Moravian's Virtual History Cookout, April 2020

The History Cookout has become a much-loved event for 100-level classes at Moravian College. Each semester, as part of their curriculum, students find or create a recipe that could plausibly have been made by the people they are studying. They then cook these dishes for the campus community over the lunch hour. Dishes created typically range from those made in the Paleolithic era to those from the 20th century. When we teach Experimental Archaeology (a 200-level course), those students join us, too.

After COVID-19 required us to cancel the April 2020 History Cookout, faculty and students decided to take our work online. This site consists of recipes from a variety of courses at Moravian College, along with contextual data linking the recipes with the time and place they were made. Please send any comments or corrections to bardsleys@moravian.edu

For photos from previous cookouts, click here.

For Experimental Archaeology at Moravian College, click here.

For Moravian College's History Department, click here.

Some video highlights of the process of making cracked wheat and frumenty at home during lockdown: