The Thousand Dollar Dinner at Osteria Philly - April 5, 2016Photos by Alessandra Nicole
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TWO FASCINATING NEW HISTORICAL BOOKS ON THE EVOLVING USA RESTAURANT SCENE Social history and food culture offer up a fascinating parallel in the evolution of the US dining scene in two entertaining new books through the eyes of academic professionals with a trained palate. Charting the US's rise to culinary heights are food historians Paul Freedman, with 10 well known US restaurants, while stepping back in time, Becky Libourel Diamond spills the details on each course of the 'Thousand dollar dinner,' which let the US take on European kitchens for the first time. (more...) 
"The Thousand Dollar Dinner": The Original Culinary Smackdown
Jon Foro on December 29, 2015 Omnivoracious: The Amazon Book Review Between programs like Top Chef, Iron Chef, MasterChef, and Throwdown! with Bobby Flay, it's hard to swing a jambon at your television without hitting some kind of cooking competition. But the roots of this phenomenon are much deeper than you might think. In The Thousand Dollar Dinner: America's First Great Cookery Challenge, Becky Libourel Diamond recreates the night in 1851--menu and all--when a group of wealthy Philadelphians commissioned chef James Parkinson to outdo their New York counterparts in a contest of epic culinary proportions, resulting in a 17-course meal including braised pigeon, turtle steaks, spring lamb, and rare wines and liquors. Eat your heart out, Guy Fieri. With a side of Beef Tongues. (more...) The Thousand Dollar Dinner: America's First Great Cookery Challenge
by Becky Libourel Diamond Reviewed by Jana Siciliano on January 15, 2016 When I first heard the title of this book, I thought it was something of a joke. In this day and age of golden toilets and private planes at the whim of top CEOs, it would seem almost barbaric to imagine one of those captains of industry having a dinner that would cost merely $1,000. More is spent on liquor at a typical high-style event, and even the most average Joe can save up and enjoy a special chef’s menu at the nation’s hottest restaurants. Good food is still expensive and can be made more so by the way it is disseminated to the general public. However, THE THOUSAND DOLLAR DINNER is not about our disgustingly crass and money-crazy world. It harkens back to the origins of such living --- to a time when robber barons and other waistcoated fat men decided that they would take advantage of all the riches they could get their hands on and show the world just how remarkable they were, at least in the ways they would imbibe and ingest the things that most tenement-dwelling immigrants were not enjoying in their lesser realm. (more...) An epic epicurean challenge, in 1851 Updated: JANUARY 14, 2016 — 3:01 AM EST by Drew Lazor, For The Inquirer. These days, if you want to impress your food-obsessed friends from New York with the culinary prowess of Philadelphia, you'd have no trouble dropping five figures on a ridiculously elaborate dinner at any one of this city's fine restaurants. But you might be surprised to hear that same boast was made by a group of well-to-do food enthusiasts from Philadelphia in 1851, and the bill from the resulting meal was in the same ballpark: between $1,000 and $1,500 (or between $29,000 and $47,000 today, depending on how inflation is calculated). This long-forgotten meal is deliciously dissected in The Thousand Dollar Dinner: America's First Great Culinary Challenge (Westholme Publishing), by local author Becky Libourel Diamond. (more...) Top Chef in the 19th Century The rehearsal dinner for the Gilded Age may mark the last time that Philly outperformed Manhattan—culinarily or otherwise. By ARAM BAKSHIAN JR. The Wall Street Journal Nov. 29, 2015 4:46 p.m. ET On a pleasant April evening in 1851, 30 wealthy, socially prominent New Yorkers and Philadelphians descended on James Parkinson’s Philadelphia restaurant at 38 Eighth Street, near Chestnut Street in one of the city’s more fashionable neighborhoods. They didn’t know it, but they were about to enjoy what would prove to be a rehearsal dinner for the Gilded Age. If they weren’t overweight when they walked in, they probably would be by the time they left several hours—and 17 lavish courses—later. (more...) The Thousand Dollar Dinner: America's First Great Cookery Challenge By DIAMOND, BECKY LIBOUREL Library Journal Reviewed on DECEMBER 1, 2015 | Science and Technology In 1851, after being feted at New York's legendary Delmonico's restaurant, a group of Philadelphia elites returned the favor for their Knickerbocker friends, choosing the establishment of young chef James Parkinson to host the gala. The 17-course masterpiece Parkinson and his chefs presented cemented his city's reputation as the leader in