Victoria Flexner is a food historian and the founder of historical dining collective Edible History. She holds a degree in History from the University of Edinburgh in the United Kingdom and a Masters in Historical Studies from The New School in New York City. Flexner worked at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The New York Public Library, and The Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum prior to founding Edible History in 2014. In 2018, she held a residency at The Museum of Food and Drink hosting monthly dinners based on a wide range of historic periods, including a feminist dinner party based on Judy Chicago’s The Dinner Party which received write ups in Vogue and The New Yorker. In 2020 Flexner produced the podcast series 100 Years of Power for The Story Exchange, which won the award “Best Audio Feature 2020” by the Newswomen’s Club of New York. In 2021 Rizzoli acquired her book A History of The World in Ten Dinners, a sweeping global food history, with period recipes adapted for the modern home cook by Edible History Executive Chef Jay Reifel. Today, Flexner publishes the Edible History newsletter, weekly musings on food told through history and story.