FOOD AND CULTURE

Threshermen's cook car with two women carrying food, likely in North Dakota, about 1890 (F.A. Pazandak Photo Collection, Library of Congress)

North American Historical Studies

Non-Indigenous

Apple R (1987) Mothers and Medicine: A Social History of Infant Feeding, 1890-1950 [history; North America; United States].

Beatty WK (1977) The History of Nutrition: A Tour of the Literature. Federation Proceedings (Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology). 36:2511-2513 [bibliography; North America; United States].

Billick G (1980) References for the History of Human Nutrition in America, 1600 to the Present: A Selected Bibliography. International Agricultural Library Association. 5:45-58 [bibliography; North America; United States].

Recommended -- Click for detailsBooth SS (1971) Hung, Strung & Potted: A History of Eating in Colonial America [history; North America].`

Brenner JG (1998) The Emperors of Chocolate: Inside the Secret World of Hershey and Mars. New York: Random House [foodstuffs; candy; confections; production; contemporary North America; United States].

Brown A (1988) Diet and Nutritional Stress. in R Blakely (ed) The King Site: Continuity and Contact in Sixteenth Century Georgia. University of Georgia Press [history; diet and disease; North America; Georgia; Spanish settlement].

Caporael L (1976) Ergotism: The Satan Loosed in Salem? Science. 192:21-26 [disease; ergotism; history; witchcraft; North America; United States].

Carney J (1998) The Role of African Rice and Slaves in the History of Rice Cultivation in the Americas. Human Ecology. 26:525- [culture history; Africa; North America; African Americans].

Carney J (2001) Black Rice: The African Origins of Rice Cultivation in the Americas. Harvard University Press [history; Atlantic World; Africa; Gambia; North America; South Carolina; Georgia; South America; Eastern Amazon].

Carson G (1957) The Cornflake Crusade [history; health foods; North America; United States].

Good history -- click for detailsCassel JA (1995) Social Anthropology and Nutrition: A Different Look at Obesity in America. Journal of the American Dietetic Association. 95:424-427 [culture history; body image; North America; United States].

Cazaux Sackman D (2005) Orange Empire: California and the Fruits of Eden. University of California Press [history; politics; industrial production; North America; California].

Essential Reference -- click for detailsCoe SD (1994) America's First Cuisines. University of Texas Press [prehistory; history; eating habits; food systems; Central America; Mexico; South America; Aztec; Maya; Inca].

Comer J (2000) North America from 1492 to the Present. in KF Kiple; KC Ornelas (eds) The Cambridge World History of Food. Cambridge University Press, pp. 1304-1323 [history; foodways; modernization; commercialization; North America; North American Indians].

Creighton LC (2000) Old Southern Apples. University of Tennessee Press [history; food use; North America; United States].

Crosby AW (1972) The Columbian Exchange: Biological and Cultural Consequences of 1492. Greenwood Press [history; diffusion of plants, animals; North American Indians; Europe].

Crosby AW (1986) Ecological Imperialism: The Biological Expansion of Europe, 900-1900. Cambridge University Press [history; diffusion of plants, animals; food systems; North America; North American Indians].

Cummings RO (1940) The American and His Food: A History of Food Habits in the United States. University of Chicago Press [history; foodways; North America; United States].

Diner HR (2001) Hungering for America: Italian, Irish, and Jewish Foodways in the Age of Migration. Harvard University Press [history; acculturation; North America].

Dirks R (2003) Diet and Nutrition in Poor and Minority Communities in the United States 100 Years Ago. Annual Review of Nutrition. 23:81-100 [nutritional history; poverty; immigrants; North America; United States; African-Americans; Appalachia].

Dirks R; Duran N (1998) Agriculture Experiment Station Studies and the History of Food Habits and Nutrition in the United States. Nutritional Anthropology. 21:6-8 [history; North America; United States].

Dirks R; Duran N (1998) Experiment Station Dietary Studies Prior to World War Ii: A Bibliography for the Study of Changing American Food Habits and Diet over Time. Journal of Nutrition. 128:1253-1256 [bibliography; history; North America; United States].

Dirks RT; Duran N (2001) African American Dietary Patterns at the Beginning of the 20th Century. Journal of Nutrition. 131:1881-1889 [history; food habits; dietary change; soul food; North America; United States].

Duran N (2000) Dietary Studies Related to the United States Diet Prior to World War Ii: A Bibliography for the Study of Changing American Food Habits over Time. The Journal of Nutrition. 130:1881-1886 [bibliography; history; North America; United States].

Anthropometric History -- click for detailsFew M (2005) Chocolate, Sex, and Disorderly Women in Late-Seventeenth- and Early-Eighteenth-Century Guatemala. Ethnohistory. 52:673-687 [history; eighteenth century; beverage; women; ritual; conflict; magic; ceremonial power; Central America; Guatemala].