American cuisine. (more...) PhilaFoodie, former restaurant critic for the City Paper Diamond's brilliantly-researched and well-turned tome is a time machine for food geeks. Working through Chef Parkinson's menu course-by-course, Diamond elegantly serves up richly detailed historical context for each dish in such vivid and engaging detail--from the sourcing of ingredients, to course preparation, to dining etiquette--that you feel like you were actually at the dinner. The Thousand Dollar Dinner is the Downton Abbey for dining devotees. (more...) The Thousand Dollar Dinner by Becky Libourel Diamond By Bite Out of Time Microhistories are among my favorite sub-genres of books, and food related micro-histories are easily my favorite sub-sub-genre. A challenge with a tightly focused history however is not to bore the reader, allowing the text to bog down. Becky Libourel Diamond’s Thousand Dollar Dinner is a great example of how to do it right. (more...) Recommend to: American history buffs, foodies, and people who celebrity watch. And people from Philadelphia. The Thousand Dollar Dinner: America's First Great Cookery Challenge. Diamond, Becky Libourel (Author) Oct. 2015. 272p. Westholme, hardcover, $26 (9781594162312); Westholme, e-book (9781594166020). 642.5. REVIEW. First published October 1, 2015 (Booklist). Cooking competitions existed long before cable television made them the nation’s evening diversion. In 1851, New York and Philadelphia vied for dominance on the eastern seaboard. Manhattan’s famous Delmonico’s hosted a dinner for 15 Philadelphians to show off their gourmetachievements. Not to be outdone, Quaker City restaurateur James Parkinson invited the New Yorkers to his eponymous eatery. This dinner, a 12-hour feasting marathon, astonished even tasted-it-all Gothamites with its 17 exquisitely perfect courses paired with the world’s finest wines. Researcher Diamond spiritedly deconstructs the food and drink from this lavish entertainment. She does not go so far as to offer recipes, but her sensible and sensitive detailed analyses of each of the dozens of dishes virtually materialize them for the reader’s sight, smell, taste, and touch. Although the age of this sort of sumptuous banqueting has passed, contemporary tasting menus from acclaimed chefs owe much to the precedents of feasts such as this one. Includes extensive bibliography. — Mark Knoblauch The Thousand Dollar Dinner: America’s First Great Cookery Challenge Publishers Weekly | August 2015 Diamond, a journalist and research historian (Mrs. Goodfellow: The Story of America’s First Cooking School) specializes in reconstructing 18th- and 19th-century American recipes. This richly detailed chronicle showcases the fantastic dining experience concocted in 1851 by Philadelphia chef James W. Parkinson in response to a challenge from 15 wealthy New Yorkers who claimed their city produced the best meals. Parkinson, an early advocate of American foods, devised a 17-course banquet (including wines) that took more than 11 hours to consume. Diamond dishes out more than the menu of this remarkable meal, deconstructing each course with details of the class mores, cultural habits, and food preferences of elite 19th-century Americans. Diamond adds another layer of richness to her account by weaving in the history of the various foods and the array of utensils, touching on soup’s 5,000-year-old history and heralding “the invention of leak-free containers which could withstand boiling over an open fire.” This tale of a Gilded Age mega-meal will delight culinary historians and anyone wanting a peek at over-the-top consumption. (Oct.) Germantown event will focus on a time when Philly was America's food capital By Alaina Mabaso for Newsworks | May 15, 2013 Becky Diamond, who maintains Philadelphia was America's food capital of America long before New York City was on the culinary map, will discuss her book, "Mrs. Goodfellow: The Story of America's First Cooking School," at Germantown's Ebenezer Maxwell Mansion on Saturday. A Yardley resident and New Jersey native, Diamond will also share some Victorian-style delicacies at the 2 p.m. event. Speaking with NewsWorks in advance of the event, the avid chef and author said the dream of writing a book fit perfectly with her degrees in journalism and library science. After she saw an article that said America's first cooking school opened in Philadelphia in the early 19th century, she pitched the idea to a local publisher. After three years of research and writing, "Mrs. Goodfellow" debuted last spring. (Read more.....) Alumna Blends History, Cooking in Debut Novel News@Rider BY: SEAN RAMSDEN | Friday, January 11, 2013 Becky Libourel Diamond ’90 reveals the story of the once-renowned bakery and sweet-shop proprietor in Mrs. Goodfellow: The Story of America’s First Cooking School. Many