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Jay Anderson foodways research collection, 1971-1999
Overview of the Collection
- Creator
- Anderson, Jay (Jay Allan)
- Title
- Jay Anderson foodways research collection
- Dates
- 1971-1999 (inclusive)19711999
- Quantity
- ca. 4.5 linear feet, (9 boxes)
- Collection Number
- UUS_FOLK COLL 17b
- Summary
- Professor Jay Anderson's foodways research items: theses, books, and articles, correspondence with authors, etc.; most items are photocopies.
- Repository
-
Utah State University, Merrill-Cazier Library, Special Collections and Archives Division
Special Collections & Archives
Merrill-Cazier Library
Utah State University
Logan, UT
84322-3000
Telephone: 4357978248
Fax: 4357972880
scweb@usu.edu - Access Restrictions
-
Restrictions
Open to public research. To access the collection a patron must have the following information: collection number, series number, sub-series number, if applicable, box number and folder number (or image number).
- Languages
- English.
- Sponsor
- Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA) grant, 2007-2008
Historical NoteReturn to Top
Jay Anderson is a professor of History at Utah State University. Professor Anderson donated his vast cookbook and foodways collection, collected over a lifetime of research and specialization on foodways, to USU Libraries Fife Folklore Archives for student research. The collection includes international and domestic books on foodways.
Content DescriptionReturn to Top
The Jay Anderson foodways follection is comprised of FOLK COLL 17 and FOLK COLL 17b. FOLK COLL 17 is the Foodways and Historic Cookbook Collection; items in FOLK COLL 17 can be accessed through USU Libraries online catalog. FOLK COLL 17b comprises Professor Anderson's foodways research and consists of nine boxes of photocopied thesis, articles, correspondence with author, etc., date and author noted when known. An inventory of FOLK COLL 17b follows.
Use of the CollectionReturn to Top
Restrictions on Use
CopyrightIt is the responsibility of the user to obtain permission to publish from the owner of the copyright (the institution, the creator of the record, the author or his/her transferees, heirs, legates, or literary executors). The user agrees to indemnify and hold harmless the Utah State University Libraries, its officers, employees, and agents from and against all claims made by any person asserting that he or she is an owner of copyright.
Permission to publish material from the Jay Anderson foodways research collection must be obtained from the Curator of the Fife Folklore Archives and/or the Special Collections Department Head.
Preferred Citation
Jay Anderson foodways research collection, 1971-1999.(FOLK COLL 17b: box, folder). Utah State University. Special Collections and Archives Department.
Administrative InformationReturn to Top
Arrangement
Organized in 4 series.
- European food research
- American food research
- Methodology
- Historic foodways books.
Acquisition Information
Professor Jay Anderson donated his extensive cookbook and foodways collection to the Fife Folklore Archives in several installments in the 1990s, with the last deposit in 1999.
Processing Note
Originally processed by Rosanna Walker and updated by Randy Williams. Finding aid created by Randy Williams, April 2004; updated by Randy Williams, March 2012.
Detailed Description of the CollectionReturn to Top
European Food ResearchReturn to Top
| Container(s) | Description | Dates | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Box | Folder | ||
| 1 | 1 | Rener, H. DThe Origin of
Food Habits
|
1944 |
| 1 | 2 | Bibliography of cookery books at Brotherton
Library, Leeds University
|
Undated |
Item 1: Blanche Leigh Collection |
Undated | ||
Item 2: Preston Collection |
Undated | ||
| 1 | 3 | Smallzried, Kathleen AnnThe Everlasting Pleasure: Influences on America's Kitchens, Cooks and
Cookery, from 1565 to the year 2000
|
1956 |
| 1 | 4 | King, Frank ABeer Has a
History
|
1947 |
| 1 | 5 | Loran J. Sass
|
|
Item 1: Sass, Lorna J. "A Medieval Feast" Gourmet
|
1976 April | ||
Item 2: Lorna J. Sass business card |
Undated | ||
Item 3: Postcard |
Undated | ||
Item 4: Letter |
Undated | ||
Item 5: Book review for Sass' book: To the King's Taste
|
Undated | ||
Item 6: "Recipes for the Ages (Medieval)"Philadelphia Inquirer
featuring Lorna Sass.
