https://www.foodtimeline.org/ Food Timeline Ever wonder how the ancient Romans fed their armies? What the pioneers cooked along the Oregon Trail? Who invented the potato chip...and why? So do we!!! Food history presents a fascinating buffet of popular lore and contradictory facts. Some experts say it's impossible to express this topic in exact timeline format. They are correct. Most foods are not invented; they evolve. We make food history fun. New Updates: August 2022 * Thanks to everyone who has been using our form to submit changes/ corrections. We still have a backlog on that and we've had a bumpy spring, but we hope to get back on track with that work this fall. * We're happy to share that over HALF of the books from Lynne Olver's collection have now been cataloged. Special Collections and University Archives is working on creating some additional shelf space as this work continues. We are so grateful for the work of our colleagues in Metadata Services, who have been instrumental in making this happen! * You can view the list of books available so far in this search! * While we just got one new item to add, we have processed the manuscript materials and research files from Lynne Olver and the finding aid is online. Want to know more about the site's creation and history? See the " About this site" section at the bottom of this page. Want to submit a broken link, offer a link suggestion, and/or offer a topic suggestion? See the bottom of the Food Timeline homepage. Food Timeline Index...alpha, subject & site search _______________________________________________________________________________________________ food beginnings timeline historic recipes water & ice separator ---------------- bar salt---------------- timeline oysters, scallops, mussels separator & mollusks---------------- bar squid, calamari & octopus timeline ---------------- separator insects---------------- bar fish & frogs timeline ---------------- separator mushrooms & greens bar ---------------- timeline bear, venison & horsemeat separator ---10,000BC---flour, bread & soup ---------------- bar eggs & marrow bones timeline ---------------- separator rice & millet bar ---------------- timeline emmer grain--17,000BC--- separator einkorn grain--16,000BC--- bar almonds--10,000BC--- timeline cherries---10,000BC--- separator wheat ---8,000BC--- bar American bison timeline ---8,000BC--- separator wine & beer---7,000BC--- bar pigs, goats & sheep timeline ---7,000BC--- separator lard---7,000BC--- bar pistachios---7,000BC--- timeline new world beans separator ---7,000BC--- bar black walnuts---7,000BC--- timeline cattle domestication separator ---6,500BC--- bar apples & crab apples timeline ---6500BC--- separator ---4000BC---yeast breads: pitta & spelt ---6000BC--- bar focaccia maize & tortillas timeline ---6000BC--- separator dates---6000BC--- bar honey & chickpeas timeline ---5000BC--- separator ---3000BC---ice cream arugula, chicory & lettuce bar ---5000BC--- timeline ginger & galangal separator ---5000BC--- bar buckwheat & quinoa timeline ---5000BC--- separator Cucumbers & squash & bar chayote---5000BC--- timeline ---2300BC---Ancient Egypt chili peppers, avocados & separator taro---5000BC--- bar potatoes---5000BC--- timeline milk & yogurt, & sour separator cream---5000BC--- bar pigeons---4600BC--- timeline grapes, watermelons & separator ---1700BC---Mesopotamia banquets & sorghum---4000BC--- bar recipes oranges citrons & Buddha's timeline hand ---4000BC--- separator pomegranates ---4000BC--- bar popcorn---3600BC--- timeline chicken domestication separator ---3200BC--- bar ---900BC---polenta butter & palm oil timeline ---3000BC--- separator barley & cassava (manioc) bar ---3000BC--- timeline peas & carrots separator ---3000BC--- bar onions & garlic timeline ---3000BC--- separator apricots & spices bar ---350BC---dolma ---3000BC--- timeline soybeans I---2838BC--- separator tea---2737BC--- bar olive oil---2500BC--- timeline ---1st Century---Bible era foods seaweed & duck separator ---1st Century---Ancient Rome ---2500BC--- bar ---1st Century---fried chicken, muskmelon ---2400BC--- timeline foie gras saffron & peach palm (page separator ---1st Century--- French toast & 211) ---2300BC--- bar omlettes mustard, pasta & noodles timeline ---1st Century---Italian wedding ---2000BC--- separator soup & rice pudding radishes, purslane & carob bar ---1st Century---flan & cheesecake ---2000BC--- timeline ---1st Century---The Haggis, peaches---2000BC--- separator stuffed dates & pears in syrup marshmallows, liquorice & bar ---1st Century---challah & Parthian jujubes ---2000BC--- timeline breads ham & sesame seeds & separator cultivated rye bar ---3rd Century---De Re Culinaria ---2000BC--- timeline (in Latin) & De Opsoniis et chocolate & vanilla separator Condimentis, Apicius ---1500BC--- bar ---4th century---Byzantine bread