of today’s most cherished American ideals drew their first breaths in olden Philadelphia: democracy, freedom from tyranny, and … lemon meringue pie? It’s true, and while the founding fathers are still widely studied today, the founder of the nation’s first cooking school, Mrs. Elizabeth Goodfellow – also the inventor of the tasty, tart treat – is a name unfamiliar to most. Becky Libourel Diamond ’90 transports readers to early 19th-century Philadelphia for a painstakingly researched glimpse into the life of the once-renowned bakery and sweet-shop proprietor in her first book, Mrs. Goodfellow: The Story of America’s First Cooking School. (Read more....) THE HUNT MAGAZINE By Margaret Guthrie | October 19, 2012 Editor’s Note: Becky Diamond, author of Mrs. Goodfellow: The Story of America’s First Cooking School, spoke at the Library Company of Philadelphia in September. The lecture was co-sponsored by the Historical Society of Pennsylvania and was accompanied by a display of documents from the Historical Society of Pennsylvania’s collection, including several historic cookbooks. We all know about the Culinary Institute of America and its many manifestations in other locations across the country. Most of us at least have read of the cooking schools that run 10-day day sojourns in the south of France or Tuscany or Barcelona for food-obsessed folk. Many of us have taken cooking classes locally; some of us have even taught them. But where did the idea of a cooking school originate? Who came up with the idea of teaching others to cook in a kitchen/classroom setting? (Read more) ... PUBLISHERS WEEKLY Born in 1768, Mrs. Elizabeth Goodfellow, a baker, may have invented the lemon meringue pie. The thrice-married subject of this intriguing if partially dramatized biography mostly ran a well-located pastry shop and school in progressive Philadelphia in the 1800s. Goodfellow produced and sold food while teaching cooking, thriving among society to the end of her long life (she died in 1851). Diamond corroborates her narrative with various contemporary materials, developing a fascinating sociocultural and commercial history and biography of the colonial and revolutionary age, when commodities like sugar and its byproducts, and industrial methods and technologies, were new. Goodfellow’s reputation even culled students from the South and encouraged literary satire. Just as Diamond’s subject merged different culinary methods, she skillfully infers conclusions and neatly connects Goodfellow to figures like Laura Ingalls Wilder and Jackie Kennedy. (May 24) Reviewed on: 04/23/2012 LIBRARY JOURNAL Xpress Reviews: Nonfiction | First Look at New Books, June 29, 2012 Freelance writer Diamond has written a fascinating book about Eliza Goodfellow, a widow living in early 19th-century Philadelphia who owned a very successful bakery, ran the nation’s first cooking school, and maybe made the first lemon meringue pie. Diamond’s book gathers letters, research, old recipe books, and the diaries of Goodfellow’s students to reconstruct the woman and her world as well as the classes she taught—surprisingly, many young ladies saw it as a tedious requirement. Perhaps Goodfellow’s most well-known student was Eliza Leslie, who went on to write many popular cookbooks, and Diamond uses material from Leslie’s journals and recipe books to re-create the feel of being in one of Goodfellow’s courses. After placing Goodfellow’s school in the context of the American culinary landscape, Diamond goes on to examine the development of cooking schools as commercial enterprises in other areas of the Northeast. Verdict: Diamond’s book fills a large gap in American culinary history. Full of well-cited research, this book is easy to read and will appeal to anyone interested in cookery or early American history. (Reviewed by Carolyn M. Schwartz, Westfield State Univ. Lib., MA) Endorsement from Dr. Glenn R. Mack, EdD President, Le Cordon Bleu College of Culinary Arts Atlanta: Goodfellow combines methodical historical research, a compelling personal story, and surprising connections for the development of present-day cooking schools, which results in fascinating insights into the times of a nineteenth-century baker, culinary instructor, entrepreneur, woman, and widower. Making extensive and seamless use of historical sources such as maps, illustrations, insurance documents, architecture, archival materials, family letters, and photographs, Diamond cobbles together fragments of daily life for the inspiring and pioneering culinary figure of Elizabeth Goodfellow. The book merges narrative creativity and sound inquiry into chapters that explore the people, ingredients, dishes, cooking schools, and cooking techniques that bring the 19th century into relevance for the 21st-century reader. While Goodfellow’s students may have