|
1976 March 17 | ||
| 1 | 6 | Fussel, G. EAn
Eighteenth Century Village
|
1947 |
| 1 | 7 | Fussel, G. EThe English
Rural Labourer
|
Undated |
| 1 | 8 | Fussel, G. E. "The Elizabethan Countrywoman,"
The English Countrywoman A.D. 1500-2000
|
Undated |
| 1 | 9 | West, John. "Probate Records, Inventories and
Wills" Village Records
|
Undated |
| 1 | 10 | Roeder, Charles. "Notes on Food and Drink in
Lancashire and Other Northern Counties"
|
|
| 1 | 11 | Martin, E. W., ed. Preface and chapter "Peasants
and Peasant Life" from Country Life in England
|
Undated |
| 1 | 12 | Ashley, Leonard R. N. "Scoff Lore: An
Introduction to British Words for Food and Drink"
|
Undated |
American Food ResearchReturn to Top
| Container(s) | Description | Dates | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Box | Folder | ||
| 1 | 13 | Gates, CatherineOn The
Culture of Indians Living in the Region of Plymouth: Covering the Period of
Approximately 1620-1990 Plimoth Plantation, Plymouth, MA
|
1966 |
| 1 | 14 | Gates, Catherine. "Drink, Drugs, &
Indulgence," from On The Culture of Indians Living in the
Region of Plymouth: Covering the Period of Approximately 1620-1990
|
1966 |
| 2 | 1 | Information on New England
horticulture
(16 items: 2-15 appear to be from the same source, possibly a living history
museum.)
|
|
Item 1: "Bibliography: Horticulture" |
Undated | ||
Item 2: "Indian Gardens" |
Undated | ||
Item 3: Hussey, Jane Strickland, compiler Native Flora of New England
|
1968 | ||
Item 4: "Alden House: Garden of Wild Fruit, Berries
and Flowers" |
Undated | ||
Item 5: "Bradford House: Garden of Flowering
Herbs" |
Undated | ||
Item 6: "Common House: Brewer's Garden" |
Undated | ||
Item 7: "Brewster House: Goosefoot Garden of Culinary
Herbs" |
Undated | ||
Item 8: "Cooke House: Garden of Sallet
Herbs" |
Undated | ||
Item 9: "First House: Garden of Aromatic, Culinary
and Medicinal Herbs" |
Undated | ||
Item 10: "Fuller House: Garden of Medicinal
Herbs" |
Undated | ||
Item 11: "Howland House: Garden of Dyeing
Herbs" |
Undated | ||
Item 12: "Soule House: Bee Garden" |
Undated | ||
Item 13: "Standish House: Garden of Wound
Herbs" |
Undated | ||
Item 14: "Warren House: Rose Garden, Knot Garden,
Vegetable Garden" |
Undated | ||
Item 15: "Winslow House: Garden of
Simples" |
Undated | ||
Item 16: Hussey, Jane Strickland. "Notes on Pilgrim
Herb Gardens" |
Undated | ||
| 2 | 2 | Thanksgiving in U.S.A
|
|
Item 1: Joel, Yale. "A Traditional Thanksgiving,"
Boy's Life
|
1974 | ||
Item 2: Crosby, Alfred W. "Maize, Land, Demography
and the American Character" Revue Francaise D'etudes
Americanines
|
1991 | ||
Item 3:
The First Thanksgiving
in April, El Paso (Texas) Mission Trail Association |
Undated | ||
Item 4:
History of Plymouth
Plantation, photocopied pages (114-127) |
Undated | ||
Item 5:
Of Plymouth
Plantation photocopied pages (79-85, 90: excerpts from chapters XI
& XII) |
Undated | ||
Item 6: Photocopied pages (92-137) from a children's
book on New England, including information on Samoset (March 1621),
Massasoit, Squanto, New England 1621-1623, and Thanksgiving
1621 |
Undated | ||
Item 7:
Pilgrim Courage
photocopied pages (63-7, 69-71, 74-6, 95-60), including information
on American Indians and Thanksgiving |
Undated | ||
Item 8: Pyle, Arthur G., compiler. "Pilgrim Corn
Planting 1621," Plimoth Plantaion, Plymouth, MA |
Undated | ||
Item 9: Baker, James W. "Recreating the First
Thanksgiving Dinner," Plimoth Plantation, Plymouth, MA
(Includes recipes.)
