Blog – Food for Thought

1930s / Cookbooks and Booklets / USDA & College Booklets

1936 Pennsylvania Dutch Cook Book

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1880 Cooking School. Students cooking with kettles, pots and pans as a meal is cooking in the open oven. One women reaches for a pan to do the dishes.

1800s-1850s / Historic Kitchens

1880s

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Green Blackboard chalked bright letters that say, "Good Eats Scripts"

Good Eats Alton Brown: full episode transcripts

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Generations and Views on Food.

Cookbooks and Booklets

Generations of Food

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mayo study.

Cookbooks and Booklets

Perceptions of Mayonnaise: An Observance, or Casual Study

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Kitchen Bouquet.

Cookbooks and Booklets

Caramel Coloring, Bouquet Garni, and Our Kitchen Bouquet

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Davis Sea Food Recipe Booklet from the Frank E. Davis company formerly in Gloucester, Mass.

Cookbooks and Booklets

Frank E. Davis Seafood, Gloucester, Mass.

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Mary Lincoln's 1884 cookbook, The Boston Cook Book.

1800s / Cookbooks and Booklets / Recipes

Fannie Farmer copied Mary Lincoln. This we know. Yet, who did Lincoln copy?

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Fruit and berry ripening chart, Indiana area.

USDA & College Booklets

When to buy a bushel for canning

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1884 Food Prices - 1880s Chart.

The Price of Groceries in the 1880s

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1897 Women Toasting with Champagne glasses.

Toasting to Progress: 1890s Women’s Clubs Manage the Future

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What NOT to do at the dinner table according to the Victorians.

Dining In / Dining Out

What NOT to do at the Victorian Dinner Table

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WEBCAM at St John Beach restaurant bar on the water. Setting up.

Dining In / Dining Out

24/7 Dining Webcam St John

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1922 ad for Hellman's Mayonnaise in a jar.

Plants & Minerals

Hellmann’s European Travels leads back to US Mayonnaise Success

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Recipe for one of the First Potato Chip Casserole Recipes.

1930s / Recipes

Chipping away at History: Katharine Shultz’s Potato Chip Casserole

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hors d'oeuvres painting detail by Gustave Caillebotte

1930s / Recipes

Hors D’Oeuvres Planning

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Cover of Olive S. Allen's cookbook for Crisco, "200 Tested Recipes."

Biographies / Plant-based

Olive S. Allen: A French Home Cook Writes Crisco Recipe Book

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Gail Borden Jr., portrait, inventor of condensed milk and co-founder of Borden's Condensed Milk Co.

The Rise and Fall of Canned Milk

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Clara Alden Spence portrait, circa 1930.

Airy Fairy Flour author Clara Alden Spence, 1920s-1930s

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horse pulling a cart full of ice blocks to be delivered for home refrigeration, circa 1840.

Refrigeration / Utilities

Ice Box to Refrigerator

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Inside Frigidaire’s Test Kitchen: Meet Verna L. Miller, Home Economist 1920s-1960s

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training a cook, first day luncheon.

1880s / KITCHEN STORIES

Eureka! Cottage Life, Part II: Teaching the Cook, 1880s

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Helen Louise Johnson, demonstrating electric cooking at the 1893 World's Fair.

1890s / Biographies

Helen Louise Johnson: Cooking with Lightning, 1893

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1943 WWII Victory cooking booklet.;two women stretching meat budget.

1940s / Cookbooks and Booklets

1943 Betty Crocker stretches the meat budget

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bitter greens for salad.

1890s / Tidbits

Sugar on Salads

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Mary Abel talk.

1890s / Biographies

Mary Hinman Abel: A Revolutionary in Domestic Science

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1935 Blue ribbon winner from Hero, Vermont for Sno-Sheen flour.

1935 Winner of the Pillsbury Blue Ribbon, Ella Way

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Dorothy Kirk, food editor and cookbook author, crossword.

Dorothy Kirk Crossword

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Dainty Dishes booklet by Maria Parloa.

Maria Parloa COOKBOOKS and BOOKLETS

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Crossword: Food and Drink

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Ida Bailey Allen, circa 1928.

1920s / 1930s / 1940s / Biographies

Ida Bailey Allen: first TV cooking show

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Home Economist Irene Ady of Texas.

1940s / Biographies

Beyond the Mills: Texas Heart and Soul of Irene Nevill Aby

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Dorothy Kirk, magazine food editor.

Dorothy W. Kirk, Food Editor: From McCall’s to Woman’s Home Companion

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US map.

Embrace History in the Great Outdoors: 101 Open Air Museums in America

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Davy Crockett's Tennessee log cabin.

KITCHEN STORIES

Meal to Meal with Davy Crockett

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Baked Alaska 1897 Klondike Gold Rush Supplies

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History of...

The Kitchen Project

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measuring spoons.

Recipe Testers

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