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 2024
water & ice----------------
salt----------------
oysters, scallops, mussels & mollusks----------------
squid, calamari & octopus----------------
insects----------------
fish & frogs----------------
mushrooms & greens----------------
bear, venison & horsemeat ----------------
eggs & marrow bones----------------
rice & millet----------------
emmer grain--17,000BC---
einkorn grain--16,000BC---
almonds--10,000BC---
cherries---10,000BC---
wheat ---8,000BC---
American bison---8,000BC---
wine & beer---7,000BC---
pigs, goats & sheep---7,000BC---
lard---7,000BC---
pistachios---7,000BC---
new world beans---7,000BC---
black walnuts---7,000BC---
cattle domestication---6,500BC---
apples & crab apples ---6500BC---
spelt ---6000BC---
maize & tortillas---6000BC---
dates---6000BC---
honey & chickpeas---5000BC---
arugula, chicory & lettuce ---5000BC---
ginger & galangal---5000BC---
buckwheat & quinoa---5000BC---
Cucumbers & squash & chayote---5000BC---
chili peppers, avocados & taro---5000BC---
potatoes---5000BC---
milk & yogurt, & sour cream---5000BC---
pigeons---4600BC---
grapes, watermelons & sorghum---4000BC---
oranges citrons & Buddha's hand ---4000BC---
pomegranates ---4000BC---
popcorn---3600BC---
chicken domestication---3200BC---
butter & palm oil---3000BC---
barley & cassava (manioc)---3000BC---
peas & carrots ---3000BC---
onions & garlic---3000BC---
apricots & spices ---3000BC---
soybeans I---2838BC---
tea---2737BC---
olive oil---2500BC---
seaweed & duck ---2500BC---
muskmelon ---2400BC---
saffron & peach palm (page 211) ---2300BC---
mustard, pasta & noodles---2000BC---
radishes, purslane & carob ---2000BC---
peaches---2000BC---
marshmallows, liquorice & jujubes ---2000BC---
ham & sesame seeds & cultivated rye ---2000BC---
chocolate & vanilla---1500BC---
horseradish---1500BC---
sugar---1200BC---
pickles & mangoes---1000BC---
oats & bean sprouts---1000BC---
pears---900BC---
tomatoes & tomatillos---900BC---
celery---850BC---
cinnamon---700BC---
bananas, poppy seeds & cabbage ---600BC---
Guinea fowl in Greece---500BC---
Italian sausages & artichokes---500BC---
pastries & appetizers---400BC---
vinegar---400BC---
peppercorns, cardoons & garden cress (page 307)---400BC---
parsley ---300BC---
turkeys, asparagus & rhubarb ---200BC---
quinces---65BC---
chestnuts & horehound---1st Century---
lobster, crab & shrimp---1st Century---
truffles, dill & dormice ---1st Century---
blueberries & raspberries---1st Century---
capers, turnips & kale ---1st Century---
costmary & blood as food---1st Century---
lemons ---3rd Century---
pretzels---5th Century---
eggplant---6th Century---
spinach & sago---7th Century---
coffee, cod & nutmeg---9th century---
loquats & flower waters---10th century---
corned beef & cider---11th century---
lychees, seitan & fu ---11th century---
breadfruit, & okra & artichokes ---12th century---
gooseberries---12th century---
Walden saffron & Mexican limes---14th century---
maslin---1303---
coconuts & rutabagas---15th century---
Japanese sushi & sashimi---15th century---
pork & beans---1475---
pineapples---1493---
marmelade ---1495---
pecans, papayas & cauliflower---16th century---
turkeys in Europe---16th century---
cashews in India---16th century---
Japanese tempura---16th century---
Texas Longhorns---16th century---
vanilla in Europe---16th century---
tomatoes in Europe---1544---
fruit leather---1587---
Brussels sprouts & target="new"kohlrabi---1587---
skim milk---1596---
yams & sweet potatoes---17th century---
treacle---17th Century---
pralines & coffee cake---17th Century---
modern ice cream & maple sugar---17th Century---
cranberries in America---17th Century---
Jerusalem artichokes---1605---
coffee in Europe---1615---
rum---1650---
Kosher food in the U.S.---1654---
blackeyed peas in America---1675---
grapefruit in Barbados---1683---
broccoli in England---1699---
coffee in America---18th Century---
root beer & tapioca ---18th Century---
