Food: Past & Present
Updated April 17, 2009
Did you know? Ancient drinkers warded off the devil by clinking their cups.
GENERAL & COMPREHENSIVE
**** The
Food Timeline
TIMELINE:
A thousand years of food
The Food
Timeline--Culinary History Timeline
Recipes by
time period
The History of
Foods
Food
History Resources - page
2
History of
Food Links
The Internet Food Channel Web Site
The Food Museum, Potato Museum -
Food History, Education, School Program
Food Museum - Exhibits
Food
in History
The
History of Food
Did you know:
Food History
Other Food
History Links
Books on Preserving
America's Culinary Past
Food History News
Out of the Frying Pan!
All Recipes | Recipes
Epicurean.com
All About Going Vegan and Vegetarian -
Veggies Unite!
Find Lost Recipes at
Recipelink.com
Cook's Calculator
History
of Food, History and Legends of Favorite Foods, Food History
PREHISTORIC
The Paleolithic Diet Page
On the Move: The hunter gatherer way of life
Life at Home: Tasks and activities around the home fire
Could you survive today as a hunter gatherer?
TOPICS IN HUNTING AND GATHERING
Prehistoric Diet and Nutrition
What Early Hominids Ate
Diet and the evolution of the earliest human ancestors
Paleolithic Fast Food
Early Humans Ate Termites
Edible Insects & Bug-eating Page
Paleolithic Eating Recipe Collection
More info on my General Ancient History page.
AGRICULTURAL REVOLUTION
Agricultural Revolution
Roman Farms
Nineteenth Century Vegetables and Cultivation Techniques
A History of American Agriculture
Genetically Modified Crops & the Environment
Food Biotechnology in the United States: Science, Regulation, and Issues
More agriculture info available on my General U.S.A. History page or on specific time period pages in my Table of Contents.
FOOD ORIGINS
HISTORY: Where Food Crops Originated
Food List By Hemispheric Origins
The History of the Spice Trade
ANCIENT
Ancient Food Preparation
Taste of the Ancient World: Greco-Roman eating, drinking & farming
A Taste of the Ancient World: More Food for Thought
Food in the Ancient World: Subsistence and Symbol
Ancient Egypt Food
The Food of the Ancient Egyptians
Food of the Ancient Egyptians
Ancient Egyptian Wine Making
Making Beer in Ancient Egypt
Greek Food
The Roman Diet
Links: Roman Food
Antique Roman Cooking
Roman Farms
Antique Roman Dishes - Collection
Roman Cuisine: Basic Food For Ordinary people
Roman Cuisine: Give Us This Day Our Daily Bread
Roman Food
For more, please visit my Ancient Egypt, Ancient Greece, & Ancient Rome pages.
MEDIEVAL - RENAISSANCE
Medieval Cooking Glossary
Medieval/Renaissance Food Homepage
Some General Comments on Period Cooking
A Boke of Gode Cookery - Medieval Cookery
Welcome To A Chaucerian Cookery
Food And Drink in Anglo-Saxon England
Feasting and Fasting in Anglo-Saxon England
Medieval Food
A Feast For The Eyes: Medieval Dining and Eating
Cariadoc's Miscellany: Recipe Alphabetical Index
medieval recipies
Food, Drink and Cookery in Medieval Society
15th Century Life: Food
Medieval & Renaissance Food and Famine Net Links
Tales of the Middle Ages - Inns and Taverns
Tales of the Middle Ages - Food and Drink
Medieval Sourcebook: The Assizes of Bread, Beer, & Lucrum Pistoris
Mythical Plants of the Middle Ages
Fantastic Fish of the Middle Ages
Crusader Food
Food Table
RenTavern
of the Spilled Ale
Byzantine
Recipes
For more info, please visit my Middle Ages & Renaissance pages.
17TH - 19TH CENTURY
Food Of The Jacobian Period
Colonial America Food 1600-1775
Historic Spanish Colonial & Mexican Recipes
Colonial America Food and Recipes
Recipes from Colonial Williamsburg
America Enters the Spice Trade
American Colonial Kitchen Trivia
18th Century Wine Recipes
Food and Drink in Regency England
Popcorn Exhibit - NAL Special Collections
How New York Ate 100 Years Ago
For more info on American Colonial Food, please visit my From Colonies to Revolution page.