been from well-to-do families, her story underscores the demanding physicality of her culinary existence as a single woman and business operator not so long ago. It also places Philadelphia and regional cookery into the larger context of a developing nation with uniquely American trajectories. Diamond’s research serves as a wonderful source and model for those interested in the history of food, cooking schools, women’s studies, and labor. Diamond adeptly links a distinct chain of influences comprised of European traditions, Goodfellow, Eliza Leslie, and Fannie Farmer to the emergence of modern era of land-grant home economic programs, Julia Child, and celebrity chefs. PENNSYLVANIA HERITAGE MAGAZINE Summer 2012: Married and widowed three times, Elizabeth Baker Pearson Coane Goodfellow (1768-1851) owned a popular bakery and sweet shop in Philadelphia during the first decades of the nineteenth century. In addition to catering to the city's wealthy families and possessing a reputation of making the finest desserts and sweet dishes in the young nation, her business stood out from every other establishment in another way: she ran a small school to teach the art of cooking, the first of its kind in America. By assembling the many parts of a puzzle from old recipe books, advertisements, letters, diaries, genealogical records, and a host of primary sources, Becky Libourel Diamond has been able to provide a more complete portrait of this influential figure in cooking history. Mrs. Goodfellow: The Story of America's First Cooking School opens with what had been known about the illustrious cook - where and when she was born, her husbands, her children, and the location of her shop. The author takes readers on a journey through time to discover the types of foods that would have been available to Goodfellow and how she may have used them. Exhaustively researched and featuring an array of authentic period recipes, Mrs. Goodfellow is a delicious exploration of the life and legacy of one of America's most influential cooks. (Read more...) PHILADELPHIA DAILY NEWS April 05, 2012|By Beth D’addono: Welcome to Philadelphia, a city renowned for its vibrant, seasonally centric dining scene and colorful farmer's markets. You'll find some of the finest dishes on any table here, and confections that rival those served in the patisseries of Paris. Here, too, there is a culinary school geared to producing top-quality cooks as well versed in pastry as they are in producing savory delights. No, we're not talking about Philly's contemporary gastronomic scene, as fabulous as it is. It's Philadelphia of the early 1800s we're invoking - when the city was arguably the best place to wine and dine in the new America. And the original Ace of Cakes, Mrs. Elizabeth Goodfellow, was in the thick of it all. (Read more...) YARDLEY VOICE May 25, 2012|By June Portnoy: Long before Martha Stewart and Julia Child became culinary legends lived Mrs. Elizabeth Goodfellow, America’s first cooking school instructor. She held her cooking classes for several decades in her Philadelphia pastry shop during the first half of the 19th century. She also catered to some of Philadelphia’s wealthiest families. Her best-known creation, the lemon meringue pie, is considered an American classic. So, why haven’t you ever heard of Mrs. Elizabeth Goodfellow? For the same reason most people know nothing about her. She never wrote a book or documented her recipes, so many of the details of her life and background have been lost, and over the years she has been largely forgotten. Five years ago, Becky Diamond, a Yardley resident, read an article in a recreational cooking magazine and came across a reference to Mrs. Goodfellow’s cooking school. “I had never heard of her, so she piqued my curiosity, especially being she was from Philadelphia, so close to where I live,” says Becky. (Read more...) THE RIDER NEWS March 29, 2012|By Joe Petrizzo: Over 200 years ago on Dock Street in Philadelphia, America’s first culinary institute opened its doors. Today, this institute, called Mrs. Goodfellow’s Cooking School, no longer exists and would be long forgotten if it wasn’t for Becky Diamond and her new book, Mrs. Goodfellow: The Story of America’s First Cooking School. Diamond’s book tells the deep history of how one woman began a delicious tradition and paved the way for future chefs of America. Diamond says that she used the skills she learned while studying journalism at Rider, as well as her library degree from Rutgers University, to help conduct research about Goodfellow and her culinary school. She specifically credits writing movie reviews with journalism professor Dr. Thomas Simonet as one of the things that helped her on her journey because it taught her how to put together a story. (Read more...) |
Upcoming EventsJune 20, 2020 - 9-11 a.m.
