Food and Foodways
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Food in the West
Julia M. Gossard | Mar 29, 2018
Students in Julia M. Gossard's Western Civilization course use Northwestern University Knight Lab's TimelineJS to create a digital chronology of the history of food. -
Benevolent Diplomacy
Kaete O'Connell | Dec 4, 2017
Last winter while leafing through the Official File at the Truman Library for material on Herbert Ho... -
AHA Member Spotlight: Scott Alves Barton
Matthew Keough | Jun 6, 2017
Scott Alves Barton is developing a collaborative multi-media project studying food and foodways. -
Baguettes and Roses
Allison Miller | Apr 3, 2017
The National Endowment for the Humanities celebrated its 50th anniversary last September with a conf... -
The Muddled History of the Denver Omelet
Rick Halpern | Jan 8, 2017
The Denver omelet is a near ubiquitous offering on diner and greasy spoon menus across the country, ... -
More Than Meat and Potatoes: The Forgotten History of Denver Food
William Philpott | Dec 1, 2016
You will surely eat better in Denver than the gold-rushers Horace Greeley encountered in June 1859. ... -
History, Economics, and Food
Rachel Snyder | Nov 21, 2016
Applying for college is stressful enough without having to pick a major. That is why after writing a... -
Election Cake
Maia Surdam | Nov 1, 2016
Most Americans today do not think about cake when considering this year’s election. But perhaps we s... -
Thanks, Prohibition! How the Eighteenth Amendment Fueled America’s Taste for Ice Cream
Rachel Van Bokkem | Aug 8, 2016
This past May, my classmates and I were discussing the latest fad in summer indulgences: wine ice cream. Ice cream... -
The Politics of Pepper: Deciphering a Venetian-Mamluk Gift Exchange
Jesse Hysell | Jul 6, 2016
At the Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana in Venice, just a few feet from Piazza San Marco, where thousands of tourists come...
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