[SEMCO] Ovens on the Edge; An Experimental Archaeology of Baking

[Teresa Izzo]

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PRESS RELEASE

FOR IMMEDIATE 
RELEASE 
FOR MORE INFORMATION, CONTACT:
July 26, 
2017 
Teresa Izzo
                                                                        508-896-3867 
ext. 137
                                                            tizzo at ccmnh.org

The Cape Cod Museum of Natural History presents
Digging Into the Past
Ovens on the Edge; An Experimental Archaeology of Baking
with
Archaeologist & Food Historian
Paula Marcoux

BREWSTER, MA ­Digging Into the Past, the Cape Cod 
Museum of Natural History’s archaeology and 
history series, presents Ovens on the Edge; An 
Experimental Archaeology of Baking with 
archaeologist and food historian Paula Marcoux, 
Wednesday, August 23, 2017 at 1pm.

Both English and French colonists on the Atlantic 
coast of North America described bread as the 
"staff of life" and went to considerable lengths 
to ensure themselves a steady supply. However, 
few practical details of baking endeavors are to 
be found in either period chronicles or archaeological reports.

Food historian Paula Marcoux will describe how 
she pieced together the story of the earliest 
colonial ovens by complementing traditional 
approaches to historical research with 
experimental oven-building and baking trials. 
This presentation provides very specific, 
physical depictions of how various folks deployed 
an array of strategies and adapted their 
technologies, and ultimately their expectations, 
to local conditions. The investigation and 
re-creation of Cape Cod's earliest documented 
French pastry (1606) proved pivotal in Paula's research.

Paula Marcoux is a food historian who lives in 
Plymouth, Massachusetts. The author of Cooking 
with Fire (Storey, 2014), she has worked 
professionally as an archaeologist, cook, and 
bread-oven builder. She is food editor and 
columnist at edible South Shore & South Coast 
magazine, writes on food history topics for 
popular and academic audiences, and consults with 
museums, film producers, and publishers. She is 
the director of the Plymouth Center for 
Restoration Arts and Forgotten Trades (CRAFT), an 
educational non-profit focused on the 
transmission of hand-skills, where she leads 
workshops on natural leavening, historic baking, and wood-fired cooking.

Free with Museum Admission

  For more information please call the Museum at 508-896-3867 ext. 133.

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Teresa Izzo
Program Coordinator
Cape Cod Museum of Natural History
869 Main St./Rte. 6A
Brewster, MA 02631
508-896-3867 x137
508-896-8844 - fax 
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