About

Edible History is a historical dining collective founded in 2014 with the goal of bringing people into the conversation of history, through a universally accessible medium: food. A pioneering supper club in the food history space, Edible History has hosted historically themed dinners in Ancient Rome, Tudor England, 10th Century Baghdad, along the Medieval Silk Road, in Louis XIV’s Versailles, in 19th Century New York City and countless other periods and places.

Meet the Team ↓

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Victoria Flexner is a food historian and the founder of Edible History. She holds a degree in History from the University of Edinburgh in the United Kingdom and a Masters in Historical Studies from The New School in New York City. Flexner worked at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The New York Public Library, and The Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum prior to founding Edible History. In 2018, she held a residency at The Museum of Food and Drink hosting monthly dinners based on a wide range of historic periods, including a feminist dinner party based on Judy Chicago’s The Dinner Party which received write ups in Vogue and The New Yorker. In 2020 Flexner produced the podcast series 100 Years of Power for The Story Exchange, which won the award “Best Audio Feature 2020” by the Newswomen’s Club of New York. In 2021 Rizzoli acquired her book A History of The World in Ten Dinners, a sweeping history of 2,000 years of global history with period recipes.