VT Research & Other Culinary Collections

On this page we provide links to other culinary collections around the world, interesting food history sites, and research done by Virginia Tech graduates and others who use the Peacock-Harper Collection in their research.

Information is Our Business, and that of many others:

• Johnson and Wales University Library
  Johnson and Wales University Library hosts a web page of links to Food Worldwide: Culture & History. With 25 links it offers a wide variety of links for research or just to learn some fun facts about foods.
  by Rick Keogh
  http://library.jwu.edu/research/websites/food_worldwide.htm
  

• University of Michigan, William L. Clements Library,
  Janice Bluestein Longone Culinary Archive; thousands of items from the 16th to 20th centuries
  http://www.clements.umich.edu/culinary/index.html
  
  
• Culinary Archives & Museum,
  Johnson and Wales University, Providence, Rhode Island
  http://www.culinary.org/
  
  
• Core Historical Literature of Home Economics, Cornell University
  HEARTH is a core electronic collection of books and journals in Home Economics and related disciplines.
  http://chlhe.mannlib.cornell.edu/
  
  
• University of Denver, Margaret Husted Culinary Collection
  http://www.penlib.du.edu/about/collections/SpecialCollections/husted.cfm
  
  
• University of Iowa Libraries, Special Collections
  Szathmary Culinary Archives
  http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/spec-coll/Bai/szathmary.htm
  
  
• Indiana University Lilly Library Food and Drink Collections
  Mrs. John T. Gernon's American cookbooks form the core of this collection.
  http://www.indiana.edu/~liblilly/index.html
  
  
• Library of Congress
  Graphic art, papers, and cookbook collection of Joseph and Elizabeth Robins Pennell
  http://lcweb.loc.gov/spcoll/183.html
  
  
• Michigan State University Libraries'
  Feeding America: The Historic American Cookbook Project
  http://digital.lib.msu.edu/projects/cookbooks/
  
  
• Michigan State University Libraries' Cookery Collection
  http://www.lib.msu.edu/coll/main/spec_col/cookery/aboutcoo.htm
  
  
• University of Pennsylvania
  Household Words: An Exhibition from the Esther B. Aresty Collection of Rare Books in the Culinary Arts
  http://www.library.upenn.edu/exhibits/rbm/aresty/aresty1.html
  
  
• Rutgers University Libraries
  Special Collections and University Archives
  Sinclair Jerseyana Cookbooks
  http://www.libraries.rutgers.edu/rul/libs/scua/sinclair/sinclair_cook_books_main.shtml
  
  
• Tulane University, Nadine Vorhoff Library
  Newcome College, Center for Research on Women
  The Culinary Collection
  http://www.tulane.edu/~wc/text/culinary.html
  
  
• Kansas State University Cookery Collection
  http://www.lib.ksu.edu/depts/spec/rarebooks/collections/cookery.html
  
  
• Campbell Library of the Academy of Food Marketing
  Specializes in works on the food industry. The collection consists of over 4,000 books and 275 serial publications.
  http://www.sju.edu/hsb/campbell/
  
  
• Culinary Institute of America Conrad N. Hilton Library
  http://www.ciachef.edu/admissions/about/library.asp
  
  
• Los Angeles Public Library, Materials on Food and Drink
  http://www.lapl.org/resources/guides/food_drink.html
  
  
• New York Academy of Medicine Library, Historical Collections, Margaret Barclay Wilson Collection on Food and Cookery.
  Over 5,000 volumes and approximately the same number of pamphlets which document the history of cookery, gastronomy, nutrition and dietetics in the Western world. The materials appear in over 20 languages and range in date from A.D. 900 to the present.
  http://www.nlm.nih.gov/hmd/directory/039.html
  
  
• New York Public Library Culinary History
  http://www.nypl.org/research/chss/grd/resguides/culinary/
  
  
• University of Pennsylvania
  "Household Words: An Exhibition from the Esther B. Aresty Collection of Rare Books in the Culinary Arts"
  http://www.library.upenn.edu/exhibits/rbm/aresty/aresty1.html
  
  
• Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe/Harvard: Culinary Collection
  http://www.radcliffe.edu/schles/culinary.php
  
  
• Tulane University, Nadine Vorhoff Library
  Newcome College, Center for Research on Women
  http://www.tulane.edu/~wc/collections/culinary.htm
  
  

Culinary History Groups

• Culinary Historians, master list
  http://foodhistorynews.com/linkhistorians.html
  
  
• Culinary Historians of Boston
  http://www.culinaryhistoriansboston.com/about.htm
  
  
• Culinary Historians of Chicago
  Contains links to a large number of other culinary history associations.
  http://www.culinaryhistorians.org/
  
  
• Culinary Historians of New York
  http://culinaryhistoriansny.org/
  
  
• Culinary Historians of Washington, DC (CHoW)
  http://www.chowdc.org/
  
  
• Culinary History Enthusiasts of Wisconsin
  http://chew.wisconsincooks.org/

Food History Links, General

• Buckley's Food History Links
  http://www.cooper.edu/humanities/electives/foodlinks.html
  

Civil War Interactive Cookbook

Collecting Cookbooks

Let us know if there are any web sites that you enjoy and we'll consider including them on this page!

Newman Library's detailed page about Peacock-Harper Culinary Collection

To search the Collection itself, click on the following links:

• Search the Virginia Tech card catalog for all items in the "Culinary Collection" (over 1900 titles)
• Search the Virginia Tech card catalog for all items from the original Peacock and Harper Donations (631 titles)
• Search for a specific book using the "Addison" Card Catalog System