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Cooking with Margaret Conant
June 15, 2023 @ 5:30 pm - 7:00 pm
$10 – $20
Cooking with Margaret Conant
Thursday, June 15 2023 at 5:30pm, Falmouth Museums on the Green
Step back more than one hundred years into Margaret Conant’s kitchen, a room that would have been the heart of the historic Conant house, now owned by the Falmouth Historical Society located on Falmouth’s Village Green. In the 1920s, Margaret and her husband William ran a boarding house on the premises; this was a perfect fit for Margaret because she was a graduate of the legendary Boston Cooking School (famous for Fannie Merritt Farmer who was a fellow classmate). Margaret used her culinary expertise to serve as a chef in dining establishments in Woods Hole and as a personal chef to private families. This presentation includes the history of the founding of the Boston Cooking School, an exploration of many foods Margaret made for her family, and demystifies the components and flow of high-society dinners Margaret would have been expected to produce for her clients.
Food Historian Joyce White will give the program. Joyce is also an independent consultant to historic museums and offers PowerPoint presentations on a variety of topics, writes articles for local publications such as Outlook by the Bay, MarylandRoadTrips.com, Chesapeake Family Magazine, and assorted blogs, and is now creating historically accurate faux food items of use at historic sites. Joyce has a B.A. from William Smith College, an M.A. in American Studies from Penn State University, and has studied food history with leaders in the field at various historic sites in England and the US. Joyce has been featured on television shows several times: State Plate with Taylor Hicks, Eatin’ the Chesapeake for MPT, and CBS News Sunday Morning. For more information, please visit her website at https://atasteofhistory.net/home
LeRoux Kitchen store on Main Street is our promotional partner for this event. They will be giving out a coupon for 20% off one full priced item in their store.
$20 Non-Members/$10 Museum Members
Includes drinks and light appetizers.
