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emmer grain--1796---
einkorn grain--1797---
bread--1798---
sheep & goats---1799---
apples & lentils---1800---
pork---1801---
beans: old world & new---1802---
walnuts---1803---
cattle domestication---1804---
wine---1805---
cheese, maize & spelt ---1806---
dates & broccoli---1807---
honey & sugar cane---1808---
chickpeas---1809---
chilies & olive oil---1810---
cucumbers & squash I & II---1811---
taro---1812---
potatoes I & II---1813---
grapes & citron---1814---
citrus fruits & watermelons---1815---
popcorn---1816---
chicken domestication---1817---
butter & palm oil---1818---
barley, peas & carrots---1819---
onions & garlic---1820---
spices I & II---1821---
figs---1822---
Soybeans I & II---1823---
tea---1824---
rhubarb---1825---
mushrooms---1826---
muskmelon---1827---
peach palm---1828---
radishes & purslane---1829---
marshmallows & carob ---1830---
peanuts & chocolate---1831---
horseradish---1832---
pickles---1833---
peaches---1834---
tomatillos---1835---
celery---1836---
cabbage---1837---
sausages & artichokes---1838---
pastries & appetizers---1839---
pasta & macaroni---1840---
garden cress---1841---
beets & bananas---1842---
asparagus---1843---
quinces---1844---
Devon cattle---1845---
rice pudding & chestnuts---1846---
flan & cheesecake---1847---
The Haggis-1848---
French toast & omlettes--1849---
capers, turnips & kale---1850---
ice cream---1851---
challah bread---1852---
sushi---1853---
lemons---1854---
eggplant---1855---
pretzels---1856---
Peek Freans---1857---
Rumford Baking Powder---1858---
fish & chips---1859---
cranberries in Wisconsin---1860---
jelly beans---1861---
breakfast cereal---1862---
Underwood Deviled Ham---1863---
Tabasco sauce---1864---
Fleischmann's Yeast---1865---
Campbell's Soup---1866---
margarine---1867---
Paragon tomatoes---1868---
Idaho potatoes---1869---
California navel oranges---1870---
Long Island duck---1871---
summer pudding---1872---
Hires root beer---1873---
Heinz Ketchup---1874---
Saccharin---1875---
candy corn & angel food---1876---
meatloaf & passion fruit---1877---
French dressing---1878---
salt water taffy---1879---
Dr Pepper---1880---
evaporated milk---1881---
oysters in New York---1882---
Coca Cola & Clark Bars---1883---
malted milk & Georgia pecans---1884---
Barbados cherries---1885---
pizza as we know it---1886---
peanut butter---1887---
Maxwell House coffee---1888---
Cracker Jacks & Postum---1889---
Cream of Wheat---1890---
Good and Plenty---1891---
Hershey bars & Sen-Sen---1892---
Salisbury steak---1893---
Chop suey---1894---
Tootsie Rolls---1895---
Fruitcake, Corsicana TX---1896---
Jell-O & tangelos---1897---
1000 Island dressing ---1898---
cotton candy& Melba toast---1899---
Cottolene---1900---
ambrosia---1901---
NECCO candies---1902---
peanut butter & jelly---1903---
Conversation Hearts---1904---
Horn & Hardart's Automats---1905---
Devil's food cake---1906---
Mt. Clemens Flakes & Marmite--1907---
Club sandwiches---1908---
canned tuna---1909---
Ice cream cones I & II---1910---
banana splits---1911---
New York pizza & popsicles---1912---
submarine sandwiches---1913---
brownies---1914---
Kellogg's Corn Flakes---1915---
Muffuletta sandwiches---1916---
Hershey's Kisses---1917---
Steak Diane---1918---
Crisco---1919---
Oreos---1920---
Wonder Bread---1921---
Wheaties & White Castle---1922---
Vegemite---1923---
frozen foods---1924---
pineapple upside-down cake---1925---
Kool-Aid & Pez---1926---
Gerber's baby food---1927---
Milk Duds & It's It---1928---
Twizzlers & Karmelkorn---1929---
Po'Boy sandwiches---1930---
Bisquick & Vidalia onions---1931---
Fritos---1932---
Gravy Master & sloppy joes---1933---
Kashering of Coca Cola---1934---
Dagwood sandwich---1935---
SPAM & Krispy Kreme---1936---
canned soda---1937---
Spiedies---1938---
York Peppermint Patties---1939---
M & Ms & Cheerios---1940---
Rice Krispies treats---1941---
Monte Cristo sandwiches---1942---
corn dogs---1943---
nachos---1944---
Chicago-style pizza---1945---
city chicken---1946---
Betty Crocker cake mix---1947---
seedless watermelon---1948---
Jolly Ranchers---1949---
Junior Mints & Whoppers---1950---
Loco moco---1951---
chicken-fried steak---1952---
American Tex-Mex---1953---
smoothies---1954---
Jello-O instant pudding---1955---
Marshmallow Peeps---1956---
TV Dinners---1957---
ranch dressing---1958---
Chex mix---1959---
Oregon Marionberries---1960---
Beefalo---1961---
Rice-A-Roni & Diet-Rite---1962---
Beef Wellington---1963---
Life cereal---1964---
Buffalo Wings---1965---
Gatorade ---1966---
Egg beaters---1967---
Jelly Bellies---1968---
Yukon gold potatoes---1969---
Orangetti spaghetti squash---1970---
Flavr Savr tomatoes---1971---
grape tomatoes---1972---
Kelly Krunch---1973---
tear-free onions---1974---
New products from Kraft---1976---
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---10,000BC--- Agriculture begins

