
A Taste of History with Joyce White
Offering Food History Services for Museums, Presentations with Tastings, Historic Recipes, Videos, Articles, and More...
Offering Food History Services for Museums, Presentations with Tastings, Historic Recipes, Videos, Articles, and More...
If you love food and history, food history educator and speaker, Joyce White, can provide your organization with unique, informative, and tasty presentations covering many food history topics. Each presentation focuses on how food can shape and be shaped by political, social, economic, and technological forces. All food history lectures are accompanied by a PowerPoint presentation and include tastings of foods/beverages made using historic recipes.
Joyce makes historic food creations using period recipes and equipment such as the faux playing cards made out of flummery, a gelatinous, creamy confection, in the picture above.
CLICK THE RECIPES DROP DOWN MENU FOR HUNDREDS OF HISTORIC RECIPES WITH MODERN RECIPE ADAPTATIONS.
“Joyce White is my “go-to” expert whenever I undertake a foodways project. Her programs are informative and inspiring and her food is delicious!”
Alexandra Deutsch, Director of Museum Engagement
Winterthur Museum, Garden and Library
Joyce has been the food historian at c.1801 Riversdale House Museum in Riverdale Park, MD since 2006 and is the food historian and Trustee at Annapolis' c.1774 Hammond-Harwood House since 2018.
Joyce has also worked with the Maryland Historical Society and several other historic sites such as Homewood Museum, William Paca House & Garden, & Southern Food and Beverage Museum, among others.
Joyce developed her love for food history while working as a museum educator at various historic house museums and sites in New York, Pennsylvania, and Maryland. Joyce writes articles for local publications such as Outlook by the Bay, Chesapeake Family Magazine, marylandroadtrips.com, and assorted blogs. Joyce is also the foodways consult
Joyce developed her love for food history while working as a museum educator at various historic house museums and sites in New York, Pennsylvania, and Maryland. Joyce writes articles for local publications such as Outlook by the Bay, Chesapeake Family Magazine, marylandroadtrips.com, and assorted blogs. Joyce is also the foodways consultant to the c. 1801 Riversdale House Museum in Riverdale Park, MD, was the consultant for the restoration of the 18th century kitchen at Annapolis’s William Paca House, was the guest curator for the Maryland State Exhibit for the Southern Food & Beverage Museum in New Orleans, LA, and is on the Board of Trustees for Annapolis’ c. 1774 Hammond-Harwood House Museum. Joyce has a B.A. from William Smith College, an M.A. in American Studies from Penn State University, and has studied food history with leaders in the field at various historic sites in England and the US, including training at the Barry Callebaut Chocolate Academy in Chicago.
Watch Eatin' the Chesapeake, a Maryland Public Television special about Maryland's iconic food traditions. Joyce is one of the contributors, cooking and presenting the fifth and final feast showcasing historic Maryland food traditions.
The feast is enjoyed at Annapolis' Hammond-Harwood House, and the guests at the feast are Chef John Shi
Watch Eatin' the Chesapeake, a Maryland Public Television special about Maryland's iconic food traditions. Joyce is one of the contributors, cooking and presenting the fifth and final feast showcasing historic Maryland food traditions.
The feast is enjoyed at Annapolis' Hammond-Harwood House, and the guests at the feast are Chef John Shields, Archivist Christ Haley, Baltimore Sun food writer, Rob Kasper, and historian, Willa Banks.
Joyce was a guest on the INSP network TV show, State Plate with Taylor Hicks. Watch Joyce teach Taylor how to make Maryland's iconic Beaten Biscuits.
State Plate Maryland Season 2 Episode 11
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