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Bear Meat, Ice & Celebrity Chefs: A Look at NYC’s 19th Century Food Scene
Posted by nonabrooklyn on Jan 19 2012

“Ever wonder what New Yorkers actually ate in the nineteenth century? Chef Tom Kearney of The Farm on Adderley in Ditmas Park is hosting a ‘Pre-Industrial Dinner’ next week with historical gastronomist Sarah Lohman to shed some light on pre-industrial food, and on how Brooklyn fit into the larger network of farms and food distribution in the 1800s.”  Read more.

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January’s Adventure in the Global Kitchen Highlights Historical Diets
The American Museum of Natural History Blog

“As part of her talk, Loham will give an overview of how and why Americans historically lost weight, the psychology of body image, and the birth of food science and home economics. Lohman recently took us through a few of the dieting techniques and food items that she’ll discuss—and even encourage audience members to try—next week.”  Read more. 

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Ye Olde Menu: Dormouse, Anyone?
The Wall Street Journal, October 12th, 2011
By  Alina Dizik

“Sarah Lohman, founder of Four Pounds Flour, a blog devoted to ‘historic gastronomy,’ recently posted recipes for Baked Alaska and a tamale recipe dating from 1890s New York. ‘We want to be eating the food that our forefathers ate,’ Ms. Lohman says.”

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How to make money teaching your hobby to others
Brokelyn.com, Sept. 7th, 2011
by Andrew Linderman

“The best way to keep students from nodding off, says experienced instructor Sarah Lohman, is to make them feel important.  ’If I am doing a lecture, I try to throw out thoughtful questions to the audience that call for opinion-based answers. That way, people can speak out without fear of giving a wrong answer,’ says Lohman, who has taught a handful of courses on food and is also a lecturer at the Lower East Side Tenement Museum and periodic speaker at the Brooklyn Historical Society.” Read more.
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Edible: Historical Gastronomist Takes On Classic Recipes In Her Long Island City Kitchen
By Rachel Wharton
Aired on New York 1 on January 14th

“Rachel Wharton of Edible Manhattan traveled to Long Island City, Queens to the kitchen of Sarah Lohman, a historical gastronomist who took on the task of making ice cream from 1890.

“‘This is the first time I’ve made it, so it could be a disaster; we’ll find out,’ Lohman says. ‘But, to me, I’m more of a student of history and not an expert. I’m always learning, and finding out what’s going to happen is part of the thrill.”’ Read more and watch the video here.

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Photographs of the Dead Were Once Private Keepsakes: A Museum Exhibit Depicts Turn of the Century Funeral Rituals
ABC News, November 1st, 2010
By Karen Russo

“”The idea that something as everyday as a dripping faucet could conjure up such a powerful image of death intrigued me,” Lohman explained. “Life is a multi-sensory experience; I believe that invoking these senses to connect with people of the past is a very powerful teaching tool.” Read More.

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Gut Instinct: Bread Alone
The New York Press, October 27, 2010
By Joshua M. Bernstein

“With such an aversion to ancient bread, it’s understandable that I didn’t invite her to Park Slope’s Old Stone House. On a recent rainy Thursday night, the historic structure hosted Bread and Beer, touted as a “New Amsterdam tasting menu.” The event was the barley-based brainchild of Long Island City artist Sarah Lohman, who runs historical gastronomy website Four Pounds Flour. She dredges up 18thand 19th-century recipes, creating a form of culinary time travel.

‘I love making something that was written down 300 years ago a reality,’explained Lohman, bustling around in an apron and big smile. Her event focused on Dutch foodstuffs that sailed over to New Amsterdam, now known as New York. Lohman researched and re-created five courses of bread, each paired with an equally antediluvian beer created by home brewers Chris Prout and Erik Olsen, of Greenpoint brew shop Brouwerij Lane.” Read More.

