Food History

The web has a great deal of food history information, in part due to the efforts of Revolutionary & Civil War reenactors and groups like the Society for Creative Anachronism. Sites that focus entirely on food history outside of the United States are not included here. Sites may be well researched and scholarly, or silly, or both (food history does not have to be dull).

• Alcoholic Drinks of the Middle Ages

• http://www.inetone.net/mshapiro/calcohol.html

• American Brewery History Page

• http://www.beerhistory.com

• American Heritage Chocolate

• http://www.americanheritagechocolate.com

• American Women’s History: A Research Guide: Culinary History

• http://frank.mtsu.edu/~kmiddlet/history/women/wh-culinary.html

• Army Food Service Program: Then and Now

• http://www.qmfound.com/food.htm

• Automat

• http://www.theautomat.net

• Basic Cordials and Liqueurs

• http://www.greydragon.org/library/cordials.html

• Brief History of the Birthday Cake, A

• http://blog.kathrynmcgowan.com/2010/08/26/a-brief-history-of-the-birthday-cake

• Cindy Renfrow’s Food Links

• http://www.thousandeggs.com

• Complete Guide to Cooking in the Civil War Era, A

• http://www.civilwarinteractive.com/cookbook.htm

• Core Historical Literature of Agriculture (CHLA)

• http://chla.mannlib.cornell.edu

• Culinary Historians of Boston (CHB)

• http://www.culinaryhistoriansboston.com/Archive.htm

• Culinary Historians of Chicago (CHC)

• http://www.culinaryhistorians.org

• Culinary History Collection

• http://spec.lib.vt.edu/culinary/index.html#collections

• Culinary History Enthusiasts of Wisconsin (CHEW)

• http://chew.wisconsincooks.org

• De-Bunk House

• http://foodhistorynews.com/debunk.html

• Editor’s Notebook

• http://foodhistorynews.com/notebook.html

• Emergence of Advertising in America: 1850–1920

• http://library.duke.edu/digitalcollections/search/results?t=cookbooks

• Feeding America: The Historic American Cookbook Project

• http://digital.lib.msu.edu/projects/cookbooks

• Food

• http://www.laphamsquarterly.org/magazine/food.php

• Food Bibliography

• http://www.foodbibliography.eu

• Food History

• http://www.kitchenproject.com/history/articles.htm

• Food History

• http://www.loc.gov/rr/scitech/tracer-bullets/foodhistorytb.html

• Food History Links and Documents

• http://www.cooper.edu/humanities/classes/electives/food/food2000documents.htm

• Food History News

• http://foodhistorynews.com

• Food History Research Tips

• http://www.foodtimeline.org/foodfaqa.html

• Food in the ’Hood

• http://www.intowner.com/2011/08/14/%E2%80%9Cwhat-the-angels-eat%E2%80%9D-the-watermelon-part-i

