Gabriella M. Petrick, Ph.D. 🍇🍇🍇

@gpetrick

Food Systems Historian, Environmental Humanities. Sensory History of Taste. Trying to understand all things Food & Wine & Sci/Tech, MSCA Alum UStavanger Now at Ruhr U Bochum. New project on wine and climate change. #envhist #foodstudies #foodhistory

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Gabriella M. Petrick, Ph.D. 🍇🍇🍇@gpetrick· 29d

More likely this than whole heads of lettuce. Yes, even organic is vulnerable because it goes through the same processing facilities. When you mingle products they all get infected.

Image of Simple Truth Shredded Romain lettuce.

Gabriella M. Petrick, Ph.D. 🍇🍇🍇@gpetrick· 29d

My bet is bagged lettuce. Why? because it is more fully automated and washed in bins together. Oddly head lettuce is less exposed to potential bacteria. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Head of lettuce with googlie eyes and a blank face. Very bright green in color with matching eyes.

Gabriella M. Petrick, Ph.D. 🍇🍇🍇@gpetrick· Jul 12

Feeling pretty good about the ciabatta I made to day. First try. Better than the focaccia, which I'll work on.

Gabriella M. Petrick, Ph.D. 🍇🍇🍇@gpetrick· Jul 11

Dinner!! Risotto with mushroom, leek, pancetta & pesto.

Gabriella M. Petrick, Ph.D. 🍇🍇🍇@gpetrick· Jul 3

Look what is in the Crozet Gazette @gfitz.bsky.social

Picture of 611 Steam locomotive passing through Crozet VA. Black with red stripe. Large plume of black smoke drifting behind. Crozet Station in the background

Gabriella M. Petrick, Ph.D. 🍇🍇🍇@gpetrick· Jul 3

Are you writing about food with an environmental aspect? #EnvHist #FoodHist #FoodStudies Check out our call for papers! Oxford Intersections is a fast, respected, high-impact publishing format - perfect for new research in environmental history. academic.oup.com/oxford-inter...

Dutch still life with shellfish, oysters, lemon, orange, grapes, olives and knocked over silver saltshaker.

Gabriella M. Petrick, Ph.D. 🍇🍇🍇@gpetrick· Jun 13

Sesame Chicken DinnerSes

$Chines sesame chicken noodles with blanched broccoli and a bit of sautéed mushrooms. None mixed. 12 o'clock broccoli with sauce, 6 o\clock leftover roasted chicken battonauge. Raman underneath and sautéed mushrooms just south of the broccoli. Sesame sauce on the noodles but not detracting from the bright colors of the other ingredients$

Gabriella M. Petrick, Ph.D. 🍇🍇🍇@gpetrick· Jun 12

So much @edwardhopper.bsky.social in this

Two men in a living room with still life painted by David Hockney which reminds me of Edward Hopper

Gabriella M. Petrick, Ph.D. 🍇🍇🍇@gpetrick· May 28

Peonies! Love I can buy them in the grocery and wow they smell amazing.

White peonies on a wooden table. One in full bloom--frilly, second half open up with frill inside & third just opening. Several closed blooms.

Gabriella M. Petrick, Ph.D. 🍇🍇🍇@gpetrick· May 28

Rhubarb custard pie & strawberry rhubarb custard pie.

Slice of rhubarb custard pie with whipped cream and macerated strawberries. Modern strawberry rhubarb pie.

Gabriella M. Petrick, Ph.D. 🍇🍇🍇@gpetrick· Mar 22

Heading to @aseh.bsky.social on Tuesday in KC. Two big announcements. The Food, Agriculture & the Environment SIG will meet Fri @ 7 am in Pavilion & @academic.oup.com Intersections Food section will be there (me!) Find me if you are interested in both or either.

Poster with pictures of HJ Heinz in a field in Wisconsin, food trash on Hester St. in NYC & rows of lettuce field towards the mountains in Salinas CA. It advertises the Food, Agriculture
& The Environment
Special Interest Group
Come join others interested in the intersection of Food, Agriculture and the Environment a SIG Connects Agricultural History & ASEH.
We will meet Friday 27 March from 7:00-8:00 am in Pavillon.
For More Information Contact: Gabriella M. Petrick gmpetrick@gmail.com

Poster of Oxford Intersection Environmental Change & Human Experience series featuring the Food Section. (raspberry in the background) Text reads Food and Drink
Section Editor: Food
I am accepting proposal related to food, drink and the environment for the series. Topics, geographic areas and time periods are open
Potential topics include:
* Food & the senses
* Water as a beverage
• Food & Empire/ Colonialism
Meat production and animal husbandry
* Water, water ways, & agriculture
* Fisheries
If you are interested in publishing with the series, please contact me at gmpetrick@email.com.

Section Editor: Food
I am accepting proposal related to food, drink and the environment for the series. Topics, geographic areas and time periods are open
Potential topics include:
* Food & the senses
* Water as a beverage
• Food & Empire/ Colonialism
Meat production and animal husbandry
* Water, water ways, & agriculture
* Fisheries
If you are interested in publishing with the series, please contact me at gmpetrick@email.com.
Gabriella M. Petrick
Research Historian and Fellow
Ruhr University Bochum, Germany and University of Stavanger, Norway
Gabriella M. Petrick is a Research Historian at the Ruhr University Bochum, Germany and a fellow with the Greenhouse Center for Environmental Humanities at the University of Stavanger, Norway. Her interdisciplinary research on food combines the fields of the history of technology, sensory history, environmental history, and the history of science. Her newest project looks at the globalization of wine in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, investigating how scientific inquiry and technological innovations have changed the taste of wine in the glass. Dr Petrick has won National Science Foundation and USDA grants, and a Marie S. Curie fellowship. She has published in the Journal of American History, Agricultural History, History and Technology, among other journals and edited volumes.

Gabriella M. Petrick, Ph.D. 🍇🍇🍇@gpetrick· Mar 11

Making the rabbit loins. Had some extra forcemeat so timbales. Had to use bacon because couldn't find caul fat or pancetta in my local markets.

Rabbit loin stuffed with leek, mushroom forcemeat and wrapped in bacon

Timbale of rabbit mushroom & leek forcemeat with a bacon strip

Rabbit loin stuffed with leek, mushroom forcemeat and wrapped in bacon and forcemeat wrapped in bacon

Gabriella M. Petrick, Ph.D. 🍇🍇🍇@gpetrick· Mar 11

I never thought I'd see wild fires from our house, but here we are with wildfires in the Monticello AVA of VA wine country. Fortunately no grapes yet let alone veraison so wine taint isn't a problem. This is the second year of fires so last fall was in drought. Picture by @gfitz.bsky.social

Wildfire in the distance on Afton Mountain in Crozet Virginia. Housing development in the foreground with smoke rising above.

Gabriella M. Petrick, Ph.D. 🍇🍇🍇@gpetrick· Mar 9

Why yes you can make forcemeat in a blender! Gonna make a saddle of rabbit with mushroom leek forcemeat. Also made Southern fried rabbit legs, which were amazing. Found it in the grocery on sale.

Gabriella M. Petrick, Ph.D. 🍇🍇🍇@gpetrick· Mar 7

Spring arrived early

Light purple blooming azalea with small purple flower in a garden. Brick and stucco house.

Gabriella M. Petrick, Ph.D. 🍇🍇🍇@gpetrick· Feb 9

Madame Defarge from A Tale of Two Cities knitting the names of her enemies

Gabriella M. Petrick, Ph.D. 🍇🍇🍇@gpetrick· Jan 25

The big storm is just starting in Crozet.

Image of Christmas lights in boxwood and lightly snow covered stoop in Crozet VA.

Gabriella M. Petrick, Ph.D. 🍇🍇🍇@gpetrick· Dec 16

If you see this, we IMPLORE YOU to post a picture from whatever device you’re using without explanation.

Gabriella M. Petrick, Ph.D. 🍇🍇🍇@gpetrick· Dec 14

Hazelnut butter balls!!! New recipe. Made with brown sugar with fine and course hazelnuts. Will keep this recipe.

Gabriella M. Petrick, Ph.D. 🍇🍇🍇@gpetrick· Nov 23

And if I only could I'd make a deal with God And I'd get Him to swap our places Be runnin' up that road Be runnin' up that hill Be runnin' up that building Say, if I only could, oh

Picture of Pope Leo singing into a microphone with cardinal photographers and other--mostly men in black behind him.

Gabriella M. Petrick, Ph.D. 🍇🍇🍇@gpetrick· Nov 14

Mac & Cheese and Chex on massive sale at Harris Teeter and upscale brand of Kroger's collection of grocery stores. These are definitely cheaper than store brand, but they could be on sale as well. Thinking BigFood is feeling the pain of SNAP. Not a holiday sale, that will come next week.

