Feeding America: The Historic American Cookbook Project

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Title

Feeding America: The Historic American Cookbook Project

Publisher

Michigan State University

Description

A collection of 70+ full-text, searchable American cookbooks printed between 1798 and 1923. Includes a number of texts addressing homemaking and housewifery, as well as other domestic issues including child-rearing and family health. The database hosts the "first American cookbook," as well as famous texts by well-known authors such as Fannie Farmer and Sara Josepha Hale.

Subject

Catharine Beecher
Lydia Maria Child
Sarah Josepha Hale
Fannie Farmer
Femininity
Womanhood
Women
Femininities
Heterosexuality
heterosexual
Race
Ethnicity
ethnic
racism
colonialism
orientalism
cultural difference
Religion
religious
spirituality
Children
Adolescence
Teens
Marriage
married
marriage guides
Health
Disease
addiction
recovery

Date

New Republic
Early 19th Century
Mid-19th Century
Late 19th Century
Gilded Age
Turn-of-the-20th Century
Early 20th Century
1910s
1920s
Jazz Age

Type

Books
Guides

Identifier

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Coverage

Northeast
Northwest
Midwest
Southwest
Southeast
Deep South

Website Item Type Metadata

Date Accessed

6/15/2016

Source Institution Type

Academic institution or library

Geolocation