Becky Diamond and The Gilded Age Cookbook

The American Gilded Age (1868 to 1900) and its extreme extravagance continue to be a source of wonder and fascination, particularly for foodies. The style and excessiveness of this era has ties to modern popular culture through books, films, and television shows, including the Julian Fellowes TV series The Gilded Age on HBO.

Newswomen’s Club of New York members joined Becky Libourel Diamond as she discussed foods and stories from the Gilded Age as featured in her new book The Gilded Age Cookbook. To view a recording of the event, please click here. The password is: ekF0I7%9.

Becky Libourel Diamond is a food writer, librarian and research historian. She has been writing about food since 2008, parlaying her passion for food and history into the publication of The Thousand Dollar Dinner and Mrs. Goodfellow: The Story of America’s First Cooking School. She has also written about food and history for Eaten Magazine, Newtown Lifestyle, Table Matters: The Journal of Food, Drink and Manners and The Historical Cooking Project. She has a B.A. in journalism from Rider University and a M.L.S. (Master of Library Studies) from Rutgers University. She lives in Yardley, PA; you can learn more about her at http://www.beckyldiamond.com.