Hey folks going (or not going) to #MLA2026 or #AHA2026! You can buy my book for 40% off through the UPenn Press virtual bookstore. Appreciate the historians and Lit folk already using it in their classrooms! #FoodHist #Blackademia #AcademicSky #FeministSky site.pennpress.org/mla-2026/
January 8, 2026 at 7:52 PM
Hey folks going (or not going) to #MLA2026 or #AHA2026! You can buy my book for 40% off through the UPenn Press virtual bookstore. Appreciate the historians and Lit folk already using it in their classrooms! #FoodHist #Blackademia #AcademicSky #FeministSky site.pennpress.org/mla-2026/
LOOK!
My conference paper and my location are in perfect synch!
#BSECS2026 #foodhist #skystorians #18thC 🗃️
My conference paper and my location are in perfect synch!
#BSECS2026 #foodhist #skystorians #18thC 🗃️
January 8, 2026 at 7:30 AM
LOOK!
My conference paper and my location are in perfect synch!
#BSECS2026 #foodhist #skystorians #18thC 🗃️
My conference paper and my location are in perfect synch!
#BSECS2026 #foodhist #skystorians #18thC 🗃️
Update for transparency purposes: redid search for John Young in Newspapers.com during the contested years of 1960-1964, found an additional DBA he took out in 1961 with 2 partners but no subsequent ventures by that name. Also added 2 birth notice columns that provided his occupation.
#FoodHist
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December 4, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Update for transparency purposes: redid search for John Young in Newspapers.com during the contested years of 1960-1964, found an additional DBA he took out in 1961 with 2 partners but no subsequent ventures by that name. Also added 2 birth notice columns that provided his occupation.
#FoodHist
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#FoodHist
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My #DigitalFriday find this week is a provocation & starting point for #FoodHist (also wondering if it cld be used as a model project for teaching?)(i miss teaching history 😭)
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November 28, 2025 at 8:24 AM
My #DigitalFriday find this week is a provocation & starting point for #FoodHist (also wondering if it cld be used as a model project for teaching?)(i miss teaching history 😭)
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I offered my thoughts on American Thanksgiving, pumpkins, and settler colonialism in this examination of the problematic PSL phenomenon from BBC Travel: www.bbc.com/travel/artic... #foodhist
The divisive US autumnal drink with a shady past
The aroma of cinnamon and nutmeg smells like sweet autumn nostalgia in the US, but the real story behind pumpkin spice is far spicier.
www.bbc.com
November 17, 2025 at 7:59 PM
I offered my thoughts on American Thanksgiving, pumpkins, and settler colonialism in this examination of the problematic PSL phenomenon from BBC Travel: www.bbc.com/travel/artic... #foodhist
today's niche #foodhist query - can anyone recommend a book/chapter/article on the history of sugar that covers PRE-COLONIAL use, e.g. in country of origin Papuan use etc. (We don't have a copy of Abbot's Bittersweet in the uni library & I can't figure out if she covers it eno' to warrant an ILL) 🗃️
November 7, 2025 at 9:38 AM
today's niche #foodhist query - can anyone recommend a book/chapter/article on the history of sugar that covers PRE-COLONIAL use, e.g. in country of origin Papuan use etc. (We don't have a copy of Abbot's Bittersweet in the uni library & I can't figure out if she covers it eno' to warrant an ILL) 🗃️
🗃️looking for well recieved POPULAR #Foodhist and #Envhist books that were (crucially) written by people trained as historians. I'm not struggling to find work by people who are journalists, scientists or in the food industry, but historians seem scarcer on the shelves - who am I missing?
November 5, 2025 at 9:19 AM
Check out MengRan Xu's review of Jia-Chen Fu, Michelle Tien King, & Jakob A. Klein's "Modern Chinese Foodways," published in 2025 by @mitpress.bsky.social; review now available @hnetreviews.bsky.social #envhist #envhum #aghist #foodhist
www.h-net.org/reviews/show...
www.h-net.org/reviews/show...
www.h-net.org
November 4, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Check out MengRan Xu's review of Jia-Chen Fu, Michelle Tien King, & Jakob A. Klein's "Modern Chinese Foodways," published in 2025 by @mitpress.bsky.social; review now available @hnetreviews.bsky.social #envhist #envhum #aghist #foodhist
www.h-net.org/reviews/show...
www.h-net.org/reviews/show...
