Alice Ross
{{short description|American culinary historian}}
Dr. Alice S. Ross (September 28, 1930 – December 7, 2020) was an American culinary historian, consultant, and author.{{cite news|last=Weaver |first=William Woys |date=1988-04-27 |title=Open-Hearth Cooking: Why All the Fuss Over Hot Ashes? | work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1988/04/27/garden/open-hearth-cooking-why-all-the-fuss-over-hot-ashes.html}}{{cite news|last=Ketcham |first=Diane |date=1988-09-18 |title=LONG ISLAND JOURNAL; Back to Colonial Basics | work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1988/09/18/nyregion/long-island-journal-697688.html}}
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.{{cite news|last=Wharton|first=Rachel|date=2018-04-09|title=OLD SCHOOL. Ancestral cooking classes offer a taste of the past|work=New York Daily News|url=https://www.nydailynews.com/2005/11/27/old-school-ancestral-cooking-classes-offer-a-taste-of-the-past/}}
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.{{cite web|url=https://cookforfun.shawguides.com/AliceRossHearthStudios|title=Alice Ross Hearth Studios|website=ShawGuides}}
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.{{cite news|last=Fischler |first=Marcelle S. |date=2001-11-25 |title=LONG ISLAND JOURNAL; An Expert in the Neglected History of Food | work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/25/nyregion/long-island-journal-an-expert-in-the-neglected-history-of-food.html}} She died on December 7, 2020.
The Alice Ross Culinary Ephemera Collection is housed at Virginia Tech.{{cite archive|collection-url=https://aspace.lib.vt.edu/repositories/2/resources/3183|collection=Alice Ross Culinary Ephemera Collection|institution=Virginia Tech|repository=Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech Repository}}
Selected publications
- Health and Diet in 19th-Century America: A Food Historian's Point of View (1993){{cite journal|last=Ross|first=Alice|date=1993|title=Health and Diet in 19th-Century America: A Food Historian's Point of View|journal=Historical Archaeology|volume=27 |issue=2 |publisher=Springer Nature |pages=42-56 |jstor=25616238}}
- 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
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External links
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20131030104554/http://www.aliceross.com/ aliceross.com]
- {{cite podcast|host=Linda Pelaccio|date=December 19, 2013|title=Alice Ross on the History of Christmas Dinner|url=https://heritageradionetwork.org/episode/alice-ross-on-the-history-of-christmas-dinner/|work=A Taste of the Past}}
- {{cite web|last=DeMarino|first=Rebecca|date=2021-11-08|title=Research: Chasing Clues, Ideas, and Whims|url=https://www.rebeccademarino.com/2021/11/08/chasing-clues-ideas-and-whims-in-research-heaven/}}
- {{cite web|date=2024-08-27|title=A True Vintage Crop: Sweet Corn|url=https://www.communitylibrary.org/blog/2024/08/27/a-true-vintage-crop-sweet-corn/}}
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Category:American food writers
Category:People from Smithtown, New York
Category:20th-century American women educators
Category:Stony Brook University alumni
Category:Queens College, City University of New York faculty
Category:City College of New York faculty