Victorian Summer Entertaining Virtual Program Sponsored by Bucks County Community College Click here to sign up June 26, 2020 - 12 noon The Thousand Dollar Dinner Virtual Program Sponsored by Philadelphia's Right Angle Club July 18, 2020 - 1 pm Pickle talk/demo Virtual program sponsored by The Ebenezer Maxwell Mansion, Philadelphia TBD "Middletown Mondays" Lecture on Mrs. Goodfellow Sponsored by the Middletown Township (DelCo) Historical Society ROOSEVELT COMMUNITY CENTER AUDITORIUM, 464 SOUTH OLD MIDDLETOWN ROAD, MEDIA PA 19063 Oct. 3, 10, 17, 2020 - 9 am - 11 am HOW TO DINE LIKE A VICTORIAN: A CULINARY SERIES Bucks County Community College - Newtown Campus HOW TO DINE LIKE A VICTORIAN: DESSERTS - 10/3 HOW TO DINE LIKE A VICTORIAN: TEA - 10/10 HOW TO DINE LIKE A VICTORIAN: CHOCOLATE - 10/17 TBD DECIPHERING AND RECREATING HEIRLOOM RECIPES Bucks County Community College - Newtown Campus Dec. 6, 2020 - 2 -4 pm A Very Victorian Christmas Roosevelt Community Center, Media, PA Feb. 17, 2021 - 11 am - 12:15 Victorian Tea - A Talk and Tasting National Society of The Colonial Dames of America in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania 1630 Latimer Street, Philadelphia, PA  Luncheon based on Thousand Dollar Dinner - March 28, 2017. New Hope, PA
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Virtual Program Sponsored by Historic Foodways Society of the Delaware Valley (HFSDV) Jan. 7, 2020 - Tea Talk and Presentation Audrey Shinn Interiors Moorestown, NJ 11 am- 1 pm Nov. 17, 2019 - A Very Victorian Christmas Talk and Tasting ~ From sugar plums to plum pudding Victorian holiday treats and customs Old Library on Lake Afton 46 W. Afton Ave, Yardley, PA - 3 p.m. Nov. 16, 2019 - Bucks County Library Local Authors Expo Yardley-Makefield Branch 1080 Edgewood Road, Yardley 1-3 p.m. April 28, 2019 - Lydia Morris's Sweet Tooth and Entertaining Victorian Ladies: A Talk and Tasting Morris Arboretum 1 -3 pm March 11, 2019 - Thousand Dollar Dinner Tasting and Demo With Chef Adam Diltz of Elwood Restaurant Free Library of Philadelphia Culinary Literacy Center 6-8 pm Nov. 17, 2018 - Bucks County Library Author Expo Quakertown Library, Quakertown, PA 1-3 p.m. Dec. 4, 2018 - Mrs. Goodfellow Reading, Discussion and Tasting Penn Book Center, 130 S. 34th Street, Philadelphia 6 - 7:30 p.m. Oct. 28, 2018 - MAX and Friends - LA Talk Radio - 8 pm PST Oct. 22, 2018 - Presentation and food tasting Mrs. Goodfellow and The Thousand Dollar Dinner Traditions at Washington Crossing - 1 p.m. July 21, 2018 - 12 pm on PBS Channel 12- "A Tribute to Mrs. Goodfellow" A Taste of History episode Nov. 12, 2017 - Victorian Food Tasting and Demo Ebenezer Maxwell Mansion, Philadelphia, PA Discussion and sampling of 19th century chocolate foods Nov. 11, 2017 - Bucks County Library Author Fair Doylestown Library, Doylestown, PA 1-4 pm Oct. 15, 2017 - River Reads Author Event Prallsville Mills, Stockton, NJ Book signings, readings and wine tastings - 10 am-4 pm April 21, 2017 - The Porch Club of Riverton Riverton, NJ Meet the Author - Book Discussion and Signing 7-9 pm Mar. 28, 2017 - Thousand Dollar Dinner Luncheon New Hope, PA Dec. 1, 2016 - Reddit AMA - 7 - 9 pm ET Ask me anything about The Thousand Dollar Dinner! Nov. 17, 2016 - Questers Peaceable Kingdom Chapter 