French fries & ketchup---18th Century---
hardtack & ship's biscuit ---18th Century---
---18th century---
Montelimar nougat---1701---
casseroles---1708---
Commerical foods-1740-1820---
sugar beets---1747---
commercial gelatin---1754---
mayonnaise & Tartar sauce---1756---
egg nog---1760---
soda water---1767---
New Zealand spinach---1771---
tomatoes in America---1781---
lollipops---1784---
New Zealand mutton birds------1788---
switchel---1790---
squirrel---19th century--
Mandarin oranges/Europe---1805---
ice cream cones & sandwich bread---1807---
corn syrup & McIntosh apples---1811---
taffy, toffee & butterscotch---1817---
new potatoes---1817---
lady fingers---1820---
cocoa---1828---
soft drinks in America---1830---
Turkish delight & Worcestershire sauce---1830---
Gibraltar rock---1831---
iodized salt---1833---
Worcestershire sauce & Michigan mint---1835---
Idaho potatoes & custard powder---1837---
Key limes---1839---
corn starch---1842---
Chinese food in America---1847---
vanilla extract---1847---
Concord grapes---1849---
modern marshmallows --1850---
cherries in Michigan---1852---
potato chips---1853---
Condensed milk ---1856---
Peek Freans---1857---
fish & chips---1860---
Garibaldi biscuits---1860s---
Vernor's Ginger Ale---1862---
breakfast cereal---1863---
Conversation Hearts---1866---
synthetic baby food---1867---
Tabasco sauce---1868---
Fleischmann's Yeast & Kobe beef---1868---
Welch's grape juice---1869---
margarine & unsalted butter---1870s---
California raisins---1870s--
Philadelphia cream cheese---1872---
Graham crackers ---1872---
Heinz Ketchup---1876---
fondant---1877---
blood oranges in USA & Thompson seedless grapes---1878---
Wheatena & Saccharin---1879---
passion fruit, desiccated eggs & crosnes ---1880s--
salt water taffy & French dressing---1880s--
Armour's 'Simon Pure'Leaf Lard---1884--
milk shakes & Dr Pepper---1885---
Educator crackers, Salisbury steak & evaporated milk---1885---
Coca Cola---1886---
malted milk & Georgia pecans---1887---
pancake syrups---1887---
pizza---1889---
Fig Newtons ---1891---
Cracker Jacks---1893---
Minute tapioca---1894---
peanut butter & tea bags ---1895---
Chop suey & Corsicana fruitcake---1896---
oatmeal cookies---1896---
Jell-O & Campbell's tomato soup ---1897---
cotton candy & tangelos---1897---
jelly beans & candy corn ---1898---
Texas sweet onions ---1898---
Cottolene & Plasmon ---1900---
elbow macaroni & Ice cream sandwiches---1900---
peanut butter & jelly---1901---
Animal Crackers & Black & Whites---1902---
Karo syrup---1902---
canned tuna---1903---
banana splits & Ovaltine---1904---
New Zealand kiwi ---1904---
New York pizza ---1905---
Taylor Pork Roll---1906---
Meyer lemons---1908---
Monosodium Glutamate (MSG) ---1909---
orange juice---1910s--
Crisco ---1911---
Junket & Olivenaise---1911---
Oreos & maraschino cherries ---1912---
fortune cookies ---1912---
Mallomars---1913---
Pan-Pak---1915---
American shark & Australian Copha---1916---
Moon pies & Marshmallow Fluff---1917---
Chase's Cherry Mash---1918---
Hostess cup cakes---1919---
Eskimo Pie & Good Humor---1920---
Yoo-hoo & cube steak---1920s--
Wonder Bread & zucchini ---1921---
Vegemite & Girl Scout Cookies---1922---
popsicles ---1923---
frozen foods & Texas hot weiners---1924---
ready-to-spread frostings & Jujyfruit candy---1925---
Orange Julius ---1926---
Kool-Aid, Pez, Pepperoni Rolls, & Bridge mix ---1927---
Gerber's baby food & It's It---1928---
Twizzlers & Karmelkorn---1929---
Po'Boy & hot Italian sandwiches--1929---
Twinkies & Jiffy biscuit mix--1930---
Heinz 57 product line---1930---
sliced bread & dry soup mix---1930s---
spiral carved hams & cheese puffs---1930s---
Vidalia onions & Frisbie Pies---1930s---
tacos in LA---1931---
London Broil & Tri-tip steak ---1931---
refrigerator biscuits---1931---
Fritos & Pablum ---1932---
Marshmallow Sandwich cookies---1932---
chocolate covered pretzels ---1933---
Hawaiian Punch & Rutgers tomatoes ---1934---