horseradish---1500BC--- timeline ---5th-9th century---Anglo-Saxon sugar---1200BC--- separator foods pickles & mangoes bar ---1000BC--- timeline ---7th century---kimchi oats & bean sprouts separator ---8th century---Ancient Maya ---1000BC--- bar ---8th-12th century---Viking foods pears---900BC--- timeline ---9th century---halva & goulash tomatoes & tomatillos separator ---10th-15th century---Medieval ---900BC--- bar food & menus celery---850BC--- timeline ---10th century---Peking duck & cinnamon---700BC--- separator Shark's fin soup bananas, poppy seeds & bar ---11th century---baklava & bannock cabbage ---600BC--- timeline Guinea fowl in Greece separator ---500BC--- bar Italian sausages & timeline ---13th Century---ravioli, lasagne artichokes---500BC--- separator & mozzarella cheese pastries & appetizers bar ---13th Century---pancakes & ---400BC--- timeline waffles vinegar---400BC--- separator ---13th century---brawn, salsify & peppercorns, cardoons & bar couscous garden cress (page 307) timeline ---14th century--- kebabs & moon ---400BC--- separator cakes parsley ---300BC--- bar ---14th century---scrambled eggs & turkeys, asparagus & timeline guacamole rhubarb ---200BC--- separator ---14th century---escabeche & quinces---65BC--- bar verjuice chestnuts & horehound timeline ---14th century---pie & humble pie ---1st Century--- separator ---14th century--- kolache, lobster, crab & shrimp bar Trenchers, Frumenty & Blancmanger ---1st Century--- timeline ---14th century---Viandier de truffles, dill & dormice separator Taillevent & Le Menagier de Paris ---1st Century--- bar ---1381---apple pie & crumpets blueberries & raspberries timeline ---1386---Chaucerian Cookery, ---1st Century--- separator feasts! capers, turnips & kale bar ---1390--- The Forme of Cury ---1st Century--- timeline ---1390---applesauce costmary & blood as food separator ---1393---fried cheese sticks ---1st Century--- bar ---1395---gingerbread timeline ---15th century---jelly, jams & separator preserves bar ---15th century---stracciatelle & lemons ---3rd Century--- timeline zanzarelli, risotto separator ---15th century--- borscht & bar marzipan pretzels---5th Century--- timeline ---15th century--Sauce Robert eggplant---6th Century--- separator ---15th century--- doughnuts & hot spinach & sago---7th bar dogs Century--- timeline ---1475--- wassail separator ---1492---Christopher Columbus old bar world cuisine coffee, cod & nutmeg---9th timeline ---16th century---sweetbreads & century--- separator salsa loquats & flower waters bar ---16th century---quiche & puff ---10th century--- timeline paste separator ---16th century---teriyaki chicken corned beef & cider---11th bar & Cornish pastys & Polish Bigos century--- timeline ---16th century---English snow eggs lychees, seitan & fu separator & syllabub ---11th century--- bar ---1514---Een Notabel Boecxken Van breadfruit, & okra & timeline Cokeryen, in Dutch artichokes ---12th separator ---1545---A Proper newe Booke of century--- bar Cokerye ---1590---Shakepeare's food ---1593---Cocboeck, Carolus Battus gooseberries---12th (in Dutch) century--- ---1596---English trifle ---1597---potato salad ---1598---cock-a-leekie Walden saffron & Mexican ---1599---hasty pudding limes---14th century--- ---17th Century--- corn bread, hoe cakes, spoonbread & hominy maslin---1303--- ---17th Century---chess pie & shortbread ---17th Century---French onion soup , pea soup & cream puffs ---17th century--- Salad I & II ---17th century Hodge Podge & Olla coconuts & rutabagas Podria ---15th century--- ---1604---Raspberry jelly & modern Japanese sushi & sashimi version ---15th century--- ---1607--Jamestown settlers ate pork & beans---1475--- pottage (p. 20) pineapples---1493--- ---1610---bagels marmelade ---1495--- ---1612---Koocboec oft familieren pecans, papayas & keukenboec, Magirus (in Dutch) cauliflower---16th ---1615---A New booke of cookerie century--- ---1616---Koge-Bog (first printed turkeys in Europe---16th Nordic cookbook) century--- ---1621--- Pilgrim Thanksgiving cashews in India---16th ---1638---Mobby century--- Japanese tempura---16th ---1653---pumpkin pie & lemonade century--- ---1662---Boston brown bread (aka Texas Longhorns---16th Ryaninjun) century--- ---1664---potato bread vanilla in Europe---16th ---1669---De Verstandige Kock, in century--- Dutch tomatoes in Europe ---1672---Queen-Like Closet, Hannah ---1544--- Wooley fruit leather---1587--- ---1683---De Verstandige Kock, Brussels sprouts & target= colonial Dutch recipes "new"kohlrabi---1587--- ---1685---Accomplisht Cook, Robert skim milk---1596--- May ---1686---croissants yams & sweet potatoes ---1691---lemon meringue pie ---17th century--- ---1694---portable soup ---1698---punch treacle---17th Century--- ---1699---John Evelyn's Acetaria: pralines & coffee cake Discourse of Sallets ---17th Century--- ---18th century ---Colonial & Early American fare modern ice cream & maple ---18th century ---crab cakes, sugar---17th Century--- ratafia & sangria cranberries in America ---18th century--- muffins & ---17th Century--- crackers Jerusalem artichokes ---18th century--- chowder & beef ---1605--- tea ---18th century---cinnimon buns & coffee in Europe---1615--- English muffins ---1702---pepper pot soup ---1706---croquettes ---1720---Receipts of Pastry and rum---1650--- Cookery for the Use of his Scholars Kosher food in the U.S. , Ed. Kidder ---1654--- ---1725---Welsh Rabbit blackeyed peas in America ---1727---Hasty pudding, The ---1675--- Compleat Housewife E. Smith grapefruit in Barbados ---1728--- mushroom ketchup ---1683--- ---1736---Scottish tablet broccoli in England ---1740---pound cake & cupcakes ---1699--- ---1744---Espagnole sauce ---1747---Floating island ---1747---Yorkshire pudding & sweet potato pie ---1747--- Salmagundi & mashed coffee in America---18th potatoes Century--- ---1753---diet bread root beer & tapioca ---1754---Colonial Williamsburg ---18th Century--- food French fries & ketchup ---1754--- Swedish meatballs ---18th Century--- ---1755--- turtle soup hardtack & ship's biscuit ---1762---sandwiches ---18th Century--- ---1764---English Houswifery, ---18th century--- Elizabeth Moxon Montelimar nougat ---1765---apple butter ---1701--- ---1769---beef a la mode , casseroles---1708--- Experienced English Housekeeper ---1769---Eccles cakes ---1770---Colonial wedding cakes & Crab soup ---1771--- Election Cake Commerical foods ---1775---Dried apples from Paul -1740-1820--- Revere's kitchen sugar beets---1747--- ---July 4, 1776---American Independence Day menus 1776--present commercial gelatin ---1780s---Martha Washington's ---1754--- Great Cake mayonnaise & Tartar sauce ---1780s---Thomas Jefferson's ice ---1756--- cream (manuscript) & muffins ---1780s---Martha Jefferson's cream egg nog---1760--- cheese ---1782---souffle soda water---1767--- ---1784---Mulligatawny soup ---1785---Kokebok, from Norway ---1786---deviled eggs ---1787---toad-in-a-hole New Zealand spinach ---1789---aspic & Moravian sugar ---1771--- cakes ---1790---pasta & tomato sauce ---1790s---California Mission foodwasy ---1792---English Art of Cookery, Richard Briggs tomatoes in America ---1792--- mock turtle soup ---1781--- ---1796---pompkin pudding & federal pancakes, Amelia Simmon's American lollipops---1784--- Cookery New Zealand mutton birds ---1796---Charlotte & Charlotte ------1788--- Russe ---1798---American Cookery, Amelia Simmons ---1798---turnovers ---19th Century---Frontier American switchel---1790--- fare & Victorian era foodways ---19th Century---Chile con carne & fondue ---19th Century--wedding cake, Sally Lunn & salt rising bread ---19th Century--Napoleons, Linzertortes & ammonia cookies ---19th Century-- shepherd's pie & Cape Breton pork pie squirrel---19th century-- ---19th Century-- American mangoes & pickled peppers ---19th Century-- canapes & timbales ---19th Century--fines herbes ---1800---Regency English menus & recipes [Jane Austen] Mandarin oranges/Europe ---1800---Napoleon's Chicken ---1805--- Marengo ---1802---fried ice cream ---1803---Mint Julep & Gumbo ---1803---Frugal Housewife, Susannah Carter ice cream cones & sandwich ---1804---pemmican bread---1807--- ---1805---white pudding & pot pie ---1807---A New System of Domestic corn syrup & McIntosh Cookery, Mrs. Rundell apples---1811--- ---1808---Lucy Emerson's New taffy, toffee & England Cookery butterscotch---1817--- ---1810---Brunswick stew & Kentucky new potatoes---1817--- burgoo lady fingers---1820--- ---1817---Remoulade ---1820---ginger ale ---1821---Tomata catsup & orange marmelade, Frederick Accum's Culinary Chemistry ---1824---chicken-fried steak, cocoa---1828--- oyster ice cream & gazpacho in America ---1826---Jean Anthelme soft drinks in America Brillat-Savarin's Physiologie du ---1830--- Gout (Note: this is the 1848 Turkish delight & edition; the 1826 is no longer Worcestershire sauce available online) ---1830--- ---1826--- Cook and Housewife's Manual, Margaret Dods (Scotland) ---1827---lemon drops & carrot ale Gibraltar rock---1831--- ---1828---Duck a l'Orange iodized salt---1833--- ---1828--- Vermont common crackers Worsestershire sauce & & Philadelphia Apee cookies Michigan mint---1835--- ---1828---Sauce Allemande & Cabinet Idaho potatoes & custard pudding powder---1837--- ---1830---Frugal Housewife/Child & Key limes---1839--- Cooks Oracle/Kitchiner ---1830---Reform Club chef Alex corn starch---1842--- Soyer's Dessert gelatin ---1830---carrot cake, Hopping John , & bouillabaisse ---1831--- The Cook Not Mad, Watertown NY Chinese food in America ---1832---Seventy-five Receipts for ---1847--- Pastry, Cakes and Sweetmeats, Eliza vanilla extract---1847--- Leslie ---1832---The Cook's Own Book, N.K.M. Lee ---1834---Palestine soup Concord