Gabriella M. Petrick, Ph.D. 🍇🍇🍇@gpetrick· Nov 7

1877 What a year?

Picture of the Great Railroad Strike in 1877. Burning Pittsburg Union Station, gunshots, women, children, & women running.

"Pennsylvania—The Railroad Riot. Pittsburgh—The Philadelphia Militia Firing On The Mob At The Twenty-Eighth Street Crossing Near The Union Depot Of The Pennsylvania Railroad, On Saturday Afternoon July 21st. From a sketch by John Donaghy"
"Pennsylvania—The Railroad Riot. Pittsburgh—The Philadelphia Militia Firing On The Mob At The Twenty-Eighth Street Crossing Near The Union Depot Of The Pennsylvania Railroad, On Saturday Afternoon July 21st. From a sketch by John Donaghy," Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, August 4, 1877.

Source:

Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, August 4, 1877—American Social History Project.

Noting the illustrated papers’ general “representation . . . of the wild scenes of last week in various American cities,” the Pittsburgh Leader singled out Frank Leslie’s artist John Donaghy, a resident of the city, for accurately portraying “the mob.” The other pictorial publications, the newspaper complained, “represent it as a wild and heterogeneous collection of rough men and virago women, in every variety of costume, some with blouses, some in open shirts and bare arms, some with bandannas around their brows and all with coarse, brutish features, exhibiting every phase of ignorance and malignity.” But, the Leader continued, “American workmen . . . dress in the ordinary male costume of coat, vest and pants, sometimes, however, going in their shirt-sleeves. . . . The South-side delegation, which marched up to the Round-House to help the strikers on that fatal Saturday evening, was led by a man in a good frock-coat, with a white neck-tie, and the men generally were well clad, and many of them had their boots blacked. An American mob,” the Leader concluded, “is a pretty fair representation in appearance of the American people.”

International Views of the Strike

Pictorial news about the Great Uprising extended beyond America…

Gabriella M. Petrick, Ph.D. 🍇🍇🍇@gpetrick· Nov 7

Did Rod Douf*** Ruin the NYT?

Screen shot from NYT Did Liberal Feminism Ruin the Workplace? by Ross Douf****

Gabriella M. Petrick, Ph.D. 🍇🍇🍇@gpetrick· Oct 31

Made pasticio

Gabriella M. Petrick, Ph.D. 🍇🍇🍇@gpetrick· Oct 31

As an American I find it both weird and wonderful to seem my neighborhood decked out for Halloween. Fire pits, bowls of candy & tents to greet the trick or treaters.👻👻🎃🎃🎃🎃

House ready for Halloween. Graveyard, ghosts, and ghouls in the window

House ready for halloween. Skeleton, scary pumpkin & lanterns. Skeleton coming out of at pile of leaves

Gabriella M. Petrick, Ph.D. 🍇🍇🍇@gpetrick· Oct 9

Confit!!! I wasn't willing to sacrifice my limited duck/goose fat so I used lard and rapeseed oil, which will be repurposed for other uses gradually. Will render the duck fat and add it to my stash for future use.

Cooked duck leg confit in lard and rapeseed oil 1 legs in a white casserole

Cooked duck leg confit in lard and rapeseed oil 3 legs in a white casserole

Gabriella M. Petrick, Ph.D. 🍇🍇🍇@gpetrick· Oct 8

Feeling very fall so wild mushrooms (cauliflower mushroom & chanterelle) + spinach. Tossed with egg noodles, cream and bacon lardons.

Sautéed chanterelles, cauliflower mushrooms & spinach in a blue sauté pan.

Gabriella M. Petrick, Ph.D. 🍇🍇🍇@gpetrick· Oct 7

Doing a light confit.

Duck legs wit rosemary, shallot, garlic, differ lime, bay leaf, and spices going into the fridge for a day or two

Gabriella M. Petrick, Ph.D. 🍇🍇🍇@gpetrick· Oct 5

Everything but the gravy on one plate. Roasted duck breast, celeriac puree, figgy stuffing, roasted potatoes & peas and chanterelles

Gabriella M. Petrick, Ph.D. 🍇🍇🍇@gpetrick· Oct 5

Some recent meals. Poêeled chicken with lemon olives and fig and roasted young duckling stuffed with tea scented dried apricots, prunes & fresh figs with celeriac puree, potatoes roasted in duck fat and Sautéed chanterelles & peas. Fig and chanterelle season!!! Yay.