Nabisco's Ritz crackers---1934---
Campbell's cream of mushroom soup & Tex-Mex burritos ---1934---
sloppy joes---1935---
Py-O-My & Dagwood sandwiches---1936---
SPAM, Krispy Kreme & Hippodromes---1937---
Hollywood bread & chicken & waffles---1938---
Cho cho ice cream treats---1939---
Ugli fruit & seedless watermelon---1939---
milk sold by the gallon---1939---
York Peppermint Patties & sponge candy---1940---
M & Ms & Cheerios ---1941---
Corn dogs/Pronto pups & Blackout cakes---1942---
Chicago-style pizza---1943---
frozen orange juice & Nutella---1946---
Gourmet (magazine) food ads---1946---
Betty Crocker's cake mix---1947---
frozen french fries & Sau Sea shrimp cocktail--1948---
Jolly Ranchers ---1949---
instant pudding & high altitude cake mix---1949---
parbaked bread & Friday Franks---1949---
American Tex-Mex---1950s--
Irish coffee, cappuccino & smoothies---1950s--
frozen pizza---1950---
chickenfurters---1951---
diet soda & Cheez Whiz ---1952---
Duncan Hines cake mixes---1952---
Maypo ---1953---
Marshmallow Peeps ---1953---
TV Dinners---1953---
ranch dressing & tracklements---1954---
frozen pie crust---1955---
chocolate covered ants---1956---
Tang & Pam---1957---
Rice-A-Roni & instant ramen noodles ---1958---
brown rice in USA---1960s---
Fruit Stripe gum---1960---
Life cereal---1961---
instant mashed potatoes & PDQ---1962---
round sandwich bread---1963---
Brown & Serve bacon---1963---
Carnation Instant Breakfast & Belgian waffles & Pop Tarts---1964---
Buffalo Wings ---1964---
fast food chicken sandwiches---1964---
Gatorade & Slurpees---1965---
high fructose corn syrup---1967---
Ramapo tomatoes---1968---
Snack Pack & Space Food Sticks ---1968---
Snackin Cake---1971---
beefalo&& Flame Seedless grapes---1973---
Lactaid---1974---
Pop Rocks & Jelly Bellies ---1976---
orange cauliflower---1976---
pulled pork & generic foods---1977---
panko & portobello mushrooms ---1980s---
bubble tea, chicken nuggets & Sriracha sauce ---1980s---
Yukon gold potatoes---1980---
Gardenburgers---1982---
Orangetti spaghetti squash---1986---
Red Bull energy drink---1984---
everything bagels & garlic knots ---1988---
artisan breads & greenhouse tomatoes---1990s---
edamame in the USA---1990s---
turkey bacon---1991---
pretzel bread---1992---
broccolini---1993---
Flavr Savr tomatoes I (launch) & II (shelved in 1997)---1994---
Tofurkey---1995---
grape tomatoes---1997---
Omega 3 Eggs---2001---
Flat iron steak & tear-free onions---2002---
Mexican funnel cake---2008---
What's hot?---2013---
Cronuts & test tube burgers---2013---
---10,000BC---flour, bread & soup
---4000BC---yeast breads: pitta & focaccia
---3000BC---ice cream
---2300BC---Ancient Egypt
---1700BC---Mesopotamia banquets & recipes
---900BC---polenta
---350BC---dolma
---1st Century---Bible era foods
---1st Century---Ancient Rome
---1st Century---fried chicken, foie gras
---1st Century--- French toast & omlettes
---1st Century---Italian wedding soup & rice pudding
---1st Century---flan & cheesecake
---1st Century---The Haggis, stuffed dates & pears in syrup
---1st Century---challah & Parthian breads
---3rd Century---De Re Culinaria (in Latin) & De Opsoniis et Condimentis, Apicius
---4th century---Byzantine bread
---5th-9th century---Anglo-Saxon foods
---7th century---kimchi
---8th century---Ancient Maya
---8th-12th century---Viking foods
---9th century---halva & goulash
---10th-15th century---Medieval food & menus
---10th century---Peking duck & Shark's fin soup
---11th century---baklava & bannock
---13th Century---ravioli, lasagne & mozzarella cheese
---13th Century---pancakes & waffles
---13th century---brawn, salsify & couscous
---14th century--- kebabs & moon cakes
---14th century---scrambled eggs & guacamole
---14th century---escabeche & verjuice
---14th century---pie & humble pie
---14th century--- kolache, Trenchers, Frumenty & Blancmanger
---14th century---Viandier de Taillevent & Le Menagier de Paris
---1381---apple pie & crumpets
---1386---Chaucerian Cookery, feasts!
