Required reading for anyone who eats.

From cave paintings to burgers, beef has long been a part of human history.

-Martin, a journalist and food historian in Austin, Tex., who has spent a decade researching the cooking of African-American women". To me no cook should require “cultural permission” to prepare whatever dish that...

check out this site it’s very funny. the section on ancient food news is excellent! Link: http://www.soupsong.com/index.html

“lobster palaces”) Nathan’s fries Neddick’s orange drink b/w cookies various “automat” favorites Can you recommend any other foods distinctive to or characteristic of Times Square? Contemporaray are...

Here are some: The Food Timeline http://www.gti.net/mocolib1/kid/food.html The Culinary History Timeline http://www.gti.net/mocolib1/kid/food1.html Food History News http://foodhistorynews.com/ Dining Through the Decades http

I love supporting and eating local but was wondering if anyone has been to this in the past? Is it worth it or should I just spend $30 buying food from them on Sunday morning? When: July 19th, 5:30 to 8:30 pm Where: Society Hill

Nicole Mouton of Portland’s the Screen Door weighs in on the recent popularity of Southern cuisine.

from the restaurant, General Lee’s Man Jen Low, with videotaped oral history from a former chef. Worth a look for anyone interested in Chinese restaurants and immigration, or changing American tastes. I’ve posted a...

Sidney Mintz’s book Sweetness and Power.

Salon provides handy CliffsNotes on two recent books of banana history.

tonight on the History Channel they are having a program that sounds promising: America Eats: History on a Bun – A history of food focuses on the American hot dog & pizza. I don’t know if America Eats is an ongoing...

to a restaurant that my father used to take me to. That folks would have been in 1970. The restaurant was famous not only for it’s very fine food but for it’s collection of art work of female nudes and I believe it...

i cant remember if cathy2 posted about the culinary historian meeting tomorrow, but i thought in any case i’d do it again. i cant understand why more chowhounds dont come to these fantastic lectures(with food). please check...

Nice article in the current issue of ‘American Heritage’ magazine on the history of pizza in America. See link below. — Paul Link: http://www.americanheritage.com/articles/magazine/ah/2006/2/2006_2_30.shtml Image:...