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Dining in the Gilded Age – A Lecture by Becky Diamond
March 26 @ 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm EDT
Becky Libourel Diamond is a food writer, librarian, and research historian. Her most recent book, The Gilded Age Christmas Cookbook, blends Gilded Age details and celebrity stories with historic holiday menus and recipes updated for modern kitchens. She is also the author of The Gilded Age Cookbook, The Thousand Dollar Dinner and Mrs. Goodfellow: The Story of America’s First Cooking School. She holds a bachelor’s degree in journalism from Rider University and a master’s of library service degree from Rutgers University. She has worked as a business librarian at Rutgers–New Brunswick since 2020. Her next book is a history of Philadelphia’s famous City Tavern restaurant, slated for a fall 2026 release.