grapes---1849--- ---1838---The Virginia Housewife, Mary Randolph ---1839---The Good Housekeeper, Sarah Josepha Hale ---1839---cobbler modern marshmallows ---1840---Directions for Cookery, --1850--- Eliza Leslie cherries in ---1840--- Cuisiniere Canadienne, Michigan---1852--- L. Perrault, Montreal potato chips---1853--- ---1840s--Oregon trail foods Condensed milk ---1856--- ---1840s--Irish soda bread & French Peek Freans---1857--- Savarin ---1840s--pork steaks & head cheese ---1844--- Cornish pastys in UP ---1845---roly-poly pudding & fish & chips---1860--- Bakewell pudding & fines herbes Garibaldi biscuits ---1845---tipsy parson & chicken ---1860s--- salad ---1846---Jewish Manual, Judith Montefiore & Domestic Receipt Book/ Catharine Beecher Vernor's Ginger Ale ---1847---Utah bound! ---1862--- ---1847---peanut brittle breakfast cereal---1863--- ---1848---pesto ---1849---Eliza cookees, Mrs. Conversation Hearts Hubbell ---1866--- ---1849---California sourdough bread & Hangtown fry synthetic baby food ---1850s--Western sandwiches ---1867--- ---1850s--Mock apple pie Tabasco sauce---1868--- Fleischmann's Yeast & Kobe ---1850---Anadama bread beef---1868--- ---1851---Great Western Cook Book, Anna Collins ---1852---Handbook of Invalid Welch's grape juice Cooking/Mary Boland ---1869--- ---1853---Maryland beaten biscuits ---1855---Boston cream pie margarine & unsalted ---1856---Navy bean soup butter---1870s--- ---1857---Hanna Winsnes' cookbook California raisins (in Norwegian) ---1870s-- ---1857---Country Captain Chicken & iced coffee Philadelphia cream cheese ---1857---Eliza Acton's English ---1872--- Bread Book Graham crackers ---1872--- ---1859---The Curiosities of Food/ Simmonds (extreme cuisine) ---1860---Cakes & plum puddings, Godey's Lady's Book Heinz Ketchup---1876--- ---1860s---Baked Alaska & ice tea ---1861---Mrs. Beeton's Book of Household Management ---1861---Beef Stroganoff & popcorn fondant---1877--- balls blood oranges in USA & ---1861-1865---Civil War foods Thompson seedless grapes ---1863---Confederate Receipt Book, ---1878--- Richmond VA ---1863---fruit salad Wheatena & Saccharin ---1864---Sanderson's Complete ---1879--- Confectioner & Complete Cook ---1864---Apple Brown Betty ---1865---Mrs. Goodfellow's Cookery passion fruit, desiccated as it should be eggs & crosnes ---1880s-- ---1866---The National Cookbook, salt water taffy & French Hannah Peterson dressing---1880s-- ---1868---The Dominion Home Cookbook, Toronto ---1869---parfaits, pickled limes & bordelaise sauce & Chateaubriand ---1869---Wright's book of 3000 Armour's 'Simon Pure'Leaf practical receipts Lard---1884-- ---1870s-- American pot roast & Parker House rolls milk shakes & Dr Pepper ---1870s---Neapolitan ice cream & ---1885--- Caramel cake Educator crackers, ---1870s---Cowboy cooking Salisbury steak & ---1870---Jennie June's American evaporated milk---1885--- Cookbook, Jane Cunningham Croly Coca Cola---1886--- ---1870---New Orleans King cakes malted milk & Georgia ---1871---groom's cake & marble pecans---1887--- cake pancake syrups---1887--- ---1871--- Wild Turkey & cheese pizza---1889--- straws ---1872---Jambalaya ---1873---American cuisine, from Miss Beecher's Housekeeper and Fig Newtons ---1891--- Healthkeeper cookbook Cracker Jacks---1893--- ---1874---Mrs. Winslow's Domestic Minute tapioca---1894--- Receipt Book peanut butter & tea bags ---1875---Breakfast, Luncheon, and ---1895--- Tea, Marion Harland Chop suey & Corsicana ---1875---Young Housewife's fruitcake---1896--- Counsellor and Friend, Mary Ann oatmeal cookies---1896--- Mason ---1876---Practical Cooking and Dinner Giving, Henderson ---1876---popovers, ground nut Jell-O & Campbell's tomato cakes & Lobster Newburg soup ---1897--- ---1877--- ambrosia & vinegar pie cotton candy & tangelos ---1877--- Wilcox's Buckeye Cookery ---1897--- & Kettner's Book of the Table jelly beans & candy corn ---1878---hermit cookies ---1898--- ---1878---Directions Diverses, Texas sweet onions Montreal ---1898--- ---1879--- Mrs. Porter's New Southern Cookery Book, Mrs. M. E. Porter ---1879---funnel cakes ---1880---Miss Parloa's New Cookbook, Maria Parloa ---1880s---angel food & chocolate pie ---1880s---Baked Alaska & American meatloaf ---1881---What Mrs. Fisher Knows Cottolene & Plasmon About Old Southern Cooking, Abby ---1900--- Fisher elbow macaroni & Ice cream ---1882---Chicken tartare sandwiches---1900--- ---1883---Christmas pudding ---1884---Mrs. Lincoln's Boston Cook Book ---1884---porcupines & Angels on horseback ---1885---La Cuisine Creole, Lafcadio Hearn peanut butter & jelly ---1886---Woman's Suffrage Cook ---1901--- Book, Mrs. Hattie A. Burr ---1886---Miss Corson's Practical Animal Crackers & Black & American Cookery, Juliet Corson Whites---1902--- ---1886---pecan pie ---1887---Cherries jubilee & Karo syrup---1902--- Heavenly hash ---1887---White House