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UUS_FOLK COLL 17b
Anderson,
Jay (Jay Allan)
Jay Anderson foodways research collection
1971-1999
ca. 4.5 linear feet
9 boxes
Professor Jay Anderson's foodways research items:
theses, books, and articles, correspondence with authors, etc.; most items are
photocopies.
Collection materials are in English.
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).
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.
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.
Originally processed by Rosanna Walker and updated by Randy Williams. Finding aid created by Randy Williams, April 2004; updated by Randy Williams, March 2012.
Jay Anderson foodways research collection, 1971-1999.(FOLK COLL 17b: box, folder). Utah State University. Special Collections and Archives Department.
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.
Organization
Organized in 4 series.
- European food research
- American food research
- Methodology
- Historic foodways books.
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.
Folklore and Folklife
Food--History.
Food habits.
Diet.
Cookery.
European Food Research
(12 folders)
1
1
Rener, H. DThe Origin of
Food Habits
1944
(1 item)
1
2
Bibliography of cookery books at Brotherton
Library, Leeds UniversityUndated
(2 items)
Item 1
Blanche Leigh CollectionUndated
Item 2
Preston CollectionUndated
1
3
Smallzried, Kathleen AnnThe Everlasting Pleasure: Influences on America's Kitchens, Cooks and
Cookery, from 1565 to the year 20001956
(1 item)
1
4
King, Frank ABeer Has a
History1947
(1 item)
1
5
Loran J. Sass
(6 items)
Item 1
Sass, Lorna J. "A Medieval Feast" Gourmet1976 April
Item 2
Lorna J. Sass business cardUndated
Item 3
PostcardUndated
Item 4
LetterUndated
Item 5
Book review for Sass' book: To the King's TasteUndated
Item 6
"Recipes for the Ages (Medieval)"Philadelphia Inquirer1976 March 17
featuring Lorna Sass.
1
6
Fussel, G. EAn
Eighteenth Century Village1947
(1 item)
1
7
Fussel, G. EThe English
Rural LabourerUndated
(1 item)
1
8
Fussel, G. E. "The Elizabethan Countrywoman,"
The English Countrywoman A.D. 1500-2000Undated
(1 item)
1
9
West, John. "Probate Records, Inventories and
Wills" Village RecordsUndated
(1 item)
1
10
Roeder, Charles. "Notes on Food and Drink in
Lancashire and Other Northern Counties"
(1 item)
1
11
Martin, E. W., ed. Preface and chapter "Peasants
and Peasant Life" from Country Life in EnglandUndated
(1 item)
1
12
Ashley, Leonard R. N. "Scoff Lore: An
Introduction to British Words for Food and Drink"Undated
(1 item)
American Food Research
(18 folders)
1
13
Gates, CatherineOn The
Culture of Indians Living in the Region of Plymouth: Covering the Period of
Approximately 1620-1990 Plimoth Plantation, Plymouth, MA1966
(1 item)
1
14
Gates, Catherine. "Drink, Drugs, &
Indulgence," from On The Culture of Indians Living in the
Region of Plymouth: Covering the Period of Approximately 1620-19901966
(1 item)
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 England1968
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
(10 items)
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 AssociationUndated
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
1621Undated
Item 7
Pilgrim Courage
photocopied pages (63-7, 69-71, 74-6, 95-60), including information
on American Indians and ThanksgivingUndated
Item 8
Pyle, Arthur G., compiler. "Pilgrim Corn
Planting 1621," Plimoth Plantaion, Plymouth, MAUndated
Item 9
Baker, James W. "Recreating the First
Thanksgiving Dinner," Plimoth Plantation, Plymouth, MAUndated
(Includes recipes.)
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
(1 item)
2
4
Transcript of Benjamin Hawley's diary, Chester
County
1769-1782
(1 item)
2
5
Foodways in eighteenth-century America
(3 items)
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 Valch1982 December
December 1982.
