In the News . . .

• Couple's Wedding Food List Sparks Debate Over Guests Being Left Hungry -- Newsweek (09 August 2022)
  
  
• How the traditional Thanksgiving feast has evolved over centuries -- National Geographic (22 November 2021)
  
  
• What really happened during the first Thanksgiving? -- USA Today [podcast] (21 November 2021)
  
  
• First Thanksgiving Meal -- History (18 November 2021)
  
  
• Thanksgiving 2021 -- History (11 November 2021)
  
  
• This tribe helped the Pilgrims survive for their first Thanksgiving [Wampanoags]. They still regret it 400 years later -- The Washington Post (04 November 2021)
  
  
• 30 Best Thanksgiving Trivia Facts to Impress Your Friends This Holiday -- Good Housekeeping (21 October 2021)
  
  
• The Real History of Thanksgiving -- Reader's Digest (20 October 2021)
  
  
• The Real History Of Thanksgiving Isn't The One You Learned In School—Here's How To Celebrate Smarter -- delish (21 September 2021)
  
  
• The Menu Evolves for a Muslim Holiday Built Around Food -- The New York Times (09 July 2021)
  
  
• How Brexit Ruined Easter for Britain’s Chocolate Makers -- The New York Times (03 April 2021)
  
  
• How early humans' quest for food stoked the flames of evolution -- The Guardian (07 March 2021)
  
  
  • Dunn, Robb, and Monica Sanchez. 2021. Delicious: The Evolution of Flavor and How It Made Us Human . Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
    
    
• The Royal Origins Of A Full English Breakfast (43:35) -- Royal Recipes, Real Royalty, with Foxy Games (16 February 2021)
  
  
• Food History: The Roman Banquet (50:22) -- Let's Cook History (01 October 2020)
  
  
• Food History: The Medieval Feast (53:18 ) -- Let's Cook History (16 October 2020)
  
  
• Let's Cook History: The Medieval Feast (Medieval Documentary) (52:41 ) -- Let's Cook History (18 January 2028)
  
  
• What the Average Medieval Diet Was Like (11:31 ) Weird History -- (19 January 2020)
  
  
• What Did Medieval Peasants Eat? (16:15) -- Tasting History with Max Miller (24 November 2020)
  
  
• The true story behind Thanksgiving is a bloody one, and some people say it's time to cancel the holiday -- Insider (24 November 2020)
  
  
• What Medieval Peasants Really Ate In A Day (12:22 ) -- Grunge (24 November 2020)
  
  
• Why Cherries Dominated Edwardian Feasts: Edward ian Farm EP 11 (58:20) -- Absolute History (11 August 2020)
  
  
• The Daily Life Of A 1900s Farmer: Edwardian Farm EP6 (56:27) -- Absolute History (07 July 2020)
  
  
• The Dangers Of Limestone Dust: Edwardian Farm EP1 (58:20) -- Absolute History (02 June 2020)
  
  
• How Cheese Was Made 100 Years Ago: Edwardian Farm EP10 (58:30) -- Absolute History (04 August 2020)
  
  
• Sea Fishing On An Edwardian Ship: Edwardian Farm EP8 (58:20) -- Absolute History (21 July 2020)
  
  
• How Was Butter Made?: Tudor Monastery EP5 (59:29) -- Absolute History (16 July 2020)
  
  
• The Myths of the Thanksgiving Story and the Lasting Damage They Imbue -- Smithsonian (26 November 2019)
  
  
• The Deadly Practice Of Victorian Food Processing: Hidden Killers (17:01) -- Absolute History (12 September 2019)
  
  
• Food History: Enlightenment Dining (49:31 ) -- Let's Cook History (15 March 2018)
  
  
• Food History: The Renaissance Meal (47:56 ) -- Let's Cook History (08 February 2018)
  
  
• Weirdest Foods From Ancient Roman Cuisine (12:15 ) Weird History -- (09 September 2020)
  
  
• Ancient Roman food - feeding soldiers, gladiators, plebs and priests! (47:26 ) -- (12 October 2016)
  
  
• How to save money on a Christmas feast and also cut food waste -- The Guardian (14 December 2020)
  
  
• Gross, Aaron S., Jody Myers, and Jordan D. Rosenblum (Eds.). 2020. Feasting and Fasting: The History and Ethics of Jewish Food. NY: New York University Press.
  
  
• How to cope with an eating disorder at Christmas -- BBCNews (21 December 2019)
  
  
• A Christmas menu dreamed up by a robot -- BBCfuture (18 December 1018)
  
  
• Medieval food: How healthy was it? (17:11 ) -- Modern History TV( (16 May 2018)
  
  
• Everything You Learned About Thanksgiving Is Wrong -- The New York Times (21 November 2017)
  
  
• Mario Batali (Yes, in His Orange Crocs) to Prepare Obamas’ Last State Dinner -- The New York Times (16 October 2017)
  
  
• Yotam Ottolenghi: Eat Your Sugar -- TheNewYorkTimes (07 February 2017)
  
  
• What's a Vomitorium? -- LiveScience (26 August 2016)
  
  
• Secrets of the world's oldest funeral feast -- BBCearth (24 May 2016)
  
  
• Last Supper Menu: Stew, Lamb, Wine...More -- Discovery News (24 March 2016)
  
  
• Why Did We Invent Pottery? -- ScienceDaily (21 March 2016)
  
  
• Party Like It's 2500 B.C.: Feasts at Stonehenge Were Epic Barbecues -- NPR (09 December 2015)
  
