This summer school is organised by the Groningen Institute of Archaeology, an institution well known for its advanced research of subfossil plant remains. This summer school is aimed at broadening and deepening your knowledge of traditional food practices. It will help you to learn to recognize them in your archaeobotanical assemblage.

Food from Field to Fork engages with key questions that arise from the archaeobotanical study of past food practices. For instance:

• how can I recognize crop processing in my samples?
• how can morphological traits help me to determine crop preferences?
• are traces of preparation marks recognisable on subfossil remains?
• what can historical sources tell me about crop processing in the field and food preparation in the home?

This summer school challenges you to think about how to tackle these key questions. We will assist you and help you learn to do so by studying examples of recent traditional food products, subfossil samples from Early Modern cesspits as well as a variety of historical recipes. The programme of this summer school will be divided into a theoretical and a practical session, during which there is always time for discussion.