Cook Book, canned tuna---1903--- F.L. Gillette banana splits & Ovaltine ---1887---Canning & Preserving, ---1904--- Mrs. Rorer ---1889---Aunt Babette's Cook Book: New Zealand kiwi Foreign and Domestic Receipts ---1904--- ---1889---bundt cake ---1890s---corn oysters & ice cream New York pizza ---1905--- sundaes ---1890s---chicken cacciatora & Taylor Pork Roll---1906--- picnic ham ---1892---Science in the Kitchen, Ella Eaton Kellogg ---1893---Art of Living in Meyer lemons---1908--- Australia, Philip Muskett ---1893---La Cuisine Francaise: French Cooking for Every Home... Monosodium Glutamate (MSG) ---1893---Favorite Dishes, Carrie ---1909--- V. Shuman ---1893---ice cream a la mode & fudge ---1894---Ranhofer's The Epicurean ---1894---Terrapin, from orange juice---1910s-- Delmonico's in NYC ---1894---Eggs Benedict ---1894---Recipes Tried and True, Marion Ohio ---1896---Waldorf salad ---1896---Boston Cooking School Crisco ---1911--- Cook Book, Fannie Merritt Farmer ---1896--- The Cook Book, Oscar Tschirky (of the Waldorf) ---1896---Military field bread, Junket & Olivenaise U.S. Manual for Army Cooks ---1911--- ---1896---Henriette Davidis' Practical Cookbook, 35th German edition (in English) Oreos & maraschino ---1897---Swedish-American Cookbook cherries ---1912--- (Swedish and English) ---1897---Steiger's fortune cookies ---1912--- Deutsch-Amerikaniches Kochbuch (in German) ---1897---Nantua sauce Mallomars---1913--- ---1898---Lane Cake & Shrimp wiggle ---1899---Oysters Rockefeller ---1900s--Popular USA foods & menus Pan-Pak---1915--- ---1900s--cioppino, Oysters Kirkpatrick & a href= "foodmeats.html#swisssteak">Swiss American shark & steak Australian Copha---1916--- ---1900s--Culinary Wrinkles, or how to use Armour's extract of beef ---1900---Morristown Cook Book (NJ) Moon pies & Marshmallow ---1900---My Pet Recipes..., St. Fluff---1917--- Andrews Church, Quebec ---1900---Banbury tarts, The Stonington Cookbook, CT Chase's Cherry Mash ---1900--- Food for the Sick and ---1918--- How to Prepare It, Edwin French ---1901---Settlement Cook Book, Mrs. Simon Kander ---1901---Eggs in a basket & Clams casino Hostess cup cakes ---1919--- ---1902---USA Devil's food cake & Australian Lamingtons ---1902---Mrs. Rorer's New Cook Book, Sarah Tyson Rorer ---1903---cranberry bread ---1903---U.S. Senate Bean Soup & Eskimo Pie & Good Humor Club sandwiches ---1920--- ---1904---Dr. Price's Delicious Desserts Yoo-hoo & cube steak ---1904---Cooking in Old Creole ---1920s-- Days, Celestine Eustis ---1904---Blue Grass Cook Book, Minnie Fox [Kentucky cookery] Wonder Bread & zucchini ---1904---Good Housekeeping Hostess ---1921--- ---1905--- Los Angeles Times Cook Book ---1905---Lady Baltimore & Checkerboard cakes Vegemite & Girl Scout ---1905---submarine sandwiches, Cookies---1922--- Tomato gravy & Tamale pie popsicles ---1923--- ---1905--- Finnish-American frozen foods & Texas hot Cookbook, Kaleva Michigan (with weiners---1924--- English translation) ready-to-spread frostings ---1906---brownies & banana cream & Jujyfruit candy pie ---1925--- ---1906---onion rings, Harvard Orange Julius ---1926--- beets & Muffoletta sandwiches Kool-Aid, Pez, Pepperoni ---1906---Refugee's Cook Book, (San Rolls, & Bridge mix Francisco earthquake) ---1927--- ---1906---One Hundred and One Gerber's baby food & It's Mexican Dishes, May E. Southworth It---1928--- ---1907---Le Guide Culinaire/ Twizzlers & Karmelkorn Escoffer (English) ---1929--- ---1907---Gastronomy Practique, Po'Boy & hot Italian Ali-Bab (French) sandwiches--1929--- ---1907--- Divinity fudge, Twinkies & Jiffy biscuit sauerkraut candy & aioli mix--1930--- ---1908---Steak Diane & Lobster fra Heinz 57 product line diavolo ---1930--- ---1908---buttercream frosting sliced bread & dry soup ---1909---Tetrazzini & Kaiser mix---1930s--- pudding spiral carved hams & ---1909---Good Housekeeping Woman's cheese puffs---1930s--- Home Cookbook, Isabel Gordon Curtis Vidalia onions & Frisbie ---1909---Washington Woman's Cook Pies---1930s--- Book (Seattle) tacos in LA---1931--- ---1909---Reform Cookery Book, Mrs. London Broil & Tri-tip Mill steak ---1931--- ---1909---shrimp cocktail refrigerator biscuits ---1910s--Popular U.S. foods & ---1931--- menus Fritos & Pablum ---1932--- ---1910--Jell-O: America's most Marshmallow Sandwich famous dessert cookies---1932--- ---1910---Home Helps: A Pure Food chocolate covered pretzels Cook Book ---1933--- ---1910---Charles Fellows' Menu Hawaiian Punch & Rutgers Maker & Horace Kephart's Camp tomatoes ---1934--- Cookery Nabisco's Ritz crackers ---1910--- Practical West African ---1934--- Cookery/Leith-Ross & Ruxton Campbell's cream of ---1911---Apple sauce cake mushroom soup & Tex-Mex ---1911---Good Things to Eat, Rufus burritos ---1934--- Estes sloppy joes---1935--- ---1911---Laurel Health Cookery, Py-O-My & Dagwood Elvora Bucknum Perkins (vegetarian) sandwiches---1936--- ---1911---Catering for Special SPAM, Krispy Kreme & Occasions, Fannie Merritt Farmer Hippodromes---1937--- ---1911---Kitchen Encyclopedia, Hollywood bread & chicken Swift & Company & waffles---1938--- ---1912---Chicken a la King & Chop Cho cho ice cream treats Suey cake ---1939--- ---1912---Thousand Island dressing Ugli fruit & seedless & tomato pie watermelon---1939--- ---1912---Mary Frances Cook Book, milk sold by the gallon Jane Eayre Fryer ---1939--- ---1912---Standard Paper-bag York Peppermint Patties & Cookery, Emma Paddock Telford sponge candy---1940--- ---1912---War Time Cooking, Lydia M & Ms & Cheerios E. Pinkham ---1941--- ---1912--- Dromedary Cook Book Corn dogs/Pronto pups & ---1912---Golden Rule Cook Book Blackout cakes---1942--- ,Sharpe (vegetarian) Chicago-style pizza ---1913---Chinese Cook Book, Chong ---1943--- Jan Co. & Japanese Fruitcake frozen orange juice & ---1913---Choice Recipes: Chocolate Nutella---1946--- and Cocoa, Walter Baker & Co. Gourmet (magazine) food ---1913---Dishes and Beverages of ads---1946--- the Old South, Martha Williams Betty Crocker's cake mix ---1913---Coq au vin & clover leaf ---1947--- rolls frozen french fries & Sau ---1913---Italian cream cake & Sea shrimp cocktail clafoutis --1948--- ---1914---Chinese-Japanese Cook Jolly Ranchers ---1949--- Book, Sara Bosse instant pudding & high ---1914---Chicken fried steak altitude cake mix ---1914---Neighborhood Cook Book, ---1949--- Council of Jewish Women parbaked bread & Friday ---1914---ANZAC biscuits I & II Franks---1949--- ---1914---Fettuccine Alfredo American Tex-Mex---1950s-- ---1915---hush puppies & peanut Irish coffee, cappuccino & butter cookies smoothies---1950s-- ---1915---Dainty Desserts for frozen pizza---1950--- Dainty People, Knox Gelatin Co. chickenfurters---1951--- ---1915---Healthy Life Cook Book, diet soda & Cheez Whiz Florence Daniel ---1952--- ---1915---Pan-Pacific Cookbook, Duncan Hines cake mixes Exposition fare ---1952--- ---1916---Apple crisp & Sunkist Maypo ---1953--- Oranges-Lemons Marshmallow Peeps ---1916---Field bread, Manual for ---1953--- Army Bakers TV Dinners---1953--- ---1916--- Allied Cookery, Grace ranch dressing & Clergue Harrison tracklements---1954--- ---1917---Icebox Cake & Black cow ---1917---Vichyssoise & American frozen pie crust---1955--- cocktail parties chocolate covered ants ---1917---55 Ways to Save Eggs & ---1956--- Best War Time Recipes Tang & Pam---1957--- ---1917--- Buffalo Bird Woman's Rice-A-Roni & instant Garden ramen noodles ---1958--- ---1918---World War I recipes from brown rice in USA the Doughboy Cookbook ---1960s--- ---1918---Fannie Farmer's Boston Fruit Stripe gum---1960--- Cooking School Cook Book Life cereal---1961--- ---1919---Sturtevant's Notes on instant mashed potatoes & Edible Plants/E. Lewis Sturtevant PDQ---1962--- [1919] round sandwich bread ---1919---International Jewish Cook ---1963--- Book, Florence Kreisler Greenbaum Brown & Serve bacon ---1919---The Hotel St. Francis ---1963--- Cookbook, Victor Hirtzler Carnation Instant ---1919---Italian Cook Book, Maria Breakfast & Belgian Gentile waffles & Pop Tarts ---1919---chocolate truffles ---1964--- ---1920s--Popular U.S. foods & Buffalo Wings ---1964--- menus fast food chicken ---1920s--egg creams & French 75 sandwiches---1964--- cocktail Gatorade & Slurpees ---1920---Fleischmann's recipes ---1965--- ---1920---School and Home Cooking, high fructose corn syrup Carlotta C. Greer ---1967--- ---1921--- Chiffon pie, Mary Ann Ramapo tomatoes---1968--- cakes & Candle salad Snack Pack & Space Food ---1921---Story of Crisco (with Sticks ---1968--- recipes) Snackin Cake---1971--- ---1922--- Aunt Caroline's beefalo&& Flame Seedless Dixieland Recipes, Emma & William grapes---1973--- McKinney Lactaid---1974--- ---1922---Jell-O recipes Pop Rocks & Jelly Bellies ---1923--- Food for the Diabetic, ---1976--- Mary Huddleson orange cauliflower ---1923---Svensk-Amerikansk Kokbok ---1976--- (Wisconsin) pulled pork & generic ---1924---pineapple upside-down foods---1977--- cake & Caesar salad panko & portobello ---1924--- chocolate covered potato mushrooms ---1980s--- chips bubble tea, chicken ---1925---George Washington nuggets & Sriracha sauce Carver's peanut recipes ---1980s--- ---1925---Lemon sponge cake from Yukon gold potatoes 800 Proved Pecan Recipes ---1980--- ---1927---Electric Refrigerator Gardenburgers---1982--- Recipes, General Electric Orangetti spaghetti squash ---1927---Here's How (Prohibition ---1986--- cocktails) Red Bull energy drink ---1927---s'mores & mayonnaise cake ---1984--- ---1928---Horseshoe sandwiches & everything bagels & garlic Black bottom pie & cold shape knots ---1988--- ---1930s--Popular U.S. foods & artisan breads & menus greenhouse tomatoes ---1930s--Lady Baltimore & Pavlova ---1990s--- cakes edamame in the USA ---1930s--Philly cheese steak & ---1990s--- Pigs in blankets & Margaritas turkey bacon---1991--- ---1930s--banana bread & Tomato pretzel bread---1992--- Soup cake broccolini---1993--- ---1930s--Cajun fried turkey & Flavr Savr tomatoes I Purple Cows (launch) & II (shelved in ---1931---souffle, Joy of Cooking 1997)---1994--- ---1931--- refrigerator pie & city Tofurkey---1995--- chicken grape tomatoes---1997--- ---1933---Lindy's cheese cake Omega 3 Eggs---2001--- ---1935---breadless sandwiches Flat iron steak & ---1936--- Chef's salad, Chinese tear-free onions---2002--- Chicken salad & no-bake cookies Mexican funnel cake ---1936---Burke's Complete ---2008--- Cocktails & Drinking Recipes What's hot?