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Food & Drink History Resources @Virginia Tech (and Beyond): Vegetarianism & Other Diets, Eating Habits, & Trends
Special Collections in the University Libraries can help with your food & drink history research, including books, manuscript collections, ephemera & digital items. This LibGuide also includes resources you can find at other institutions.
Addresses & Essays on Vegetarianism, by Anna (Bonus) Kingsford and Edward Maitland TX392 .K5 Spec Large
Fruits and Farinacea, the Proper Food of Man: Being an Attempt to Prove, from History, Anatomy, Physiology, and Chemistry, that the Original, Natural, and Best Diet of Man is Derived from the Vegetable Kingdom by John Smith TX392 .S6 1854 Spec Small
Healthful Cookery; A Collection of Choice Recipes for Preparing Foods, with Special Reference to Health by Ella E. Kellogg TX837 .K45 1908 Spec Small
La cuisine simple by Paul Carton TX392 .C37 1925 Spec Small
Mrs. Rorer's Vegetable Cookery and Meat Substitutes : vegetables with meat value, vegetables to take the place of meat, how to cook Three Meals a Day without Meat, the Best Ways of Blending Eggs, Milk, and Vegetables by Sarah Tyson Rorer TX801 .R67 1909 Spec Small
Uncooked Foods & How to Use Them: A Treatise on How to Get the Highest Form of Animal Energy from Food: with Recipes for Preparation, Healthful Combinations and Menus by Mr. & Mrs. Eugene Christian TX392 .C55 1904 Spec Small
Vegetable Diet: As Sanctioned by Medical Men, and by Experience in All Ages. Including a System of Vegetable Cookery by William A. Alcott TX392 .A66 1853 Spec Small
Vegetable Substances Used for the Food of Man by Edwin Lankester SB91 .L35 1832 Spec Small
Vegetarian Cook Book by City of David, Israelite House of David as re-organized by Mary Purnell TX837 .M378 1934 Spec Large
Vegetarian Cookery, by A Lady TX837 .K57 1866z Spec Small
The Vegetarian Crusade: The Rise of an American reform movement, 1817-1921, by Adam D. Shprintzen TX392 .S446 2013 Spec Large
Vegetarianism, The Radical Cure for Intemperance, by Harriet P. Fowler TX392 .F78 1886 Spec Small
Why I am a Vegetarian by Benjamin Fay Mills TX392 .M55 1900z Spec Small
The collection includes small publications and pamphlets created and distributed by culinary, appliance, and food-related companies from about the 1870s to the 1990s. Most pamphlets contain advertisements, recipes, product information, testimonials, or some combination of all four.
Papers of Gary Ann Giovanni, a chef, caterer and cooking teacher active in Blacksburg, Virginia. The collection contains records, menus, and recipes from her catering jobs and from the cooking classes she taught for the local YMCA Open University. Also includes material related to the various community organizations for which Gary worked or volunteered, and some material associated with her sister, poet Nikki Giovanni.
Hauser Institute of New York City Collection (Acc2015-028)
Unprocessed collection containing a collection of six pseudo-scientific health, nutrition, cookbook, diet, and exercise books, and seven broadsides from between 1928-1930. Most were issued by the Hauser Institute of New York City, established and run by Bengamin Hauser (1895-1984).
The Virginia Tech Dining Services Records comprises award submission scrapbooks for events and dinners hosted by the Dining Services department of the Division of Student Affairs that were compiled and submitted for awards from 1994 through 2013. A 2009 schematic design for the food court Turner Place at Lavery Hall is also included.
Diets & Health Regimes: Suggested Books & Publications
Household Manual of Domestic Hygiene, Food and Diet: Treatment of Common Diseases, Accidents and Emergencies, and Healthful Cookery, by John Harvey Kellogg RC81 .K375 1882 Spec Small
The Household Monitor of Health by John Harvey Kellogg RC81 .K378 Spec Small
The Itinerary of a Breakfast...by John H. Kellogg RC861 .K45 1920 Spec Small
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