Contact Deborah to arrange a talk or demonstration for your group.

Come visit with Deborah in the Pantry at these events, shop for your ingredients, gifts, ideas, and save shipping costs. Please check with the individual sites for any gate fees that might be required.

JANUARY

January 26 - Open Hearth Cooking Demonstration in Pottsgrove Manor's reconstructed Colonial kitchen in Pottstown, Pennsylvania. Take a tour of the house and stay to watch Deborah Peterson work with foods preserved for winter using authentic 18th-century receipts and techniques from 11 a.m. till 4 p.m. Free admission.

January 27 - Come join Deborah for "Isinglass, Trotters and Hartshorn" at the Indian Valley Public Library in Telford, Pennsylvania. In the 18th century, jellies were a gelatin dish not at all like what we are used to today when we buy jelly. Trotters are pig and calf feet; isinglass is the air bladder of fresh water sturgeon;hartshorn is deer antler. All are gelling agents and all were used to make dessert jellies. Deb will have samples of all three, show-and-tell jellies, photos, and a small handout receipt book for the guests. 2 p.m. till 3 p.m., free admission.

MARCH

March 1 - Food Symposium, "Not All Home Grown" in Kulpsville, Pennsylvania, sponsored by Deborah Peterson's Pantry. A day of engaging speakers sure to interest those involved with open hearth cooking, historic sites or 18th-century daily life. For more information, see our PDF registration form. Once you've had your appetite stimulated, register for the symposium. But hurry - spaces are going VERY quickly!

March 15-16 - Shop at the Pantry at Military Through The Ages at Jamestown Settlement. Military reenactors return for the 25th consecutive year for a unique chronological display of military history. Programs show how soldiers throughout time dressed and armed themselves, as well as how they were fed and sheltered in times of war. The event also features mock skirmishes, tactical demonstrations, and a variety of vehicles and equipment.

March 28 - Shop at the Pantry at George Mason University's Early American crafts and trades fair in Fairfax, Virginia, "All Manner of Useful Goods: Household Necessities and Craftsmanship in Early America - A Symposium on American Social History and Material Culture." Fair hours are 9:00 a.m. - 3:30 p.m. The event explores a host of hand-crafted materials and objects necessary to the daily running of households in early America from 1750-1850, and the craftsmanship involved in producing and marketing these wares. Presentations, a costumed interpretation, tabletop exhibits and demonstrations examine various trades, how they operated, economic factors impacting American craft, and how utilitarian goods made of redware and stoneware, base metals, cooperage, basketry and woodenware were produced and marketed. Cost: $65.00. Advance registration is required and must be received by March 21, 2008. For information and registration forms, email susan.clark(at)fairfaxcounty.gov or phone Museum Collections at (703) 631-1429 or FAX (703) 631-8319.

APRIL

April 19 - Deborah speaks on Vinegar at Pennypacker Mills, Schwenksville, Pennsylvania.

April 25-27 - The Pantry will be set up at the annual Fort Frederick Market Fair at Fort Frederick State Park in Big Pool, Maryland. For more information about the Market Fair, visit Friends of Fort Frederick site. Come see what Deb has hidden away to surprise her visitors! Our deepest regrets to those who planned to visit with us here. The Pantry will not be at the Market Fair this year.

MAY

May 3 - "Spirit of the Jerseys" at Johnson Ferry House, Titusville, New Jersey. Deborah demonstrates cooking in the Johnson Ferry House's kitchen.

May 17-18 - The Pantry will be open for business at Daniel Boone Homestead in Birdsboro, Pennsylvania. Event sponsored by the 43rd Foot. For more information on this event, visit here.

JUNE

June 7 - Cooking demonstration at Pottsgrove Manor, Pottstown, Pennsylvania.

June 14 - Women's Weekend at Brandywine Battlefield Historic Site, Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania.

June 27-29 - Shop with the Pantry at the Grand Encampment of the French & Indian War at Fort Ticonderoga in Ticonderoga, New York. Schedule change - The Pantry will not attend this year.

SEPTEMBER

September 6-7 - Battle of Brandywine, Brandywine Battlefield Historic Site, Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania. Pantry will be open for business.

September 13-14 - Mount Vernon Craft Fair at the home of George Washington, Mount Vernon, Virginia. Deb brings the Pantry to Washington's home.

September 20 - Join Deborah at 2 p.m. for a lively discussion of "Coffee, Chocolate, Tea, Spices, and
Many Other Items too Tedious to Mention; 18c Imports into Philadelphia" at the 1719 William Trent House Museum, 15 Market Street in Trenton, New Jersey.

OCTOBER

October 4 - Battle of Germantown, Cliveden of the National Trust, Germantown, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Come visit the Pantry!

October 18-19 - Battle of The Hook at Gloucester Point, Virginia. The event is planned as a "Big Three" reenactment to include The Continental Line, The British Brigade, and the Brigade of the American Revolution. Commanders of all three umbrella organizations have sanctioned the event as the major event for Fall 2008.

NOVEMBER

November 1-2 - The Pantry will set up at Hope Lodge Grand Encampment in Fort Washington, Pennsylvania.

 

Come back to see other places Deborah will be - schedule updated frequently.