Conference “Food & Wine: Field to Table” - Glimpses into History

The 34th Conference of the Ephemera Society of America – “Food



& Wine: Field to Table”

The voluptuous Sophia Loren supposedly quipped “everything
you see I owe to spaghetti.” This remark, although apocryphal, serves as an
epigrammatic reminder that the food we plant, harvest, package, prepare and eat is a reflection of ourselves and our culture. 

The distinguished Ephemera/34 speakers have undoubtedly deeply immersed themselves in the “Loren Theorem” and will demonstrate how the often visually stunning ephemera of food and drink similarly both mirrors and influences culture.  While this may sound
frightfully over-academic to some, one must remember that others have
frequently considered food ephemera to be merely rather modern paper abundantly found in dollar bins at antique malls. Apparently, at least in in the popular imagination, the ephemera of food and drink occupies opposite ends of the collecting spectrum: from highfalutin to commonplace.  For additional http://www.ephemerasociety.org/34.html

Speakers include William Woys Weaver, Ph.D.,  M. Stephen Miller, Michael Russo, Elizabeth Young, Henry Voigt, Michael Osborne, Don Lindgren, Leslie M. Behm and Shirley Brocker Sliker

The conference is followed by a two day Ephemera fair, featuring the leading ephemera sellers in the United States and Europe.  The materials offered range from the 18th through the 20th centuries and cross many collecting interests from scholarly reference, fine illustration, historical memorabilia, popular culture, whimsy and much more. The weekend also includes a banquet featuring ephemera trivia lead by Will Shortz.