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HIST 3118: Food in History: Subject Searching

This guide provides primary and secondary sources in food history.

Subject Searching

This is by no means a comprehensive list of subject terms, but it can definitely get you started! Subject headings allow you to change out categories (for example, switching out countries, time periods, etc.).

Agricultural industries – environmental aspects

Agricultural innovations

Agricultural systems

Agriculture

Agriculture -- Economic aspects Agriculture -- Experimentation

Agriculture – environmental aspects

Agriculture -- Research Agriculture and state

Agriculture and state

Agronomy

Beer

Beverage

Beverages--History                  

Brewing

Canning and preserving

Climate change

Convenience foods

Cooking

Cooking -- Europe

Cooking – History

Cooking -- Spain

Cooking -- Spain -- Barcelona

Cooking (Filo dough)

Cooking (Maple sugar and syrup)

Cooking (Tropical fruits)

Cooking, American -- History -- 19th century

Cooking, French.

Cooking, Korean

Cooking, Middle Eastern

Cooking, Southern states

Cooking--Social aspects--Europe. 

Crops

Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 -- Knowledge -- Cooking.

Diet

Diet in disease

Diet therapy

Dinners and dining

Dinners and dining

Drinking customs

Drinking of alcoholic beverages

Drinking of alcoholic beverages

Environmental studies

Family farms

Famines

Farm produce

Farm production quotas

Farmers, farming

Fasts and feasts.

Field experiments

Food

Food - Biotechnology

Food - Composition

Food - History

Food – History

Food -- law and legislation

Food – Microbiology

Food - Preservation

Food -- Quality

Food – Social aspects

Food -- United States -- History -- 19th century

Food additives

Food adulteration and inspection

Food conservation

Food consumption

Food consumption -- economic aspects

Food contamination

Food crops

Food habits 

Food habits - History

Food habits -- History -- 19th century -- Sources.

Food habits--Asia.

Food habits--China.

Food habits--Cross-cultural studies.

Food habits--England--History.

Food habits--Europe--History.

Food habits--France.

Food habits--India.

Food habits--India--History.

Food habits--Middle East--History.

Food habits--North America.

Food habits--Southern States.

Food habits--Southern States--History.

Food habits--United States.

Food habits--United States--Sex differences.                     

Food in art          

Food in literature

Food in motion pictures

Food industry and trade – environmental aspects 

Food industry and trade -- Law and legislation

Food industry and trade--United States—History

Food marketing

Food poisoning

Food policy

Food preferences.

Food prices

Food prices--Law and legislation

Food relief

Food safety

Food security

Food supply

Food supply – environmental aspects

Food Supply – History

Food supply-International cooperation

Food supply--Law and legislation

Food--Biotechnology.

Foodborne diseases

Food--Folklore.

Food--Marketing--Moral and ethical aspects--United States.         

Food--Moral and ethical aspects

Food--Psychological aspects.

Food--Religious aspects.

Food--Safety measures

Food--Social aspects.

Food--Social aspects--Europe.                    

Food--Standards

Fruit

Fruit – diseases and pests

Gastronomy

Gluten-free diet--Recipes.

Grain

Green Products

Grocery shopping

Health promotion

Home economics

Hunger

Hunting and gathering societies

Jews - Dietary laws

Liquors

Malnutrition

Meat industry and trade

Muffins

National school lunch program

Nutrition

Nutrition policy

Obesity

Obesity in children

Pasta salads

Recipes.

Reducing diets

School children - Food

Social responsibility of business

Sushi

Sustainable agriculture

Sustainable agriculture

Taste

Temperance

Traditional farming

Vegan cooking

Veganism

Vegetables

Vegetarian cooking

Vegetarianism

Wine and wine making