Native American foodways will be featured in the next Virtual Ephrata Academy program from the Historic Ephrata Cloister, 632 W. Main St., Ephrata. The program will take place on Thursday, Oct. 14, at 7 p.m. via Zoom.
Susan McLellan Plaisted will share her research on the historical lifestyle, foods, and cooking processes of the Eastern Woodland Native Americans, including the Lenape, Iroquois, and Wampanoag. Her talk will intertwine ethnobotanical research, European narratives, and archaeological information to explore the food culture that awaited European settlers to the New World.
Plaisted is the proprietress of Heart to Hearth Cookery, a food history business based in Bucks County. She has interpreted 17th- through 19th-century Colonial American and European foodways, along with the foodways traditions of Native Americans, including food use, processes, and preservation of grown, hunted, and foraged foods.
The program is free. Advance registration is required by visiting http://www.EphrataCloister.org and clicking the link under the Upcoming Events on the homepage.
The Virtual Ephrata Academy program is presented by the Historic Ephrata Cloister on the second Thursday of each month except December.
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