Previous Speakers
2001-2002

February 5: Patrick Maurer
        Senior Staff Engineer, Broadband Networks Research Laboratory, Motorola Labs
        Presentation: "Home Network Configuration and Administration"

January 22: Curt Avallone
        Vice President of Marketing and New Technology, Royal Ahold Stop & Shop
        Presentation: "Technology in the Supermarket"

December 11: Barbara Wheaton
       Culinary Historian; Honorary Curator of Culinary Collection, Schlesinger Library at Radcliffe College
        Presentation: "Diderot / d'Alembert Encyclopedia"

December 4: Ted Selker

November 27: Barbara Wheaton
        Culinary Historian; Honorary Curator of Culinary Collection, Schlesinger Library at Radcliffe College
        Presentation: "America's First Original Cookbook"
       Meeting Notes

November 20: Barbara Wheaton
        Culinary Historian; Honorary Curator of Culinary Collection, Schlesinger Library at Radcliffe College
        Presentation: "Feasting"
       Meeting Notes

November 13: Lora Brody
        Author, "The Kitchen Survival Guide" and "Bread Machine Baking -Perfect Every Time"
       Meeting Notes

November 6: Adam Ried & Amy Klee
        Adam Ried, Senior Writer, Cook's Illustrated
        Amy Klee, Art Director, Cook's Illustrated
       Meeting Notes

October 30: Barbara Wheaton
        Culinary Historian; Honorary Curator of Culinary Collection, Schlesinger Library at Radcliffe College
        Presentation: "Manuscripts, Receipts, and Relationships"
       Meeting Notes

October 23: Barbara Wheaton
        Culinary Historian; Honorary Curator of Culinary Collection, Schlesinger Library at Radcliffe College
        Presentation: "The History of the Spud"

October 9: Counter Intelligence Fall Sponsor Meeting

October 2: Patrick Boisjot
        Professional chef and consultant, Director of The Institute of Gastronomy & Culinary Arts, University of New Haven
        Presentation: "Analysis of the Restaurant Business: a Three Dimensional Model"

September 25: Barbara Wheaton
        Culinary Historian; Honorary Curator of Culinary Collection, Schlesinger Library at Radcliffe College
        Presentation: "How Printing, Computing, and the Internet have Changed the Way we Cook"

September 18: A Selection of Past Future Kitchens
        Including video footage from "The Glass-Bottom Boat", "Design for Dreaming", "A Frigidaire Finale"

September 11: Introductory Luncheon: Ted Selker, Barbara Wheaton, Joseph Kaye

September 6: Dinner hosted by Barbara Wheaton
        Culinary Historian; Honorary Curator of Culinary Collection, Schlesinger Library at Radcliffe College

Afternoon Tea Series, Summer 2001

August 28: Jeri Quinzio

Former Chair, Culinary Historians of Boston Contributor to the Radcliffe Culinary Times
Presentation: "The History of Ice Cream"

American Food Historian; Editor,, Food Heritage Press; foodbooks.com
Chart (PDF) from presentation, "Changes in food and dietary practices during three periods of US history"

Author of the forthcoming, "Apples of Gold in Settings of Silver: Stories of Dinner as a Work of Art" (to be published Fall 2002)

July 10: Darra Goldstein

Professor of Russian at Williams College, Founder/Editor of Gastronomica: The Journal of Food and Culture

Assistant Professor of French, University of Oklahoma
Presentation, "Good Taste(s)" Abstract (PDF)

Publisher and Editor of Food History News
Author of Saltwater Foodways: New Englanders and Their Food, At Sea and Ashore, in the 19th Century

June 12: Sandra Fairbank

Architect and Interior Designer
Presentation: "The Kitchen of the Future is Not in Your House"

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