|
Undated | ||
Item 10: Anderson, Jay. "The Bountiful Yeoman" Natural History with author note and additional
reading |
1982 | ||
| 2 | 3 | Strang, JeffA
Transcription and Explication of the Wall-Tatam Cookbook
|
1980 May |
| 2 | 4 | Transcript of Benjamin Hawley's diary, Chester
County
|
1769-1782 |
| 2 | 5 | Foodways in eighteenth-century America
|
|
Item 1: Lemon, James T. "Household Consumption in
Eighteenth-Century America and its Relationship to Production and Trade: The
Situation Among Farmers in Southeastern Pennsylvania" |
Undated | ||
Item 2: Yoder, Don. "Historical Sources For American
Traditional Cookery: Examples from the Pennsylvania German Culture," (2
copies: one from unnamed journal and one draft copy.) |
Undated | ||
Item 3: Saracino, Mary E. "Household Production of
Alcohol in Eighteenth Century Connecticut," unpublished paper for American
Folklife course at George Washington University taught by John Valch |
1982 December; December 1982. | ||
| 2 | 6 | Bartis, Peter T. "'Twas Water Soup but Slightly
Thinner," unpublished paper
|
Undated |
| 2 | 7 | History of food and drink in America
|
|
Item 1: Weiss, Harry B. and Grace M. WeissThe Early Breweries of New Jersey New Jersey
Agricultural So., photoies of pages 7-97 |
1963 | ||
Item 2: Richman, Irwin. "The History of the Tomato in
America" The Proceedings: New Jersey Historical
So
|
Undated | ||
Item 3: Yoder, Don. "The Sausage Culture of the
Pennsylvania Germans," copy of paper draft |
Undated | ||
| 3 | 1 | Fraser, Kathryn MFoodways in 1850: A Sourcebook For the Homeplace-1850 TVA's Land
Between the Lakes
|
1983 |
| 3 | 2 | Meat preservation
|
|
Item 1: Burnett, Edmund CodyHog Raising and Hog Driving in the Region of the French Broad
River
|
Undated | ||
Item 2: Jones, Dale. "Smoking the Meat in Western
Kentucky: or Barbecue on my Brain." Unpublished student paper |
1983 | ||
Item 3: Perdue, Chuck. "Enough Salt to Track a
Rabbit." Unpublished paper, Woodville, Virginia |
1970 January 7 | ||
| 3 | 3 | "Say it With Food" Center
for Southern Folklore Magazine
|
1980 |
| 3 | 4 | Alder, Thomas A. "'Sunday breakfast was always
special with us': A Report on Foodways in South Central Georgia" Folklore Reprint Series, V. 7: 1
|
1979 February |
| 3 | 5 | Camp, Charles. "Foodways in Everyday Life,"
American Quarterly 34: 3
|
1982 |
| 3 | 6 | Exhibition Catalog: "Thought for Food: An
Exhibition of Cookery Book, November 1984-February 1985," General Foods
Collection Gallery
|
1984-1985 |
| 3 | 7 | "Toward a Method for the Study of Food in
Popular Culture" Journal of American Culture
Entire issue devoted to foods
|
Undated |
| 3 | 8 | Forster, Robert and Orest Ranum. Food and Drink
in History: Selections from the Annales: Economies,
Societes, Civilisations V. 5
|
Undated |
| 3 | 9 | Jones, Michael Owen, Bruce Giuliano, Roberta
Krell, editors."Foodways and Eating Habits: Directions for ResearchWestern Folklore Quarterly, 40:1
|
1981 January |
MethodologyReturn to Top
