The interests listed below were taken from the introductory essay and are meant only as a suggestion for further research. Almost all the books have information on more than one topic.
Please select an interest to view cookbook titles:
- Advertising ephemera
- Baking and confectionary
- Charity and Church cookbooks — ⓘ More Info
- Children's cookery
- Cooking schools — ⓘ More Info
- Diet, nutrition, health, health movements, vegetarianism
- Economy, frugality
- Encyclopedic works
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Ethnic influences — ⓘ More Info
- Ethnic influences--African, African American
- Ethnic influences--Asian
- Ethnic influences--Creole
- Ethnic influences--English
- Ethnic influences--French
- Ethnic influences--German
- Ethnic influences--Hispanic
- Ethnic influences--Italian
- Ethnic influences--Jewish
- Ethnic influences--Middle Eastern
- Ethnic influences--Native American
- Ethnic influences--Pennsylvania Dutch, Quaker
- Ethnic influences--Scandinavian
- Ethnic influences--Other, general, continental, international
- Fairs
- The first American cookbook and its imitators
- Great Ladies of American Cooking — ⓘ More Info
- Homemaking, household management, home economics, entertaining, menus, cooking equipment — ⓘ More Info
- Hotels, restaurants, professional cooks, chefs, servants, waiters, bartending, etc.
- Magazines and newspapers
- Markets and produce
- Military cooking
- Quantity cooking
- Regional American Cooking
- Social issues