Some very happy news today: Anton Runesson and I have recieved four years funding from @vetenskapsradet.bsky.social for the project ”Nourishing the Body Politic: Eating, the Edible, and Authority in Sweden, 1650−1750”!! Very excited to delve into #earlymodern #foodhist
November 3, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Some very happy news today: Anton Runesson and I have recieved four years funding from @vetenskapsradet.bsky.social for the project ”Nourishing the Body Politic: Eating, the Edible, and Authority in Sweden, 1650−1750”!! Very excited to delve into #earlymodern #foodhist
Thanks for the shoutout, @uofglibrary.bsky.social! Had so much fun curating this exhibit #foodhist
If you're on campus, be sure to stop by the exhibit located on the first floor of the library titled, "Kitchens of the Future: Food, Technology, and Convenience Culture in Cold War Canada." On display until Jan. 2026.
Learn more: www.lib.uoguelph.ca/news/kitchen....
#UofG @rebeccabeau.bsky.social
Learn more: www.lib.uoguelph.ca/news/kitchen....
#UofG @rebeccabeau.bsky.social
October 22, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Thanks for the shoutout, @uofglibrary.bsky.social! Had so much fun curating this exhibit #foodhist
Oh, man. This is yet another terrible thing the admin is doing. It will further erode public health but also those of us who study eating habits and dietary change and food systems. #foodhist
They just killed NHANES.
Every US public health student learns about this study.
It’s given us all sorts of important knowledge about the health of Americans and they just ended it.
Every US public health student learns about this study.
It’s given us all sorts of important knowledge about the health of Americans and they just ended it.
Ugh... This study has existed for decades, providing valuable health data for all sorts of topics and publications. This is just more awful news. 🛟😷 Sociology medsky
October 15, 2025 at 7:12 AM
Oh, man. This is yet another terrible thing the admin is doing. It will further erode public health but also those of us who study eating habits and dietary change and food systems. #foodhist
Check out Danielle Chu's review of Rowan Lubbock's "Cultivating Socialism: Venezuela, Alba, and the Politics of Food
Sovereignty," published in 2024 by @ugapress.bsky.social; review now available @hnetreviews.bsky.social #envhist #envhum #foodhist #aghist
www.h-net.org/reviews/show...
Sovereignty," published in 2024 by @ugapress.bsky.social; review now available @hnetreviews.bsky.social #envhist #envhum #foodhist #aghist
www.h-net.org/reviews/show...
www.h-net.org
October 6, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Check out Danielle Chu's review of Rowan Lubbock's "Cultivating Socialism: Venezuela, Alba, and the Politics of Food
Sovereignty," published in 2024 by @ugapress.bsky.social; review now available @hnetreviews.bsky.social #envhist #envhum #foodhist #aghist
www.h-net.org/reviews/show...
Sovereignty," published in 2024 by @ugapress.bsky.social; review now available @hnetreviews.bsky.social #envhist #envhum #foodhist #aghist
www.h-net.org/reviews/show...
#foodhist friends: I have a student working on a capstone about food culture in Florence. Student has a great start on secondary sources and good collection of images to use as primary. Any other thoughts on other primary sources to explore?
October 6, 2025 at 3:05 PM
#foodhist friends: I have a student working on a capstone about food culture in Florence. Student has a great start on secondary sources and good collection of images to use as primary. Any other thoughts on other primary sources to explore?
Great day drawing together #aghist #foodhist #histstm #scipol #enhis. Sessions on supermarkets, farmers (featuring @renewbiodiversity.bsky.social partners @britishlibrary.bsky.social), pesticides..Thankyou @sabineclarke.bsky.social for invite to talk about MAFF's professional experts (& coypu)!.
September 5, 2025 at 11:18 AM
Great day drawing together #aghist #foodhist #histstm #scipol #enhis. Sessions on supermarkets, farmers (featuring @renewbiodiversity.bsky.social partners @britishlibrary.bsky.social), pesticides..Thankyou @sabineclarke.bsky.social for invite to talk about MAFF's professional experts (& coypu)!.
