The Historical Cooking Project started 9 YEARS AGO!!!
When we first started, we never imagined that 9 years later we would still be posting content.
We have published over 305 posts and are excited to share our work with over 715,000 readers. The HCP has featured the work of some of the biggest names in the fields of food studies and food history. It has been our pleasure to offer new scholarship on the study of food throughout history.
As the years have passed, we have branched out. We started off as a bilingual blog documenting the efforts of a group of cooks and historians working their way through different historical cookbooks. Over time we began to incorporate more material from food studies more broadly. We also published materials to reveal the hidden curriculum of graduate school and archives. Most recently we have posted reflections from students visiting archives and investigating cookbook history, while taking a course with our editor and co-founder Alex Ketchum.
We have also served to host multiple digitized versions of exhibits on food history. We have the digitized exhibit of the 2017 exhibit on Feminism and Fermentation and the 2021 exhibit on Queer Cookbook History:
Digitized "What's the Recipe for a Queer Cookbook" Exhibit
We encourage you to dig through our archives!
Thank you for your support over the past 9 years.