Thank you for visiting the website of the Culinary Historians of Northern California. The organization is currently on hiatus, but you can send emails to: NorcalCH@gmail.com.
Overview: The Culinary Historians of Northern California is a non-profit educational organization focused on the role of food and drink in human history. The purpose of this group is to encourage informal exchanges and conversations among people living in Northern California who work on and/or like to talk about culinary history.
Past Events
2020
9 December 2020
Zoom Platform
Rena Goff on "How We Made Pasta Noodles: Kneading 200 Years of Recipes."
7 November 2020
Zoom Platform
Jennifer Pagano on "Creating Sunset Magazine's Cooking Department: A Study of Men, Women, and Cooking in the 1930s."
16 October 2020
Membership survey for the incoming Leadership Team
17 September 2020
Zoom Platform
Carole Bumpus, author of Searching for Family and Traditions at the French Table, vol. 1 (2019) and vol. 2 (2020).
20 August 2020
Zoom Platform
Rafia Zafar (Washington Univ.), author of Recipes for Respect: African American Meals and Meaning (2019).
22 July 2020
Zoom Platform
Richard Foss, food historian and board member of the Culinary Historians of Southern California, spoke about "The Strangest Cooking Methods in the World." You can find his upcoming lectures listed at: https://richardfoss.com/lectures-signings-and-classes/.
25 June 2020
Zoom Platform
John Ota, author of The Kitchen (2020) and member of the Culinary Historians of Canada.
14 May 2020
Zoom Platform
Matthew Booker, professor of history at North Carolina State Univ., the author of Down by the Bay: San Francisco's History Between the Tides, and co-editor of Food Fights: How History Matters to Contemporary Food Debates.
19 April 2020
Zoom Platform
Host: Jewish Community Library & Jewish LearningWorks
Speaker: Rachel B. Gross (SFSU) speaking on "Jews, Schmaltz, and Crisco"
March 2020 - Pandemic disruption
29 February 2020
Omnivore Books
Speaker: Darra Goldstein, Professor of Russian (Emerita) at Williams College, editor-in-chief of CURED Magazine, and author of many books, including Beyond the North Wind: Russia in Recipes and Lore (2020).
16 January 2020
Omnivore Books
Speaker: Peter Hertzmann, author of 50 Ways to Cook a Carrot (2020) and Knife Skills Illustrated: A User's Manual (2007).
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