Time Sifters Archaeology Society Newsletter March 2016

M A R C H-2015 March Program March 16 - at 6:00 PM - New College, Mildred Sainer Pavilion, 5313 Bay Shore Road Culinary Justice: Defining a Theory of Gastronomic SovereigntyDear Member: Michael Twitty Food Writer & Culinary HistorianIn January, Michael Twitty spent a week at Colonial Williamsburg lecturing,conducting training sessions and cooking in period costume at three of the livinghistory museum’s venues. In February, he spoke at the 2016 TED Talks. Don'tmiss this opportunity to see him in Sarasota!What is culinary justice and how does it relate to archaeology? Much as artifacts inform us about the peoplewho used them, food traditions help us understand cultures and their history. From both we try to learnabout the past, and what lessons we can take from it. As a culinary historian, Michael Twitty noticed the lackof recognition that African American food traditions receive given how important they were in shaping Americantraditions. He tells stories showing how cooking from different parts of Africa merged and evolved in the NewWorld into the creole cuisines of America. He wants to honor the untold number of Black cooks that createdthese new foodways, and work towards a better \"food future\" in today's communities.March is Florida Archaeology Month and Manatee Heritage Days! Get your FAM poster at the Marchmeeting. Join me at Reflections of Manatee on March 20th for an Ice Cream Social to celebrate a new NationalRegister Historic District near the Manatee Mineral Spring. Information on both is below.Hope to see you soon!Sherry Svekis, President [email protected] 16 Time Sifters event at New College’s SainerMichael Twitty, a recognized culinary Michael Twitty recognized international experts of hishistorian and independent scholar, craft—the reconstruction of early Southernfocuses on historic African American cuisine as prepared by enslaved Africanfood and folk culture and culinary traditions. American cooks for tables high and low.He has given lectures and cooking Join Michael for a lively discussion todemonstrations for groups including the explore the way the preparation of foodSmithsonian Institution, Thomas Jefferson's unites and divides our narratives andMonticello, and the Library of Congress, how we can use it for the good. In thisand has been profiled by the Washington presentation he will share his notion ofPost, the New York Times, and NPR, culinary justice - the idea that historicallyamong many others and has been oppressed peoples have a right tonamed a world-changer TED Fellow for authority, sovereignty, prosperity and2016. As a living history interpreter and acknowledgement of their contributionhistoric chef, he is one of the few to national and global foodways.

Notes from a Time SifterFood TraditionsFood is not only necessary for life, built along the life within a 37-mile range justit is also associated with our social, Tigris and south of where he died. But newpolitical and cultural traditions. Euphrates studies on diet reveal that ancientPeople like to eat together. Dinner Rivers developed people were often quite mobile.at home is the gathering of the into the first Bone fragments show that ancientfamily. Friends meet for lunch or really big cities societies of the Sahara were madedinner (romeacrosseurope.com). (the ancient up of many foreigners, debunkingSome foods show class identity: city of Ur had a population of the classical theory that kingdomswealthy people eat caviar or escargot, about 60,000). The surplus were always formed by indigenousthe poor eat hotdogs. Many cultures encouraged trade which led to people (http://phys.org/and religions forbid the consumption of the development of travel news/2014-03-ancient-bone-certain foods: most Buddhists are technologies, money, and the fragments-diet-health.html#jCp)vegetarians, Jewish law forbids interchange of ideas that eventuallyconsumption of pork and Americans spread all over the world. But Well-fed people are productive.will not eat dogs or horses. Specific the control of food was also the Roman gladiators ate lots offoods are culture markers. For cause of war. The Romans vegetables and drank a tonic madeexample, you can be “as American annexed Egypt, a major producer of from ashes to keep essential mineralsas apple pie.” English housewives grain, to guarantee that Rome’s high (J. Howard, Huffport Science,still tear the loose tea leaves from burgeoning population would be 10/22/14). Herodotus said thatteabags to make “proper” English fed. In the 15th century, there the population of ancient Egypttea. In Japan, the word for “meal” was a war between Italian nobles was healthier than any othermeans “cooked rice”, the call to over control of salt, and, more (Histories II, 20-39) and it was thedinner in Thailand means “eat recently, there was a “Cod War” ordinary people, not slaves thatrice”, and the Chinese word for between the United Kingdom built the enormous pyramids. The“rice” means “food”. and Iceland from the 1950s to ancient Chinese ate lots of riceHow does all of this relate to the 1970s for control of fishing and vegetables and developedarchaeology? Nutrition and the rights in the North Atlantic (Tom many innovative technologies longmethods to obtain it were factors Roston, A Brief History of Food & before any other society. Elitethat drove history. Human teeth War, January 11, 2012). men have always been bettergot smaller when we began cooking nourished than women and lowerour food. The first permanent What we eat is recorded in our classes so they lived longer. Goodbuildings were probably built to bones, teeth and hair so food leaders who were able to rule for astore grain. The first attempt at can tell archaeologists where long time tended to produce stablewriting was to record food supplies. If people were born and grew up. governments. Rameses II ruleda community could produce a The enamel of the teeth of Ȍtzi, ancient Egypt for 66 years providingsurplus they became wealthy. The the “ice man” who died in the peace and prosperity.very productive towns that were Italian Alps 5300 years ago, indicate that he spent his entire So the old adage, “you are what you eat” (Concerning Spiritualism and Ice Cream Social Materialism, Ludwig Andreas You Are Invited! Feuerbach, 1863) takes on new importance as another tool to Curry Houses Historic District enhance or possibly change what we Sunday March 20th, Noon - 2:20 PM already know about past civilizations. 1302 4th Ave. East, BradentonIce Cream Socials have long been a part of the community. Join us as we celebrate the inclusionof three historic houses at Manatee County’s newest historic district and future museum complex,located on 4th Ave. between 14th and 12th Streets East and one block North of SR64 in today’sEast Bradenton. Tour the inside of the 1860 home of Amanda (Andress) and Samuel George Curry, an enlist- ed man of the Army and Navy during the Civil War. See the renovation progress on the 1860 Mary Amelia Curry House and the 1925 Theodosia (Curry) Lloyd house. Visit with the local archaeologists, researchers, historians an descendants who helped in documenting the history of the Curry Settlement. Archaeological artifacts from the on-site research which took place will be on display For more information contact 941-746-2035 or email [email protected]

