"Let's Eat! The Material Culture of Food,"

The University of Delaware's Center for Material Culture will offer a series of talks, "Let's Eat! The Material Culture of Food," this fall.

Aug. 28: Sandy Isenstadt, associate professor of art history, "Visions of Plenty: The American Refrigerator in the 1950s."

Sept. 4: Jaime Margalotti, senior assistant librarian, UD Library Special Collections, "Cookery, Curatives and Community: The Cookbook Collection in the UD Library."

Sept. 11: Tom Pauly, professor emeritus of English, "American Food and Wine Since 1960."

Sept. 18: David Ames, director of the Center for Historic Architecture and Design, "Fast Food Architecture."

Sept. 25: Bill Deering, assistant professor of art, "Visualizing Desire: A Food Photographer's Romp."

Oct. 2: Deborah Krohn, associate professor, Bard Graduate Center, "Pots and Pans in Renaissance Rome."

Oct. 9: Jennifer Lindner McGlinn, UD alumna, cook, blogger and author, "Living Deliciously as Brought to You on Screen and Page."

Oct. 16: Lauren Brincat and Philippe Halbert, Winterthur Fellows, "Records and Recipes: Food and Drink in Early America."

Oct. 23: Fred DeMicco, ARAMARK Chair of Hotel, Restaurant and Institutional Management, "Beds, Burgers, Booze and Cruise."

Oct. 30: David Leicht, regional culinary director, ARAMARK Higher Education, "A Chef's Perspective on Great Food for Great Numbers."

Nov. 6: Perry Chapman, professor of art history, "400-Year-Old Cheese: Food in 17th Century Dutch Painting."

Nov. 13: Anne Krulikowski, supplemental faculty, Department of History, "You Are Cordially Invited: Eating and Entertaining at Rockwood."

Nov. 20: Margaret Stetz, Mae and Robert Carter Professor of Women and Gender Studies, "Mr. Peanut, Dandy."