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This picture illustrates a portable pie oven, in bright colors and a fair amount of medieval flair. The oven is round and wood fired and is being transported on wheels, while being dragged by two men, with two others throwing bread in and out of the…

This item is a very good overview of bread trends throughout American history. It does a very good job at glossing over and giving brief ideas, but it is a great resource to understand how bread was able to become mainstream, especially things like…

This ad from the era just after civil rights features prominent use of AAV, African American Vernacular. They released sets of targeted ads towards African Americans, hoping to draw in their once denied business.

Three Sisters agriculture, the planting of corn, beans, and squash, was the primary form of agriculture utilized to feed Native American tribes and civilizations from as far south as the Mayans to as north as the Great Lakes region. The map depicts…

Cornbread is a traditional food of various Amerindian tribes of the southeast United States that was adopted into Euro-American and enslaved cuisine by as the 18th century. As the 1700s progressed, more and more grain was exported from the Thirteen…

The oldest operating McDonald's restaurant was the third one built, opening in 1953. It's located at 10207 Lakewood Blvd. at Florence Ave. in Downey, California.

Like London in the United Kingdom, there is more desire in Tokyo, Japan for more authentic American cuisine. Going into the 21st century, while Japan is home to an abundance of burger shops and retro themed diners, there is the beginning of demands…

Nordic adaptations of traditional Mexican cuisine developed through centuries of diffusion between foods native to the Americas from Native American diets and European ingredients.

The origin of the tamale is contested between historians as many have different ideas as to where it was first conceived in the Americas. Commonly thought, the tamale came from Mexican migrants to the United States in the early 20th century,…

Potatoes are a food native to South America that made its way to Europe through the exportation of Native American food complexes from 15th century exploration and colonization.
King Frederick sought to modernize the kingdom of Prussia during his…