Historic Cooking Classes

Interactive Map is Below. Attend historic cooking classes at museums–often at their historic kitchens wearing period clothing. Map locations are approximate, and all info and prices are based on pre-Covid classes. Visit the museum websites, and if you’d like to take a class, call them for updates on availability, price, location, and time. Do you know of a hands-on historic cooking class that isn’t listed yet?

• [1627] Plimoth Plantation, Plymouth, Mass. hearth cooking
• [1696] Thomas Massey House, Marple Township, Penn.
• [1700s] Noah Webster House, West Hartford, Conn.
• [1700s] Welles Shipman Ward House, Glastonbury, Conn. maple sugar, kitchen garden, colonial dinner…
• [1700s] Gunston Hall Plantation, Mason Neck, Virginia, hearth cooking
• [1700s-1853] Historic Houses of Odessa, Odessa, Delaware
  
• [1700s – 1900s] Shelburne Museum, Shelburne, Virginia
• [1703] Mission San Luis, Tallahassee, Florida Spanish and Native American hearth cooking.
• [1719] Hans Herr House, Lancaster, Penn.
• [1741] Bouman Stickney Farmstead, Readington, New Jersey hearth cooking
• [1752] Pottsgrove Manor, Pottstown, Penn.
• [1770] Webb-Deane-Stevens Museum, Wethersfield, Conn. hearth cooking.
• [1760 – 1790] Colonial Pennsylvania Plantation, Ridley Creek State Park, Philadelphia, Penn. tea, hearth cooking…
• [1765 – 1890] Vermilionville, Lafayette, Louisiana hearth cooking: cowboy stew [second Tuesday of every month, not all classes are cooking]
• [1768] Mystic Seaport, Mystic, Conn. hearth cooking
• [1780s] Howard Hall Farm, Athens, New York
• [1786] Historic Deerfield, Deerfield, Mass. hearth cooking
• [1790] Historic Locust Grove, Louisville, Kentucky
• [1792] Phineas Pemberton House, also known as the Bolton Mansion, Levittown, Penn. hearth cooking
• [1790-1840] Old Sturbridge Village, Sturbridge, Mass. hearth cooking
• [1790 – 1845] Historic Craven Hall, Warminster, Penn. hearth cooking
• [1795 – 1855] Kent Plantation House, Alexandria, Louisiana
• [1800s] Bracketts Farm, Louisa, Virginia hearth cooking…
• [1800s] Lakeview, Jamesburg, New Jersey colonial cooking, hearth cooking
• [1800s] Genesee Country Village & Museum, Mumford, New York hearth cooking, cheese making, kitchen experience [May-October, some classes with flexible times]
• [1800s] Museum Village, Monroe, New York
• [1800s] Centennial Village, Greeley, Colorado. chuckwagon cooking
• [1800s-1900] Historic Speedwell, Morristown, New Jersey
• [1800s-1916] Mercer Museum, Doylestown, Penn.
• [1800s-1900] Burritt on the Mountain, Huntsville, Alabama hearth cooking
  [We are adding more and more opportunities for adults….hearth cooking; roasting a chicken] If you have any subjects you would like to learn about or hear about please let us know by calling Tammy Cooney at 256-518-3931.
• [1801] Read House, New Castle, Delaware
• [1803] Medad Stone Tavern, Guilford, Conn. hearth cooking
• [1808] Remick Country Doctor Museum & Farm, Tamworth, New Hamphire hearthside dinners
• [1810] John Bishop Museum, Lisbon, Conn. hearth cooking
• [1812] Fort Meigs, Perrysburg, Ohio hearth cooking
• [1820s] Historic Fort Snelling, St. Paul, Michigan
• [1822] Old Stone House, Slippery Rock, Penn., Early American Cooking
• [1823] Conner Prairie, Fishers, Indiana hearthside suppers
• [1830s] Lincoln’s New Salem, Peterburg, Illinois
• [1830s – 1860s] George Ranch Historical Park, Richmond, Texas
• [1831] Hermann-Grima House, New Orleans, Louisiana
• [1832-1914] Historic Washington Square Park, Washington, Arkansas 
• [1837] Depreciation Lands Museum, Allison Park, Penn. hearth cooking
• [1840-1910] Old City Park, Dallas, Texas
• [1841 – 1899] Jourdan Bachman Pioneer Farm, Austin, Texas
• [1840s-1850s] Pioneer Park, Loachapoka, Alabama 1840s-1910s represented; Sorghum Days
• [1870s-1900] Living History Farms, Urbandale, Iowa wood-burning stove; dairy; chocolates; comfort foods; breads; pies…
• [1880s] Bellevue Plantation, Tallahassee Museum, Florida
• [1883] Heritage Park, Livingston House, Calgary, Alberta, Canada. cooking through the decades, 1890’s – 1909; home canning; brewing
• [1930s-40s] Penhardt Living History Farm, Cullman, Alabama
• [1974] The J. Paul Getty Museum, Getty Villa, Malibu, California. aphrodisiacs cocktail party; the Victorian appetite; Canterbury cooking
• [no date] Nordic Heritage Museum, Seattle, Washington Nordic Pancakes Series