William L. Clements Library
Subject Strengths of the Longone Culinary Archive
The Archive is notable for containing not only most of the essential "high spots" in the field of American culinary history, but strong holdings for related areas of interdisciplinary study including:
- Homemaking and the domestic sphere
- Decorum, conduct, and etiquette
- Immigrant and ethnic voices
- Regional foodways
- Children's cookery
- The cooking school movement
- The rationalization and professionalization of "women's work"
- The "great ladies" of 19th century American cookery
- Gastronomy and the art of dining
- Health, diet, and vegetarianism
- Bakers and baking
- Charitable and community cookbooks
- Technology in domestic life: kitchen and household appliances and equipment
- Dining in public life: chefs, restaurants, hotels, and menus
- Industrialization of food production
- The history of food advertising
- War cookery--at home and at the front
- Food in times of economic stress
- Temperance and Prohibition
- Beverages including wine, beer, spirits, coffee, tea, chocolate, and soda water
- Markets, grocers, and purveyors