---6000BC---Greece

---5000BC---Egypt

---4000BC---yeast breads: pitta & focaccia

---1000BC---Jerusalem, Labeneh

---1st Century---Ancient Rome I II, III & IV

---1st Century---fried chicken
---1st Century---Italian wedding soup

---3rd Century---Roman Britain's cuisine & recipes
---3rd Century---De Re Culinaria & De Opsoniis et Condimentis, Apicius
---4th Century---Jerusalem, White kidney bean salad
---7th Century---Jerusalem, Coriander & pine nut salad
---7th Century---Korean kim-chee
---700---Ancient Maya
---700---Prehistoric Texas
---700-1100---Viking era food & recipes,

---900-1400---Medieval food

---1382---crumpets

---1386---Chaucerian Cookery, feasts!
---1390--- The Forme of Cury
---1390---applesauce
---1393---Pipefarces (fried cheese sticks)

---1492---Christopher Columbus old world cuisine

---16th century---quiche
---16th century---puff paste
---1514---Een Notabel Boecxken Van Cokeryen, in Dutch

---1545---A Proper newe Booke of Cokerye

---1588---English pastry, from The Good Huswifes Handmaid for Cookerie in her Kitchen
---1590---Shakepeare's food
---1593---Cocboeck, Carolus Battus (in Dutch)
---1597---potato salad
---17th Century---chess pie
---17th Century---authentic recipes, transcribed
---17th Century---New England feast & Long Island Samp
---17th Century---salad
---1604---Raspberry jelly & modern version
---1605---Guy Fawkes' menus I & II
---1607---Jamestown settlers ate pottage (p. 20)
---1615---Rice pudding, Gervase Markham's English Huswife
---1615---A New booke of cookerie
---1616---Koge-Bog (first printed Nordic cookbook)
---1621---Pilgrim Thanksgiving, including food for a harvest feast

---1669---De Verstandige Kock, in Dutch
---1683---De Verstandige Kock, colonial Dutch recipes
---1685---Robert Mays' Gingerbread

---18th Century Canada---French Canadian fare from the Fortress of Louisbourg
---18th Century---English muffins
---1705---Manuscript cookbook of Doro Petrie
---1720---Receipts of Pastry and Cookery for the Use of his Scholars, Ed. Kidder
---1727---Hasty pudding, The Compleat Housewife E. Smith

---1747---Salmagundi, Hannah Glasse
---1754---Colonial Williamsburg food
---1756---Welsh rabbit