• FOOD: Business History of Manufacturers

• http://www.kipnotes.com/Food.htm

• Groceteria.com: Exploring Supermarket History

• http://www.groceteria.com

• Guide to Pillsbury Cookbooks and Premiums 1869–1969, A

• http://www.friktech.com/pills/pills1.htm

• Hardtack

• http://www.kenanderson.net/hardtack/index.html

• Have You Eaten Yet? A Short History of Chinese Restaurants

• http://www.historians.org/annual/2009/09AMSupplement/2009amsup30.cfm

• Historic Cookbooks Online

• http://www.hearthcook.com/aaCookbookindex.html

• Historic Food

• http://www.historicfood.com

• Historical Culinary & Brewing Documents Online

• http://www.thousandeggs.com/cookbooks.html

• Historical Development of Fisheries Science and Management

• http://www.nefsc.noaa.gov/library/history/fsh_sci_history1.html

• Historical Facts: Jewish Cookery

• http://www.pbs.org/mpt/jewishcooking/history.html

• History and Legends of Favorite Foods

• http://www.whatscookingamerica.net/History/HistoryIndex.htm

• History Is Served

• http://recipes.history.org

• History of Cheese Making in Monroe

• http://www.monroecheesefestival.com/history.shtml

• History of Citrus

• http://ezinearticles.com/?History-Of-Citrus&id=270715

• History of Eating Utensils in the West: A Brief Timeline

• http://www.cuisinenet.com/glossary/utensils.html

• History of Eating Utensils

• http://www.calacademy.org/research/anthropology/utensil

• History of Food and Food Products

• http://inventors.about.com/od/foodrelatedinventions/History_of_Food_and_Food_Products.htm

• History of Girl Scout Cookies

• http://www.girlscouts.org/program/gs_cookies/cookie_history

• History of Grocery Coupons

• http://www.grocerycouponguide.com/articles/history

• History of In-Flight Food, A

• http://marketplace.publicradio.org/display/web/2010/07/05/pm-a-history-of-inflight-food

• History of Mead

• http://www.beer100.com/history/meadhistory.htm

• History of Peanut Butter

• http://www.kitchenproject.com/history/PBJ/peanutbutter.htm

• History of Rations

• http://www.qmfound.com/history_of_rations.htm

• History of Salt

• http://www.saltworks.us/salt_info/si_HistoryOfSalt.asp

• History of Saran Wrap

• http://www.inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blsaranwrap.htm

• History of Soy Oil Margarine

• http://www.soyinfocenter.com/HSS/margarine1.php

• History of the International Chili Society

• http://www.chilicookoff.com/history/history_of_ics.asp

• History of the Refrigerator and Freezers

• http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blrefrigerator.htm

• History, Art and Biography

• http://riley.nal.usda.gov/nal_display/index.php?info_center=8&tax_level=1&tax_subject=3

• HistoryCooks.com

• http://www.historycooks.com

• Home Economics Archive: Research Tradition History (HEARTH)

• http://hearth.library.cornell.edu

• Hot Dogs Are Us

• http://www.smithsonianmag.com/people-places/hotdogs-abstract.html

• How 8 Famous Cheeses Got Their Names

• http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/78698

• Humble Beginnings of the Boston Cream Pie

• http://www.ochef.com/1242.htm

• In a Nutshell

• http://www.slate.com/id/2278069

• In Praise of Fast Food

• http://www.grist.org/article/food-2010-11-05-in-praise-of-fast-food

• It’s a McWorld After All

• http://www.salon.com/books/review/2005/12/10/hungry_planet

• James Caleb Jackson

• http://userwww.sfsu.edu/~ajhardy/jackson.htm

• Janice Bluestein Longone Culinary Archive

• http://www.clements.umich.edu/longone-archive.php

• Joy of Cooking

• http://www.salon.com/ent/masterpiece/2002/07/01/joy/print.html

• Karo

• http://www.karosyrup.com/about_us.html

• Key Ingredients: America by Food

• http://www.keyingredients.org

• Key Ingredients: Suggested Readings

• http://www.museumonmainstreet.org/exhibs_key/key_class_read.htm

• Kitchen: History of Kitchen Appliances

• http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blkitchen.htm

• Language of the Food Industry

• http://www.fmi.org/facts_figs/glossary_search.cfm

• Linda’s Culinary Dictionary

• http://whatscookingamerica.net/Glossary/GlossaryIndex2.htm

• Links

• http://www.geocities.com/tdcastros/Historyserver/Linksenglish.htm

• Louisiana Cookery, Cuisine, and Food Research in Special Collections

• http://specialcollections.tulane.edu/Cuisine.html

• Making of America

• http://moa.umdl.umich.edu

• Medieval/Renaissance Brewing Homepage

• http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/brewing.html

• Napkins: A Brief History

• http://www.foodreference.com/html/art-history-napkins-729.html

• National Association Breweriana Advertising (NABA)