---2013--- ---1937---Reubens & Chicken Kiev Cronuts & test tube ---1937---Specialita Culinarie burgers---2013--- Italiane, Boston MA ---1937---Green goddess dressing & Cobb salad ---1939---New York World's Fair Cook Book/Crosby Gaige ---1939---Colonel Sanders' secret recipe & George Jessel's Bloody Mary ---1940s--Popular U.S. foods & menus ---1940---Ruth Wakefield's Toll House Chocolate Chip Cookies & Johnny Marzetti casserole ---1940---Recipes, Britain's Ministry of Food ---1941---Lord Woolton Pie & sugarless sponge cake ---1941---Rice Krispies treats & Monte Cristo sandwiches & carpetbag steak ---1942---MFK Fisher's Tomato & War cakes ---1943---99 ways to share the Meat , USDA ---1943---nachos ---1944---tortilla soup ---1945---monkey bread, city chicken & rum balls ---1946---chicken burgers, tuna melts & potato chip cookies ---1946---Stork Club (NYC) & Trader Vic cocktails ---1947---chiffon cake ---1948---Chicken Vesuvio & Finger steaks ---1948---Mr. Truman's recipes I, II, & III ---1949---Wacky cake ---1949---Pillsbury Bake Off ---1950s--Popular U.S. foods & menus ---1950s-- Chicken Parm & Chicken Francese ---1950s-- Mexican wedding cakes & Nesselrode pie ---1950s--modern American honey mustard ---1951---Bananas Foster ---1952---Chex mix ---1953---coronation chicken ---1954---California onion dip & Nanaimo bars ---1955---green bean casserole & chicken Wellington ---1956---German chocolate cake & Chocolate beet cake ---1956---Panini ---1956---Thumbprint cookies & Rolled rondant ---1957--- Italian-American Spaghetti Carbonara & Quebec Poutine ---1958---Crab rangoon & lemon bars ---1960s--Popular foods & menus ---1960s--Beef Wellington, Grasshopper pie, Digger bread & Cocoa fudge ---1960--- Green Eggs & Ham & Red Velvet Cake ---1961---Billy bi ---1962---Cream cheese brownies ---1963---Black Forest cake & Texas sheet cake ---1963--- Ladybird Johnson's recipes ---1964---Ants on a log ---1964---Hot Dutch Tuna Buns & pita bread, NYC World's Fair ---1965---crudites & Hello Dolly Bars ---1966---Tunnel of Fudge Cake, chocolate fondue & King Ranch Chicken ---1968---Taco salad, Astronaut fruitcake & Impossible pie ---1969---Richard Nixon's favorite meatloaf ---1969---Flower Pot Bread & Hummingbird Cake ---1970's--Popular U.S. foods & menus ---1970's--California rolls, Pasta primavera & Tiramisu ---1971---fajitas ---1972---General Tso's chicken ---1973---zucchini bread & Harvey Wallbanger cake ---1975---Black & blue steak & Chicken Tikka Masala ---1976---American Bicentennial menus ---1978---Consumer Reports rates chicken soup ---1980's--Popular U.S. foods & menus ---1980s--Mud pie & Dirt dessert ---1980s--Panzanella & mesclun ---1980s-- pasta salad & oriental noodle salad ---1980---Turducken ---1981---Watergate salad & Watergate cake ---1983---Penne alla vodka & Harvard Beet Cake ---1987---banh mi & tortilla pinwheels ---1990's--Popular U.S. foods & menus ---1990s---stromboli, Jamaican jerk & tall food ---1991---chocolate molten lava cake & earthquake cake ---2000s---popular U.S. foods & trends ---2007---Kool-Aid pickles & cake pops ---2009--- Twecipes & Recessipes ________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Hungry for more? Check our FAQs Looking for something not yet on our menu? Let us know ! Google [ ] [Google Search] ( ) WWW (*)https://www.foodtimeline.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- FOOD ALLERGY ALERT RECREATING HISTORIC RECIPES CAN BE FUN AND EDUCATIONAL BUT FOR PEOPLE WHO HAVE FOOD ALLERGIES THIS ACTIVITY CAN POSE A SERIOUS HEALTH THREAT. Always supply your child's teacher with a list of ingredients BEFORE you send any food to class, especially peanuts. * The Food Allergy Network...FAQs, special alerts & resources * Food Safety...safe food preparation & proper storage procedures * Food Allergies/ADAM WHEN IN DOUBT, THROW IT OUT --------------------------------------------------------------------- About this site Lynne Olver created the Food Timeline in 1999 (see the "about this site" below). In 2020, Virginia Tech University Libraries and the College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences (CLAHS) collaborated on a plan to offer Virginia