A Selected Database for Colonial era Culinary Research

 

  • American Society of Landscape Architects. Colonial Gardens; The Landscape Architecture of George Washington’s Time. (Washington D.C.: United States George Washington Bicentennial Committee, 1932).

  • American Society of Landscape Architects. Colonial Gardens; The Landscape Architecture of George Washington’s Time. (Washington D.C.: United States George Washington Bicentennial Committee, 1932).

  • De Voe, Thomas F. The market assistant, containing a brief description of every article of human food sold in the public markets of the cities of New York, Boston, Philadelphia, and Brooklyn; including the various domestic and wild animals, poultry, game, fish, vegetables, fruits &c., &c. with many curious incidents and anecdotes. (New York: Hurd and Houghton, 1867).

  • De Voe, Thomas F. The market book : containing a historical account of the public markets of the cities of New York, Boston, Philadelphia and Brooklyn, with a brief description of every article of human food sold therein, the introduction of cattle in America, and notices of many remarkable specimens. (New York, 1862).

  • Hauck-Lawson, Annie, and Deutsch, Jonathan, eds. 2008. Gastropolis : Food and New York City. New York: Columbia University Press.

  • Jones, Evan. American Food: What We've Cooked, How We've Cooked it, and the Ways We've Eaten in America Through the Centuries. (Woodstock, NY: The Overlook Press, 2007).

  • Kurlansky, Mark. The Big Oyster: History on the Half Shell. (New York: Random House Publishing, 2006).

  • Levenstein, Harvey. Revolution at the Table: The Transformation of the American Diet. (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2003.)

  • Linder, Marc and Lawrence S. Zacharias. Of Cabbages and Kings County: Agriculture and the Formation of Modern Brooklyn. (Iowa City, IA: University of Iowa Press, 1999).

  • Rice, Kym S. Early American Taverns: For the Entertainment of Friends and Strangers. (Washington, D.C.: Regnery Publishing, 1983).

  • Rockman, Diana Diz., and Nan A. Rothschild. “City Tavern, Country Tavern: An Analysis of Four Colonial Sites.” Historical Archaeology 18, no. 2 (1984): 112–21.

  • Rothschild, Nan A. and Shira Birnbaum, “Compliance to Bottle Bill Survey: An Analysis of Garbage from Nine Blocks in New York City” (on file, New York City Department of Sanitation, 1984).

  • Senn, T.L. “Farm and Garden: Landscape Architecture and Horticulture in 18th Century America.” Agricultural History 43, no. 1 (Jan., 1969) 149-158.

  • Stedman, John G. Narrative of a Five Years’ Expedition Against the Revolted Negroes of Surinam. (London: Johnson & Edwards, 1796).

  • Symonds, James, ed. Table Settings: The Material Culture and Social Context of Dining, AD 1700-1900. Oxbow Books, 2010.

  • Thompson, Peter. Rum Punch and Revolution: Tavern Going and Public Life in Eighteenth-Century Philadelphia. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1999).