Fogel RW (2004) The Escape from Hunger and Premature Death, 1700-2100: Europe, America, and the Third World. Cambridge University Press [history; dietary change; anthropometrics; technophysio (cultural) evolution; Europe; North America].

Foster G (1987) On the Origin of Humoral Medicine in Latin America. Medical Anthropology Quarterly. 1:355-393 [folk classification; folk medicine; history; Latin America].

Recommended -- click for detailsFuller R (1996) Religion and Wine: A Culture History of Wine Drinking in the United States. University of Tennessee Press [food use; history; North America; United States].

Gabaccia D (2000) We Are What We Eat: Ethnic Foods and the Making of Americans. Harvard University Press [history; ethnic identity; North America; United States].

Gade DW (2000) South America. in KF Kiple; KC Ornelas (eds) The Cambridge World History of Food, pp. 1254-1260 [history; food habits; nutrition; South America].

Grivetti LE; Corlett JL; Lockett CT (2001) Food in American History, Part 1: Maize Boutiful Gifts: America on the Eve of European Colonization (Antiquity to 1565). Nutrition Today. 36:19-28 [history; food use; North America; United States].

Grivetti LE; Corlett JL; Lockett CT (2001) Food in American History, Part 2: Turkey. Nutrition Today. 36:88-96 [history; food use; North America; United States].

Grivetti LE; Corlett JL; Lockett CT (2001) Food in American History, Part 3: Beans: Revolution and Expansion: The Frontier Experience (1776-1848). Nutrition Today. 36:172-181 [history; food use; North America; United States].

Grivetti LE; Corlett JL; Lockett CT (2001) Food in American History, Part 4: Apples. Nutrition Today. 36:215-222 [history; food use; North America; United States].

Grivetti LE; Corlett JL; Lockett CT (2002) Food in American History, Part 5: Pork a Nation Divided: The American Civil War Era (1861-1865). Nutrition Today. 37:110-117 [history; food use; North America; United States].

Haughton B; Gussow J; Dodds J (1987) An Historical Study of the Underlying Assumptions of the Us Food Guides from 1917 through the Basic Four Food Group Guide. Journal of Nutrition Education. 19:169-175 [history; food typologies and recommendations; North America; United States].

Hayes JL (2000) Grandma's Wartime Kitchen: World War Ii and the Way We Cooked. St Martin's Press [history; food supply; North America; United States].

Hilliard SB (1969) Pork in the Ante-Bellum South: The Geography of Self-Sufficiency. Annals of the Association of American Geographers. 59:461-480- [food species; pig; hog; history; North America; Southern United States].

Hilliard SB (1972) Hog Meat and Hoecake: Food Supply in the Old South, 1840-1860. Southern Illinois University Press [food systems; history; Southern North America].

Hogan DG (1998) Selling 'Em by the Sack: White Castle and the Creation of American Food. New York University Press [history; fast food industry; food system; hamburger; North America; United States].

Recommended -- click for detailsHudson CM (1979) The Black Drink: A Native American Tea [collected essays; history; prehistory; North American Indians].

A Collection of Important Ideas -- click for detailsInness SA (2000) Dinner Roles: American Women and Culinary Culture. University of Iowa Press [history; gender relations; kitchen; appliances; cookery; cookery lessons; North America; United States].

Inness SA (2001) Kitchen Culture in America: Popular Representations of Food, Gender, Race. Recommended -- click for detailsUniversity of Pennsylvania Press [collected essays; history; women's roles; gender relations; family; North America; United States].

Jakle JA; Sculle KA (1999) Fast Food: Roadside Restaurants in the Automobile Age. Johns Hopkins University Press [history; food preparation; food system; American culture; North America; United States].

Recommended -- click for detailsJefferson DL (1954) Child Feeding in the United States in the Nineteenth Century. Journal of the American Dietetic Association. 30:335-344 [history; child feeding; North America; United States].

Jenkins VS (2000) Bananas: An American History. Smithsonian Institution [food use; history; North America; United States].

Keegan WF (2000) The Caribbean, Including Northern South America and Lowland Central America: Early History. in KF Kiple; KC Ornelas (eds) The Cambridge World History of Food. Cambridge University Press, pp. 1260-1278 [history; Caribbean; Central America; South America; Taino; Lucayan; African-Caribbean; Garifuna].

Kottak C (1978) Rituals at Mcdonalds. Natural History. 87:74-83 [preference; ritual; fast food; North America; United States].

