American food history is a clear timeline of cultural changes and industrial progr ess. Each decade produced a product that quietly reshaped how people cooked, ate, and thought about convenience at ...

Many iconic American dishes were happy accidents, proving that some of the best flavors come from mistakes, not plans.

Andrew Smith offers up a volume of food resources in his book, The Oxford Companion to American Food and Drink, which reveals American food history and how it has influenced everything from slang to ...

Though there are more food brands these days than any person could possibly commit to memory, a few have been around for so long and are so iconic that we not only know them by name, but recognize ...

From paintings celebrating a Land of Plenty, to cookbooks championing political causes, there’s a lot to chew on in American food history. Exhibition curator Kaleigh Pisani, curator of collections and ...

Jessica B. Harris, acclaimed author and food historian who lives part-time in New York and part-time in New Orleans, has published a new book on American food history that doubles as a cookbook, ...

Visit any region of the United States, and you'll find Black American cuisine with historic and multinational roots. Some dishes are so indelible to American culture that the contributions of African ...

From a food truck peddling Hawaiian-Korean fusion dishes in Seattle to an underground Japanese speakeasy in D.C. to a Korean ...