“It Tastes/Smells like Home!”: Memory, Food Nostalgia & the Immigrant Experience

By Annima Bahukhandi British-Iranian food writer, Yasmin Khan, opens her recipe book, “The Saffron Tales: Recipes from the Persian Kitchen” (2016), with a frank admission of her lifelong obsession with pomegranates. She fondly recalls the multi-sensory pleasure of eating pomegranates—from the visceral feel of the fruit’s leathery skin, to the crunch of the pomegranate pearls, … Continue reading “It Tastes/Smells like Home!”: Memory, Food Nostalgia & the Immigrant Experience

Around the Table Podcast: Odeuropa with William Tullett

By Sarah Peters Kernan In this episode, Sarah Kernan talks to William Tullett, Lecturer in Early Modern History at the University of York and a Lead in the Horizon 2020 funded project Odeuropa. This European research project was designed to show that the sense of smell and scent, or olfactory, heritage is an important way … Continue reading Around the Table Podcast: Odeuropa with William Tullett

Olfactory Notes: Integrating Embodied Research in Art History

By Madison Clyburn In early modern Italy, perfumes were powerful substances whose therapeutic properties could generate pleasure and preserve or remedy one’s health if worn on or consumed by the body. In this post, I feature a typical Italian perfume recipe, “To make perfume for clothes,” from the Italian engraver and author Eustachio Celebrino’s (c. 1490-after 1535) printed vernacular … Continue reading Olfactory Notes: Integrating Embodied Research in Art History

Around the Table Podcast: Staging the Table in Europe 1500-1800 with Deborah Krohn

By Sarah Peters Kernan In this episode, Sarah Kernan talks to Deborah Krohn, Associate Professor and Chair of Academic Programs at Bard Graduate Center, about the recent exhibition Staging the Table in Europe 1500-1800 at Bard Graduate Center Gallery. Staging the Table explores early modern dining practices through illustrated manuals featuring instruction and carving and … Continue reading Around the Table Podcast: Staging the Table in Europe 1500-1800 with Deborah Krohn