2
6
Bartis, Peter T. "'Twas Water Soup but Slightly
Thinner," unpublished paperUndated
(1 item)
2
7
History of food and drink in America
(3 items)
Item 1
Weiss, Harry B. and Grace M. WeissThe Early Breweries of New Jersey New Jersey
Agricultural So., photoies of pages 7-971963
Item 2
Richman, Irwin. "The History of the Tomato in
America" The Proceedings: New Jersey Historical
SoUndated
Item 3
Yoder, Don. "The Sausage Culture of the
Pennsylvania Germans," copy of paper draftUndated
3
1
Fraser, Kathryn MFoodways in 1850: A Sourcebook For the Homeplace-1850 TVA's Land
Between the Lakes
1983
(1 item)
3
2
Meat preservation
(3 items)
Item 1
Burnett, Edmund CodyHog Raising and Hog Driving in the Region of the French Broad
RiverUndated
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 Magazine1980
(1 item)
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
(1 item)
3
5
Camp, Charles. "Foodways in Everyday Life,"
American Quarterly 34: 3
1982
(1 item)
3
6
Exhibition Catalog: "Thought for Food: An
Exhibition of Cookery Book, November 1984-February 1985," General Foods
Collection Gallery
1984-1985
(1 item)
3
7
"Toward a Method for the Study of Food in
Popular Culture" Journal of American Culture
Entire issue devoted to foodsUndated
(1 item)
3
8
Forster, Robert and Orest Ranum. Food and Drink
in History: Selections from the Annales: Economies,
Societes, Civilisations V. 5Undated
(1 item)
3
9
Jones, Michael Owen, Bruce Giuliano, Roberta
Krell, editors."Foodways and Eating Habits: Directions for ResearchWestern Folklore Quarterly, 40:1
1981 January
entire issue devoted to food. (1 item)
Methodology
(23 folders)
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
(1 item)
3
11
The Digest: A Newsletter
for the Interdisciplinary Study of Food Volumes: 1:1, 1:3, 2:2, 2:3,
and Digest DirectoryUndated
(5 items)
3
12
Verdier, Yvonne. "Repas Bas-Normands,"L'Homme Revue Francaise d'Anthropologie Volume 6:
1966
(1 item)
3
13
Bennett, John W. " Social Scientific Research in
Human Subsistence" American Anthropologist
1946
(1 item)
3
14
Research outlines and questions
(3 items)
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 ClassificationUndated
(1 item)
3
16
Lockwood, William G., Yvonne R. Lockwood. "The
Cornish Pasty in Northern Michigan" Oxford Symposium
1983: Food in Motion1983
(1 item)
4
1
Marshall, Howard Wight. "Foodways and Regional
Character"
(3 items)
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
manuscriptUndated
4
2
SNACS Field Handbook:
Foodways Society for the North American Cultural Survey of foodways
of New York
1976 October
(1 item)
4
3
A 4-H FolkPatterns
Project: Foodways Cooperative Extension Service, Folk Arts Division,
The Museum, Michigan State UniversityUndated
(1 item)
4
4
Questionnaires
(2 items)
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
(1 item)
4
6
Mead, MargaretFood
Habits Research: Problems of the 1960s
1964
(1 item)
4
7
National
Geographic, contains article "Food: Will There be Enough," and "The
Nightmare of Famine." 148:1 1975 July
(1 item)
4
8
Food research: sixteenth and seventeenth
centuriesUndated
(2 items)
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
(2 items)
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. 118-27Undated
(1 item)
4
11
Thirsk, Joan, ed.The
Agrarian History of England and Wales: Volume IV 1500-1640,
table of contents, 108-13; 300-7; 412-651967
(1 item)
5
1
Articles by: V. G. B. Atwater; G. E. Fussell; W.
G. Hoskins; W. Harwood Long
(9 items)
Item 1
Fussell, G. E."The Traffic in Farm Produce in
Seventeenth-Century England" Western Middle
West, 1900-1914Undated
Item 2
Fussell, G. E. and V. G. B. Atwater.
