19th Century - Food History

Fannie’s Last Supper: Re-creating One Amazing Meal from Fannie Farmer’s 1896 Cookbook

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Feast or Famine: Food and Drink in American Westward Expansion

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Food and the Novel in 19th Century America

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Food in the Gilded Age: What Ordinary Americans Ate

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Food in the United States, 1820s-1890

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Food on the Frontier: Minnesota Cooking from 1850 to 1900 with Selected Recipes

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History Lover’s Cookbook: Over 150 full-color photos inspired by nineteenth century recipes, anecdotes, and the Civil War

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Hog Meat and Hoecake: Food Supply in the Old South, 1840-1860

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How the Other Half Ate: A History of Working-Class Meals at the Turn of the Century

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Mrs Goodfellow: The Story of America’s First Cooking School

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Perfection Salad: Women and Cooking at the Turn of the Century

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Relish: The Extraordinary Life of Alexis Soyer, Victorian Celebrity Chef

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Starving the South: How the North Won the Civil War

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Sugar Masters: Planters and Slaves in Louisiana’s Cane World, 1820-1860

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Sugar, Slavery, and Freedom in 19th Century Puerto Rico

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Taste for War: The Culinary History of the Blue and the Gray

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Thousand Dollar Dinner: America’s First Great Cookery Challenge

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Turning the Tables: Restaurants and the Rise of the American Middle Class, 1880-1920

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Urban Appetites: Food and Culture in Nineteenth-Century New York

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Vegetarian Crusade: The Rise of an American Reform Movement, 1817-1921

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The 19th Century

Posts

A history of women in restaurants

Enslaved children’s diet in 1850s Virginia

Hard apple cider a symbol in 1840s of simpler frontier life

Johnny Appleseed’s obituary in 1845

Podcast: American Beef Economy of late 19th century

The Ornate Ice Cream Saloons That Served Unchaperoned Women

Urban development shaped the way 19th-century New Yorkers ate

Books of Interest

Carolina Housewife

Cornmeal and Cider: Food and Drink in the 1800s

Culinarians: Lives and Careers from the First Age of American Fine Dining

Fannie’s Last Supper: Re-creating One Amazing Meal from Fannie Farmer’s 1896 Cookbook

Feast or Famine: Food and Drink in American Westward Expansion

Food and the Novel in 19th Century America

Food in the Gilded Age: What Ordinary Americans Ate

Food in the United States, 1820s-1890

Food on the Frontier: Minnesota Cooking from 1850 to 1900 with Selected Recipes

History Lover’s Cookbook: Over 150 full-color photos inspired by nineteenth century recipes, anecdotes, and the Civil War

Hog Meat and Hoecake: Food Supply in the Old South, 1840-1860

How the Other Half Ate: A History of Working-Class Meals at the Turn of the Century

Mrs Goodfellow: The Story of America’s First Cooking School

Perfection Salad: Women and Cooking at the Turn of the Century

Relish: The Extraordinary Life of Alexis Soyer, Victorian Celebrity Chef

Starving the South: How the North Won the Civil War

Sugar Masters: Planters and Slaves in Louisiana’s Cane World, 1820-1860

Sugar, Slavery, and Freedom in 19th Century Puerto Rico

Taste for War: The Culinary History of the Blue and the Gray

Thousand Dollar Dinner: America’s First Great Cookery Challenge

Turning the Tables: Restaurants and the Rise of the American Middle Class, 1880-1920

Urban Appetites: Food and Culture in Nineteenth-Century New York

Vegetarian Crusade: The Rise of an American Reform Movement, 1817-1921