Teaching with Food
Teach with all five senses, including taste!
Food 50 Years Ago
Is your favorite food a recent invention?
Recipe for Victory: Food and Cooking in Wartime
Winning a war using…food? Explore sources concerning World War I and gastronomical homefront movements.
Thanksgiving: Presidential Turkeys
How many turkeys have presidents pardoned?
Valerie Tripp: Salty Ham: Using the Senses in Historical Research
Have you tasted pioneer foods like apple butter? Listened to old records on a phonograph?
Paradise in a Breakfast Bowl
A morning meditation on flakes: Do your morals and values help you decide which cereal to eat in the morning?
The Ice Cream Wars
Was there conflict in the past over one of our favorite summer treats?
Yo, Ho, Ho and a . . . Bushel of Oysters?
Shellfish pirates stole from the rich to feed themselves—and make a little money on the side.
The Many Roots of African American Cooking
Africa, Europe, and North America—mix, and serve. Explore the foods that African Americans developed in the colonies, and later in the nation.
Column A and Column B
In the 19th century, no one expected Chinese food to take off in the United States.
Feeding America: The Historic American Cookbook Project
75 full-text cookbooks let you or your students prepare the foods from the 19th to the early 20th century.
Menu for the First Thanksgiving
Only two eyewitness accounts of that first Thanksgiving remain.
Fifty Years of Coca-Cola Television Advertisements
Archives 50 Coca-Cola commercials, broadcast outtakes, and experimental footage.