Viking Trail TourWest Coast of Newfoundland & LabradorAugust 12 - 20, 2016 Thousands of years of history come alive as you ferry across the Cabot Strait to explore the West Coast of Newfoundland & Labrador. Learn about ancient peoples, the Maritime Archaic and Dorset Indians at Port au Choix, the Vikings in L’Anse aux Meadows, and the Basque Whalers in Red Bay and meet the hospitable and friendly people of today. See the beauty of Gros Morne National Park – a UNESCO World Heritage Site and coastal fishing communities. Take a boat tour in St. Anthony (weather permitting) where you may seeNET Price Per Person in US funds, whales and, depending on the time of year, icebergs! For more information go to: http://tinyurl.com/gpwa2ks(subject to change) Members Non-MembersNET Price Per Person Includes: Double $2,592.00 $2,692.00 Eight nights’ accommodation Tour Director from arrival in Halifax, NS to departure from Single $3,076.00 $3,176.00 Deer Lake, NL NET Price Per Person Does Not Include: Tour director travel and expenses Travel expenses and related costs to Halifax, NS and from Motorcoach transportation and driver expenses Deer Lake, NL Admission to allsightseeingmentioned in the itinerary. Mealsotherthan thosementioned in theprice includes section All bridge, ferry and road tolls from Halifax, NS to Deer Optional sightseeing admissions Customary gratuity to Tour Director and Driver Lake, NL Handling of one suitcase per person 16 Meals: 7 Dinners; 1 Lunch; 8 Breakfasts Florida Archaeology Month 2016Find archaeology month events at http:/fpan.us/FAM/Officers: Board of Directors Copyright © 2016Sherry Svekis, President Time SiftersArchaeologySociety,Inc.,Darwin \"Smitty\" Smith, Vice Pres. Directors: Sharon McConnell All rights reserved.Valerie Jackson Bell, Secretary Robert Bopp Saretta Sparer We send newsletters to peopleCaroline Reed, Treasurer Glenn Cooper Alfonz Lengyel, Director who have attended or expressedKaren Jensen, Membership Evelyn Mangie Emeritus interestin our lecturesand given us their email address.

Membership Speakers & Events CalendarLifetime: $200 All to be held at 6:00 PMIndividual: $20 Selby Library, 1331 First St., Sarasota 34236Family: $30Sustaining: $50 March 16Student: $10 CulinaryJustice:Defininga Theory ofGastronomicSovereigntyPay online at: Michael Twitty, Food Writer & Culinary HistorianTimeSifters.orgOr mail checks to: *** This program will be held at: New College, Mildred Sainer Pavilion,Time Sifters, Inc. 5313 Bay Shore RoadPO Box 5283Sarasota, FL. 34277 April 20 2016 Cornelia Futor Memorial Student Paper Winners 1st and 2nd Place Student Paper Presenters May 18 RiversofFreedom,LandscapesofLiberty:An Updateon“Lookingfor Angola” and the Archaeology of Maroons in Florida Uzi Braram, Ph.D., Professor of Anthropology, Director of the New College Public Archaeology Lab Time Sifters Archaeology Society A Chapter of the Florida Anthropological Society http://timesifters.org/Time Sifters Archaeology SocietyP. O. Box 5283, Sarasota, FL 34277