1440 Holland, PA Book discussion and signing - 1 p.m. Nov. 20, 2016 - Bel Air Branch of Harford County Public Library 100 E Pennsylvania Ave, Bel Air, Maryland 21014 Book discussion and signing - 2 p.m. Aug 6, 2016 - Wrightstown Farmers Market 2203 2nd Street Pike, Wrightstown, PA Food demo, tasting and book signing - 10 a.m. July 13, 2016 - COOKbook Author Series: The $1000 Dinner with Author Becky Diamond, Adam Diltz of Johnny Brenda’s and Vicki Miller of VinoCity Events COOK - 253 S 20th St, Philadelphia, PA 19103 June 10, 2016 - Somerset Run Singles Club Somerset, NJ The Thousand Dollar Dinner Book discussion, signing and tasting - 7 p.m. May 7, 2016 - Yardley-Makefield Library 1080 Edgewood Road The Thousand Dollar Dinner Book discussion, signing and tasting April 24, 2016 - David Library of the American Revolution 1201 River Road, Washington Crossing, PA The Thousand Dollar Dinner Book discussion and signing - 3 p.m. April 16, 2016 - Edible History New York City The Thousand Dollar Dinner Recreation of the historic menu & book discussion - 8 pm April 14, 2016 - The Free Library of New Hope & Solebury 1 Riverstone Circle, New Hope, PA 18938 The Thousand Dollar Dinner Book Discussion/Signing - 7 p.m. April 5, 2016 - Osteria Restaurant 640 North Broad Street Philadelphia, PA The Thousand Dollar Dinner Recreation of the historic menu - 6:30 p.m. Mar 20, 2016 - The Ebenezer Maxwell Mansion 200 W Tulpehocken Street, Philadelphia, PA 19th Century Food Demo & Tasting - 1:30 - 3:30 Mar 13, 2016 - Historic Foodways Society of the Delaware Valley Chadds Ford Historical Society The Thousand Dollar Dinner Recreation of the historic menu and book discussion Feb. 29, 2016 - East Falls Book Club East Falls, PA Mrs. Goodfellow, The Thousand Dollar Dinner & other Philadelphia Historic Food Tidbits Book discussion, signing and tasting - Noon to 2 Feb. 28, 2016 - Broadcast of PA Books TV Program PCN Network - 7 p.m. Feb. 9, 2016 - Spoke & Handle Questers Yardley, PA Mrs. Goodfellow, The Thousand Dollar Dinner & other Philadelphia Historic Food Tidbits Book discussion, signing and tasting - 1 p.m. Jan. 7, 2016 - Princeton Public Library 65 Witherspoon St, Princeton, NJ The Thousand Dollar Dinner Book Discussion/Signing - 7 p.m. Dec. 19, 2015 - Barnes & Noble Towne Place at Garden State Park, Cherry Hill, NJ The Thousand Dollar Dinner Book signing - 1 - 3 p.m. Dec. 12, 2015 - The Newtown Bookshop 2835 S. Eagle Road, Newtown, PA The Thousand Dollar Dinner Book signing and food tasting - 1-3 pm. Dec. 13, 2015 - MAX & Friends with MAX TUCCI LA Talk Radio 8pm PT/11pm ET Dec. 5, 2015 - The Doylestown Bookshop 16 S Main St, Doylestown, PA The Thousand Dollar Dinner Book signing and food tasting - 1:30 p.m. Nov. 28, 2015 - Barnes & Noble 1805 Walnut St, Philadelphia, PA The Thousand Dollar Dinner Book signing - 1 - 3 p.m. Nov. 23, 2015 - Reddit AMA (Ask Me Anything) Live from 7-9 p.m. ET Nov. 21, 2015 - Barnes & Noble 210 Commerce Blvd, Fairless Hills, PA The Thousand Dollar Dinner Book launch/signing - 1 - 3 p.m. Nov. 14, 2015 - The Ebenezer Maxwell Mansion 200 W Tulpehocken Street, Philadelphia, PA The Thousand Dollar Dinner Book discussion and signing - 2 p.m. Oct. 24, 2015 - Pumpkin Palooza Yardley United Methodist Church Yardley, PA Book signing