---1390--- The Forme of Cury
---1390---applesauce
---1393---fried cheese sticks
---1395---gingerbread
---15th century---jelly, jams & preserves
---15th century---stracciatelle & zanzarelli, risotto
---15th century--- borscht & marzipan
---15th century--Sauce Robert
---15th century--- doughnuts & hot dogs
---1475--- wassail
---1492---Christopher Columbus old world cuisine
---16th century---sweetbreads & salsa
---16th century---quiche & puff paste
---16th century---teriyaki chicken & Cornish pastys & Polish Bigos
---16th century---English snow eggs & syllabub
---1514---Een Notabel Boecxken Van Cokeryen, in Dutch
---1545---A Proper newe Booke of Cokerye
---1590---Shakepeare's food
---1593---Cocboeck, Carolus Battus (in Dutch)
---1596---English trifle
---1597---potato salad
---1598---cock-a-leekie
---1599---hasty pudding
---17th Century--- corn bread, hoe cakes, spoonbread & hominy
---17th Century---chess pie & shortbread
---17th Century---French onion soup, pea soup & cream puffs
---17th century--- Salad I & II
---17th century Hodge Podge & Olla Podria
---1604---Raspberry jelly & modern version
---1607--Jamestown settlers ate pottage (p. 20)
---1610---bagels
---1612---Koocboec oft familieren keukenboec, Magirus (in Dutch)
---1615---A New booke of cookerie
---1616---Koge-Bog (first printed Nordic cookbook)
---1621--- Pilgrim Thanksgiving
---1638---Mobby
---1653---pumpkin pie & lemonade
---1662---Boston brown bread (aka Ryaninjun)
---1664---potato bread
---1669---De Verstandige Kock, in Dutch
---1672---Queen-Like Closet, Hannah Wooley
---1683---De Verstandige Kock, colonial Dutch recipes
---1685---Accomplisht Cook, Robert May
---1686---croissants
---1691---lemon meringue pie
---1694---portable soup
---1698---punch
---1699---John Evelyn's Acetaria: Discourse of Sallets
---18th century ---Colonial & Early American fare
---18th century ---crab cakes, ratafia & sangria
---18th century--- muffins & crackers
---18th century--- chowder & beef tea
---18th century---cinnimon buns & English muffins
---1702---pepper pot soup
---1706---croquettes
---1720---Receipts of Pastry and Cookery for the Use of his Scholars, Ed. Kidder
---1725---Welsh Rabbit
---1727---Hasty pudding, The Compleat Housewife E. Smith
---1728--- mushroom ketchup
---1736---Scottish tablet
---1740---pound cake & cupcakes
---1744---Espagnole sauce
---1747---Floating island
---1747---Yorkshire pudding & sweet potato pie
---1747--- Salmagundi & mashed potatoes
---1753---diet bread
---1754---Colonial Williamsburg food
---1754--- Swedish meatballs
---1755--- turtle soup
---1762---sandwiches
---1764---English Houswifery, Elizabeth Moxon
---1765---apple butter
---1769---beef a la mode , Experienced English Housekeeper
---1769---Eccles cakes
---1770---Colonial wedding cakes & Crab soup
---1771--- Election Cake
---1775---Dried apples from Paul Revere's kitchen
---July 4, 1776---American Independence Day menus 1776--present
---1780s---Martha Washington's Great Cake
---1780s---Thomas Jefferson's ice cream (manuscript) & muffins
---1780s---Martha Jefferson's cream cheese
---1782---souffle
---1784---Mulligatawny soup
---1785---Kokebok, from Norway
---1786---deviled eggs
---1787---toad-in-a-hole
---1789---aspic & Moravian sugar cakes
---1790---pasta & tomato sauce
---1790s---California Mission foodwasy
---1792---English Art of Cookery, Richard Briggs
---1792--- mock turtle soup
---1796---pompkin pudding & federal pancakes, Amelia Simmon's American Cookery
---1796---Charlotte & Charlotte Russe
---1798---American Cookery, Amelia Simmons
---1798---turnovers
---19th Century---Frontier American 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
---19th Century-- American mangoes & pickled peppers
---19th Century-- canapes & timbales
---19th Century--fines herbes
---1800---Regency English menus & recipes [Jane Austen]
---1800---Napoleon's Chicken Marengo
---1802---fried ice cream
---1803---Mint Julep & Gumbo
---1803---Frugal Housewife, Susannah Carter
---1804---pemmican
