Resources – Early American Cookbooks

Online resources for historic cookbooks:

Useful Links

Advertising Cookbooks (Duke University)

The Beatrice McIntosh Cookery Collection (University of Massachusetts, Amherst)

Brocker Silker Culinary Ephemera Collection (Michigan State University)

Cookbook Collection (Texas Woman’s University)

Culinary History (New York Public Library)

Culinary History Collection (Virginia Tech)

Feeding America (Michigan State University)

Gastronomica: The Journal of Food and Culture

Janice Bluestone Longone Culinary Archive (University of Michigan)

Marion Nestle Food Studies Collection (New York University)

Bibliographies for historic cookbooks:

Bitting, K. G. Gastronomic Bibliography. London: Holland Press, 1981.

Brown, Eleanor Parker, and Bob Brown. Culinary Americana; Cookbooks Published in the Cities and Towns of the United States of America during the Years from 1860 through 1960,. New York: Roving Eye Press, 1961.

Cagle, William R., Lisa Killion Stafford, and Cecily Brownstone. American Books on Food and Drink: A Bibliographical Catalog of the Cookbook Collection Housed in the Lilly Library at the Indiana University. New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press, 1998.

Longone, Janice Bluestein et al. American Cookbooks and Wine Books, 1797-1950: Being an Exhibition from the Collections Of, and with Historical Notes. Ann Arbor, Mich: The Clements Library & The Wine and Food Library, 1984.

Lowenstein, Eleanor, Waldo Lincoln, and Betty Harper Fussell. Bibliography of American Cookery Books, 1742-1860. 3d ed. Worcester [Mass.]: American Antiquarian Society, 1972.