---1769---ice cream & beef a la mode , Experienced English Housekeeper
---1770---Colonial wedding cakes
---1771--- Election Cake
---1771---Colonial Day Menu, Turkey Run VA
---1775---Dried apples from Paul Revere's kitchen
---1775---Hannah Davis' Baked apple crunch
---1777---Firecakes & pepper pot from Valley Forge
---1780s---Thomas Jefferson's ice cream (manuscript) & muffins
---1780s---Martha Jefferson's cream cheese
---1785---Kokebok, from Sweden
---1790---Martha Washington's Great Cake
---1790---Nelly Custis's Hoecakes
---1790s---Atole & pozole, California missions
---1796---pompkin pudding, from Amelia Simmon's American Cookery
---1796---Portugal cakes, receipts of Hannah Glasse & John Farley
---1798---Voyageurs ate pemmican
---1798---American Cookery, Amelia Simmons

---19th Century---Frontier foods from Missouri
---19th Century---New England seafood from New Bedford, MA
---19th Century---New England old time recipes
---19th Century--Texas chili
---1800---Regency English recipes [Jane Austen]
---1800---Napoleon's Chicken Marengo
---1803---Frugal Housewife, Susannah Carter
---1805---Charbonneau's "white pudding" recipe
---1810---Kentucky Burgoo
---1817---Remoulade, Le Cuisinier Royal (en Francais)
---1818---Mulaga-tawny soup, Dr. William Kitchener
---1821---Tomata catsup & orange marmelade, Frederick Accum's Culinary Chemistry
---1828---Dr. Creed Haskins' Brunswick stew
---1828---Mary Randolph's Fried chicken
---1830---Frugal Housewife, Lydia Maria Child
---1830---Washington Cake, Old Sturbridge Village
---1830---Reform Club chef Alex Soyer's Dessert gelatin
---1830---Mrs. Isaac Cocks' Long Island corn bread
---1830---Cornmeal mush, early Texas cuisine
---1831--- The Cook Not Mad, Watertown NY
---1832---Seventy-five Receipts for Pastry, Cakes and Sweetmeats, Eliza Leslie
---1836---Wedding menu, from America's heartland
---1840---Oregon Trail pioneer recipes
---1840---Directions for Cookery, Eliza Leslie
---1843---Washington cake, Old Sturbridge Village Cookbook
---1847---Utah bound!
---1849---California sourdough bread & Hangtown fry
---1850s--Western sandwiches
---1850s--Eliza Leslie's Strawberry shortcake
---1851---Great Western Cook Book, Anna Collins

---1860---Cakes & plum puddings, Godey's Lady's Book
---1861---Charles Elme Francatelli's Baked Goose
---1861---Picnic for 40 & taffy, Mrs. Beeton
---1861---Beef Stroganoff
---1861-1865---hardtack
---1863---Confederate Receipt Book, Richmond VA
---1864---Sanderson's Complete Confectioner & Complete Cook
---1865---Mrs. Goodfellow's Cookery as it should be
---1866---The National Cookbook, Hannah Peterson

---1868---The Dominion Home Cookbook, Toronto
---1869---Wright's book of 3000 practical receipts
---1870---Washington Pie & Rock Candy
---1870---New Orlean's King cakes
---1871---groom's cake
---1873---American cuisine, from Miss Beecher's Housekeeper and Healthkeeper cookbook
---1875---Young Housewife's Counsellor and Friend, Mary Ann Mason
---1876---Practical Cooking and Dinner Giving, Henderson
---1876---Lobster Newberg
---1877---Buckeye Cookery, Estelle Woods Wilcox
---1877---Cowboy cooking
---1878---Army bread from Ft. Laramie, WY
---1879---Crimean Tatars ate Chee-Borek & Kobete

---1881---Abby Fisher's Jumble cake
---1881---Grape catsup, Los Angeles Cookery
---1883---Christmas pudding
---1884---Mrs. Lincoln's Boston Cook Book
---1885---Jelly custard pie, Cooking Club of Tu-Whit Hollow
---1885---La Cuisine Creole, Lafcadio Hearn
---1886---Woman's Suffrage Cook Book, Mrs. Hattie A. Burr
---1887---Cherries jubilee
---1889---Aunt Babette's Cook Book: Foreign and Domestic Receipts
---1890---Corn fritters, a.k.a. corn oysters

---1893---La Cuisine Francaise: French Cooking for Every Home, Adapted to American Requiremetns,
---1893---Favorite Dishes, Carrie V. Shuman
---1894---Ranhofer's The Epicurean, I & II
---1894---Terrapin, from Delmonico's in NYC
---1894---Eggs Benedict

