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Agricultural History Society - Food History Resource Page

Ancient Faces - Recipes

Preserving and sharing family legacies through old photographs, stories, and recipes.

Creating an Heirloom: Writing Your Family's Cookbook

A booko with tips, tricks and ideas for creating your own family cookbook and preserving your family's recipes.

Family Reunion Recipes

From Better Homes and Gardens magazine.

FamilyWeb Cafe

Online community to share ethnic and traditional family recipes, family history and family-oriented links.

Farmer, Fannie Merritt. 1918. The Boston Cooking-School Cook Book

Online version of the 1918 edition.

Favorite Family Recipes - From the Gene Pool

Feeding America

Feeding America is an online collection of some of the most important and influential American cookbooks from the late 18th to early 20th century. The digital archive includes 76 cookbooks from the MSU Libraries' collection as well as searchable full-text transcriptions.

Grandma's Kitchen - Recipes That Span Generations

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Heritage Recipes

Website collects old recipes and the memories related to the recipe.

Homespun-Country Kitchen

Companion web site to the Homespun Mailing List.

Internet Archive - Cookbooks and Home Economics

The Cookbook and Home Economics Collection includes books from the Young Research Library Department of Special Collections at UCLA, The Bancroft Library at The University of California, Berkeley, and the Prelinger Library. These fascinating books take us back to an America in the early decades of the 20th century covering topics on cookery, textiles, family and home, budgeting, domestic sciences, and many other delightful topics.

Old Time Cooking Recipes

Collection of over 700 traditional homemade cooking recipes from our grandmothers kitchens.

Once Upon A Thyme

Family History Stories, Heirloom Recipes, Obituaries, and a collection of old letters. Surnames: Abrahams, Eldridge, Norton, Thomas.
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The Food Timeline

The Sifter - Search the World of Food

The Sifter is a free website for searching and comparing authors, their works and the details of their works regarding food and related topics around the world and throughout history. Browse and search through thousands of historical cookbooks and manuscripts dating back to the Middle Ages!