"Agriculture of Rural England in the Seventeenth Century" Economic GeographyUndated
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
ReviewUndated
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 articleUndated
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
(4 items)
Item 1
Lucas, A. T. "Irish Food Before the Potato"
GwerinUndated
Item 2
Fussell, G. E. and G. H. Kenyon. "Letters to
the Editor" The Agricultural History
ReviewUndated
Item 3
Fussell, G. E. "The Change in Farm Labourers'
Diet During Two Centuries" The Economic
Journal, pp. 268-2741927 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.172-2591956
(1 item)
5
4
"Conditions of Nourishment." Photocopy from
unknown source of 1800s report on the dietary conditions in England, Wales, and
Scotland
(1 item)
5
5
Fussell, G. E., ed.Robert
Loder's Farm Accounts 1610-16201936
(1 item)
Historic Foodways Books (photocopies) and
Menus
5
6
Taylor, JohnAll the
Works of John Taylor
1630
(1 item)
5
7
Rural Economy in Yorkshire in 1641: Being the Farming and
Account Books of Henry Best
1857
(1 item)
5
8
Menus
(2 items)
Item 1
Menu from Durgin-Park Market Dining Rooms,"
Boston, MAUndated
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
(1 item)
6
2
Tusser, ThomasFive
Hundred Points of Good Husbandrie pp. 120-41
1590
(1 item)
6
3
Plat, Sir HughDelights
for Ladies(1609) 1948 introduction
1609.1948
(1 item)
6
4
The Country House-Wives
Garden: Containing Rules for Herbs, and Seeds (1617)
1948
(1 item)
6
5
The Complete Country Housewife
(1 item)
6
6
The Household Receipts
Undated
(1 item)
6
7
Cookerie and Huswiferie
Undated
(1 item)
6
8
N.B. The Court and Country
1618
(1 item)
6
9
Ashley, Sir WilliamThe
Bread of our Forefathers: An Inquiry in Economic History
1928
(1 item)
7
1
Fantasticks
1626
(1 item)
7
2
The Great Feast: At the [I]nthronization of the Reverend
Father in God, George Neavill, Arch-Bishop of York
1645
(1 item)
7
3
Murrell, JohnA New Book
of Cookeries
1630
(1 item)
7
4
New England
Prospect 1865 [1634], pp 1-77
1865
(1 item)
7
5
Butler, CharlesThe
Feminin[e] Monarchi: or The Histori of Beespartial copy
1634
(1 item)
7
6
The French Cook
1673
(1 item)
7
7
MacDonell, Anne, ed,The
Closet of Sir Kenelm Digby Knight Opened
1910
(1 item)
7
8
A Choice Manual of Rare and Select Secrets in Physick and
Chyrurgery
1635
(1 item)
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
(1 item)
7
10
Jeamson, ThomasArtificiall Embellishments
1665
(1 item)
8
1
A New Orchard & Garden
1683
(1 item)
8
2
Markham, G.Country
Contentments: Or The Husbanmans Recreations
1683
(1 item)
8
3
Markham, G.The English
House-Wife
1683
(1 item)
8
4
Salmon, William. Excerpts from Salmon Family Dictionary
1698
(1 item)
8
5
Evelyn, JohnAcetaria: A
Discourse on Sallets
1699
(1 item)
8
6
A Learned Dissertation on Dumplings
1726
(1 item)
8
7
James, Philip, ed.A
Butler's Recipe Book 1719
1935
(1 item)
8
8
A Collection of Receipts
in Cookery: Physick and Surgery (1724)
1958
(1 item)
8
9
Gardiner, Anne GibbonsMrs. Gardiner's Receipts from 1763
1938
(1 item)
8
10
Carter, SusannahThe
Frugal Housewife or Complete Woman Cook
1772
(1 item)
8
11
The Farmer's Wife: Or the Complete Country Housewife
circa 1740
(1 item)
8
12
Davies, J.The Innkeeper
and Butler's Guide: Or a Directory in the Making and Managing of British
Wines1808
(1 item)
9
1
Fessenden, Thomas G.The
Husbandman and Housewife
1820
(1 item)
9
2
Recipes from the estate of Dr. Benjamin F.
Heyward, Worcester, MA
circa 1820
(1 item)
9
3
Handwritten recipes "Mrs. Dorothea Green from
her affectionate cousin F.R. Green"
1823-1828
(1 item)
9
4
Hewlett, EstherCottage
Comforts1826
(1 item)
9
5
Handwritten recipes "Charlotte F. W. Gilbert
from her friend A. D. Waters"
1828
(1 item)
9
6
The Housekeeper's Book
1838
(1 item)
9
7
The American Housewife
1841
(1 item)
9
8
Sanderson, J.M.Cook and
Confectioner: The Complete Cook
1849
(1 item)
9
9
The Country Kitchen Revised and Enlarged: The Farmer
Recipe Book
1903
(1 item)
9
10
Fussel, G.E.An Eighteenth
Century VillageUndated
(1 item)
9
11
Rouff, MarcelThe
Passionate Epicure1962
(1 item)
9
12
A True Gentlewoman's Delight
Undated
(1 item)
9
13
Partial copy of House-Book
of Lady Grisell BaillieUndated
(1 item)
9
14
Borde, Andrew. Partial copy of The First Book of the Introduction of Knowledge
(1870)
1893
(1 item)