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Food History & Culture
20th Century in Food
A searchable site via Epicurious which allows the user to go through each decade of the 20th century and select recipes from that era.
Civil War Cookbook
Find over 500 recipes from the Civil War era, as well as authenic cooking tips and techniques. This site is updated daily with new recipes.
Culinary and Brewing History Links
This site is geared toward helping those interested in the hands-on exploration of history to find source material. You'll find informative links on culinary history, brewing, and online medieval manuscripts. The site is well organized and easy to navigate. Also links to many more sites on the history of food. A MUST SEE!
Food History: An Alice Statler Library Subject Guide
This guide lists subject headings, reference materials, circulating books and additional websites on the history of food and beverages available in the Alice Statler Library. Subcategories include food histories in the East, the West and the Americas.
Historical Recipes of Difference Cultures
Hosted by the Computer Science Department of Carnegie Mellon University, this recipe archive is subdivided in to the following three collections: Antique Roman Dishes; Medieval and Anglo-Saxon Recipes; and Medieval European Recipes.
International Commission on the Anthropology of Food
ICAF promotes research in biological and social anthropology in regard
to the sciences of food and nutrition. The site provides links to a number of useful websites such as the European Food Information Council, Resources for the Anthropological Study of Food Habits, Food and Culture, and several French and Italian websites. ICAF also publishes a webjournal, Anthropology of Food.
The Lure of Spices
Hosted by the American Spice Trade Association, this website chronicles the entire history of the spice trade from ancient times through the present. Also find a bibliography of related works.
Medieval/Renaissance Food Homepage
An online index linking to primary sources, reference, bibliographies, articles, recipes, and more.
MSNBC - An American Century of Food
This documentary comes in several parts, each segment a different era:
The Olde Cookery Book
The Olde Cookery Book is dedicated to collecting pre-1900 cooking & home brewing recipes. Also find menus, book reviews, biographies, and more.
The Old Tmer's Page
Walten Feeds website on the "way we used to do it." Find old timer recipes for salt cured ham, yeast cultures, meat in brine, potting meat, making sauerkraut, as well as digging outhouses, soapmaking and building a root cellar.
Oldways Spot
"Oldways Preservation & Exchange Trust is a non-profit educational organization that promotes specific alternatives to the unhealthy foods that characterize eating patterns in industrialized countries. As "a think tank and brain trust," Oldways bases its education programs on a synthesis of current scientific evidence for healthy eating, sustainable agriculture and traditional foodways" (Quoted from website 01/18/02).
Shakespeare and Food
This informal survey of Shakespeare's use of food in his writings reveals much about Renaissance literary convention, about the Elizabethan table, and about Shakespeare himself.
Still Cooking by the Fireside: African Americans in Foodservice
This online exhibit is hosted by the Smithsonian's Anacostia Museum and Center for African American History and Culture.
The Food Timeline
This timeline begins before the onset of agriculture in 10,000 BC. It tells who invented such famous food such as hot dogs and french fried, ice cream and more. Find out what the Vikings ate, recipes from pubs in 17th century England, dried apples from Paul Revere's kitchen and more. Also check out the Culinary History Timeline d ating from the 5th millenium BC in Egypt to futuristic trends. Also included are links to historical menu collections.
Yahoo
Use "history food" as a search term and browse results.
Alice Statler Library, City College of San Francisco
Updated January 18, 2001