• http://www.nababrew.org

• Natural History of the Kitchen: Stoves

• http://www.eatmedaily.com/2010/05/natural-history-of-the-kitchen-stoves

• North American Culinary Historians Organization (NACHO)

• http://www.foodhistorynews.com/nacho.html

• On the Wings of a Buffalo or “Mother Teressa’s Wings”

• http://www.geography.ccsu.edu/harmonj/atlas/buffwing.htm

• Onion that Came to Texas but Never Left the Same, The

• http://aggie-horticulture.tamu.edu/plantanswers/publications/onions/onionhis.html

• Online Culinary History Network

• http://culinaryhistory.org

• Peppers: History and Exploitation of a Serendipitous New Crop Discovery

• http://www.hort.purdue.edu/newcrop/proceedings1993/v2-132.html

• Pleasures of the Table, The

• http://www.kloosterman.be/cooking.php

• Pleasures of Truly Wild Wild Rice, The

• http://www.salon.com/food/the_art_of_eating/index.html?story=/food/feature/2010/08/09/wild_rice_ext2010

• Potato Origins

• http://www.potato2008.org/en/potato/origins.html

• Potato! History

• http://www.indepthinfo.com/potato/history.shtml

• Research Resources

• http://www.culinaryhistoriansny.org/resources.html

• Richard Wrangham: The Evolution of Cooking

• http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/wrangham/wrangham_p2.html

• Search Fisheries Collection

• http://www.library.umaine.edu/speccoll/fisheries

• Search for the Cure, The: The Quest for the Superlative American Ham

• http://www.common-place.org/vol-08/no-01/shields

• Selected Features of the U.S. Dairy Industry from 1900 to 2000

• http://www.coppock.com/carl/writings/History_of_Dairy_Production_From_1900_to_2000.htm

• Short History of Pigging Out, A

• http://www.forbes.com/2007/11/11/feasts-history-parties-forbeslife-food07-cx_nf_1115feasts.html

• Short History of Spice Trading, A

• http://www.spiceadvice.com/history/index.html

• Soulfood Searching

• http://www.uwf.edu/tprewitt/sofood/soulfood.htm

• Southern BBQ Trail, The

• http://www.southernbbqtrail.com/map.shtml

• Southern Cultural Icon, A

• http://xroads.virginia.edu/~MA95/dove/bbq.html

• Southern Foodways Alliance (SFA)

• http://www.southernfoodways.com

• Soy Info Center

• http://www.soyinfocenter.com

• Space Food History

• http://www.pbs.org/spacestation/station/living_eating.htm

• Squash Named from an Indian Word

• http://aggie-horticulture.tamu.edu/archives/parsons/publications/vegetabletravelers/squash.html

• Story of Caviar, from Prehistory to the Present

• http://leda.law.harvard.edu/leda/data/504/Gordon.html

• Subsistence and Army Cooks History Page

• http://www.qmfound.com/army_subsistence_history.htm

• Sweet Oranges: The Biogeography of Citrus sinensis

• http://echo.gmu.edu/node/425

• Tacos, Enchiladas and Refried Beans: The Invention of Mexican-American Cookery

• http://www.myspace.com/burritonotomato/blog/202032605

• Tips on Tables

• http://www.tipsontables.com

• Trail Foods

• http://www.historicaltrekking.com/foods

• Vintage American Tea Rooms

• http://users.rcn.com/janw.javanet/page1.html

• Vintage Recipes: Cookbooks

• http://www.vintagerecipes.net/books

• Welcome to Historic Food

• http://www.historicfood.com

• Wheat People: Celebrating Kansas Harvest

• http://www.kshs.org/p/online-exhibits-wheat-people-introduction/10909

• Who was General Tso? and other mysteries of American Chinese food

• http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/jennifer_8_lee_looks_for_general_tso.html

• Your Food in History Bibliography

• http://vi.uh.edu/pages/lprtomat/bib~1.htm