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SNHP Fall Series: Washington’s War Time Cooks

November 7, 2024

Saratoga National Historical Park Visitor Center

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Event Details

  • Reservations required by emailing sara_reservations@nps.gov.

  • Start Time:

    6:30pm

  • Location:

    Saratoga National Historical Park Visitor Center 648 NY-32, Stillwater, NY

  • Speaker:

    Lavada Nahon

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Washington’s War Time Cooks
Although there is only one “Washington’s Headquarters” in New York, there are numerous signs around the region stating, “Washington slept here.” Which means he also ate there. Typically, however, not food prepared by the household’s cook, but by his own staff, led by Hannah Till, an enslaved woman, and her husband Isaac. Who were they? What skills may they have had? Join us as we look at current research on Hannah & Isaac and ponder what it may have been like to travel and cook around the region for Washington.
Speaker Lavada Nahon is a culinary historian with 30 years public history experience. She focuses on New Netherland and New York, 17th through 19th centuries, specifically, the lives and cultures of Africans and their descendants, enslaved and free and is the first Interpreter of African American History for New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation, Bureau of Historic Sites.
Reservations are required by emailing sara_reservations@nps.gov. Please include the date of the program you wish to attend. The Fall Lecture Series is presented with support from the Friends of Saratoga Battlefield.

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