Recommended -- click for detailsKuh P (2000) The Last Days of Haute Cuisine: America's Culinary Revolution. Viking [history; 20th century cuisine; restaurants; food writers; North America; United States].

Kurlansky M (2006) The Big Oyster: History on the Half Shell. Ballantine Books [history; food use; North America; United States; New York City].

Levenstein HA (1985) The American Response to Italian Food, 1880-1930. Food and Foodways. 1:1-24 [history; food habit change; North America; United States].

Levenstein HA (1988) Revolution at the Table: The Transformation of the American Diet. Oxford University Press [history; social class; dietary change; North America; United States].

Levenstein HA (1993) Paradox of Plenty: A Social History of Eating in Modern America. Oxford University Press [history; change; North America; United States].

Levenstein HA; Conlin JR (1990) Food Habits of Italian Immigrants to America: An Examination of the Persistence of a Food Culture and the Rise Of "Fast Food" In America. in EB Browne; MW Fishwick; KO Browne (eds) Dominant Symbols in Popular Culture, pp. 231-246 [history; food habit change; North America; United States; Italian Americans].

McBride MM (1956) Harvest of American Cooking. Putnam [history; North American; United States].

RecommendedMcClelland DA (1992) Good as Gold: Foods the Americas Gave the World. Smithsonian [history; foodstuffs; diffusion; Central America; North America; South America].

McIntosh E (1995) American Food Habits in Historical Perspective. Praeger [general survey; prehistory; history; change; North America; United States].

McWilliams JE (2005) "How Unripe We Are": The Intellectual Construction of American Foodways. Food, Culture and Society: An International Journal of Multidisciplinary Research. 8:143-160(18) [history; politics; identity; American Revolution; North America; United States].

Neuhaus J (2002) Manly Meals and Mom's Home Cooking: Cookbooks and Gender in Modern America. Johns Hopkins University Press [history; cookbooks; gender relations; North America; United States].

Recommended -- click for detailsNietschmann B (1974) When the Turtle Collapses, the World Ends. Natural History. 83:34-42 [food use; ecology; Central America; Miskito Indians].

Oliver S (1995) Saltwater Foodways: New Englanders and Their Food, at Sea and Ashore, in the Nineteenth Century. Mystic Seaport Museum [history; cookery; foodways; North America; New England].

Pilcher J (1998) Que Vivan Los Tamales! Food and the Making of Mexican Identity. University of New Mexico Press [history; social identity (gender, class, race); North America; Mexico].

Admirable Work -- click for detailsPillsbury R (1990) From Boarding House to Bistro: The American Restaurant Then and Now. Unwin and Hyman [history; restaurant; North America; United States].

Pillsbury R (1998) No Foreign Food. Westview [food habits; history; change; North America; United States].

Pinney T (2005) A History of Wine in America: From Prohibition to the Present. University of California [business; industry; North America].

Powers W; Powers MNM (1986) Putting on the Dog. Natural History. 95:6-16 [foodstuff; North American Indians].

Price R (1991) Subsistence on the Plantation Periphery: Crops, Cooking, and Labour among Eighteenth-Century Suriname Maroons. Slavery and Abolition: A Journal of Comparative Studies. 12 (special issue):107-127 [history; food habits; Caribbean; South America].

Reitz EJ; Scarry CM (1985) Reconstructing Historic Subsistence with an Example from Sixteenth-Century Spanish Florida Society for Historical Archaeology Special Publication (No. 3) [history; archaeology; diet; North America; Florida].

Root W; de Rochemont R (1976) Eating in America. William Morrow [history; foodways; North American; United States].

Ross E (1980) Patterns of Diet and Forces of Production: An Economic and Ecological History of the Ascendancy of Beef in the United States. in E Ross (ed) Beyond the Myths of Culture: Essays in Cultural Materialism. Academic Press, pp. 181-225 [foodstuff; food system; history; North America].

Rozin P (1991) The Promise of Plenty: Food in American History. Smithsonian Institution Quincentenary Symposium Proceedings. [history; North America; United States].

Salinger SV (2002) Taverns and Drinking in Early America. Johns Hopkins University Press [history; food use; brews; North America].

Sand J (2005) A Short History of Msg: Good Science, Bad Science, and Taste Cultures. Gastronomica. 5:38-49 [history; flavor agent; food chemistry; mass marketing; East Asia; China; Japan; North America; United States].

Scarry CM; Reitz EJ (1990) Herbs, Fish, Scum, and Vermin: Subsistence Strategies in Sixteenth-Century Spanish Florida. in DH Thomas (ed) Columbian Consequences. Smithsonian, pp. 343-354 [history; North American Indian].

Schlossberg K (1978) Nutrition and Government Policy in the United States. in B Winikoff (ed) Nutrition and National Policy. MIT Press, pp. 325- [history; Great Depression; hunger; government policy; North America; United States].

