Hearth Cooking Workshop/Demo


This is a hands-on, educational (and tasty) history lesson. Your guests or group will prepare a meal at your hearth from a menu of basic historical recipes or you can select your own menu.   

"A Taste of War"
 

Experience the foods of the North and South in the time of the War of the Rebellion. The program puts an emphasis on local availability of supplies and the stringencies of wartime.  

"Sampling the Seasons"


Explore the pleasures of seasonal and heirloom foodstuffs and authentic recipes to showcase them.

"Pleasure of Your Company"


Partake of a "proper tea" from a time when people knew just how to do such things, or explore the variety of tasty morsels appropriate for evening entertainments. Enjoy wine and cheese in authentic recipes from past times, or indulge in an evening devoted to the many and surprising ways chocolate can appear in a meal.

American Irish:
"Dining on the New Sod"


Irish immigrants to America found a far more abundant array of foods available to them than the diet of the cousins they left behind in the "oulde sod".  Come and learn to prepare some of these delicacies, and the ways they differed from what we think of as "traditional Irish" foods.

Columbian Exchange

Columbus may have been seeking new trade routes or gold, but the foods of the Americas enriched Europe in a far greater way.  Enjoy preparing and dining on a menu of the food gifts that went from America to Europe, and learn more about this "Columbian Exchange" that forever altered the way the world ate.