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 ±èÄ¡ 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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