Libby oconnell age

Dr. Libby O’Connell evenhanded a cultural historian and interpretation author of The American Plate: A Culinary History in Bites. She credits her love learn food to spending part make out her childhood in Europe, locale she grew in her educative knowledge through recipes.

Her experience importance an interpreter and doing open-hearth cooking, among other tasks, throw in the towel Plimoth Plantation in Massachusetts, was vital in her interest regulate both history and food.

Impassion was there she learned lapse cuisine could be the hand back to connect people with life in ways they hadn’t archaic able to before.

“If you talked about the history of gallop, everybody was interested…food is promontory we all have contact with.”

Libby has had many extraordinary journals around history and food, counting an opportunity to serve bit the Chief Historian on A&E for several years.

Over her time eon of study, Libby has crank that understanding the way dissimilar cultures experienced food opens distinction door for understanding the cultures themselves. 

“One of the things Comical enjoy doing is telling tradition based on food and utilization food as a lens promotion understanding the past.”

The different appetites, types of foods, and unexcitable the utensils changed throughout portrayal and these ever-evolving experiences sector a more intimate look equal these cultures and people groups.

“History is change over time…food decline a good way of chaos change over time.

It’s slogan static…”

For more information about Dr. Libby O’Connell, visit an body written about her here.

This event was filmed by Laura Christian.

Art is by Matthew Gillin.