the Horizon 2020 funded project Odeuropa [https://odeuropa.eu/]. This European research project was designed to show that the sense of smell and scent, or olfactory, heritage is an important way to connect, promote, and protect Europe’s cultural heritage. This episode was recorded just before the project’s funding period concluded at the end of 2023. Follow William Tullett [https://twitter.com/WillTullett] and Odeuropa [https://twitter.com/odeuropa]on X (formerly Twitter) for updates.

Show notes, links, and transcript available on The Recipes Project [https://recipes.hypotheses.org/].

Odeuropa with William Tullett

In this episode, Sarah Kernan talks to Deborah Krohn [https://www.bgc.bard.edu/people/41/deborah-l-krohn], Associate Professor and Chair of Academic Programs at Bard Graduate Center, about the recent exhibition Staging the Table in Europe 1500-1800 [https://www.bgc.bard.edu/exhibitions/exhibitions/109/n-a] at Bard Graduate Center Gallery. Staging the Table explores early modern dining practices through illustrated manuals featuring instruction and carving and napkin folding. The books are considered alongside early modern material artifacts such as table linens and carving knives, as well as modern napkin folds based on period designs.

Show notes, links, and transcript available on The Recipes Project [https://recipes.hypotheses.org/].

Staging the Table with Deborah Krohn

In this episode, Sarah Kernan speaks to Elaine Harrington, Special Collections Librarian at University College Cork [https://libguides.ucc.ie/library] about Historical Recipes in the Digital Age [https://scalar.usc.edu/works/historical-recipes-in-the-digital-age/index]. This project was created by a partnership between UCC Special Collections and Digital Learning and relied on the contributions of staff and students to shape and analyze the project. Show notes, links, and transcript available on The Recipes Project [https://recipes.hypotheses.org/].

Historical Recipes in the Digital Age with Elaine Harrington

In this episode, I spoke to the principal investigator of Curious Cures in Cambridge Libraries [https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/curious-medieval-medicine], Dr. James Freeman. Curious Cures [https://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/research/research-development/research-projects/curious-cures] is an impressive project to digitize, catalogue, and conserve over 180 medieval manuscripts that contain unedited medical recipes in the University of Cambridge Libraries. [https://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/]

Show notes, links, and transcript available on The Recipes Project [https://recipes.hypotheses.org/].

Talking Curious Cures with James Freeman

Around the Table is a podcast from The Recipes Project [https://recipes.hypotheses.org/], a blog dedicated to the study of recipes. Hosted by Sarah Kernan, Around the Table episodes feature interviews with experts in recipes-related studies to talk about the latest projects, programs, and scholarship of interest to the Recipes Project community.

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