Food and drink in history

From feast to famine, explore primary source material documenting the story of food and drink throughout history. This resource aims to represent a range of key food and drink history stories from the evolution of food within everyday life to haute cuisine, charting key issues around agriculture and food production, and looking into advertising histories of key food and drink brands. The materials in this collection illustrate the deep links between food and identity, politics, power, gender, race, and socio-economic status. Material has been sourced from institutions across the United States, the United Kingdom and Australia with a focus on gaining as global a view on food history as possible. The bulk of the material ranges from the sixteenth century to the early twenty-first century. Module 2 includes six rare Apicius cookbooks, the earliest of which dates from the ninth century. The resource consists primarily of documents, but includes videos of interviews and cooking demonstrations, as well as a visual gallery that includes photographs, trade cards, menus, objects, and more. Also includes a recipe-of-the-day feature.