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Culinary History
Timeline social history, manners & menus
---Religious
food practices ---History
of Eating Utensils, from the Anthropology Dept. at the California
Academy of Scientists ---New
Perspectives on Agricultural Origins in the Ancient Near East,
Smithsonian Institution
---5th millenium BC, Egypt---agriculture &
animals ---100-500AD, Egypt---Feeding
Karanis ---Ancient Mayas---Farming, hunting
& domesticated animals ---900-1600
Europe & the Middle East: ------A Boke of Gode
Cookery, medieval & renaissance customs and cuisine ------Cariadoc's
Miscellany, European & Islamic cultures 13th-17th
centuries ------Cindy Renfrow's Links
Page ------Medieval/Renaissance Food
Homepage ------Welcome to Le Poulet
Gauche, French dining customs (see Tavern Life) ---16th-20th centuries, London---London Eats Out, from
the Museum of London ---1585, North
Carolina---Indian
food and cooking in eastern North Carolina ---17th century, Louisiana---Creole and Cajun
Cookery ---1610, Virginia---What did the colonists
eat? ---1633, London---Herball or
General Historie of Plantes, John Gerard ---18th century, Europe---At Table:
High Style in the 18th Century ---1707,
London---Fortnum &
Mason, food proprieters ---1744,
Virginia---George Washington's Rules of
Civility ---1773, Boston---Boston
Tea Party ---1776-1931---An American
Feast: Food, Dining and Entertainment in the United States ---1777, Pennsylvania---Valley
Forge Commissariat ---19th century---Origins of Modern
Vegetarianism and Famous
Vegetarians ---19th century, U. S.---Condiments of the Early
19th Century, description & recipes ---1800, Maine---Lobstering then
and now ---1815, Virginia---Breakfast
& Dinner at
Jefferson's Monticello ---1826, Boston---Union Oyster
House menu, compare to today's dinner
menu ---1830, Indiana---Dietary patterns of the
Early Midwest ---1840, England---Afternoon tea,
custom attributed to Anna, 7th Duchess of Bedford ---1840, pioneers---Food on the Oregon
Trail, supplies & cooking methods ---1840,
South Carolina---Rice Planter
Lifestyle, The Rice Museum ---1850, Monterey,
CA---Cannery
Row ---1859, Walden Pond,
Massachusetts---Wild
Fruits, Henry David Thoreau ---1860, South
Carolina---Collapse of the
Georgetown Rice Culture, The Rice Museum ---1861, Civil War---Feeding Billy
Yank ---1862, Cariboo Gold Rush, British
Columbia---General
store ---1866, Washington, D.C.---White House
Easter Egg Roll, family tradition of president Andrew Johnson ---1870s, Coney Island NY---Feltman's,
Stauch's & Nathan's ---1876, Railroad
expansion---Fred
Harvey Houses, the first fast
food restaurants ---1876, Boston---Women's
Laboratory, Massachusetts Institutue of Technology ---1890, U.S.---Menu for a
Christmas Dinner, Godey's Ladies Book ---1891,
New Mexico---Dinner
menu, The Montezuma, Hot Springs ---1891,
Century Magazine,(Nov., pps 101-112)---The
Food-Supply of the Future, W. O. Atwater ---1892, Texas---Thanksgiving
menu, Brackenridge Hall, University of Austin ---1892, Mitchell, South Dakota---The Corn Palace ---1893, Chicago---Rumford
Kitchen, World's Columbian Exposition ---1896,
American dining
customs and table
manners, Youth's Educator for Home and Society ---1896, Fannie Farmer's Guidelines
for a Full Course Menu ---1897,
Russia---The Tsar's
Table, Nicholas II ---1898, Chilkoot Trail,
Yukon---Gold miner's
supply list ---1900-2000, U.S. --Decade
menus ------Decade
recipes from Bon Appetit ------Century of
Food, Columbus Dispatch ------Century's
Best, Houston Chronicle ---1900, New York
City---Menus from Louis Sherry, The Plaza Hotel, Haan's, Child's Lunchrooms, and
The Cooper Lunch
Counter ---1900, California---San Dimas Lemon
Association ---1902, Philadelphia---Horn &
Hardart's first automat ---1906,
Japan---The
Book of Tea, Kakuzo Okakura ---1906,
Wilmington Delaware---Longwood Garden
Parties hosted by Pierre S. duPont ---1906, New
York City---The New
York Pushcart: Recommendations of the Mayor's Commission and Manufacturing
of Foods in the Tenements ---1909,
U.S.---Good
Housekeeping Seal, issued by the Good Housekeeping Institute ---1909, U.S.---Advertisement for
Deviled meats from the Wm. Underwood Company ---1912, U.K.---Titanic dinner
menus, first and second class ---1916, Memphis
Tennessee---Piggly
Wiggly, America's first self-service grocery store opens ---1916, World War I---Baking bread
in the WWI Army ---1917, World War
I---Army
Operational Rations, U.S. standard issue ---1922, Emily Post---Etiquette,
guidelines for entertaining ---1922, Caledonia New
York---Annual Pig
Roast Dinner, menu & music ---1931, Irma
Rombauer's---Joy
of Cooking ---1939, New York City---World's
Fair Belgian
Restaurant menu ---1939, England---Meals on Wheels, a
tradition of serving our seniors ---1942,
WWII---Wartime Housekeeping
on Wheels, New York Central Railroad ---1942,
Puyallup, WA---Camp
Harmony, Japanese Relocation Center ---1942,
U.S. Navy---Christmas Dinner,
U.S. Navy Recieving Station, Boston MA ---1944,
WWII---Army
kitchen trucks & Thanksgiving
menu ---1945, United Nations---Food and Agriculture
Organization is founded ---1951, U.S.
Army---Field
messing in forward areas ---1953, Korean
War---United
Nations soldier food service ---1955, Des
Plaines, IL---McDonald's
restaurant opened with this
menu ---1956, Alcatraz---Dining room rules,
inmate regulation #33 ---1960---Space
Food from NASA ---1961, Julia
Child's---Mastering
the Art of French Cooking ---1965,
Vietnam---Thanksgiving Day
Menu, "A" Co. ---1979, U.S.---America's
Second Harvest, connecting food with hungry people ---1986, Paul Prudhomme's--- Louisiana
Kitchen ---1996, U.S.---What do Americans
Eat?, U.S. Agriculture Fact Book 1998 ---1998, Antarctica---Thanksgiving at
McMurdo ---1999, New Mexico---Boy Scouts of
America's Philmont
Trail Menu, hiking menus to order ---1999,
Minnesota---State Fair food How
much can people cook? ---2000,
Sydney---Olympic food ------What
Olympic Athletes Eat ------1996, Atlanta---Feeding
Olympic Athletes ------1996, Atlanta---Let
the Feast Begin! ------2000, Sydney---Fact sheets on
food ------2000, Sydney---262,000
loaves and tonnes of fishes ------2000, Sydney---McDonald's
Olympic Menu ------2002, Salt Lake City---Specialty
Chef program ---2001, New York City---Hope for
Abundance is the theme for this New Year's Eve celebration in Times
Square
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