Small Museum Association Conference 2025

A Taste of History with Joyce White
Joyce White is a food historian with 30+ years offering Food History Services for Museums, Faux Food, Presentations with Tastings, Historic Recipes, Videos, Articles, and More...

Joyce is now offering historically accurate faux food items such as jellies, creams, blancmange, flummery, pies, cakes, small cakes, biscuits and more made with her extensive collection of culinary moulds. Other items include johnny cake, cleaning products, and faux loaf sugar cones.

Joyce also provides PowerPoint presentations with tastings on a variety of topics and consulting/research for food history exhibitions; she also writes articles for local publications such as Outlook by the Bay, MarylandRoadTrips.com, Chesapeake Family, and assorted blogs.

Since 2006 Joyce has been the foodways consultant to the c. 1801 Riversdale House Museum in Riverdale Park, MD, was the consultant for the restoration of the 18th-century kitchen at Annapolis’s William Paca House in 2006, was the guest curator for the Maryland State Exhibit for the Southern Food & Beverage Museum in New Orleans, LA in 2012, and is currently Vice President of Annapolis’ c. 1774 Hammond-Harwood House Museum.

Joyce has a B.A. from William Smith College, an M.A. in American Studies from Penn State University, and has studied food history with leaders in the field at various historic sites in England and the US.

Joyce lives in Annapolis with her husband and has two grown daughters.