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Food History

LibGuide compiling resources on food and nutrition history.

Journals

Databases

 
All of the journals listed to your right are found within Rebecca Crown Library's collection of databases. A strategy for broader results would be to search the entire database, there you will find items from culinary specific journals as well as much more. Try some keywords and phrases in the databases below! 

Video Streaming from Kanopy

 

500 Years in 20 minutes Explores the rich heritage and distinct qualities that typify the food Americans eat. The narrator, executive chef, and historian weave a story of food history from 1519 until today - in the South NE, Midwest, Pacific and SW of the USA.

 
 

Amidst a polarized debate marked by passion, suspicion and confusion, this fascinating documentary - narrated by Neil deGrasse Tyson and directed by Oscar-nominee Scott Hamilton Kennedy - explores the controversy surrounding GMOs and food. Travelling from the cornfields of Iowa to banana farms in Uganda, Food Evolution brings a fresh perspective to one of the most critical issues facing global society today.