Can’t believe it’s been 4 weeks already- international friends you can now hear my #FoodHist episode! (Exploration and sports history episodes are in the back catalogue) 🗃️
Our very funny YOU’RE DEAD TO ME episode about the Kellogg Brothers is now available worldwide on all apps!
With the hilarious Ed Byrne and expert historian @hpsvanessa.bsky.social
With the hilarious Ed Byrne and expert historian @hpsvanessa.bsky.social
August 22, 2025 at 9:09 AM
Can’t believe it’s been 4 weeks already- international friends you can now hear my #FoodHist episode! (Exploration and sports history episodes are in the back catalogue) 🗃️
Caffeine and biscuits - the ONLY way to get through the final stages of book footnotes (ESPECIALLY when four authors have worked on those footnotes at various points in the writing process!) #thekingsdinner #amwriting #18thC #foodhist #skystorians
August 19, 2025 at 11:18 AM
Caffeine and biscuits - the ONLY way to get through the final stages of book footnotes (ESPECIALLY when four authors have worked on those footnotes at various points in the writing process!) #thekingsdinner #amwriting #18thC #foodhist #skystorians
I see the same people who get all fatphobic about youth obesity levels are now frothing about the "decline of the British pudding". Increasingly thinking that #FoodHist is vital, especially the sort that properly interrogate nationalism, "authenticity", the artificiality of food categories etc.
August 15, 2025 at 7:03 AM
I see the same people who get all fatphobic about youth obesity levels are now frothing about the "decline of the British pudding". Increasingly thinking that #FoodHist is vital, especially the sort that properly interrogate nationalism, "authenticity", the artificiality of food categories etc.
Pepsi has more sugar than Coke and is less complex. The reason blind tasting pick Pepsi is that is sweeter but the public drinks more Coke is because the palate doesn't become fatigued as quickly. There is a point at which too sweet is just that. #foodhist #histsci
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/01/d...
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/01/d...
Does Soda Made Without High-Fructose Corn Syrup Actually Taste Better? We Did a Taste Test.
www.nytimes.com
August 5, 2025 at 9:20 AM
Pepsi has more sugar than Coke and is less complex. The reason blind tasting pick Pepsi is that is sweeter but the public drinks more Coke is because the palate doesn't become fatigued as quickly. There is a point at which too sweet is just that. #foodhist #histsci
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/01/d...
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/01/d...
Cold War food culture is the topic of a new exhibit at @uofglibrary.bsky.social by @rebeccabeau.bsky.social (History) and Ashley McBrayne (ASC). On Wednesday, mayor @camguthrie.bsky.social stopped by to check it out, having loaned a blender and mixmaster from his own collection.
#foodhist #cdnhist
#foodhist #cdnhist
July 24, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Cold War food culture is the topic of a new exhibit at @uofglibrary.bsky.social by @rebeccabeau.bsky.social (History) and Ashley McBrayne (ASC). On Wednesday, mayor @camguthrie.bsky.social stopped by to check it out, having loaned a blender and mixmaster from his own collection.
#foodhist #cdnhist
#foodhist #cdnhist
Charming woodcuts throughout 1671 edition of Robert May's 'The Accomplisht Cook, or the Art and Mystery of Cookery'.
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July 16, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Charming woodcuts throughout 1671 edition of Robert May's 'The Accomplisht Cook, or the Art and Mystery of Cookery'.
#books #antiquarian #17thcentury #cookery #food #woodcut #woodcutwednesday #foodhist #recipes #history #woodcuts #bookauction bit.ly/3IpQghs
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I'd use appropriation not faux as in false, but perhaps that is more of a translation issue. Authentic/Inauthentic is very controversial in #foodhist especially given the work of anthropologists who interrogated the idea. Much like we can't recreate "historical" foods as ingredients have changed 1/
July 16, 2025 at 9:38 AM
I'd use appropriation not faux as in false, but perhaps that is more of a translation issue. Authentic/Inauthentic is very controversial in #foodhist especially given the work of anthropologists who interrogated the idea. Much like we can't recreate "historical" foods as ingredients have changed 1/
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July 16, 2025 at 8:51 AM
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