History
History
History Links
- The Food Timeline Origins of foods, historic recipes, extensive teaching resources and web links.
- Army Subsistence History History of the food, food services and cooks in the U.S. Army dating back to the Civil War. Information provided by the Quartermaster Foundation.
- The history of Ice cream A favorite of Americans for generations, this icy dessert has a long pedigree.
- Food in History Home Page Coming Soon to a Classroom Near You! Food in History- course syllabus and bibliography included.
- Renaissance and Medieval Food and Drink An annotated bibliography of historical sites on the WWW about European food and drink during the Renaissance and Middle Ages.
- Canned Food 101 A site that describes the creation of canned food, how cans preserve food, and the inventor of canned food.
- The Olde Cookery Book Old time cookery and home brewing recipes. menus, articles source material, reading lists etc
- A Chaucerian Cookery An examination of the foods found in the writings of the English poet Geoffrey Chaucer. Included is A Chaucerian Feast, which contains recipes and instructions for presenting a feast based on Chaucer.
- The Spelt Pages Information site discussing the reintroduction and development of the ancient grain spelt Spelt is an ancient grain, a "grandparent" of modern wheats
- Cariadoc's Miscellany Renaissance and medieval recipes
- One Planet Histories and descriptions of culinary herbs and spices.
- Ancient Roman Dishes Recipes from Ancient Rome.
- Taste of Today Presented by the Times Record News, list of recipes and history of food rationing in the USA.
- How Much Did they Drink? A report on pre-industrial Europe.
- Food History: Dining Through the Decades A detailed recap of the food, trends and chefs of the 20th century. Recipes included.
- foodhistory.com Food history publications by Patricia B. Mitchell. Documented anecdotal and written American traditions: colonial, Victorian, Civil War, ethnic, and Southern regional.
- The Origins and Ancient History of Wine From University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology.
- Candy History History of a number of candy, chocolate, confectionery and jelly beans.
- History of Turkish Cuisine A report on the three eras of Turkish cooking development.
- SimplyFoods Chocolate History The history of chocolate, including the origins of famous manufacturers such as Cadbury, Lindt, Nestlé and Hershey.
- Mom's Cooking A retrospective of American food, cooking, eating and drinking, including heritage recipes, timeline, product jingles and feature articles about food history.
- Agropolis Museum A science center dealing with topics such as food, nutrition, agriculture, with an historical approach on a worldwide scale.
- Medieval/Renaissance Food Homepage Articles, recipes, and summaries of books about Renaissance and Medieval cooking.
- The History of Tea Part of Stash Tea's A World of Tea web site.
- Cheap Burgers In Paradise A history of the American hamburger.
- Antique Roman Dishes- Collection Native Roman Ingredients and conversions, as well as recipes.
- Food and Feud in Saga Iceland The Icelandic Family Sagas (Islendingasögur) are a body of some forty or so prose pieces written by anonymous Icelanders from the 12th to the 14th centuries.
- A Short History of Greek Cuisine Greek cuisine has a long and interesting history, spanning nearly four thousand years. Learn more about its ancient influences and modern incarnations, from your Greek Food Host at Bella Online.
- Potato! A short history of the potato with recipes, cultivation instructions, safety notes, a wine recipe, links and a bulletin board
- The Gallery of Regrettable Food A humorous look at cookbooks and food ads from the 1930s through the '60s, including Oscar Mayer's breakthrough "Sack O' Sauce in a Can O' Meat".
- Windows On Italy The Origins of the Italian Cuisine: Magna Grecia and the Etruscans.
- Cindy Renfrow Author of transcription/redaction of several fifteenth century European cookbooks. Food links.
- The Burgoo Page Burgoo history and information. What is it? Where to get it? Who eats it?
- Filipino Food: Before the Westerners A brief history of Filipino cuisine.
- Food History News A Web site for the quarterly publication Food History News, a newsletter dedicated to the history of food in North America (and occasionally elsewhere).
- Chocolate history Chocolate history: When was it discovered? When did it become nearly synonomous with rich desserts? Are the rumors of its demise true?
- History and Legends of Favourite Foods History and legends of bechamel sauce, caviar, chili, chili con carne, eggnog, hot dogs, ice cream and plum pudding. Trivia, quotes and recipes. From "What's Cooking America."
- History of Pasta The New Zealand Cyberguide to Flour Milling and Baking has a collection of information on the history and making of pasta.
- About.com Guide to Mexican Food History Have you ever wondered which mole is the real McCoy or why we offer breads on the Day of the Dead? Find out the history behind Mexican food.
- Things you didn't know about chocolate Trivia about chocolate and the companies that make it, from Joel Glenn Brenner, author of The Emperors of Chocolate: Inside the Secret World of Hershey and Mars (Random House, 1999).
- Friends of the Pea [Soup] A site dedicated to the preservation of the old custom in Sweden of having pea soup on Thursdays.
- The FOOD Museum Online educational museum about everyone's favorite subject, food. All about potatoes, rice, figs. Programs and curriculum for schools.
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