Every celebrity chef comes out with his own cookbook, usually accompanied by a line of kitchen-related products. We only have to go back a generation or two to find a time when a cookbook was an indispensable part of the household.
When certain foods became available in different areas, disappearing regional cuisine, and what was eaten on special occasions are some of the things that can be seen in a cookbook.
You don't have to cross the country to find a good selection of cookbooks. Over 12,000 American cookbooks and other home economics texts can be found in the archive. This is what to know.
Lifehacker readers know how much we love the internet archive. This online tool can be used to find websites that no longer exist, as well as to watch VHS recordings of your favorite 1990s TV shows and commercials.
The Internet Archive's Cookbook and Home Economics Collection has been around since 2007, but it has grown considerably in the last few years.
Most of the books written for home cooks in the archive were written for women. It was common to give young brides a cookbook and household manual to help them set up their own homes in the late 19th and early 20th century.
Many of the books that introduce white Americans to regional or international cuisine rely on racist, classist, and cultural stereotypes to do so.
Fannie Farmer, Betty Crocker, and the experts at Better Home and Gardens are some of the usual suspects.
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