What can you learn from a cookbook (other than how to cook)?’
Event Type: Branch
Takes Place: 13th May 2025
Time: 7.30pm
Venue: Ealing Green Church, W5 5QT
Description: Talk by Professor Rebecca Earle on the value of cookbooks as historical sources. Participants are encouraged to investigate the family histories embedded in the cookery books and notebooks containing their grandmother’s recipes that clutter their own bookshelves. Cookery books, in short, are a remarkable and powerful window into the past.
How to book: Booking is not required but those registering in advance on Eventbrite should be eligible to receive a recording of the talk after the event (subject to lecturer's permission)
Price: HA members and students free. Visitors £5
Tel: 020 8579 2174
Email: philipgwoods@outlook.com
Website: https://ealinghistory.org.uk/
Organiser: Dr Philip Woods. Secretary
Lecturer: Professor Rebecca Earle, University of Warwick
Region: London
Branch: Ealing