From the category archives:

1900-1932

The Oldest Diner in Maine, 1926:
Who can gulp the champion Biddeford Tiger breakfast …and if you find yourself at the Palace Diner, please ask your companion to order the Dog Bowl breakfast… !

Palace Diner
18 Franklin Street
Biddeford, ME 04005

(207) 283-8462




Check out the first photo with at least 3 different kinds of turn-of-the-century stoves… The Paynesville Area Historical Museum is in Paynesville, Minnesota.


Photo by
Jonathunder

The complete history of the Green Giant Co. is displayed at the Le Sueur Museum in Le Sueur, Minnesota. The company was founded in 1903 as the Minnesota Valley Canning Company. How 1953 Jolly!

6 Early cooking schools:

  • Drexel’s School of Home Economics–founded in 1892 (Home Economics Program is now Goodwin College of Professional Studies)
  • Le Cordon Bleu in Paris, France –founded 1895
  • Simmons College’s School of Household Economics–founded c. 1900, no longer available
  • Cornell’s College of Home Economicsfounded in 1907, and now called New York State College of Human Ecology
  • The Culinary Institute of America’s main campus in Hyde Park, New York– founded in 1948
  • The Elite Cooking School in Newton Centre, Massachusetts– founded in 1971 by Madeleine Kamman, now The School for American Chefs in Beringer Vineyards, Napa Valley, California, meeting 2-weeks per year
  • Johnson & Wales University’s College of Culinary Arts–founded in 1973
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    It is always 1932 at Wellington Farm, USA in Michigan. The Summer Kitchen is equipped for the housekeeper of the Great Depression, and is a working kitchen for demonstrations and special events. A Grist Mill is nearby milling corn for cornmeal, barley for flour, or shelling corn.

    While you’re in Michigan, visit the authentic logging cook shack at the Tahquamenon Logging Museum in Newberry.