The Food in History Conference
Editors’ note: This is our first report on the Anglo-American conference 2013. Rachel Rich’s post considers “The Politics of Food”. By Sally Osborn The 2013 Anglo-American conference, which took place...
View ArticleThe Politics of Food: Food in History at the Anglo-American Conference 2013
Editors’ note: This is our second conference report on the Anglo-American Conference 2013. Sally Osborn’s post considers the domestic and institutional spaces of food. By Rachel Rich I started working...
View ArticleAn early modern Portuguese recipe book of pharmaceutical “secrets”
By Amy Buono Colleçção de varias receitas de segredos particulares des principaes boticas da nossa companhia de Portugal, da Índia, de Macao e do Brasil compostas e experimentadas pelos melhores...
View ArticleFirst Monday Library Chat: The College of Physicians of Philadelphia
It seems appropriate that I should feature my own library’s collection on the First Monday Library Chat! Today I’m interviewing Annie Brogan, College Librarian here at the Historical Medical Library of...
View ArticleFirst Monday Library Chat: Heidelberg University Library
Welcome back to the First Monday Library Chat! Today we travel to Germany with Elaine Leong and feature library of the oldest German university – The Heidelberg University Library. We’re delighted to...
View ArticleFirst Monday Library Chat: New York Public Library
Founded in 1895, the New York Public Library (NYPL) is the largest public library system in the US, serving more than 17 million patrons per year. NYPL holds nearly 10,000 archival and manuscript...
View ArticleWorkhouse Diets: Paucity or Plenty? [Part I]
By Lesley Hulonce ‘All we ever get is gruel’, sang the workhouse lads in the 1968 film Oliver! But were workhouse boys like Oliver Twist really forced to bravely step forward and beg for more food?...
View ArticleWorkhouse Diets: Paucity or Plenty? [Part II]
By Lesley Hulonce This is the second part of a post which appeared on Tuesday, 10 May. As Edward Ostler reported to the 1834 Royal Commission, ‘humanity dictates that the inmates of a workhouse should...
View ArticleThe Wellcome Library’s Manuscript Recipe Books: Reflections on a...
By Richard Aspin Manuscript recipe books were at the forefront of Henry Wellcome’s collecting activities. Perhaps no other genre of European written artefact spoke more directly to his conception of...
View Article“Lunch Shaming” and Lessons from History
By Nadja Durbach Early last year the news media reported on a surge in what has been called “lunch shaming”: practices that deliberately and publicly humiliate children whose parents have not settled...
View ArticleThe “Nutrition Song”: Imperial Japan’s Recipe for National Nutrition
Nathan Hopson This is the first in a planned series of posts on nutrition science and government-sanctioned recipes in imperial Japan. In May 1922, Japan’s preeminent nutritionist, Saiki Tadasu,...
View ArticleEating Right in 1950s Educational Films
By Jonathan MacDonald There is a right way and a wrong way to do everything, or so argued the creators of Coronet Instructional Films. In their mission to educate American youth in the post-World War...
View ArticleRegulations and Realities: Standardizing Diets in British Prisons
By Jess Clark I was recently in the British Library, and among the sources that came across my desk was a small, thin text published in 1902: Manual of Cooking & Baking for the Use of Prison...
View ArticleAround the Table: Research Technologies
This month on Around the Table, I am chatting with Christian Reynolds, a lead investigator on the US-UK Food Digital Scholarship network. Since the Recipes Project is a partner organization to the...
View ArticleJanuary 2020: a Taste of “Before ‘Farm to Table'” Part II
Dear Recipes Project community, Happy 2020! This month we’ll mark the new year by highlighting some discoveries from the Before “Farm to Table”: Early Modern Foodways and Cultures project, a Mellon...
View ArticleMeals on Wheels: The “Kitchen Cars” and American Recipes for the Postwar...
By Nathan Hopson From 1956 to 1960, the USDA Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS) sponsored a fleet of food demonstration buses in Japan (“kitchen cars”) to improve national nutrition and fuel the...
View ArticleSay Ohm: Japanese Electric Bread and the Joy of Panko
By Nathan Hopson In 1998, the New York Times introduced readers to an exotic new ingredient described as “a light, airy variety [of breadcrumb] worlds away from the acrid, herb-flecked, additive-laden...
View ArticleRemembering Terry Turner (1929-2019): Pharmaceutical History Collector...
By Laurence Totelin, with input from Briony Hudson A few years ago, my colleagues Heather Trickey (social sciences), Julia Sanders (midwifery) and I decided to put together a small exhibition on the...
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