---1805---white pudding & pot pie
---1807---A New System of Domestic Cookery, Mrs. Rundell
---1808---Lucy Emerson's New England Cookery
---1810---Brunswick stew & Kentucky burgoo
---1817---Remoulade
---1820---ginger ale
---1821---Tomata catsup & orange marmelade, Frederick Accum's Culinary Chemistry
---1824---chicken-fried steak, oyster ice cream & gazpacho in America
---1826---Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin's Physiologie du Gout (Note: this is the 1848 edition; the 1826 is no longer available online)
---1826--- Cook and Housewife's Manual, Margaret Dods (Scotland)
---1827---lemon drops & carrot ale
---1828---Duck a l'Orange
---1828--- Vermont common crackers & Philadelphia Apee cookies
---1828---Sauce Allemande & Cabinet pudding
---1830---Frugal Housewife/Child & Cooks Oracle/Kitchiner
---1830---Reform Club chef Alex Soyer's Dessert gelatin
---1830---carrot cake, Hopping John, & bouillabaisse
---1831--- The Cook Not Mad, Watertown NY
---1832---Seventy-five Receipts for Pastry, Cakes and Sweetmeats, Eliza Leslie
---1832---The Cook's Own Book, N.K.M. Lee
---1834---Palestine soup
---1838---The Virginia Housewife, Mary Randolph
---1839---The Good Housekeeper, Sarah Josepha Hale
---1839---cobbler
---1840---Directions for Cookery, Eliza Leslie
---1840--- Cuisiniere Canadienne, L. Perrault, Montreal
---1840s--Oregon trail foods
---1840s--Irish soda bread & French Savarin
---1840s--pork steaks & head cheese
---1844--- Cornish pastys in UP
---1845---roly-poly pudding & Bakewell pudding & fines herbes
---1845---tipsy parson & chicken salad
---1846---Jewish Manual, Judith Montefiore & Domestic Receipt Book/ Catharine Beecher
---1847---Utah bound!
---1847---peanut brittle
---1848---pesto
---1849---Eliza cookees, Mrs. Hubbell
---1849---California sourdough bread & Hangtown fry
---1850s--Western sandwiches
---1850s--Mock apple pie
---1850---Anadama bread
---1851---Great Western Cook Book, Anna Collins
---1852---Handbook of Invalid Cooking/Mary Boland
---1853---Maryland beaten biscuits
---1855---Boston cream pie
---1856---Navy bean soup
---1857---Hanna Winsnes' cookbook (in Norwegian)
---1857---Country Captain Chicken & iced coffee
---1857---Eliza Acton's English Bread Book
---1859---The Curiosities of Food/Simmonds (extreme cuisine)
---1860---Cakes & plum puddings, Godey's Lady's Book
---1860s---Baked Alaska & ice tea
---1861---Mrs. Beeton's Book of Household Management
---1861---Beef Stroganoff & popcorn balls
---1861-1865---Civil War foods
---1863---Confederate Receipt Book, Richmond VA
---1863---fruit salad
---1864---Sanderson's Complete Confectioner & Complete Cook
---1864---Apple Brown Betty
---1865---Mrs. Goodfellow's Cookery as it should be
---1866---The National Cookbook, Hannah Peterson
---1868---The Dominion Home Cookbook, Toronto
---1869---parfaits, pickled limes & bordelaise sauce & Chateaubriand
---1869---Wright's book of 3000 practical receipts
---1870s-- American pot roast & Parker House rolls
---1870s---Neapolitan ice cream & Caramel cake
---1870s---Cowboy cooking
---1870---Jennie June's American Cookbook, Jane Cunningham Croly
---1870---New Orleans King cakes
---1871---groom's cake & marble cake
---1871--- Wild Turkey & cheese straws
---1872---Jambalaya
---1873---American cuisine, from Miss Beecher's Housekeeper and Healthkeeper cookbook
---1874---Mrs. Winslow's Domestic Receipt Book
---1875---Breakfast, Luncheon, and Tea, Marion Harland
---1875---Young Housewife's Counsellor and Friend, Mary Ann Mason
---1876---Practical Cooking and Dinner Giving, Henderson
---1876---popovers, ground nut cakes & Lobster Newburg
---1877--- ambrosia & vinegar pie
---1877--- Wilcox's Buckeye Cookery & Kettner's Book of the Table
---1878---hermit cookies
---1878---Directions Diverses, Montreal
---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 About Old Southern Cooking, Abby Fisher
---1882---Chicken tartare
---1883---Christmas pudding
---1884---Mrs. Lincoln's Boston Cook Book
---1884---porcupines & Angels on horseback
