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Who is Susan McLellan
Plaisted? |
Susan McLellan Plaisted MS RD CSP LDN, is the Proprietress
of Heart to Hearth Cookery, a food history business based in Bucks
County, Pennsylvania. She offers demonstrations of 17th century
through 19th century Colonial American and European cooking methods,
practices, and receipts (recipes), as well as pre-European-contact
and post-European-contact Native American foodways. Her repertoire
ranges from open pit, through down hearth, raised hearth, and cookstove
cooking. She conducts hands-on workshops and classes for both children
and adults at many historic sites and museums in the Delaware Valley
region and beyond. With her diverse historic foodways experience,
she offers many slide presentations and lectures. The “Hearthside
with Susan McLellan Plaisted” educational DVD series is her
newest venture.
With her research having spanned
the United States, Canada, England and Scotland, she has amassed
an amazing inventory of receipts, techniques, attire, and equipment
to correctly interpret and demonstrate Scottish, Welsh, English,
Dutch, German, Swedish, Colonial, and Native American foodways practices
from many periods of history. She also provides programming in late
18th century English and American ship-board cooking. 
As the director of foodways at Pennsbury Manor, the recreated 1680's
home of Pennsylvania’s founder, William Penn, Susan directs
a skilled team of foodways volunteers in the accurate presentation
of 17th century food, ranging from cheese making to the sugared
delicacies of the banquetting table.
She is a founding member, Past President, and past newsletter editor
of the Historic Foodways Society of the Delaware Valley, a member
of Culinary Historians of New York, Culinary Historians of Washington
DC, and Past Masters in Early American Domestic Arts. In addition,
she is a member of the Food History Committee of both ALHFAM (Association
of Living History Farms and Museums) and IACP (International Association
of Culinary Professionals). She is also a Board Certified Pediatric
Dietitian.
Contact Susan at foodhxsmp@gmail.com
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