20TH CENTURY
Recipes from the 20th century
Eating in the 20th Century
Dining Through the Decades: Introduction
Farmer, Fannie Merritt. 1918. The Boston Cooking School Cook Book
100 for 100: The Best Recipes of the Century
A Century of Food
Century of Food: First decade fills up plate
World War I hits eating habits
Century of Food: Prohibition, refrigerators put freeze on the '20s
Century of Food: 30's Depression forced cooks to economize creatively
The '40s: from making do to making up for it
Recipes of Wartime Europe
War Time Recipe
World War Two Ration Technologies Ration History Page
A Century of Food: '50s convenience food fed TV-fixated appetites
In turbulent '60s, tastes ranged from 'haute' to health & In '60s, green beans went from soup to nuts
Quiche, granola and salad bars sated the '70s 'me' generation
The 40th Pillsbury Bake-Off® Cooking Contest
Pillsbury Bake-Off® Contest: 50 Years of Grand Prize-Winning Recipes
Pillsbury Bake-Off® Contest: Bake-Off Recipes
Pillsbury Bake-Off® Contest: Hall of Fame
wholepop - lunchboxes
Food of the 70s / Food of the 80s / Food of the 90s
BoomerBaby.com
/ Our Childhood Memories of Food
Greg Knight's Patio
Culture! Suburban Cuisine from the 1960's!
ETHNIC & REGIONAL
General Sites on International Foods
Ethnic Foods and Customs
Foods of the World
Cultural Food Resources
FOREIGN FOODS PROJECT
KIDPROJ: Multi-cultural Recipe Book
WELCOME TO EPICURIOUS - 6,000 recipes from around the world.
Specific Regions & Countries
Africa
Africa: Food & Agriculture
Asia & the Pacific
Asian Recipes with herbs,culture, ingredients, glossaries and cooking from asia
Chinese Food Culture
chinesefood.org:The Ultimate Chinese Food Site
Food in Chinese History - Defeating the Mongol conquerors
China's Vegetable Markets: From Farmer to Consumer
the sushi guide!
Kimchi Korean kimchi 񊎭 Homepage
Indian Dishes
Europe
European Cuisines: Front Page - Food and recipes from all over Europe...even from Croatia!!!
Eating and drinking in European history
French Cuisine History
Windows On Italy - Cultural Tidbits: Cooking
Russian Cuisine
Samovar page
Mexico (traditional, Tex-Mex is in the USA section below), South America, & the Caribbean
Food and Recipes
Food For The Ancestors - Ancient Mexican Traditions
USA Regional Cooking
Traditional
(Native American) Food
American
Regional Cooking, Food and History
NATIVE AMERICAN FOODS AND RECIPES
NativeTech: Food and Recipes
Native American
Herbs for Teas, Flavorings, Foods
Native American
Foods -- Recipes
Native Way - The
Cookbook of the Grandmothers
Popcorn
Exhibit - NAL Special Collections
SOUL FOOD - A
HISTORY OF SOUL FOOD
Soul Food Cookbook On-Line,
Soul Food Recipes
Stamp on Black
History: Cooking African American Style
New England
Style Recipes
African American
Cooking and Recipes - Southern U.S. Cuisine Net Links
Origins of
Southern Food or Origins
of Southern Food
Southern
Food History
Southern
Food History: Mrs. Abby Fisher
Southern
Foodways Alliance
The Culture of
Southern Food - The
Birth of Southern Food: A Map
Southern
Cooking and Casserole Recipes and Big Index of Crockpot Recipes
BBQ - A
Southern Cultural Icon
The History of
Barbecue in the South
The
Regions of Barbecue
Texas Cooking Magazine
Texas Food -
Regions of Texas
Secrets to Cooking TEXMEX
Hot Damn, Tamales!
History
Channel: History on a Bun
Immigration - The
Great American Potluck
DRINK
Alcoholic Beverages
Beer Virtual Museums
“The Origins and Ancient History of Wine” @ University of Pennsylvania
Ancient Egyptian Wine Making and mirror site
Making Beer in Ancient Egypt and mirror site
Medieval/Renaissance Brewing Homepage
The Mead Maker's Page
Al Capone's Prohibition Beer
The National Pub & Brewery History Website
Pub History Society
British Pubs Database
The UK Pub Zone - a guide to UK Pubs and Inns - covering England - Scotland - Wales
Michael Jackson's Beer Hunter - Beer History
Irish Pubs (com) index
Ant Veal's Top 196 UK Pubs
18th Century Wine Recipes
Info on Prohibition in America can be found on my 20th Century America page.
