The Historical Cooking Guild of the Catawba Valley

Carolyn Dilda works in the kitchen at the Latta Folk Festival in Charlotte, NC on Oct. 12, 2008

Welcome to the premier hearth cooking organization of North Carolina! The Cooking Guild was founded in 1997 in Charlotte, NC. We specialize in authentic and historically accurate methods of 18th century hearth cooking and other historical foodways.

We meet twice a month at the President James K. Polk Memorial Homesite in Pineville, NC, as well as traveling to a variety of locations to provide demonstrations and historical lectures. Contact us to request more information.

We welcome the public to observe, ask questions and share insights on historical foodways.

The Historical Cooking Guild of the Catawba Valley is a committee of the Mecklenburg Historical Association.

This video was prepared by David Dilda as a sample ALFHAM commercial and was awarded first prize for a member-submitted video at the ALFHAM 2009 SE Regional Conference in Staunton, VA.