ADditional resources
Culinary Historians Groups
General Food History
The History Kitchen – Beautifully designed site featuring American historical recipes, food articles, and videos.
History of salads – History of salads and salad dressings, some recipes.
Culinary Etymology – Nicely written site organized in a word-of-the-day format rather than an alphabetical index.
History of Restaurants – Not just restaurant history, but etiquette while dining out, restaurant publicity stunts, and other interesting trivia.
Culinary texts, 1300 to 1800 – Bare-bones site is heavy on complete texts of medieval cookbooks, especially German, also has texts on ideas about diet and health through history.
Historic recipe glossary – Well-organized and useful glossary of culinary terms used between 1661 and 1750.
History of Rum – History, trivia, and media of rum around the world.
Index of Traditional Recipes from Around the World – Amazingly comprehensive list searchable by country, ingredient, or alphabetical by name.
Index of Traditional Recipes from Around the World – Amazingly comprehensive list searchable by country, ingredient, or alphabetical by name.
Fifty Turning Points in Food and Drink – Amusing site about the technology of cooking.
Complete text of Forme of Cury medieval cookbook – Complete and searchable text of the 14thCentury manuscript.
Historic British cooking – Lavishly illustrated examination of the foods of Aristocratic England, with notes about the culture of food.
Good Food Preservation This site charts the history of dining in neighborhoods of Los Angeles. There are pictures showing historic restaurants with follow-up examinations of how areas have changed and what is there now.
Edible Geography – An interesting look at historical cooking, food preparation, and flavor, encompassing everything from recreating traditional Maori feasts to a visit to Henry VIII’s wine cellar.