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What exactly are gene-edited foods, and how should we label or regulate them? And how do these technologies affect what we will find in our local supermarket? These questions and more will be…

Recently digitized from an large collection of archival publications on agriculture, the Special Collections Research Center presents a small collection of cookbooks originally created by North…

This post features contributions from Kelly Arnold, NC State University Public History MA '23. In honor of National Ice Cream Day on July 17th, the Special Collections Research Center has…

Food, race, and tradition are inextricably linked. Join us online on Thursday, Dec. 10, 7:00 p.m.-8:00 p.m. for a facilitated conversation about Michael W. Twitty’s The Cooking Gene: A Journey…

People don't seem to make punch very much anymore, but there was once a time when it was standard party fare during the winter holidays.  Here are punch recipes from the cookbooks of the NC…

Cook Me Right! was a 1983 NC Cooperative Extension pamphlet conveying the latest turkey-preparation information for that time.  It seems wrong, though, to depict the animal itself giving those…

In the early 19th century, people made at home items that today we usually buy at the store.  Vinegar was one, and the October 1849 issue of The Southern Planter (p. 312) had a recipe for making…

We found another odd recipe in the 19th century farming periodical titled American Agriculturist.  This one appeared in the June 1869 issue, p. 221, under the heading "Household Talks by Aunt…

In the June 1849 issue of The Southern Planter, p. 165, we found the recipe below for a "substitute for milk" using rice.  In actuality, this was really a method of extending milk rather than…

I bought strawberries at the farmers market last weekend, and they were good!  I generally eat them fresh, but they reminded me of my mother's strawberry jam.  I found this hundred-year-old…