Tech as a new home for the physical book collection and the web resource. We are beginning to plan for some future development on the site, but in the meantime, we have a few pieces of information to share about Food Timeline: * Lynne Olver's book collection is joining the more than 5,000 volumes that Virginia Tech Special Collections and University Archives (SCUA) has relating to food and drink history. We now have more than 7,500 books and 125 manuscripts on aspects of cooking, food, drink, and agricultural history! * We have a new email address for Food Timeline ( foodtimeline-g@vt.edu). If you'd like to learn more about this collection or our other materials, are interested in collaborating, or need some reference help, you can reach us there. (We are still checking the existing email, but we will be phasing it out going forward.) * SCUA already does virtual and in-person reference as part of our mission and services, and we are happy to try and help you with questions now! We are currently open under mostly normal operations and at this time we are able to offer some reference support. We appreciate your patience as we ramp up this service (garlic pun intended?). If you are local and want to visit us, we are open Monday-Friday from 8a-5p (appointments are encouraged, but not required). * The Olver book collection is currently being cataloged, so it is not immediately available for use. We'll share more information as that effort progresses. If you are local or want to visit Virginia Tech specifically to work with these materials, please contact us first so we can discuss the options. Otherwise, we are open by-appointment to work with our other food and drink history materials. * SCUA is now managing @foodtimeline on Twitter, where we'll post updates about the collection, food history news, info from the Food Studies Program at Virginia Tech, and more! The Food Timeline was created and maintained solely by Lynne Olver (1958-2015, her obituary), reference librarian with a passion for food history. About it she originally said "Information is checked against standard reference tools for accuracy. All sources are cited for research purposes. As with most historical topics, there are some conflicting stories in the field of food history. We do our best to select and present the information with the most documented support. Heritage Radio interviews Food Timeline editor (2013). Since we launched in March 1999, The Food Timeline's scope has grown from a single page with a sprinkling of links to 70 web pages offering a wealth of historic information, primary documents, and original research. As of March, 2014 we served 35 million readers and answered 25 thousand questions. Compare today's site with the original Food Timeline, circa 1999. Our notes on the art of culinary esearch with a side order of popular requests. The Food Timeline was awarded Saveur 100 (2004). It is recognized by the American Library Association as a Great Website for Kids and was reviewed in ALA's academic publication Choice, July 2009. The recipes featured on our site are selected from a variety of sources including old cook books, newspapers, magazines, National Historic Parks, government agencies, universities, cultural organizations, culinary historians, and company/restaurant web sites. We have not cooked them in our own kitchens and cannot vouch for their results in yours. If you have any questions regarding the ingredients, instructions or safety of these recipes please forward them directly to the webmaster of the site hosting that recipe. Recipes from primary documents are linked for historical purposes only. If you plan to cook one of these, they need to be examined very carefully for unsafe practices (such as the eating of raw eggs). About copyright Food Timeline provides full citations for all materials quoted on the site. Copyright belongs to those authors, publishers, and heirs. The U.S. Copyright Office offers information regarding determining owners and obtaining permission. Most countries, and the European Union, have separate copyright (of Intellectual Property) organizations. Text not cited to outside sources is copyright Lynne Olver, editor, The Food Timeline. Entries created after November 2021 are copyright of Special Collections and University Archives/The Food Timeline. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Food Timeline library owned 2300+ books, hundreds of 20th century USA food company brochures, & dozens of vintage magazines (Good Housekeeping, American Cookery, Ladies Home Journal &c.) FTlibrary About culinary research web counter --------------------------------------------------------------------- Loading... --------------------------------------------------------------------- https://www.foodtimeline.org (c) Lynne Olver 1999 Last updated: 4 February 2022