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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

Though there are more food brands these days than any person could possibly commit to memory, a few have been around for so long and are so iconic that we not only know them by name, but recognize ...

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.

Jessica B. Harris is the author of eleven cookbooks documenting the foods and foodways of the African Diaspora. She was recently inducted into the James Beard Foundation’s Who’s Who of Food and ...