Genealogy Resources
Cooking and Food
What did your ancestors eat? What did great-grandmother cook? How and with what did she cook? What are some ethnic or regional recipes? Want to try some old recipes and reproduce what your ancestors ate?
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17th-Century English Recipes.
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Baking History.
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Bear Wallow Books. Cookbooks which adapt historical recipes
to modern methods.
- Colonial Williamsburg.
Eat authentic food at Colonial Williamsburg.
- CookBook Maker. Use
this software to compile your family recipes.
- Culinary Archives & Museum.
Providence, RI.
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Culinary History Timeline.
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Dining Through the Decades: 100 Years of Glorious American Food.
- Food
History News - Resources and Links.
- The Food
Timeline.
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Heirloom Recipe Conversions and Substitutions
- Hippocrene Books.
Ethnic cookbooks.
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Household Words: Women Write from and for the Kitchen.
- Key Ingredients:
America by Food.
- Living History, Farm and
Agricultural Museums. Find museums that serve authentic
food.
- Old Sturbridge Village. Eat
authentic food at Old Sturbridge Village.
- Plimoth Plantation. Eat
authentic food at Plimoth Planatation.
- Smoke & Fire. Search
for food, cookbooks and kitchen gadgets for historical
re-enactors.
- Standing in the Stockpots of Giants.
Print Resources
- Anderson, Jean. American Century CookBook. Random
House, 2005.
- Brennan, Georgeanne. The Family Table: A Journal for
Recipes and Memories. Chronicle Books,
- Davidson, Alan. The Oxford Companion to Food. Oxford
University Press, 1999.
- Haber, Barbara. From Hardtack to Home Fries: An Uncommon
History of American Cooks and Meals. Penguin, 2003.
- Hayes, Joanne Lamb. Grandma's Wartime Kitchen: World War
II and the Way We Cooked. St. Martin's, 2000.
- Tannahill, Reay. Food in History. Random House,
1995.
- Theophano, Janet. Eat My Words: Reading Women's Lives.
Palgrave Macmillan, 2002.
- Walker, Barbara M. The Little House Cookbook. Harper
Trophy, 1989
- Zanger, Mark H. American History Cookbook. Greenwood Press, 2003.