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  "Gherkins & Tomatoes" revels in the lusciousness of food and culinary history. Cookbooks old and rare and new, recipes antique and modern, trends, morsels, tidbits … . History in the eating ... and the making. And always about hunger, yes, hunger, in all its forms, in all its ways ... Ultimately, life's all about cooks and cooking.
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• Articles & Bibliographies by C. Bertelsen

  • African Cooking and Food Bibliography
  • Arab Cooking Bibliography
  • Bibliography of European Colonial-Era Cookbooks (19th – 20th Centuries)
  • Cooking in Colonial America, A Bibliography
  • Culinary Historiography, a Brief Introduction
  • Food, Spirituality, and Religion Bibliography
  • Philosophy of Food and Cooking, Writing and Life
  • Starving for Art: The Hunger of Vincent van Gogh
  • Thanks a Lot, Mr. Disney!!! Really

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• Links to Interesting Food History Research Materials

• Africa

  • Africa South of the Sahara Research and Resources
  • African Agriculture
  • African Plants Database
  • African Spices
  • African Studies Online Courses
  • Betumi Blog
  • Glossary of African Food
  • Lost Crops of Africa

• Bibliographies

  • A Cookery Bibliography
  • Bibliography of Nineteenth- and Early-Twentieth Century American Cookery Books
  • Compendium of Links on the History, Anthropology, and Psychology of Cuisine
  • Core Historical Literature of Agriculture
  • Culinary History Online
  • Food and Culture Bibliography
  • Hazlitt's Old Cookery Books
  • Henry Notaker's Old Cookbooks and Food History
  • Japanese Home Cooking Bibliography
  • Medieval Cookbooks — An Annotated Bibliography
  • Religion and Vegetarianism
  • World Food Habits Bibliography

• Book Publishers

  • Acanthus Books
  • Berg Publishers Food and Culinary History
  • Columbia University Press Food History & Culinary Studies
  • Greenwood Press "Food Culture Around the World" series
  • Hippocrene Cooks
  • Kegan Paul Culinary History and Cookery
  • Mitchells Publications
  • Prospect Books
  • Stuart Peachey Food & Cookery Historical Booklets
  • University of California Press "History of Food" series

• Cookbooks Rare and/or Digitized

  • 15th-Century Cookery Books (Full Text)
  • A Sufi Cookbook: Serving the Guest
  • BibiOdyssey
  • BOOKS FOR COOKS AT THE BRITISH LIBRARY
  • Buckley’s Food History Links and Documents
  • Cindy Renfrow's Medieval History Site
  • Cooked Books: All Things Culinary at the New York Public Library
  • Culinary Jottings for Madras, by Col. Kenney-Henry
  • Emma Darwin’s Cookbook (Actual Pages)
  • Feeding America: The Historic American Cookbook Project
  • Historical Culinary & Brewing Documents Online
  • Home Economics Archive
  • L'Art du bien manger, par Edmond Richardin
  • Libro per cuoco
  • Old Cookbooks.com Lost & Found
  • Online Culinary History Network
  • Online Medieval Cookbooks
  • Project Gutenberg Culinary Texts
  • Receipts of Pastry and Cookery For the Use of his Scholars, by Ed. Kidder, 17–
  • Receipts of Pastry and Cookery for the use of his Scholars. (Transcription)
  • Recipes & Cookbooks: A (Tasty?) Window into Our Past
  • Serving the Guest
  • Szathmary Digital Recipe Pamphlet Collection (University of Iowa)
  • The Forme of Cury (Earliest English Cookbook)
  • The Great American Potluck (Library of Congress)
  • The Whitehouse Cook Book (1887) by Mrs. F. L. Gillette
  • Thomas Gloning’s Corpus of Culinary & Dietetic Texts of Europe from the Middle Ages to 1800
  • Unique collection of antique cookbooks (Located in Sweden)
  • University of Barcelona Digitized Rare and Antique Cookbooks
  • Vintage Cookbooks @ LittleBennett.com

• Esoterica, Weird, and Other Fascinating Stuff

  • Arabisms in Mexican Spanish
  • Mary's Gardens
  • Table of Condiments That Periodically Go Bad
  • The Food Timeline
  • Volume Measure Converter (metric to US)

• Food History Blogs

  • 18th-Century Cuisine
  • Boire et Manger, Quelle Histoire!
  • Burundi Goats
  • Clifford A. Wright's Links to Mediterranean Food and Culinary History
  • Cooking with the Junior League
  • Food History News
  • Heritage Recipes: Sharing Old Family Recipes & Traditions
  • Historic Food by Ivan Day
  • History of Greek Food
  • Jelly Press: Old recipes, Modern Life
  • Joe Pastry: Baking News, Tips, History and Science
  • Ken Albala's Food Rant
  • Mae's Food Blog
  • Months of Edible Celebrations
  • Planting Cabbages on the Path to City of Ladies
  • Rachel Laudan
  • The Art and Mystery of Food
  • The Old Foodie
  • The Olde Cookery Book

• Food History Organizations

  • Food History at the Library of Congress
  • Julia Child's Kitchen at the Smithsonian
  • Key Ingredients: America by Food (Smithsonian)
  • Longone Center for American Culinary Research
  • Middle Eastern & Islamic Cuisine Exhibit at Yale University
  • New York Food Museum
  • Not by Bread Alone: America's Culinary Heritage
  • Oxford Symposium on Food & Cookery
  • Peacock-Harper Culinary History Friends
  • Research Centre for the History of Food & Drink
  • Southern Foodways Alliance
  • The David Walker Lupton African-American Cookbook Collection

• Food Writing and Historical Research

  • Byzantine and Medieval Studies Links
  • Dr. Teresa de Castro's Links on Food and Anthropology of Food
  • Food Links: Vrije Universiteit Brussel
  • Food News Journal
  • Food Reference Website
  • Gode Cookery
  • Modern Historical manuscripts — British Library
  • Primary Sources Online
  • Repository of Primary Sources

• Glossaries and Dictionaries

  • Asian Ingredients and Cooking Terms – Glossary and Culinary Dictionary
  • Cindy Renfrow's Medieval and Renaissance Cookery Glossary
  • Constellations of Words
  • Cook's Thesaurus
  • Culinary Encyclopaedia: A Dictionary of Technical Terms (1898)
  • Dictionary of Middle-English Cookery Terms
  • Food Resource from Oregon State University
  • Glossaries,Timelines, and Heirloom Measurements
  • Glossary of African Food
  • Glossary of Culinary French
  • Glossary of Mexican Sweets
  • Glossary of Obsolete Cooking Terms
  • Glossary of Peruvian Cuisine Terms
  • Middle English Dictionary
  • Old Cook Words
  • Oregon State Glossary of Food Terms
  • Practically Edible: The World's Biggest Food Encyclopedia
  • Prospect Books Glossary
  • The Glossaries, by Epicurus.com
  • The Glossarist
  • The National Agricultural Library (USA)
  • THOMAS: Library of Congress Legislative Search Engine

• Menu Collections

  • Alice Statlet Menu Collection — City College of San Francisco
  • Dr. Martha Carlin's Historic Menus Pages
  • Las Vegas Menu Collections
  • Menu Collection at the Los Angeles Public Library
  • Menu Collections at the University of Washington
  • Menu Collections in the Conrad N. Hilton Library — Culinary Institute of America
  • Miss Frank E. Buttolph American Menu Collection, 1851-1930, New York Public Library
  • Nobel Banquet menus, 1901- 2008
  • Railroad Commissary Menu Collection
  • Transportation Library Menu Collection
  • US Navy Holiday Menus Collection

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