Names like DiGiorno, Delmonico, Ghirardelli, Gallo and other Italian American food brands are so ubiquitous that most people ...

We rounded up the most influential food trends of the past 250 years. From oysters to oatmeal to ranch dressing, these are ...

Andrew Smith offers up a volume of food resources in his book, The Oxford Companion to American Food and Drink, which reveals American food history and how it has influenced everything from slang to ...

Sliced bread. Soul food. Cheetos. Here are 25 inventions, crazes and cravings that defined the national diet, decade by ...

The hot dog has a long history that intertwines with the growth of America itself. Here's the messy, muddled history.

Introduction: what is American cuisine? -- Flowering and fading: American regional food -- Culinary nostalgia -- Community cookbooks -- The golden age of food processing, 1880-1970 -- Why Americans ...

From paintings celebrating a Land of Plenty, to cookbooks championing political causes, there’s a lot to chew on in American food history. Exhibition curator Kaleigh Pisani, curator of collections and ...

Are you sitting down? You won’t believe that these iconic “American” foods were born elsewhere. There are certain foods that feel undeniably American: a burger sizzling on the grill, a tray of mac and ...

Smithsonian American Food History Project Intern, Sylvia Marshall, kicks off the “Wiki Focus: Black Women in Food History” Wikipedia edit-a-thon on July 27, 2021, with an interview with LaDeva Davis.

Jessica B. Harris is the author of eleven cookbooks documenting the foods and foodways of the African Diaspora. She was recently inducted into the James Beard Foundation’s Who’s Who of Food and ...