Researching Food History

JSTOR - Individual Account - free -100 articles per month through December 31, 2020.  It is a collection of scholarly journals, ebooks, a...

This is a lemonade for hot weather - like Switchel or Shrub - very tart (only 1T or a teaspoon of honey).  Alexis Soyer called it a "...

The American Philosophical Society, founded in Philadelphia by Benjamin Franklin in 1743, houses his papers, which include recipes in Frenc...

Some of my favorite topics over the last 11 years - from the conical strawberry pottles image on left, HERE to the most popular, Snap-...

Handwritten documents - recipes, letters - are important for research.  You can help other researchers and libraries from your home compute...

Remember those who served... and those still serving to protect us. John Billings’ Hardtack and Coffee . Boston: 1887

50 peer reviewed papers and wonderfully illustrated talks from 17 countries were presented at the 5th Dublin Gastronomy Symposium (usually...

English Muffins (in this case from Hannah Glasse, changed slightly by Richard Briggs in 1796, made during William Rubel's weekly bread...

The bees are out enjoying all the dandelions from all the rain. This 1869 image depicts the "three classes of bees" and how the s...

The Calendar will continue in a limited way, since I must cut back on the long hours I have spent on it the last four years. There have...

Doctors attended to the sick in their homes, but according to Rosalie Calvert of Maryland, "he makes us prepare all the remedies....

Since 1888, White Rabbit has been competing with Paas (founded 1880) packaged egg dyes.  The White Rabbit advertising included colorful gra...

Mary Randolph Randolph was a distant cousin of Thomas Jefferson, as was her husband; and her brother married Jefferson's daughter.  Th...

Three weeks before Easter, in the middle of Lent, was Mothering Sunday, Mid-Lent Sunday or in Bury, England - Simnel Sunday. Simnel Cake (b...

Snow instead of ice was used in Naples. The snow was stored in the "cliffs and caverns on the mountain of San Angelo, between Castell...

Olio was an extravagant stew of many meats, vegetables, herbs and spices served in it's own "close-covered" cooking "oli...

Winter butter was pale, but was enhanced with carrot juice, marigold, annato, turmeric and even egg yolks for selling in the cities.  ...

How great would it be to own a c200 year old Rumford Roaster!  This Rumford Roaster, made by Elijah Fuller of Salem, was originally in an 1...

Although there are many images of chicken ladders in Germany through the centuries, HERE I haven’t seen a chicken ladder going into...

Robert Roberts (c1777-1860) was a free African American who wrote the marvelous The House Servant's Directory in 1827.