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The Culinate Interview: Sarah Lohman, The Historic Gastronomist
On Culinate, October 4th 2010
By Leah Koenig

“What does history taste like? For Sarah Lohman, a New York City resident and self-described ‘historic gastronomist,’ that question is key to understanding the past.

With Culinate, Lohman talked about the importance of making history personal, her weeklong adventures with Jell-O, and which contemporary cookbooks she thinks will stand the test of time.” Read more.

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NOTABLE EDIBLES: The Cheese Stands Alone
In Edible Manhattan, September/October issue.
By Rachel Wharton Photographs by Michael Harlan Turkell

“That brittle bit of dairy also became the star of a recent Silver and Ash–themed supper Burson cohosted with Sarah Lohman, who blogs at fourpoundsflour.com….The night featured four courses pegged to Burson family memory and prepared by Lohman, each dish delivered with a story and a song from Burson. When her great-grandfather leaves home, you start with a schmear of that soft white cheese smuggled so long ago in his trunk. As Burson’s grandmother Mimi leaves her parents behind in 1930’s Germany, you savor her favorite meal: frankfurters, beans and German potato salad. When Burson talks about visiting Mimi as a child, you taste her always-in-the-freezer almond pound cake.” Read More.

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Food Culture Resources
On The Education of Oronte Churm
April 7th, 2010

“I started thinking about food’s place in the academy after reading and becoming addicted to the nonacademic site Four Pounds Flour: Historic Gastronomy…Lohman brings to life that nearly-lost poetry, whether it’s researching, cooking, and tasting Thomas Jefferson’s port wine pudding (inedible, as it turns out, perhaps due to 18th-century chemical additives like isinglass), or recreating the roast bear from a menu for Charles Dickens’s visit to New York (tastes like beef). For my money, the potential interest of her topic makes books about cooking one’s way through Julia Child look like pretty weak tea.”  (Read More)

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Key Revolutionary War location serves historic era delicacies
On Examiner.com
By David Brezler on March 9, 2010

“New York City is, because of its crucial geographical location and relavence in terms of the nation’s commencement, a place flooded with historically significant sites. Brooklyn’s Old Stone House is one such place, and this past Sunday it was the scene of Sarah Lohman’s (of Four Pounds Flour) adventure in pancake mastery to present flavors and cooking styles contemporary to the beginnings of the Old Stone House.” (Read More)

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Ye Olde Radar Range
On Edible Manhattan Blog
By Rachel Wharton on December11th, 2009

“Four Pounds Flour is the handiwork of Sarah Lohman, a city cook who digs up old American recipes (as in hundreds of years old, like LES tenement cucina povera meals or funky 18th century diet fare) and then makes them. That might not seem that impressive, but recreating the recipes of olde  is actually a difficult task: Consider that instructions are incomplete, can include the use of an open fire, and deal with old-fashioned measurements like a “do.,” whatever that might be.” (Read More)

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Sunday: Learn to cook an 19th-century Thanksgiving
On Brokelyn.com
By Eric Reichbaum on November 20th, 2009

“Ever wonder what the pilgrims and Indians actually ate at that fabled first Thanksgiving? Queens-based historic gastronomist and blogger Sarah Lohman can probably tell you.”(Read More)

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Meet Brooklyn’s Historic Gastronomist, Sarah Lohman
On The Village Voice Blogs
By Chantal Martineau on November 20th, 2009

“Ever wonder what people were eating at the turn of the century? …Sarah Lohman does every day. Her blog Four Pounds Flour chronicles her “retro-innovative” exploration of what people ate back in the day, from slave staples to French Huguenot desserts. Sound like the next big food blog-turned-cookbook deal? Um, yeah…”(Read More)

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Four Pounds Flour: Historic Gastronomy
Craftzine Blog
By Becky Stern on October 21st, 2009

“I ate some of her Chocolet Puffs from the Haveymeyer Sugar Sweets Sale earlier this month, and they were delicious! If you like food and history, you might give her blog a follow.”  (Read More)

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