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Holly Benison Teaches Cooking and History Through YouTube Series

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Public History MA student Holly Benison has created a cooking show as part of her master’s thesis project. A short excerpt can be found below with the full article by Alyssa Tremblay, “,” available online.

From green corn patties to preserved apples, public history student Holly Benison is teaching people around the world how to cook like a 19th-century Canadian immigrant through her YouTube video series, 鈥.鈥

Half cooking show and half history lesson, the series is actually part of Benison鈥檚 master鈥檚 thesis project at 杏吧原创 University.

Instead of writing a traditional paper, she鈥檚 studying women鈥檚 work and culinary history in the mid-1800s by creating educational videos in which she recreates recipes and techniques from the 1854 book The Female Emigrant鈥檚 Guide by Upper Canada author and naturalist Catherine Parr Trail.