and Food Tasting - 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Oct. 1, 2015 - Lower Makefield Farmer's Market Yardley, PA 19th century food demo - 3:30 - 6 p.m. Nov 16 - The Ebenezer Maxwell Mansion Philadelphia, PA 19th Century Food Demo & Tasting - 1:30 to 4:30 p.m. Oct. 25 - Pumpkin Palooza Yardley United Methodist Church Yardley, PA Book signing and Food Tasting Jun 22 - Historic Foodways Society of the Delaware Valley Washington Crossing, PA Discussion and book signing - 1 p.m. June 6 - Lower Makefield Historical Society Yardley, PA Presentation on Mrs. Goodfellow - 7 p.m. May 18 - The Ebenezer Maxwell Mansion West Tulpehocken St., Phila, PA Presentation on Mrs. Goodfellow - 2 p.m. May 4 - Whole Foods Market Culinary Center Grand Opening 3495 US Route 1 South, Princeton, NJ Jumbles (cookies) demo and samples - 10:15 a.m. Mar 16 - The Ebenezer Maxwell Mansion West Tulpehocken St., Phila, PA Upstairs Downstairs Celebration Feb 23 - Bucks County Free Library, Yardley-Makefield Branch 1080 Edgewood Rd., Yardley, PA Discussion, book signing and tasting - 2 p.m. Nov 15 - Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission (PHMC) Holiday Marketplace - 12:15 - Discussion and book signing Commonwealth Keystone Building, 400 North St., Harrisburg Nov 11 - Midtown Scholar Bookstore, Harrisburg, PA - 5:30-6 (Book signing & tasting - 3rd Annual Harrisburg Book Festival) Oct 20 - Doylestown Bookshop, Doylestown, PA - 2-4 p.m. (Book signing) Oct 18 - The Restaurant School at Walnut Hill College, Philadelphia, PA - 11 a.m. (Lecture and demo featuring Mrs. Goodfellow recipes) Oct 13 - Barnes & Noble, Cherry Hill, NJ - 2-4 p.m. (Book signing) Oct 6 - Newtown's Market Day celebration, Newtown, PA Open-fire cooking demo of Mrs. Goodfellow recipes with Mercy Ingraham - Noon Newtown Bookshop, Newtown, PA - 2 p.m. (Book signing and tasting) Sept 29 - Barnes & Noble, Rittenhouse Sq, Philadelphia, PA - 1-3 p.m. (Book signing) Sept 22 - Barnes & Noble, Marlton, NJ - 2-4 p.m. (Book signing) Sept 13 - Library Company of Philadelphia - 6 p.m. (Presentation and Q&A) June 17 - PA Books - 9 p.m. on PCN (Channel 8) June 6 - Midtown Scholar Bookstore, Harrisburg, PA Noon-1 p.m. May 12 - Barnes and Noble, Fairless Hills, PA 1-3 p.m. 
Last presentation on Mrs Goodfellow (for now anyway!)- Historic Foodways Society of the Delaware Valley, Washington Crossing, PA
Jumbles, Indian Pound cake and ingredients - at Ebenezer Maxwell Mansion - May 18, 2013
Whole Foods Market Princeton - Culinary Center Grand Opening - May 4, 2013
Ebenezer Maxwell Mansion's Upstairs Downstairs Celebration - March 16, 2013 - (Courtesy of NewsWorks)
Presentation on Mrs. Goodfellow at Yardley Library - Feb. 23, 2013
Signing books at Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission (PHMC)'s annual Holiday Marketplace in Harrisburg
3rd Annual Harrisburg Book Festival, Midtown Scholar Bookstore
At Doylestown Bookshop - Oct 20, 2012
At Restaurant School at Walnut Hill College with my Mom giving a talk and demo of Goodfellow recipes
Sign for Newtown Bookshop book signing - Oct. 6, 2012
First book signing! At Barnes & Noble, Langhorne, PA, May 12, 2012
First book signing! At Barnes & Noble, Langhorne, PA, May 12, 2012
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