American food history is a clear timeline of cultural changes and industrial progr ess. Each decade produced a product that quietly reshaped how people cooked, ate, and thought about convenience at ...

Andrew Smith offers up a volume of food resources in his book, The Oxford Companion to American Food and Drink, which reveals American food history and how it has influenced everything from slang to ...

From paintings celebrating a Land of Plenty, to cookbooks championing political causes, there’s a lot to chew on in American food history. Exhibition curator Kaleigh Pisani, curator of collections and ...

Jessica B. Harris, acclaimed author and food historian who lives part-time in New York and part-time in New Orleans, has published a new book on American food history that doubles as a cookbook, ...

Ever wonder why your great-grandmother kept her butter substitute locked away like contraband? The story of margarine is one of the strangest battles in American food history. Picture this: a simple ...

Smithsonian American Food History Project Intern, Sylvia Marshall, kicks off the “Wiki Focus: Black Women in Food History” Wikipedia edit-a-thon on July 27, 2021, with an interview with LaDeva Davis.

Our blog covered a cornucopia of food history topics in 2016, but a few dishes rose to the top. Here are ten of our most-read blog posts of 2016 related to cuisine and cooking in America. Look out for ...

Visit any region of the United States, and you'll find Black American cuisine with historic and multinational roots. Some dishes are so indelible to American culture that the contributions of African ...