The 19th Century Posts A history of women in restaurants Read More » Enslaved children’s diet in 1850s Virginia Read More » Hard apple cider a symbol in 1840s of simpler frontier life Read More » Johnny Appleseed’s obituary in 1845 Read More » Podcast: American Beef Economy of late 19th century Read More » The Ornate Ice Cream Saloons That Served Unchaperoned Women Read More » Urban development shaped the way 19th-century New Yorkers ate Read More » Books of Interest Carolina Housewife Read More and Buy Cornmeal and Cider: Food and Drink in the 1800s Read More and Buy Culinarians: Lives and Careers from the First Age of American Fine Dining Read More and Buy Fannie’s Last Supper: Re-creating One Amazing Meal from Fannie Farmer’s 1896 Cookbook Read More and Buy Feast or Famine: Food and Drink in American Westward Expansion Read More and Buy Food and the Novel in 19th Century America Read More and Buy Food in the Gilded Age: What Ordinary Americans Ate Read More and Buy Food in the United States, 1820s-1890 Read More and Buy Food on the Frontier: Minnesota Cooking from 1850 to 1900 with Selected Recipes Read More and Buy History Lover’s Cookbook: Over 150 full-color photos inspired by nineteenth century recipes, anecdotes, and the Civil War Read More and Buy Hog Meat and Hoecake: Food Supply in the Old South, 1840-1860 Read More and Buy How the Other Half Ate: A History of Working-Class Meals at the Turn of the Century Read More and Buy Mrs Goodfellow: The Story of America’s First Cooking School Read More and Buy Perfection Salad: Women and Cooking at the Turn of the Century Read More and Buy Relish: The Extraordinary Life of Alexis Soyer, Victorian Celebrity Chef Read More and Buy Starving the South: How the North Won the Civil War Read More and Buy Sugar Masters: Planters and Slaves in Louisiana’s Cane World, 1820-1860 Read More and Buy Sugar, Slavery, and Freedom in 19th Century Puerto Rico Read More and Buy Taste for War: The Culinary History of the Blue and the Gray Read More and Buy Thousand Dollar Dinner: America’s First Great Cookery Challenge Read More and Buy Turning the Tables: Restaurants and the Rise of the American Middle Class, 1880-1920 Read More and Buy Urban Appetites: Food and Culture in Nineteenth-Century New York Read More and Buy Vegetarian Crusade: The Rise of an American Reform Movement, 1817-1921 Read More and Buy
Fannie’s Last Supper: Re-creating One Amazing Meal from Fannie Farmer’s 1896 Cookbook Read More and Buy
History Lover’s Cookbook: Over 150 full-color photos inspired by nineteenth century recipes, anecdotes, and the Civil War Read More and Buy
How the Other Half Ate: A History of Working-Class Meals at the Turn of the Century Read More and Buy
Turning the Tables: Restaurants and the Rise of the American Middle Class, 1880-1920 Read More and Buy