Helen Zoe Veit is the director of America in the Kitchen: The Historic American Cookbook Project, a three-year project funded with a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. Started in Spring 2024, America in the Kitchen is a partnership between the Michigan State University Department of History, the MSU Library, and Matrix: The Center for Digital Humanities.

Our team is building a beautiful new website that will provide full digital access to 200 of the most significant cookbooks in American history published from the 1790s to 1960. This represents a major modernization and expansion of the Feeding America project, one of the most important digital resources for scholars and students of food history. On the new America in the Kitchen site, each of the 200 cookbooks will be accompanied by a short, accessible essay to guide readers, along with other resources like a historical culinary glossary and photographs of more than 150 historical cooking tools and appliances and descriptions of their functions. The America in the Kitchen site will launch in spring 2027.

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