Alice Ross

Dr. Alice S. Ross (September 28, 1930 – December 7, 2020) was an American culinary historian, consultant, and author.[1][2]

Background and career

Alice Ross was born on September 28, 1930 and grew up in Brooklyn.

Ross began her hands-on food history classes in 1976 with the United States Bicentennial.[3]

Ross was a co-founder of Culinary Historians of New York and a member of the International Association of Culinary Professionals. In 1988, she opened Alice Ross Hearth Studios in Smithtown, New York, offering food and history courses with a focus on hearth cooking. Ross served as consultant to historic sites including Colonial Williamsburg and Lowell National Historical Park.[4]

Ross received a doctorate from Stony Brook University in 1996, with her dissertation titled Women, Work and Cookery, Suffolk County, Long Island, New York, 1880-1920. She taught at colleges including Queens College, City University of New York, City College of New York, Hofstra University, and New York University.

Ross was married to a veterinarian and had four children.[5] She died on December 7, 2020.

The Alice Ross Culinary Ephemera Collection is housed at Virginia Tech.[6]

Selected publications

  • Health and Diet in 19th-Century America: A Food Historian's Point of View (1993)[7]
  • Women, Work and Cookery, Suffolk County, Long Island, New York, 1880-1920 (1996)
  • A Taste of Brookhaven, 400 Years of History in the Kitchen (2005)

References

  1. ^ Weaver, William Woys (1988-04-27). "Open-Hearth Cooking: Why All the Fuss Over Hot Ashes?". The New York Times.
  2. ^ Ketcham, Diane (1988-09-18). "LONG ISLAND JOURNAL; Back to Colonial Basics". The New York Times.
  3. ^ Wharton, Rachel (2018-04-09). "OLD SCHOOL. Ancestral cooking classes offer a taste of the past". New York Daily News.
  4. ^ "Alice Ross Hearth Studios". ShawGuides.
  5. ^ Fischler, Marcelle S. (2001-11-25). "LONG ISLAND JOURNAL; An Expert in the Neglected History of Food". The New York Times.
  6. ^ Alice Ross Culinary Ephemera Collection. Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech Repository, Virginia Tech.
  7. ^ Ross, Alice (1993). "Health and Diet in 19th-Century America: A Food Historian's Point of View". Historical Archaeology. 27 (2). Springer Nature: 42–56. JSTOR 25616238.

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