VIRTUAL: A History of Cookbooks and Recipes

We’ll trace the evolution of cookbooks over 1,000 years from the first written recipes on cuneiform tablets, to visceral delights of eating in the ancient Muslim world, to the legacy of Black cookbook writers in America.

About the speaker:

Sarah Lohman is a culinary historian and the author of the bestselling book Eight Flavors: The Untold Story of American Cuisine. She focuses on the history of food as a way to access the stories of diverse Americans. Her work has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, and NPR. She has presented across the country, from the Smithsonian Museum of American History in Washington, DC to The Culinary Historians of Southern California. Her current project, Endangered Eating: Exploring America’s Vanishing Cuisine will be released with W.W. Norton & Co. in 2023.

Please register HERE. Sponsored by Chelmsford Public Library