---1885---La Cuisine Creole, Lafcadio Hearn
---1886---Woman's Suffrage Cook Book, Mrs. Hattie A. Burr
---1886---Miss Corson's Practical American Cookery, Juliet Corson
---1886---pecan pie
---1887---Cherries jubilee & Heavenly hash
---1887---White House Cook Book, F.L. Gillette
---1887---Canning & Preserving, Mrs. Rorer
---1889---Aunt Babette's Cook Book: Foreign and Domestic Receipts
---1889---bundt cake
---1890s---corn oysters & ice cream sundaes
---1890s---chicken cacciatora & picnic ham
---1892---Science in the Kitchen, Ella Eaton Kellogg
---1893---Art of Living in Australia, Philip Muskett
---1893---La Cuisine Francaise: French Cooking for Every Home...
---1893---Favorite Dishes, Carrie V. Shuman
---1893---ice cream a la mode & fudge
---1894---Ranhofer's The Epicurean
---1894---Terrapin, from Delmonico's in NYC
---1894---Eggs Benedict
---1894---Recipes Tried and True, Marion Ohio
---1896---Waldorf salad
---1896---Boston Cooking School Cook Book, Fannie Merritt Farmer
---1896--- The Cook Book, Oscar Tschirky (of the Waldorf)
---1896---Military field bread, U.S. Manual for Army Cooks
---1896---Henriette Davidis' Practical Cookbook, 35th German edition (in English)
---1897---Swedish-American Cookbook (Swedish and English)
---1897---Steiger's Deutsch-Amerikaniches Kochbuch (in German)
---1897---Nantua sauce
---1898---Lane Cake & Shrimp wiggle
---1899---Oysters Rockefeller
---1900s--Popular USA foods & menus
---1900s--cioppino, Oysters Kirkpatrick & Swiss steak
---1900s--Culinary Wrinkles, or how to use Armour's extract of beef
---1900---Morristown Cook Book (NJ)
---1900---My Pet Recipes..., St. Andrews Church, Quebec
---1900---Banbury tarts, The Stonington Cookbook, CT
---1900--- Food for the Sick and How to Prepare It, Edwin French
---1901---Settlement Cook Book, Mrs. Simon Kander
---1901---Eggs in a basket & Clams casino
---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 & Club sandwiches
---1904---Dr. Price's Delicious Desserts
---1904---Cooking in Old Creole Days, Celestine Eustis
---1904---Blue Grass Cook Book, Minnie Fox [Kentucky cookery]
---1904---Good Housekeeping Hostess
---1905--- Los Angeles Times Cook Book
---1905---Lady Baltimore & Checkerboard cakes
---1905---submarine sandwiches, Tomato gravy & Tamale pie
---1905--- Finnish-American Cookbook, Kaleva Michigan (with English translation)
---1906---brownies & banana cream pie
---1906---onion rings, Harvard beets & Muffoletta sandwiches
---1906---Refugee's Cook Book, (San Francisco earthquake)
---1906---One Hundred and One Mexican Dishes, May E. Southworth
---1907---Le Guide Culinaire/Escoffer (English)
---1907---Gastronomy Practique, Ali-Bab (French)
---1907--- Divinity fudge, sauerkraut candy & aioli
---1908---Steak Diane & Lobster fra diavolo
---1908---buttercream frosting
---1909---Tetrazzini & Kaiser pudding
---1909---Good Housekeeping Woman's Home Cookbook, Isabel Gordon Curtis
---1909---Washington Woman's Cook Book (Seattle)
---1909---Reform Cookery Book, Mrs. Mill
---1909---shrimp cocktail
---1910s--Popular U.S. foods & menus
---1910--Jell-O: America's most famous dessert
---1910---Home Helps: A Pure Food Cook Book
---1910---Charles Fellows' Menu Maker & Horace Kephart's Camp Cookery
---1910--- Practical West African Cookery/Leith-Ross & Ruxton
---1911---Apple sauce cake
---1911---Good Things to Eat, Rufus Estes
---1911---Laurel Health Cookery, Elvora Bucknum Perkins (vegetarian)
---1911---Catering for Special Occasions, Fannie Merritt Farmer
---1911---Kitchen Encyclopedia, Swift & Company
---1912---Chicken a la King & Chop Suey cake
---1912---Thousand Island dressing & tomato pie
---1912---Mary Frances Cook Book, Jane Eayre Fryer
---1912---Standard Paper-bag Cookery, Emma Paddock Telford
---1912---War Time Cooking, Lydia E. Pinkham
---1912--- Dromedary Cook Book
---1912---Golden Rule Cook Book,Sharpe (vegetarian)
---1913---Chinese Cook Book, Chong Jan Co. & Japanese Fruitcake
---1913---Choice Recipes: Chocolate and Cocoa, Walter Baker & Co.