Non-Alcoholic Beverages
Welcome to The Museum of Beverage Containers
Victorian Afternoon Tea
The Tea FAQ
Tea History
The Japanese Tea Ceremony (Chaji)
Traditional Arts: Tea ceremony
Tea - A World Of Tea
The Stash Tea Catalog
alltea.com - Order Your Favorite Teas Online
Samovar page
The Devil's Cup, coffee
National Coffee Association
Coffee History, Cultivation
Coffeekid.com A Coffee Obsession Site!
The Coffee Science Information Centre: Coffee and Caffeine Health Information
Soda Virtual Museums - More soda pop info in the "Soda Fountain" section below.
The Soda Fountain
Soda
Virtual Museums
The Soda Fountain.com
History of Soda Pop
The Soda Fountain
Soda Fountain history
Dr Pepper page of
the Soda Fountain (my favorite soft drink!)
www.DrPepper.com
Dr Pepper Museum
The original
coca-cola formula
Coca-Cola - the Official site
History of
Coca-Cola
The history
of Coca Cola - John Styth Pemberton
This is the
web site about Coca Cola
Coca-Cola
Television Advertisements: Home Page
The Coca Cola Bottles of the World
Website
Paul
Miesing's "Cola Wars" Case Analysis
Global ColaWars
(and other familiar scenes)
DaClassic1's Classic Coke
Stuff
SALT,
SPICES, & HERBS
The
History of the Spice Trade
Spice
Encyclopedia - A
Short History of Spice Trading
Gernot Katzer's Spice Dictionary
Spice Encyclopedia
salt in history
History of Salt
salt, salt history, salt manufacture, salt uses
Native American Herbs for Teas, Flavorings, Foods
FAST
FOOD, CANDY, & OTHER STUFF "NOT SO GOOD FOR YOU"
Paleolithic Fast Food
Global Perspectives on Fast-Food History
Nutrition in the Fast Lane: Fast Food Facts
McDonald's- Store Locator
The True Origins of GEEK Food such as the Potato Chip
Jon's Twinkie® Resource Page
THE OFFICIAL FRENCH FRIES PAGES (OFFP)
The OFFP -- History of the French Fry
Candy USA
Candy History
A Brief History of the American Candy Bar
Candy Statistical Information
The History of Chocolate
Exploratorium: Exploring Chocolate
Godiva Chocolates
Quasi Comprehensive Candy Bar Wrapper Image Archive
Welcome to the Life Savers Candystand
Trivia Daily: Top Ice CreamConsuming Countries
The Soda Fountain - Ice Cream
Clem's Web -- Bubble Gum history
Who invented Bubble Gum & How did he or she get the idea?
Cornflakes from Around the World
Cookie Recipe .com | Cookie Recipes
Popcorn Exhibit - NAL Special Collections
Food of the 70s / Food of the 80s / Food of the 90s
BoomerBaby.com / Our Childhood Memories of Food
COOKING
UTENSILS & INNOVATIONS
Cook's Calculator
THE HISTORY OF EATING UTENSILS
Western Eating Utensils
What is a Place Setting?: History of Silverware!
A History of the Table Fork
Food in Cans History Time Line
Frozen Food History
The Invention Dimension: Frozen Foods
The Invention Dimension: The Cuisinart® Food Processor
FAMINES
& WORLD FOOD AID
Right to Food homepage
Right to Food timeline - United Nations
Food Programs-Nonprofit Charitable Organizations
The Hunger Site
World Food Programme
Food and Famine: Geography of food and famine resources
FOOD
& HEALTH INFORMATION
International Food Information Council Foundation -IFIC
Food and Drug Administration Home Page
VARIOUS
MISC. TOPICS
PLANTanswers: Vegetable Information
Vegetarian Recipe.com | Vegetarian Recipes
Flowers-Edible
Herb Thyme Farms: Edible Flowers
Ten Rules of Edible Flowers
History of Food in Space
Supermarket Facts
Diner City, online guide to classic diners and the American Roadside
Pancakes Across America
The Empty Bowl - The Cereal Webpage
HISTORY OF RATIONS
Voices: Jailhouse Food Recipes
Granny's Kitchen
History of Cheese Making - Index Page
Bugfood III: Insect Snacks from Around the World
Beef.Org -- A Complete Beef Industry Resource
Texas Beef Council
Potato Museum
"Meals by Fred Harvey"
Fred Harvey Collection Exhibit - Welcome
A Harvey House Home Page: Hotels, Lunchrooms, Restaurants in the Old West
Harvey Girls
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