Everyone who participates in the Queer Food Conference from April 27-28, 2024 (in-person in Boston and online) will be invited to contribute a recipe to the Cook Out! The Queer Food Conference Community Cookbook. Alongside the recipe, participants will be asked to write a head note explaining what this recipe says about queer food.  When you register for the conference (in-person or virtual version) you will be provided with a conference registration number. You will need to use that number to submit your recipe and headnote. For your recipe to be featured in the printed version of t ..read more

What is queer food? What makes food queer? We are pleased to announce a hybrid conference on queer food and drink to be held at Boston University from April 27- 28, 2024. This conference will bring together scholars, activists, artists, journalists, and food industry professionals. The conference includes a mixture of panels, roundtables, and workshops. Topics include but are not limited to: LGBTQIA2S+ cookbooks, farming and land movements, bars, cafes, drinks, potlucks, food advertising, restaurant management, catering, brewing, food writing, health, care, community building, and more. See ..read more

  Today, November 15th, 2023, the Historical Cooking Project is now TEN YEARS OLD! It's wild that the website is still up and running. We have existed for 1/3rd of the length of time that the public has been able to create websites on the World Wide Web (since April 30, 1993). The website has changed a lot over the years, but I hope you use our 10th birthday to peruse our archives. In these 10 years, we have written over 313 posts! We've seen the rise and fall of various social media platforms. Despite blogs becoming a less popular genre of website, we have continued to post.  We'v ..read more

Have you ever wanted to organize a hybrid event in order to increase accessibility for in-person and virtual attendees? Below is my step by step guide for running a hybrid event for a lecture or workshop with a Q and A period. Please note, this guide is based on my practices of running more than 80 events for Disrupting Disruptions: the Feminist and Accessible Publishing, Communications, and Tech Speaker and Workshop Series. You might make different decisions based on the needs of your community, your budget, and your technology preferences.  Please note that while this guide consists of ..read more

What is queer food? What makes food queer?  The Historical Cooking Project is pleased to share the announcement for the upcoming conference on queer food and drink to be held at Boston University from April 27- 28, 2024. This conference will bring together scholars, activists, artists, journalists, and food industry professionals.The conference website is https://www.queerfoodconference.com The conference will be hybrid. In-person panels will be live-streamed. There will also be some virtual-only panels. Please note that some activities, such as the group meals and field trips ..read more

This blog post will primarily focus on organizing a book tour if you published your book with an academic press. However, this post should also be useful for folks who have published or are publishing a book with a smaller trade press, an indie press, or even a larger trade press that does not have a large marketing and/or publicity department.  Over the past 9 and a half years of The Historical Cooking Project, I've written about my research about the feminist restaurants, cafes, and coffeehouses, run primarily by lesbians and queer women in the United States and Canada beginning in 1972 ..read more

The Historical Cooking Project started 9 YEARS AGO!!! When we first started, we never imagined that 9 years later we would still be posting content.  We have published over 305 posts and are excited to share our work with over 715,000 readers. The HCP has featured the work of some of the biggest names in the fields of food studies and food history. It has been our pleasure to offer new scholarship on the study of food throughout history. As the years have passed, we have branched out. We started off as a bilingual blog documenting the efforts of a group of cooks and historians working th ..read more

 We've been teasing the release for awhile, but Ingredients for Revolution: A History of American Feminist Restaurants, Cafes, and Coffeehouses is now out (in Canada- it'll be more widely available in the United States in December)!  This book has been the 12 year long project of our editor and co-founder Dr. Alex Ketchum. Request a copy from your local bookstore (or ask your library to order it). You can also order it here (and there is a temporary discount code KETCHUM20 for 20% off: https://www.concordia.ca/press/ingredients.html). Asking your local library or university li ..read more

So excited to share with you all that the trailer for Feminist Ingredients for Revolution: A Food and Queer History Podcast is now available!! http://thefeministrestaurantproject.com/p/podcast.html Coming Soon- a new podcast on food, feminist, LGBTQ, and restaurant histories! The podcast is called: Feminist Ingredients for Revolution: A Food and Queer History Podcast! It’s hosted by me, Dr. Alex Ketchum (the editor of The Historical Cooking Project).  I’m a scholar of food, gender, feminist, and tech history and the author of the book Ingredients for Revolution: A History of Ame ..read more

Exciting news about the forthcoming book of our editor Alex Ketchum: Her book is coming out this fall!!! From Concordia University Press: Coinciding with the fiftieth anniversary of the trailblazing restaurant Mother Courage of New York City, Ingredients for Revolution: A History of American Feminist Restaurants, Cafes, and Coffeehouses is the first history of the more than 230 feminist and lesbian-feminist restaurants, cafes, and coffeehouses that existed in the United States from 1972 to the present. As key sites of cultural and political significance, this volume shows the essential ro ..read more