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Civil War Food History Lecture

Title:Civil War Food History Lecture
Date & Time:Thu Jan 12, 2017 7:30 PM - 9:00 PM
Location:Lyceum
201 S. Washington St.
Event Details:Recipes from the Civil War can tell us a lot about the different ways Northerners and Southerners experienced the war. While only glimpses of the war appear in northern cookbooks, southern recipes reflected the war at every step. The war utterly transformed eating and cooking in the South, as the population searched with growing desperation for ways to approximate favorite foods with substitute ingredients and to ward off hunger. In fact, nostalgia for antebellum food was so strong that it helped to create something we still call “southern cuisine” – even though, surprisingly, the foods northerners were eating at the time were not very different.
Helen Zoe Veit is associate professor of history at Michigan State University, focusing on the history of food. Her first book, Modern Food, Moral Food: Self-Control, Science, and the Rise of Modern American Eating in the Early Twentieth Century explored food and nutrition in the Progressive Era. On January 12, 2017, she presents “The Hidden World of Food in the Civil War,” followed by a book-signing for two other published works Food in the Civil War Era: The North, and Food in the Civil War Era: The South. Veit is director of the What America Ate project, funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities, a three-year initiative started in 2014 to create a digital archive and interactive website on food during the Great Depression.
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Fees:$10 per person
Audience:Anyone may attend
Tags:Lyceum, Museums, Old & Historic Alexandria


For event details visit http://www.alexandriava.gov/c/15275
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