- A Chaucerian Cookery - An examination of the foods found in the writings of the English poet Geoffrey Chaucer. Included is A Chaucerian Feast, which contains recipes and instructions for presenting a feast based on Chaucer.
- About.com Guide to Mexican Food History - Have you ever wondered which mole is the real McCoy or why we offer breads on the Day of the Dead? Find out the history behind Mexican food.
- Agropolis Museum - A science center dealing with topics such as food, nutrition, agriculture, with a historical approach on a worldwide scale.
- American Food Century - A retrospective of American food, cooking, eating and drinking, including heritage recipes, timeline, product jingles and feature articles about food history.
- Ancient Roman Dishes - Recipes from Ancient Rome.
- Antique Roman Dishes- Collection - Native Roman Ingredients and conversions, as well as recipes.
- Army Subsistence History - History of the food, food services and cooks in the U.S. Army dating back to the Civil War. Information provided by the Quartermaster Foundation.
- Canned Food 101 - A site that describes the creation of canned food, how cans preserve food, and the inventor of canned food.
- Cariadoc's Miscellany - Renaissance and medieval recipes
- Cheap Burgers In Paradise - A history of the American hamburger.
- Cindy Renfrow - Author of transcription/redaction of several fifteenth century European cookbooks. Food links.
- Food and Feud in Saga Iceland - The Icelandic Family Sagas (Islendingasögur) are a body of some forty or so prose pieces written by anonymous Icelanders from the 12th to the 14th centuries.
- Food History News - A Web site for the quarterly publication Food History News, a newsletter dedicated to the history of food in North America (and occasionally elsewhere).
- Food History: Dining Through the Decades - A detailed recap of the food, trends and chefs of the 20th century. Recipes included.
- foodhistory.com - Food history publications by Patricia B. Mitchell. Documented anecdotal and written American traditions: colonial, Victorian, Civil War, ethnic, and Southern regional.
- Friends of the Pea [Soup] - A site dedicated to the preservation of the old custom in Sweden of having pea soup on Thursdays.
- History and Legends of Favourite Foods - History and legends of bechamel sauce, caviar, chili, chili con carne, eggnog, hot dogs, ice cream and plum pudding. Trivia, quotes and recipes. From "What's Cooking America."
- History of Pasta - The New Zealand Cyberguide to Flour Milling and Baking has a collection of information on the history and making of pasta.
- History of Turkish Cuisine - A report on the three eras of Turkish cooking development.
- LAPL's Menu Collection - Database of menus stored in the Rare Book Room of the Los Angeles Public Library. Can be searched by keyword, cuisine, restaurant, or date.
- Lothene - A Short History of Porridge - A brief history of the traditional Scottish dish from Roman times to the present.
- Medieval/Renaissance Food Homepage - Articles, recipes, and summaries of books about Renaissance and Medieval cooking.
- Not by Bread Alone: America's Culinary Heritage - An exhibit from the Cornell University Library. Includes information on early cookery books, food nutrition and science, kitchen technology, and food processing.
- OldRecipes.info - Vintage recipes and articles on the domestic arts from antique cookbooks and early ephemera.
- One Planet - Histories and descriptions of culinary herbs and spices.
- Potato! - A short history of the potato with recipes, cultivation instructions, safety notes, a wine recipe, links and a bulletin board
- Renaissance and Medieval Food and Drink - An annotated bibliography of historical sites on the WWW about European food and drink during the Renaissance and Middle Ages.
- Sancho's Disturbing Recipes of the Eerie Past - Pages from 1930's-50's cookbooks, focusing on questionable recipes, styles, and content of the era. Also links to other similar sites.
- The Burgoo Page - Burgoo history and information. What is it? Where to get it? Who eats it?
- The FOOD Museum - Online educational museum about everyone's favorite subject, food. All about potatoes, rice, figs. Programs and curriculum for schools.
- The Food Timeline - Origins of foods, historic recipes, extensive teaching resources and web links.
- The Gallery of Regrettable Food - A humorous look at cookbooks and food ads from the 1930s through the '60s, including Oscar Mayer's breakthrough "Sack O' Sauce in a Can O' Meat".
- The Olde Cookery Book - Old time cookery and home brewing recipes. Menus, articles source material, and reading lists.
- The Spelt Pages - Information site discussing the reintroduction and development of the ancient grain spelt Spelt is an ancient grain, a "grandparent" of modern wheats
- The Stewpot Period Culinary Guild - An unofficial guild dedicated to the practice and promotion of pre-seventeenth century cookery in the Society for Creative Anachronism.
- Tips on Tables - Vintage reviews of famous nightclubs and restaurants, mostly from the New York City area, viewed here for the first time since they were published in the 1940s and 50s.
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