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Cooking at Home
Cooking at Home

Cooking at Home

Step into the kitchen and explore how home cooking has changed in America over time. These cookbooks, appliances, and photographs showcase how the people work to not only prepare and enjoy meals, but also establish relationships with food, tradition, nutrition, and technology.

  • The American Home Cookbook, 1878

    View Full Item  in University of Chicago
  • Brownell family and their Chinese cook, 1890

    Brownell burial ground-- Big Rock --Glenn County Mr and Mrs Irvin Brownell and Chinese cook at home--ca 1890 Additional copies: Black and white copy print ; 79 x 117 mm Photograph source: Copy from un…

    View Full Item  in California State University, Chico
  • Kitchen cupboard

    Kitchen center (cupboard) Old Object Term: Kitchen Center Wood;

    View Full Item  in George Ranch Historical Park
  • The Kentucky Home Cookbook, 1906

    Dirty red diagonal-fine-rib-grain cloth. Black stamping on front. Gold stamping on spine. No decoration on back. Faded blue endpapers. Book topic: Cookery, American--Kentucky.

    View Full Item  in University of Wisconsin Digital Collections
  • Group in a home economics class, 1910

    Title from item or materials accompanying item. Date supplied by cataloger.

    View Full Item  in Fitchburg State University, Gallucci-Cirio Library
  • Students and teacher cooking in a home economics class, 1910

    Eleven female students focused on the teacher's demonstration in the kitchen area beside a long table with racks and tableware on top. According to the teacher, Mrs. Grace Smith Bryan, Fayetteville wa…

    View Full Item  in Fayetteville Free Library
  • How to Save Money on Food: Home Canning, 1917

    View Full Item  in University of Michigan
  • Food Study, a high school textbook for home economics, 1917

    Wellman, Mabel Thacher, b. 1872

    "References" at end of most of the chapters. A digital reproduction is available from the Open Collections Program at Harvard University, Women and work collection.

    View Full Item  in Library of Congress
  • Woman with a Hotpoint electric range, 1925

    General Electric Company

    Woman cooking on Hotpoint electric range, ca. 1925, in a General Electric advertising photograph. Hotpoint was purchased by GE, along with the Hughes Electric Company in 1918 and were merged to form t…

    View Full Item  in miSci
  • Booklet for kitchen design and planning by Hotpoint, 1944

    Edison General Electric Appliance Co. Kitchen Planning Service

    On back cover: Hotpoint electric kitchen. Cover title.

    View Full Item  in University of Michigan
  • Poster for home canning guidelines, 1945

    Office for Emergency Management. Office of War Information. Domestic Operations Branch. Bureau of Special Services. 3/9/1943-9/15/1945

    View Full Item  in National Archives at College Park - Still Pictures
  • News broadcast on radar kitchen stoves, 1951

    WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)

    Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the latest kitchen technology: radar stoves. 3 p. ; 28 cm.

    View Full Item  in UNT Libraries Special Collections
  • Tupperware party, Sarasota, Florida, 1958

    Joe Steinmetz

    Photograph

    View Full Item  in The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)
  • Helen Schuessler leading food preparation class, 1964

    Helen Schuessler (second from left), demonstrates cake preparation to home economics students Carol Grooms, Delores Overman, and Linda Yakupcek. complete;

    View Full Item  in Pepperdine University, Special Collections and University Archives
  • Public television broadcast of step-by-step demonstration of how to grow bean sprouts from mung beans, 1967

    Lockwood, Ruth, Chen, Joyce, 1917-1994, Stevens, Mark

    A step-by-step demonstration of how to grow bean sprouts from mung beans at home in a few days, using ordinary flower pots. Then, how to use your harvest in a hot dish, Meat with Bean Sprouts, and als…

    View Full Item  in WGBH
  • Public television broadcast featuring the preparation of peking duck, 1967

    Lockwood, Ruth, Chen, Joyce, 1917-1994, Stevens, Mark

    Mrs. Chen makes Peking Duck in an American kitchen with an American frozen duck. She prepares the duck for cooking and dries it, using an electric fan, to achieve that special characteristic crispness…

    View Full Item  in WGBH
  • Video of Julia Child preparing lasagne a la francaise, 1970

    Lockwood, Ruth, Child, Julia

    A great way to use yesterday’s roast, be it poultry, veal or pork. Julia’s French lasagne is a delicious concoction of pasta, Italian tomato sauce, saffron threads, dried orange peel, left over turkey…

    View Full Item  in WGBH
  • Kathleen Tanner preparing Mexican food for lunch, 1985

    Edison, Carol A

    Kathleen Tanner preparing Mexican food for lunch in her home in Grouse Creek, Utah, July 1985. One black and white negative (1 x 2.25 inches).

    View Full Item  in Utah State University - Merrill-Cazier Library
  • Kid’s handbook to the food pyramid, 1999

    "March 1999." Shipping list no.: 99-0193-P. Cover title.

    View Full Item  in University of Minnesota
  • Betty Crocker cookie kit, 2001

    Wilkinson, Daniel

    Image shows a piece of memorabilia from the 2002 Olympic Winter Games. This is a special Olympic Edition Cookie Kit, made by Betty Crocker, an official sponsor of the 2002 Olympic Winter Games.

    View Full Item  in Utah Department of Cultural and Community Engagement
  • Food safety for home cooking, 2013

    Texas. Department of State Health Services

    Pamphlet discussing food safety regulations for meat products. [4] p. : col. ill.

    View Full Item  in UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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