Storm in a Teacup: Revolution & Tea in the USA

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Storm in a Teacup: Revolution & Tea in the USA
Storm in a Teacup: Revolution & Tea in the USA 

Saturday 25 May 11:15 - 12:15 British Library Piazza Pavilion 

Part of the Food Season Big Weekend and the British Library Food Season 2024
Ticket type Cost (face value)? Quantity
ADMISSION £5.00 (£5.00)
MEMBER £5.00 (£5.00)
CONCESSION £2.50 (£2.50)
*Concession includes students/18-25/registered unemployed
DISABLED £2.50 (£2.50)
DISABLED CARER £0.00 (£0.00)
SENIOR 60+ £5.00 (£5.00)

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Taste the past and find out how 18th century American women, armed with tea and cake, helped stoke a revolution. Nearly 300 years after the United States of America successfully freed itself from Britain, historian and food expert Professor Nancy Siegal moves beyond the battlefields and weapons to meet the women who harnessed the kitchen to champion freedom and American nationalism. Nancy will be in conversation with food historian Dr Neil Buttery. Tea and cake, made from original recipes, will be served. 

Included in Food Season Big Weekend Saturday or Weekend tickets, or available to book as a single session. Discounts available for over 60s and BL Members and half-price tickets for students and under 26s  

Food Season Big Weekend Day or Weekend Pass holders please note that entry to this event will be subject to venue capacity and early arrival is recommended.  

Neil Buttery is an author, blogger, podcaster and chef who has been studying and cooking traditional British food for over fifteen years. His first book, A Dark History of Sugar, written under lockdown and published last year, and his second, Before Mrs Beeton: Elizabeth Raffald, England’s Most Influential Housekeeper, was published in March. His research, discoveries and recipes can be read on his blog British Food: a History, and heard on The British Food History Podcast.  

Nancy Siegel is Professor of Art History and Culinary History at Towson University in Maryland specialising in American landscape studies and culinary history of the 18th and 19th centuries. A previous research fellow at the Eccles Institute for the Americas, Dr. Siegel is completing the manuscript, Political Appetites: Revolution, Taste, and Culinary Activism in the Early Republic which is in development as a documentary. She provides historical cooking demonstrations and lectures widely in addition to serving as a culinary consultant for museums and non-profit institutions. In 2022, she published Susie M. Barstow: Redefining the Hudson River School. 

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