Here’s my always-changing book and video recommendations for historical food/cooking. I’d love to hear your thoughts on this selection. Happy eating and reading!

Books

Recommendations

• Biltmore Traditions: A Collection of Menus, Recipes, and Stories, by Biltmore Company (2012)
• Eat My Words: Reading Women’s Lives through the Cookbooks They Wrote, by Janet Theophano (2002)
• The Jane Austen Cookbook, by Maggie Black and Deirdre Le Faye (1995)
• Taste: The Story of Britain Through Its Cooking, by Kate Colquhoun (2007)
• Tea with Jane Austen, by Kim Wilson (2004)
• The Williamsburg Art of Cookery, by Helen Bullock (1938)

To-Be-Read

• Bound to the Fire: How Virginia’s Enslaved Cooks Helped Invent American Cuisine, by Kelley Fanto Deetz (2017)

• A History of Cookbooks: From Kitchen to Page over Seven Centuries, by Henry Notaker (2017)

• A Square Meal: A Culinary History of the Great Depression, by Jane Ziegelman & Andrew Coe (2016)

• A Thousand Years Over a Hot Stove: A History of American Women Told through Food, Recipes, and Remembrances, by Laura Schenone (2003)

Videos

• Chef Walter Staib’s A Taste of History series (available on Amazon Prime)
• Supersizers Go! (YouTube)