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. Fife Folklore Archives
Merrill-Cazier Library Utah State University 3000 Old Main Hill Logan, UT 84322-3000 Phone: 435 797-2663 Fax: 435 797-2880 Email: scweb@usu.edu
Languages:
Collection materials are in English.
Sponsor:
Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA) grant,
2007-2008
Historical Note
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 Description
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 Collection
Restrictions on Access : 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).
Restrictions on Use : Copyright
It 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 Information
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 Collection
European Food Research
Container(s)
Description
Dates
Box
Folder
1
1
Rener, H. D. The Origin of
Food Habits
1944.
1
2
Bibliography of cookery books at Brotherton
Library, Leeds University
Item 1: Blanche Leigh Collection
Item 2: Preston Collection
1
3
Smallzried, Kathleen Ann. The Everlasting Pleasure: Influences on America's Kitchens, Cooks and
Cookery, from 1565 to the year 2000
1956.
1
4
King, Frank A. Beer Has a
History
1947.
1
5
Loran J. Sass
Item 1: Sass, Lorna J. "A Medieval Feast" Gourmet
April 1976.
Item 2: Lorna J. Sass business card
Item 3: Postcard
Item 4: Letter
Item 5: Book review for Sass' book: To the King's Taste
Item 6: "Recipes for the Ages (Medieval)", Philadelphia Inquirer
featuring Lorna Sass.
17 March 1976
1
6
Fussel, G. E. An
Eighteenth Century Village
1947.
1
7
Fussel, G. E. The English
Rural Labourer
1
8
Fussel, G. E. "The Elizabethan Countrywoman,"
The English Countrywoman A.D. 1500-2000.
1
9
West, John. "Probate Records, Inventories and
Wills," Village Records.
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
1
12
Ashley, Leonard R. N. "Scoff Lore: An
Introduction to British Words for Food and Drink."
Gates, Catherine. On 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"
Item 2: "Indian Gardens"
Item 3: Hussey, Jane Strickland, compiler Native Flora of New England
1968.
Item 4: "Alden House: Garden of Wild Fruit, Berries
and Flowers."
Item 5: "Bradford House: Garden of Flowering
Herbs."
Item 6: "Common House: Brewer's Garden"
Item 7: "Brewster House: Goosefoot Garden of Culinary
Herbs."
Item 8: "Cooke House: Garden of Sallet
Herbs."
Item 9: "First House: Garden of Aromatic, Culinary
and Medicinal Herbs"
Item 10: "Fuller House: Garden of Medicinal
Herbs"
Item 11: "Howland House: Garden of Dyeing
Herbs."
Item 12: "Soule House: Bee Garden."
Item 13: "Standish House: Garden of Wound
Herbs."
Item 14: "Warren House: Rose Garden, Knot Garden,
Vegetable Garden."
Item 15: "Winslow House: Garden of
Simples."
Item 16: Hussey, Jane Strickland. "Notes on Pilgrim
Herb Gardens."
2
2
Thanksgiving in U.S.A
Item 1: Joel, Yale. "A Traditional Thanksgiving,"
Boy's Life
November 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
Item 4: History of Plymouth
Plantation, photocopied pages (114-127)
Item 5: Of Plymouth
Plantation photocopied pages (79-85, 90: excerpts from chapters XI
& XII)
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
Item 7: Pilgrim Courage
photocopied pages (63-7, 69-71, 74-6, 95-60), including information
on American Indians and Thanksgiving
Item 8: Pyle, Arthur G., compiler. "Pilgrim Corn
Planting 1621," Plimoth Plantaion, Plymouth MA
Item 9: Baker, James W. "Recreating the First
Thanksgiving Dinner," Plimoth Plantation, Plymouth MA
(Includes recipes.)
Item 10: Anderson, Jay. "The Bountiful Yeoman," Natural History with author note and additional
reading
Oct. 1982.
2
3
Strang, Jeff. A
Transcription and Explication of the Wall-Tatam Cookbook,
May 1980.
2
4
Transcript of Benjamin Hawley's diary, Chester
County
1769-82.
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."
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.)
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
December 1982.
2
6
Bartis, Peter T. "'Twas Water Soup but Slightly
Thinner," unpublished paper
2
7
History of food and drink in America
Item 1: Weiss, Harry B. and Grace M. Weiss. The 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.
Item 3: Yoder, Don. "The Sausage Culture of the
Pennsylvania Germans," copy of paper draft
3
1
Fraser, Kathryn M. Foodways in 1850: A Sourcebook For the Homeplace-1850 TVA's Land
Between the Lakes
1983.
3
2
Meat preservation
Item 1: Burnett, Edmund Cody. Hog Raising and Hog Driving in the Region of the French Broad
River.
Item 2: Jones, Dale. "Smoking the Meat in Western
Kentucky: or Barbecue on my Brain." Unpublished student paper
Spring 1983.
Item 3: Perdue, Chuck. "Enough Salt to Track a
Rabbit." Unpublished paper, Woodville, Virginia
7 January 1970.
3
3
"Say it With Food," Center
for Southern Folklore Magazine
Fall 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
(February 1979),
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
3
8
Forster, Robert and Orest Ranum. Food and Drink
in History: Selections from the Annales: Economies,
Societes, Civilisations V. 5
3
9
Jones, Michael Owen, Bruce Giuliano, Roberta
Krell, editors."Foodways and Eating Habits: Directions for Research. Western Folklore Quarterly, 40:1
