Historical Overview

Appears in
Oxford Encyclopedia of Food and Drink in America

By Andrew F. Smith

Published 2004

  • About
  • Colonial Period to the Revolutionary War

  • Revolutionary War Food

  • Revolutionary War to the Civil War

  • The Civil War and Reconstruction

  • Victorian America to World War I

  • World War I

  • World War I to World War II

  • World War II

  • World War II to the Early 1960s

  • From the 1960s to the Present