Cider With Maria
Cider With Maria is the website and blog for Maria Kennedy, PhD.
Welcome to a resource for writing, scholarship, and audio-visual materials on landscape, orchards, cider, folklore, and more!
Exhibit Review: Maria Prymachenko: Glory to Ukraine
Produced by The Ukrainian Museum by Peter Doroshenko (review) Published in the Journal of American Folklore Earlier this year, I published a review in the Journal of American Folklore of a wonderful exhibit which passed through…
Publication: Plant Perspectives
“Exploring Un-cultivation in America: Discourses of Wild and Foraged Apples” I’m excited to share a new publication in the journal Plant Perspectives! This publication is a special issue: “Tree cultures and the arboreal humanities” edited by…
Foraged Fruit Talk for the Arboricultural Association
I was invited to give a webinar talk on the Foraged Fruit Project for the Arboricultural Association this week! You can find the talk here on their website: https://www.trees.org.uk/Training-Events/Webinars/Wild-orchards-in-the-American-Northeast-and-Urban-orchards-and-nature-based-solutions-in-Zagreb,-Cro The first talk by Iva Bedenko…
American Food Course 2025
I’m excited to be teaching a new course this semester in the Department of American Studies at Rutgers University New Brunswick: “American Food.” This course was originally developed by my colleague Dr. Carla Cevasco, but…
The First Day of Christmas
Query This query grew out of a very fun interview I did with a Children’s News program called First Stop News. I had a lovely time talking with the team at First Stop News and…
The Christmas Spider: A Ukrainian and Polish Tradition
Query I’m working on a story about the origin of the Christmas spider. I was wondering if you might be able to answer a few questions to be quoted as an expert source in this…
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