Despite my enthusiasm for history and snacking, it’s taken me some time on the conference-going circuit to figure out how to use this knowledge to enjoy eating and drinking at conferences. On one introverted conference night, I was congratulating myself in my hotel room for acquiring Chinese takeout and a bottle of wine (for my … More Eating Well at #AHA19
How Everything Drop Biscuits made me think about historical cookbooks … More Deb Perelman’s Smitten Kitchen vs. Amelia Simmons’s American Cookery
With Rhubarb Raspberry Crisp Lately, I’ve been into combining two or more recipes as the basis for something I want to eat. I like to borrow technique from some places, and flavor profiles from others. This method has become the preferred approach recently, after a baking disaster. You know how it goes. You think “I … More Rhubarb, Recipes, and Writing
Well, readers, I wasn’t sure I’d be using the blogging feature of this site all that much, but two recent events have energized me to spend a few minutes putting together a blog post here. First, historians at the Berkshire Conference of Women’s Historians launched a new media and curriculum tool to promote the work … More This Woman Also Knows History: Why you Should Get Twitter Verified
Rachel B. Herrmann 