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Bee Bread
Today’s guest blog is by Josh Evans, lead researcher with Nordic Food Lab in Copenhagen. He will lead a workshop on insect eating at our October 17 Eating Through Time Festival. A version of this...
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Physicians Discuss Aphrodisiacs
Ken Albala is Professor of History and Director of Food Studies at the University of the Pacific. He is the author or editor of 24 books on food. He conducted his dissertation research primarily at the...
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Extra, Extra, Get Your New Banana!
By Anne Garner, Curator, Center for the History of Medicine and Public Health This is one of several posts leading up to our day-long Eating Through Time Festival on October 17, 2015, a celebration of...
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The Diaspora of Spam
This post, by Evelyn Kim, guest curator for our day-long Eating Through Time Festival, is one of several posts leading up to the October 17, 2015 celebration of food, cookery, and health. View the full...
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Cook like a Roman: The New York Academy of Medicine’s Apicius Manuscript
By Anne Garner, Curator, Center for the History of Medicine and Public Health This is one of several posts leading up to our day-long Eating Through Time Festival on October 17, 2015, a celebration of...
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Merman or Mandrake? Costume Ideas From Our Collection
By Johanna Goldberg, Information Services Librarian With Halloween just around the corner, our library is here to help with your costume planning. We’ve leafed through our collections for ideas,...
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50 years ago: Building the Case Against Lead
This post is part of an exchange between “Books, Health, and History” at the New York Academy of Medicine and The Public’s Health, a blog of the Philadelphia Inquirer. By Christian Warren, Associate...
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Remembering “Eating Through Time”
Evelyn J. Kim, today’s guest blogger, was our guest curator for this year’s Eating Through Time Festival. With speakers from Jacques Pepin, Tom Colicchio, Lori Silverbush, Bryant Terry, and so many...
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A Little Black Book on Witchcraft (Item of the Month)
By Anne Garner, Curator, Center for the History of Medicine and Public Health ‘Tis the season for witches and warlocks, and the lure of our 122e classmark—designating books related to the occult—has...
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