20 Best Food History Blogs and Websites in 2025

1. Ken Albala's Food Rant Blog

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Hi! I'm Ken Albala. I'm a Food Historian at the University of the Pacific and the author of Eating Right in the Renaissance, Food in Early Modern Europe, and many more books.
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2. Restaurant-ing Through History

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My fascination with restaurants goes back to childhood. For over 20 years I've taken notes and gathered material about restaurants in American history and can say, without bragging, that there are few others in the US who know more about American restaurants of the past two centuries than I do. I hope you will enjoy reading my posts.MORE Domain Authority 53 Read Now Get Email Contact

3. Heart to Hearth Cookery

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Here on Bites of Food History discover Susan McLellan's Experimental Archaeology of Food. She shares insightful write-ups covering and featuring every detail of food history from a variety of food to stoves & ovens.MORE Domain Authority 17 Read Now Get Email Contact

4. The Historical Cooking Project

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The Historical Cooking Project showcases new scholarship on the study of food throughout history. We are an interdisciplinary organization. Our material challenges the division between academic and public history.MORE Domain Authority 34 Read Now Get Email Contact

5. Gherkins & Tomatoes

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Cynthia D. Bertelsen is an author and photographer with expertise in international culinary history and foodways. She began writing her blog, 'Gherkins & Tomatoes,' in 2008, covering all manner of topics.MORE Domain Authority 42 Read Now Get Email Contact

6. Tavola Mediterranea

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Farrell Monaco is an award-winning Roman archaeologist, baker, and public educator whose research (and baking!) centers on food from the Roman Mediterranean. Farrell is recognized for her experimental archaeology projects, featured on her site Tavola Mediterranea, where she recreates Ancient Roman recipes using techniques and ingredients sourced from archeological research in addition to ancient texts and art.MORE Facebook Followers 21.6KTwitter Followers 2.4KInstagram Followers 7.4K Domain Authority 38 Read Now Get Email Contact

7. Researching Food History Blog

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Culinary historian researching food history & cooking apparatus. The site contains articles on an open hearth, bake oven, wood stove, and other pre-WWI forms of cooking and related subjects, and more.MORE Domain Authority 42 Read Now Get Email Contact

8. Ancient Foods

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Exploring the origins and history of food & drink around the world. My name is Joanna Linsley-Poe. I am a chef, artisan bread baker, ancient food historian, food archaeologist, and anthropologist as well as a writer. Although that sounds like quite a mouthful, I guess it's all about a love of history and food.MORE Email ****@dartmouth.edu
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9. Old Line Plate

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Hi! I am Kara. I am exploring the foodways and cooking traditions of Maryland. Old Line Plate is NOT about romanticizing the past. I'm still learning about history and about cooking and this blog is essentially a documentation of that process.MORE Email ****@karamae.com
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10. The Food Historian Blog

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Sarah Wassberg Johnson is The Food Historian - author, speaker, educator, podcaster, and blogger on all things related to food history. The goal of The Food Historian website is to create interesting, engaging, and accurate food history content for the general public and to provide access to food history resources for researchers and the curious alike.MORE Email ****@thefoodhistorian.com
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11. British Food: A History

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Hello and welcome to British Food: A History, my blog that attempts to tell the history of Britain through its food and food cultures. In addition to all the history, I also want to provide plenty of recipes to try that actually works - even if sometimes the ingredients are a little too strange for our modern tastes. I also hope to be able to show you some basic (and not so basic!) cooking techniques so that you can increase your own arsenal of culinary skills.MORE Email ****@britishfoodhistory.com
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12. The Vintage Kitchen

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Here in The Vintage Kitchen, we are on a mission to discover those fascinating details that have laid the groundwork for what, where, why, and how we cook today. Highlighting vintage culinary creativity in a variety of ways from interior design to interviews, gardening to gadgets, travel to techniques, recipes to restaurants, and all those lovely china pieces in-between we discover how the past connects us to the present when it comes to the kitchen.MORE Email ****@gmail.com
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13. Cooking in the Archives

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Cooking in the Archives sets out to find, cook, and discuss recipes from cookbooks produced between 1600 and 1800. This project is situated at the intersection between the practice of modern cooking and the history of early modern manuscripts and printed recipe books.MORE Email ****@psu.edu
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14. Thehistoricfoodie's Blog

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The Historic Foodie, sometimes known as Victoria (Rumble) Brady, has written several books and a host of magazine articles about the joys of food and cooking in earlier times. She collects antique cookware from the U.S. and Europe and her interests include heirloom gardening, food preservation, and preparation as well as all aspects of 18th-century material culture.MORE Email ****@yahoo.com
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15. The Regency Cook Blog

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I offer online courses and in-person cookery classes where you learn to cook food that Jane Austen or your great-great-grandmother might have eaten. And you'll learn the history behind the dishes too. As the Regency Cook, I can be your guide as we rediscover long-forgotten recipes from the early 1800s together.MORE Email ****@gmail.com
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16. Historical Foodways

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Hello! My name is Juneisy, although I sometimes go by June, and the history of food, cooking, eating, ingredients, and cookbooks/recipes is my passion. I hold a Ph.D. in United States history with a concentration in Early America. My dissertation explores food economies and trans-imperial trade and relations in the colonial North American Southeast.MORE Email ****@historicalfoodways.com
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17. Medieval Cookery Blog

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I generally only put stuff on the website that I feel is 'reasonably' complete. Here I'll be posting thoughts and recent discoveries about medieval European cooking, as well as tangentially related subjects like calendars, language, and culture.MORE Domain Authority 17 Read Now Get Email Contact

18. History Preserved

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I have a passion for understanding history through doing - recreating recipes, sewing and wearing clothes, trying out gardening techniques, studying documents, and reading books from another time. Here at American Victory Kitchen, I'm exploring American ration recipes from World War II to learn more in-depth about this unique part of our historical culinary heritage.MORE Domain Authority 20 Read Now Get Email Contact

19. Musings on Food and History

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Annie Gray is a Social historian specializing in food and dining, c.1600 onwards. She is a resident food historian on Radio 4's The Kitchen Cabinet, sometimes to be seen on the telly as well. Holder of many opinions on food, both past, and present, Annie is a research associate at the University of York. And a freelancer within the wide field of public history - lecturing, demonstrating, donning a costume, and cooking.MORE Domain Authority 17 Read Now Get Email Contact