Sarah Lohman

Lohman can offer a perspective and many topics related to global food history. Lohman is a culinary historian and the author of the bestselling books "Endangered Eating: America’s Vanishing Foods, Eight Flavors: The Untold Story of American Cuisine," and the upcoming book "Ice Cream Land". She focuses on the history of food as a way to access diverse histories.

Activism through Cookbooks: Food has often been a way for activist communities to fundraise, connect, and spread the word about their cause. We'll look at the origins of the link between food and activism with the abolitionist food writers of the Civil War. We'll unpack suffrage cookbooks from the turn of the 20th century and the earliest LGBTQ cooking pamphlets from the 1960s. Finally, we'll analyze the People's Cookbook of Philadelphia, a community of organizers depicted through recipes, and cookbooks from the incarcerated.

A History of Cookbooks and Recipes: We’ll trace the evolution of cookbooks over 1,000 years from the first written recipes on cuneiform tablets, to visceral delights of eating in the ancient Muslim world, to the legacy of Black cookbook writers in America.

Eating Our Emotions: A Culinary History of Funeral Food: Although mourning traditions have changed over time, and vary from place to place, what they have in common is food and drink. We’ll look at the culinary traditions surrounding funerals throughout American history, from Midas’s tomb to funeral cakes, and Mormon funeral potatoes.