Heart to Hearth Cookery

Barbara Ketcham Wheaton and Myself

  This past Thursday, February 9th, 2012, I had the honor of participating in an abbreviated version of Barbara Ketcham Wheaton’s Reading Historic Cookbook’s:  A Structured Approach.  Barbara’s typical seminar on this topic is 5 days and 16 participants in Thursday’s workshop had a taste of reading and studying original receipt (recipe) books under Barbara’s experienced guidance for 5 1/2 hours.  The time flew as four groups read sections of receipt books, examined them for specific criteria, and discussed our findings.  Twelve receipt books were examined that afternoon ranging from the 17th to 19th century.

Barbara has been researching culinary history for 50 years and is honorary curator of the culinary collection in the Schlesinger Library at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University.

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My next hearth cooking class is March 17, 2012 at Bolton Mansion.