Dine Like Darwin
Rebecca Woods, Myrna Perez
Tue Jan 24, 02-07:00pm, E51-095
Enrollment limited: advance sign up required (see contact below)
Signup by: 16-Jan-2012
Limited to 15 participants.
Single session event
Have you ever wondered about Charles Darwin's daily life? Everyone is familiar with him as a revolutionary thinker, but just like everyone else, he needed to eat! And for Darwin, a famous invalid who suffered from numerous digestive complaints all his life, diet was a highly significant aspect of his wellbeing, and his ability to work. In this single session activity, we'll explore this other side of Darwin—his domestic life and his digestion. Over the course of an afternoon, we will read and discuss a selection of Darwin's correspondence—letters he wrote and received, and letters exchanged among his family members—that shed light on what he was like as a father, husband, and invalid. We will recreate some of the very food that Darwin ate, using authentic recipes from his wife Emma's cookbook—delicious menu items like chicken curry, potato rissoles, and gingerbread made with treacle. Come learn about Victorian science, cookery, and the domestic life of one of the greatest figures in the history of modern science. Be prepared to have fun and get messy cooking à la the 1860s!
Co-sponsored by the Darwin Correspondence Project.
Web: http://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/
Contact: Rebecca Woods, E51-098, (802) 881-7653, rjwoods@mit.edu
Sponsor: Science, Technology, and Society
Latest update: 07-Dec-2011
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