OXFORD, MARYLAND — Oxford Community Center, 200 Oxford Road, Oxford. Thursday, Sept. 10, 2026, 5:00 p.m. (Talbot 250 lists 5:00–6:30 p.m.). Dining in Colonial Maryland — Joyce White, food historian.

Tickets are SOLD OUT on the Oxford Community Center product page (“SOLD OUT – Thank you!” / out of stock). Registration had been $10 at oxfordcc.org/product/dining-in-colonial-maryland/. Presented with the Oxford Museum — Oxford Museum and Talbot 250 event pages.

What was on the plate. Oxford Community Center’s ticket page says the talk includes a food tasting and a buffet of period food prepared by Momma Maria’s, plus a cash bar with historic cordials. Talbot 250 and the Oxford Museum describe the program as a look at foods that sustained Marylanders from early settlement through Annapolis’s 18th-century Golden Age — how diet varied across class, wealth, race, and time; local ingredients; Indigenous, British, and African American influence on foundational cuisine; and imported goods that arrived by ship, including spices, fine cheeses, tamarind, Durham mustard, and isinglass. Those are the hosts’ published program lines, not a Patriot menu.

Who is speaking. The Oxford Museum page identifies Joyce White as a food historian, educator, and consultant in historic foodways and material culture, with independent consulting to historic sites and museums and writing credits including Outlook by the Bay, MarylandRoadTrips.com, and Chesapeake Family Magazine. More at atasteofhistory.net, per the museum. Phone on the museum venue block: 410-226-0191. Oxford Community Center: 410-226-5904; admin [at] oxfordcc.org.