---1913---Dishes and Beverages of the Old South, Martha Williams
---1913---Coq au vin & clover leaf rolls
---1913---Italian cream cake & clafoutis
---1914---Chinese-Japanese Cook Book, Sara Bosse
---1914---Chicken fried steak
---1914---Neighborhood Cook Book, Council of Jewish Women
---1914---ANZAC biscuits I & II
---1914---Fettuccine Alfredo
---1915---hush puppies & peanut butter cookies
---1915---Dainty Desserts for Dainty People, Knox Gelatin Co.
---1915---Healthy Life Cook Book, Florence Daniel
---1915---Pan-Pacific Cookbook, Exposition fare
---1916---Apple crisp & Sunkist Oranges-Lemons
---1916---Field bread, Manual for Army Bakers
---1916--- Allied Cookery, Grace Clergue Harrison
---1917---Icebox Cake & Black cow
---1917---Vichyssoise & American cocktail parties
---1917---55 Ways to Save Eggs & Best War Time Recipes
---1917--- Buffalo Bird Woman's Garden
---1918---World War I recipes from the Doughboy Cookbook
---1918---Fannie Farmer's Boston Cooking School Cook Book
---1919---Sturtevant's Notes on Edible Plants/E. Lewis Sturtevant [1919]
---1919---International Jewish Cook Book, Florence Kreisler Greenbaum
---1919---The Hotel St. Francis Cookbook, Victor Hirtzler
---1919---Italian Cook Book, Maria Gentile
---1919---chocolate truffles
---1920s--Popular U.S. foods & menus
---1920s--egg creams & French 75 cocktail
---1920---Fleischmann's recipes
---1920---School and Home Cooking, Carlotta C. Greer
---1921--- Chiffon pie, Mary Ann cakes & Candle salad
---1921---Story of Crisco (with recipes)
---1922--- Aunt Caroline's Dixieland Recipes, Emma & William McKinney
---1922---Jell-O recipes
---1923--- Food for the Diabetic, Mary Huddleson
---1923---Svensk-Amerikansk Kokbok (Wisconsin)
---1924---pineapple upside-down cake & Caesar salad
---1924--- chocolate covered potato chips
---1925---George Washington Carver's peanut recipes
---1925---Lemon sponge cake from 800 Proved Pecan Recipes
---1927---Electric Refrigerator Recipes, General Electric
---1927---Here's How (Prohibition cocktails)
---1927---s'mores & mayonnaise cake
---1928---Horseshoe sandwiches & Black bottom pie & cold shape
---1930s--Popular U.S. foods & menus
---1930s--Lady Baltimore & Pavlova cakes
---1930s--Philly cheese steak & Pigs in blankets & Margaritas
---1930s--banana bread & Tomato Soup cake
---1930s--Cajun fried turkey & Purple Cows
---1931---souffle, Joy of Cooking
---1931--- refrigerator pie & city chicken
---1933---Lindy's cheese cake
---1935---breadless sandwiches
---1936--- Chef's salad, Chinese Chicken salad & no-bake cookies
---1936---Burke's Complete Cocktails & Drinking Recipes
---1937---Reubens & Chicken Kiev
---1937---Specialita Culinarie 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
---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