| Container(s) | Description | Dates | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Box | Folder | ||
| 3 | 10 | Dentan, R., ed. "Appendix E: A Preliminary Guide
to the Collection of Info on Food Behavior," Final Report USPHS Grant No. 3557
|
1961 |
| 3 | 11 |
The Digest: A Newsletter
for the Interdisciplinary Study of Food Volumes: 1:1, 1:3, 2:2, 2:3,
and Digest Directory
|
Undated |
| 3 | 12 | Verdier, Yvonne. "Repas Bas-Normands,"L'Homme Revue Francaise d'Anthropologie Volume 6:
|
1966 |
| 3 | 13 | Bennett, John W. " Social Scientific Research in
Human Subsistence" American Anthropologist
|
1946 |
| 3 | 14 | Research outlines and questions
|
|
Item 1: Outline: "Culinary Anthropology" |
Undated | ||
Item 2: Outline: "Preliminary System of
Classification" |
Undated | ||
Item 3: Questions: "The Present Position of Food
Research in Europe and the USA: Some Questions" |
Undated | ||
| 3 | 15 | Kariel, Herbert G. "A Proposed Classification of
Diet" Dietary Classification
|
Undated |
| 3 | 16 | Lockwood, William G., Yvonne R. Lockwood. "The
Cornish Pasty in Northern Michigan" Oxford Symposium
1983: Food in Motion
|
1983 |
| 4 | 1 | Marshall, Howard Wight. "Foodways and Regional
Character"
|
|
Item 1: Letter from Jan Brunvand (edJournal of American Folklore) regarding reader
(Anderson) response to Marshall article |
1979 February 7 | ||
Item 2: Follow-up letter from Brunvand regarding
article |
1979 March 19 | ||
Item 3: Review copy of Marshall
manuscript |
Undated | ||
| 4 | 2 |
SNACS Field Handbook:
Foodways Society for the North American Cultural Survey of foodways
of New York
|
1976 October |
| 4 | 3 |
A 4-H FolkPatterns
Project: Foodways Cooperative Extension Service, Folk Arts Division,
The Museum, Michigan State University
|
Undated |
| 4 | 4 | Questionnaires
|
|
Item 1: "Philadelphia Food Survey Project: Household
Questionnaire" |
Undated | ||
Item 2: "Foodways: Meal Questionnaire:
4-H" |
Undated | ||
| 4 | 5 | "Food Habits" Journal of
Nutrition Education 5:1
|
1973 January-March |
| 4 | 6 | Mead, MargaretFood
Habits Research: Problems of the 1960s
|
1964 |
| 4 | 7 |
National
Geographic, contains article "Food: Will There be Enough," and "The
Nightmare of Famine." 148:1
|
1975 July |
| 4 | 8 | Food research: sixteenth and seventeenth
centuries
|
Undated |
Item 1: Newman, L.F. "Some Notes on Foods and
Dietetics in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries" |
Undated | ||
Item 2: "Sixteenth Century: Slow
Progress" |
Undated | ||
| 4 | 9 | Gray Graffam
|
|
Item 1: Letter from Gray Graffam to Jay Anderson |
1984 April 26 | ||
Item 2: Graffam, Gray, "Foodways as a Conceptual
Framework in Archaeological Research: A New Perspective" |
Undated | ||
| 4 | 10 | Hoskins, W. G.The Making
of the English Landscape pp. 118-27
|
Undated |
| 4 | 11 | Thirsk, Joan, ed.The
Agrarian History of England and Wales: Volume IV 1500-1640,
table of contents, 108-13; 300-7; 412-65
|
1967 |
| 5 | 1 | Articles by: V. G. B. Atwater; G. E. Fussell; W.