  
• The First Inter-Cultural ‘Party’ in Europe? -- Past Horizons (06 December 2015)
  
  
• Expert Roundtable: The Psychological Benefits of Our Thanksgiving Rituals -- Conversation (24 November 2015)
  
  
• Early Neolithic Feasting Rituals -- Past Horizons (28 October 2015)
  
  
• Stonehenge builders had barbecue feasts at nearby party centre -- New Scientist (14 October 2015)
  
  
• Feasts and food choices: Culinary habits of the Stonehenge builders -- ScienceDaily (13 October 2015)
  
  
• Archaeologists Recreate 4,000-Year-Old Hittite Feast to Better Understand Their History -- Smithsonian (17 September 2015)
  
  
• Iron-Age Britons Engaged in Mysterious Pig Trotter Festivals -- New Scientist (10 August 2015)
  
  
• Prehistoric Pig Bones Show Selective Feasting Patterns -- Past Horizons (18 June 2015)
  
  
• “Globally unparalleled” evidence of prehistoric Welsh feasting practices unearthed by archaeologists -- Cardiff University (11 June 2015)
  
  
• The Pagan Roots Of Easter -- Science 2.0 (02 April 2015)
  
  
• Ancient Romans Ate Meals Most Americans Would Recognize -- Science 2.0 (06 February 2015)
  
  
• How to Recreate a Sloppy Ancient Greek Drinking Game -- LiveScience (14 January 2015)
  
  
• The 10 greatest feasts in art -- Jason Farago, BBC (25 December 2014)
  
  
• Viking Feasting Hall Identified by Ground Penetrating Radar -- Past Horizons (08 December 2014)
  
  
• Beer, beef and Politics: Findings at Viking Archaeological Site Show Power Trumping Practicality -- ScienceDaily (03 December 2014)
  
  
• Heap of Cattle Bones May Mark Ancient Feasts -- Discovery News (09 January 2013)
  
  
• Beer and Bling in Iron Age Europe -- Past Horizons (21 March 2012)
  
  
• Food symbolism: Why do we give food meaning? -- BBCNews (23 January 2012)
  
  
• Beer Lubricated the Rise of Civilization, Study Suggests -- LiveScience (05 November 2010)

• Albala, Ken. The Banquet: Dining in the Great Courts of Late Renaissance Europe. The University of Illinois, 2007.

• Ancient Sorcerer's "Wake" Was First Feast for the Dead? -- National Geographic News (30 August 2010)

• Baker, James W., and Peter J. Gomes. Thanksgiving: The Biography of an American Holiday. New Hampshire, 2009.

• Blow out! History's 10 greatest banquets -- The Independent (10 February 2007)

• Bray, Tamara L. The Archaeology and Politics of Food and Feasting in Early States and Empires. Springer, 2003.

• "The Coronation Ox," Ch. 6 of Bringéus, Nils-Arvid. Man, Food and Milieu: A Swedish Approach to Food Ethnology. Tuckwell, 2001.
  
  
• Dietler, Michael and Brian Hayden (Eds.). Feasts: Archaeological and Ethnographic Pespectives on Food, Politics, and Power. University Alabama Press, 2010.
  
  
• First Clear Evidence of Organized Feasting by Early Humans -- ScienceDaily (30 August 2010)
  
  
• Fraser, Evan D.G., and Andrew Rimas. Empires of Food: Feast, Famine, and the Rise and Fall of Civilizations. NY: Free Press, 2010.
  
  
• Lia, Kari (Producer), & Lia, K. (Director). (2009). Mexico. [Video/DVD] BBC Worldwide. Retrieved from https://video-alexanderstreet-com.libpdb.d.umn.edu:2443/watch/mexico-2
  
  Directed by Kari Lia, Narrated by Stefan Gates, Produced by Kari Lia, In Feasts, 3 (London, England: BBC Worldwide, 2009) 52 minutes
  
  Stefan goes on a wild emotional and spiritual rollercoaster ride, starting with a teenage girl’s bizarre coming-of-age ceremony and ending with the Day of the Dead, a cacophonous cross-cultural festival of the senses during which Mexicans truly believe that their loved ones come back from the dead for three days every year to spend the day with them. In Oaxaca, he is dressed up as a dead woman and made to dance like a lunatic at the head of a procession as it makes its way through town. He is turned into an emotional wreck at the moment the dead return, bursting into tears as Dias de los Muertos makes him experience grief and loss for the first time. But then in the next breath, the family Stefan is living with teach him to celebrate and laugh at death. They turn his views on their head, allowing him to embrace and conquer his fear of death through an extraordinary sensual onslaught of food, flowers, songs and smells. The sight of the graveyards overflowing with flowers and mescal-drinking revellers is a truly life-changing experience.
  
  
• Naccarato, Peter, and Kathleen LeBesco. Culinary Capital. Bloomsbury/Berg, 2012.
  
  
• O'Connor, Kaori. The Never-Ending Feast: The Archaeology and Anthropology of Feasting. Bloomsbury/Berg, 2013.
  
  
• Sutton, David E. Remembrance of Repasts: An Anthropology of Food and Memory. Bloomsbury/Berg, 2001.
  
  
• Toussaint-Samat, Maguelonne. A History of Food. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons/Blackwell 2009.
  
  
• Wiessner, Polly, and Wulf Schiefenhövel, (Eds.). Food and the Status Quest: An Interdisciplinary Perspective. Anthropology of Food & Nutrition Series. NY: Berghahn, 1996.