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Food History News - Home
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Sandy Oliver, left, on her way back to the house from the mailbox, began working in food history in 1971 when she founded the fireplace cooking program at Mystic Seaport Museum. She continues researching historic foodways, provides training programs in historic cooking for museum interpreters, speaks before professional and public audiences at museums, historical and culinary organizations. Sandy also consults on recreating historical foodways program for museums and the history of food generally. She is the author of Saltwater Foodways.
This is FHN's island home. A museum curator friend described this house as a living historians dream. The kitchen is straight out of Harriet Beecher Stowe's American Woman's Home, has a combination gas and wood cook stove, a huge pantry, and perfect cellar for storing vegetables all winter. Just to the right, is a large garden where Sandy & husband Jamie grow most of their own vegetables. Not pictured are a couple pigs.
At left are the production staff for FHN, both are "off-island" as we say here. Lynda Clancy (with husband), who first designed FHN seventeen years ago receives FHN via email attachment, lays it up, PDFs it back to Sandy, who makes whatever corrections she sees, then faxes it back. Lynda is the mom of two teenage boys, but manages to write for an on-line and print newspaper, The Village Soup Times.