G. Hoskins; W. Harwood Long
|
|
Item 1: Fussell, G. E."The Traffic in Farm Produce in
Seventeenth-Century England" Western Middle
West, 1900-1914 |
Undated | ||
Item 2: Fussell, G. E. and V. G. B. Atwater.
"Agriculture of Rural England in the Seventeenth Century" Economic Geography
|
Undated | ||
Item 3: Fussell, G. E. "The Grasses and Grassland
Cultivation of Britain: Before 1700" |
Undated | ||
Item 4: Fussell, G. E. "Social and Agrarian
Background of the Pilgrim Fathers" |
Undated | ||
Item 5: Fussell, G. E. "Crop Nutrition in Tudor and
Early Stuart England" The Agrarian History
Review
|
Undated | ||
Item 6: Fussell, G. E. "The Elizabethan and Early
Stuart Dairy Farmer" |
Undated | ||
Item 7: Fussell, G. E. "History and Agricultural
Science." first two pages of article |
Undated | ||
Item 8: Hoskins, W. G. "Regional Farming in England" |
1953 | ||
Item 9: Long, Harwood. "Regional Farming in
Seventeenth-Century Yorkshire" |
Undated | ||
| 5 | 2 | Letters and Articles
|
|
Item 1: Lucas, A. T. "Irish Food Before the Potato"
Gwerin
|
Undated | ||
Item 2: Fussell, G. E. and G. H. Kenyon. "Letters to
the Editor" The Agricultural History
Review
|
Undated | ||
Item 3: Fussell, G. E. "The Change in Farm Labourers'
Diet During Two Centuries" The Economic
Journal, pp. 268-274 |
1927 May | ||
Item 4: Atkinson, Frank. "Oatbread of Northern
England" Gwerin
|
|||
| 5 | 3 | Trow-Smith, Robert. "The Livestock Topography of
Tudor and Stuart Britain" A History of British Livestock
Husbandry to 1700 pp.172-259
|
1956 |
| 5 | 4 | "Conditions of Nourishment." Photocopy from
unknown source of 1800s report on the dietary conditions in England, Wales, and
Scotland
|
|
| 5 | 5 | Fussell, G. E., ed.Robert
Loder's Farm Accounts 1610-1620
|
1936 |
Historic Foodways Books (photocopies) and MenusReturn to Top
| Container(s) | Description | Dates | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Box | Folder | ||
| 5 | 6 | Taylor, JohnAll the
Works of John Taylor
|
1630 |
| 5 | 7 |
Rural Economy in Yorkshire in 1641: Being the Farming and
Account Books of Henry Best
|
1857 |
| 5 | 8 | Menus
|
|
Item 1: Menu from Durgin-Park Market Dining Rooms,"
Boston, MA |
Undated | ||
Item 2: Menu (17 cards) with photographs from Mount
Pleasant House, New Hampshire |
1898 | ||
| 6 | 1 |
A Book of Cookrye: Very necessary for all such as delight
therein
|
1587 |
| 6 | 2 | Tusser, ThomasFive
Hundred Points of Good Husbandrie pp. 120-41
|
1590 |
| 6 | 3 | Plat, Sir HughDelights
for Ladies(1609) 1948 introduction
|
1609.; 1948 |
| 6 | 4 |
The Country House-Wives
Garden: Containing Rules for Herbs, and Seeds (1617)
|
1948 |
| 6 | 5 |
The Complete Country Housewife
|
|
| 6 | 6 |
The Household Receipts
|
Undated |
| 6 | 7 |
Cookerie and Huswiferie
|
Undated |
| 6 | 8 |
N.B. The Court and Country
|
1618 |
| 6 | 9 | Ashley, Sir WilliamThe
Bread of our Forefathers: An Inquiry in Economic History
