Cooks, Cookbooks, and Cooking in New England: From Colonies to Colonial Revival

Keith Stavely and Kathleen Fitzgerald, the authors of Northern Hospitality, offer an illustrated, gastronomic tour of New England's first three centuries, highlighting the most influential cookbooks, profiling major figures in the region's culinary tradition, and showing how they prepared some of the almost 400 historic recipes included in their book.

Arguing against the stereotype that New England cuisine has consisted of little more than "cold baked beans and stale brown bread," the talk will demonstrate the surprising complexity of the region's food history.

Stavely and Fitzgerald have written two books together about New England food history: Northern Hospitality: Cooking by the Book in New England and America's Founding Food: The Story of New England Cooking.

Event info, text, and photo provided by the Boston Public Library.