Food & Drink History Resources @Virginia Tech (and Beyond)

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.

This collection contains booklets and broadsides related to the Hauser Institute of New York City, conducted by food scientist Benjamin (Bengamin) Gayelord Hauser. It includes several booklets written by Hauser with pseudoscientific advice related to health and nutrition, broadsides related to Hauser's teachings and presentations, and hand-written food logs, as well as a weight loss booklet published by Metropolitan Life Insurance Company and an assortment of newspaper clippings unrelated to Hauser.

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.