Even better? Find a library that owns these magazines for Home, Better Homes and Gardens, and Southern Living. Ladies Home Journal, Family Circle, Good Housekeeping, American 'menus' 'meals' and 'dining' to locate articles printed in popular magazines such as the The librarians at your local public library can help you with this. Magazines Reader's Guide to Periodical Literature, Wilson Help you identify nearby libraries with historic culinary collections or try to borrow them. Period cookbooks can be identified with the Library of Congress catalog and state or city library catalogs.

Unfortunately, most public libraries do not own old cookbooks.

You need primary resources.Ĭookbooks Period cookbooks are the best sources for authentic recipes, menu suggestions, table This is the fun part! It's also time-consuming and labor-intensive. If you want to identify period recipes, menus, table settings & decorations new food introductions, restaurant openings, cookbooks, technological advancements &

Century in Food: America's Fads and Favorites, Beverly Bundy [Collector.

excellent for social context, commentary, & selected recipes: 1920s-1980s

Fashionable Foods: Seven Decades of Food Fads, Sylvia Lovegren.

If you think it's best to stick with 'signature' decade foods everyone will recognize, start.

1900s Texas chili parlors? 1930s Chicago soup kitchens? 1970s California cuisine? 1990s

Decide if you want to feature local fare.

1980s formal dinner? 1960s backyard barbecue? 1950s Vegas resort extraganza? 1940s teen party? 1920s Gatsby speakeasy Once you figure out what you want to accomplish, the rest will fall Morris County (NJ) Cooks! Eleven delicious decades Food Timeline: popular American decade foods, menus, products & party planningĢ0th century American foods.

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