|
1928 |
| 7 | 1 |
Fantasticks
|
1626 |
| 7 | 2 |
The Great Feast: At the [I]nthronization of the Reverend
Father in God, George Neavill, Arch-Bishop of York
|
1645 |
| 7 | 3 | Murrell, JohnA New Book
of Cookeries
|
1630 |
| 7 | 4 |
New England
Prospect 1865 [1634], pp 1-77
|
1865 |
| 7 | 5 | Butler, CharlesThe
Feminin[e] Monarchi: or The Histori of Beespartial copy
|
1634 |
| 7 | 6 |
The French Cook
|
1673 |
| 7 | 7 | MacDonell, Anne, ed,The
Closet of Sir Kenelm Digby Knight Opened
|
1910 |
| 7 | 8 |
A Choice Manual of Rare and Select Secrets in Physick and
Chyrurgery
|
1635 |
| 7 | 9 | G. M. lter The English
Hous-Wife: Containing the Inward and Outward Vertues which ought to be in a
Compleat Woman[1660]
|
1942 |
| 7 | 10 | Jeamson, ThomasArtificiall Embellishments
|
1665 |
| 8 | 1 |
A New Orchard & Garden
|
1683 |
| 8 | 2 | Markham, G.Country
Contentments: Or The Husbanmans Recreations
|
1683 |
| 8 | 3 | Markham, G.The English
House-Wife
|
1683 |
| 8 | 4 | Salmon, William. Excerpts from Salmon Family Dictionary
|
1698 |
| 8 | 5 | Evelyn, JohnAcetaria: A
Discourse on Sallets
|
1699 |
| 8 | 6 |
A Learned Dissertation on Dumplings
|
1726 |
| 8 | 7 | James, Philip, ed.A
Butler's Recipe Book 1719
|
1935 |
| 8 | 8 |
A Collection of Receipts
in Cookery: Physick and Surgery (1724)
|
1958 |
| 8 | 9 | Gardiner, Anne GibbonsMrs. Gardiner's Receipts from 1763
|
1938 |
| 8 | 10 | Carter, SusannahThe
Frugal Housewife or Complete Woman Cook
|
1772 |
| 8 | 11 |
The Farmer's Wife: Or the Complete Country Housewife
|
circa 1740 |
| 8 | 12 | Davies, J.The Innkeeper
and Butler's Guide: Or a Directory in the Making and Managing of British
Wines
|
1808 |
| 9 | 1 | Fessenden, Thomas G.The
Husbandman and Housewife
|
1820 |
| 9 | 2 | Recipes from the estate of Dr. Benjamin F.
Heyward, Worcester, MA
|
circa 1820 |
| 9 | 3 | Handwritten recipes "Mrs. Dorothea Green from
her affectionate cousin F.R. Green"
|
1823-1828 |
| 9 | 4 | Hewlett, EstherCottage
Comforts
|
1826 |
| 9 | 5 | Handwritten recipes "Charlotte F. W. Gilbert
from her friend A. D. Waters"
|
1828 |
| 9 | 6 |
The Housekeeper's Book
|
1838 |
| 9 | 7 |
The American Housewife
|
1841 |
| 9 | 8 | Sanderson, J.M.Cook and
Confectioner: The Complete Cook
|
1849 |
| 9 | 9 |
The Country Kitchen Revised and Enlarged: The Farmer
Recipe Book
|
1903 |
| 9 | 10 | Fussel, G.E.An Eighteenth
Century Village
|
Undated |
| 9 | 11 | Rouff, MarcelThe
Passionate Epicure
|
1962 |
| 9 | 12 |
A True Gentlewoman's Delight
|
Undated |
| 9 | 13 | Partial copy of House-Book
of Lady Grisell Baillie
|
Undated |
| 9 | 14 | Borde, Andrew. Partial copy of The First Book of the Introduction of Knowledge
(1870)
|
1893 |
Names and SubjectsReturn to Top
Subject Terms
- Cookery.
- Diet.
- Food habits.
- Food--History.
Finding aid created by Randy Williams, April 2004.
2008
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