Schofield E (1975) Working Class Food and Cooking in 1900. Folklife. 13:13-23 [history; diet; cookery; North America; United States].

Schwartz H (1986) Never Satisfied: A Cultural History of Diets, Fantasies and Fat. Free Press [body image; attitudes toward fat; history; North American; United States].

Schwartz J (1991) The Great Food Migration Newsweek, pp. 58-62 [history; diffusion; food use; Europe; North American Indians].

Scott EM (2001) Food and Social Relations at Nina Plantation. American Anthropologist. 103:671-691 [history; archaeology; social relations; North America; Louisiana; French; Anglo-American; African-American].

Shapiro L (1986) Perfection Salad: Women and Cooking at the Turn of the Century. Farrar, Strauss and Giroux [history; women; cookery; food preparation; North America; United States].

Smith AF (1999) Popped Culture: A Social History of Popcorn in America. University of South Carolina Press [foodstuff; history; North America; United States].

Smith AF (2000) Souper Tomatoes: The Story of America's Favorite Food. Rutgers University Press [history; foodstuff; cookery; North America; United States].

Recommended -- click for detailsSmith AF (2001) Pure Ketchup: A History of America's National Condiment. Smithsonian Institution Press [history; food use; North America; United States].

Smith AF (2001) The Tomato in America: Early History, Culture, and Cookery. University of Illinois Press [history; food use; cookery; North America; United States].

Spanos N; Gottlieb J (1976) Ergotism and the Salem Village Witch Trials. Science. 194:1390-1394 [disease; ergotism; history; witchcraft; North America; United States].

Super JC (1988) Food, Conquest, and Colonization in 16th Century Spanish America. University of New Mexico Press [history; food habit change; Central America; South America].

Taylor JG (1982) Eating, Drinking, and Visiting in the South. Louisiana State University Press [history; North America; United States; Southern States].

Tejada C (1979) Nutrition and Feeding Practices of the Maya in Central America. in JZ Bowers; EF Purcell (eds) Aspects of the History of Medicine in Latin America, pp. 54-87 [prehistory; Mesoamerica].

Thomas GI (1941) Foods of Our Forefathers. F A Davis and Company [history; North America; United States].

Trulson M (1959) The American Diet -- Past and Present. American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. 7:91-97 [history; North American; United States].

Turner KL (2006) Buying, Not Cooking: Ready-to-Eat Food in American Urban Working-Class Neighborhoods, 18801930. Food, Culture and Society: An International Journal of Multidisciplinary Research. 9:13-39(27) [history; industrial laborers; urban, working-class families; cooking; ready-cooked foods; North America; United States].

Van Syckle C (1945) Pictures of Food Consumption in the United States: Part I, 1630-1860. Journal of the American Dietetic Association. 21:508- [history; North America; United States].

Recommended -- click for detailsVan Syckle C (1945) Some Pictures of Food Consumption in the United States: Part Ii, 1860-1941. Journal of the American Dietetic Association. 21:690- [history; North America; United States].

Weaver WW (2003) Country Scrapple: An American Tradition. Stackpole Books [history; cookery; left-overs; North America; United States].

Whorton J (1982) Crusaders for Fitness: The History of American Health Reformers. Princeton University Press [history; health; North America; United States].

Whorton JC (2000) Vegetarianism. in KF Kiple; KC Ornelas (eds) The Cambridge History of Food. Cambridge University Press, pp. 1553-1564 [history; vegetarianism in America; animal rights].

Wilk R (2006) Home Cooking in the Global Village: Caribbean Food from Buccaners to Ecotourists. Berg [history; globalization; Central America; Belize].

Recommended -- click for detailsWilliams S (1985) Savory Suppers and Fashionable Feasts: Dining in Victorian America. Pantheon [social history; feasting; North America; United States].

Woloson W (2002) Refined Tastes: Sugar, Confectionery, and Consumers in Nineteenth-Century America. Johns Hopkins University Press [history; food use; sugar; candy; ice cream; sweets; consumer culture; North America].

Wright CA (1999) A Mediterranean Feast: The Story of the Birth of the Celebrated Cuisines of the Mediterranean from the Merchants of Venice to the Barbary Corsairs, with More Than 500 Recipes. William Morrow [history; cookery; Europe; Middle East; North Africa].

Yoder D (1970) Historical Sources for American Foodways Research. Pennsylvania Folklife. 20:16-29- [history; foodways; research; North America; United States].

Zuckerman L (1999) The Potato: How the Humble Spud Rescued the Western World. North Point [foodstuff; history; Europe; North America; Ireland; England; France; United States].

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