Teaching the History of Food Online: Using Instagram and Active Learning to Connect the Past and the Present.

HISTORY of food; HISTORY education; HIGHER education; INSTAGRAM (Web resource); ACTIVE learning; DIGITAL resources in education

The author shares her approach to teaching food history to a college-level class using Instagram and the cooking of historical recipes while recording the process in photographs or videos to encourage students to integrate their knowledge of history into their daily lived experiences. Topics include the fun and excitement of teaching food history, a variety of digital resources on teaching food history, and the responses of the students to the use of Instagram in their history class.