Food History Resource Page

We've begun collecting syllabi and other resources for our members and guests who are interested in the history of food. Have something you'd like to add? Please contact executive secretary Joe Anderson.

Syllabi

• Megan Birk (The University of Texas-Pan American), Readings in American History post 1865 - Agriculture and Food

• Megan Birk (The University of Texas-Pan American), History of American Food

• Shane Hamilton (University of Georgia), Food and Power in American History syllabus

• Pamela Riney-Kehrberg (Iowa State University), America Eats syllabus

• Gabe Rosenberg (Duke University), Food in America syllabus

Other resources

On-line resources on aspects of foodways and food history:

• American Food in the Age of Experiment

• Cornell home economics library

• USDA map of food deserts

• NPR Fannie Farmer

• The Food Timeline

• Library of Congress Food History page

• Native American Recipes and Resources

• Tenement House Museum, including online tour of kitchens

• Feeding America Project at Michigan State University, contains historic cookbooks

• Food Museum

• Food and Eating in the Movies

• Southern Foodways Alliance

• Southern Food & Beverage Museum

Documentaries and Films about Food, Farming, and History:

• All in this Tea, 2007. Documentary: Tea growing in Asia

• As We Sow. Documentary: Crisis of family farming

• Black Gold, 2006. Documentary: Coffee farmers in Africa

• Death on a Factory Farm, 2009. Documentary: HBO's graphic look at animal processing

• Dirt: The Movie, 2009. Documentary: environmental importance of soil ecology

• Fat Head, 2009. Documentary: Comedic take on obesity debate

• Food Fight, 2008. Documentary: the California food movement

• Food Inc, 2008. Documentary: effects of commercial agriculture
  Monsanto response to FOOD INC

• Food Matters, 2008. Documentary: Relationship between food and pharmaceuticals

• Forks over Knives, 2010. Documentary: Linking food and illnesses

• Fresh, 2009. Documentary: grassroots efforts to provide fresh foods

• Harvest of Shame, 1960. News Feature: Edward R. Murrow's documentary on the American farmworker

• Killer at Large, 2008. Documentary: the rise of American obesity

• King Corn, 2007. Documentary: tracking one acre of Iowa corn

• www.ruralroutefilms.com. For additional food-farming related films and filmmakers

• Super Size Me, 2004. Documentary: fast food consumption

• The Garden, 2008. Documentary: Attempts to destroy urban garden

• The Future of Food, 2004. Documentary: Anti-GMO foods

• The Informant! (2009). Comedy: ADM price fixing scandal

• The Meatrix. Animated Short: Meat Processing

• The Real Dirt on Farmer John, 2006. Documentary: PBS examines organic farm

• The World According to Monsanto, 2008. Documentary: Ownership of genetic material

• We Feed the World, 2005. Documentary: Globalization of food production

• What's on Your Plate?, 2009. Documentary: Kids and food politics