---1894---Recipes Tried and True, Marion Ohio
---1896---Boston Cooking School Cook Book, Fannie Merritt Farmer
---1896---Military field bread, U.S. Manual for Army Cooks
---1897---Sweet potato croquettes, Practical Vegetarian Cookery

---1900s---U.S. popular food & recipes
---1900's---Culinary Wrinkles, or how to use Armour's extract of beef
---1900---My Pet Recipes..., St. Andrews Church, Quebec
---1900---Banbury tarts, The Stonington Cookbook, CT
---1900---Enterprising Housekeeper, Pan-American Exhibition
---1901---Pan American Cookbook
---1901---Victorian Christmas Day Desserts, Delineator
---1903---U.S. Senate Bean Soup
---1903---Baked stuffed cucumbers, Landmarks Club Cookbook
---1904---Dr. Price's Delicious Desserts
---1904---Jumballaya, Cooking in Old Creole Days
---1905---Picnic lunches, Los Angles Times Cook Book
---1905---Lady Baltimore cake
---1906---Inglenook Cook Book, Elgin IL

---1910's---U.S. popular food & recipes
---1910's---Jell-O: America's most famous dessert
---1910---Home Helps: A Pure Food Cook Book
---1910---Chipped beef, Manual for Army Cooks
---1911---Kitchen Encyclopedia, Swift & Company
---1912---Mary Frances Cook Book, Jane Eayre Fryer
---1912---War Time Cooking, Lydia E. Pinkham
---1913---Choice Recipes: Chocolate and Cocoa, Walter Baker & Co.
---1913---Dishes and Beverages of the Old South, Martha Williams
---1913---Coq au vin
---1914---Chinese-Japanese Cook Book, Sara Bosse
---1914---Neighborhood Cook Book, Council of Jewish Women
---1914---ANZAC biscuit recipe
---1914---Fruit recipes, Encyclopedia of Practical Horticulture
---1914---Clarence Edwords' Celery Victor
---1915---Australian soldiers ate hardtack at Gallipoli
---1915---Dainty Desserts for Dainty People, Knox Gelatin Co.
---1915---Pan-Pacific Cookbook, Exposition fare
---1916---Field bread, Manual for Army Bakers
---1917---Donuts from the Salvation Army
---1917---Vichyssoise, Louis Diat
---1917---55 Ways to Save Eggs & Best War Time Recipes, Royal Baking Powder Co.
---1918---World War I recipes from the Doughboy Cookbook
---1918---Fannie Farmer's Boston Cooking School Cook Book
---1919---Italian Cook Book, Maria Gentile
---1920's---U.S. popular food & recipes
---1920---Fleischmann's recipes
---1922---Jell-O recipes
---1922---Girl Scout Cookies

---1924---Caesar salad
---1925---George Washington Carver's peanut recipes
---1925---Lemon sponge cake from 800 Proved Pecan Recipes
---1927---Electric Refrigerator Recipes, General Electric
---1928---Nellie Aldridge's orange recipes

---1930's---U.S. popular food & recipes
---1930---Philadelphia cheese steak

---1931---souffle, Joy of Cooking
---1932---Calavo ice cream
---1933---Ruth Wakefield's Toll House cookies
---1936---Dr. George Washington Carver's 115 tomato recipes
---1937---Dr. Carver's sweet potato recipes

---1937---Old Dutch Recipes from the ladies of Pella, Iowa
---1937---Cobb salad, from the Brown Derby
---1939---Colonel Sanders' secret recipe
---1940's---U.S. popular food & recipes
---1940's---Cornell bread & Frogmore Stew
---1940---British rock cake & syrup biscuits
---1940---Recipes, Britain's Ministry of Food ---1941---Lord Woolton Pie & sugarless sponge cake
---1942---WWII, spice cake
---1942---MFK Fisher's Tomato & War cakes
---1943---Cornish pasties in Michigan
---1943---99 ways to share the Meat, USDA

---1947---Wedding cake, Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip
---1948---Mr. Truman's pound cake & Mrs. Truman's recipes
---1949---Pillsbury Bake-Off Contest Theodora Smafield's No-Knead Water-Rising Twists
---1950's---U.S. popular food & recipes
---1950's---Nesselrode pie
---1951---Bananas Foster

---1953---Mrs. Eisenhower's Million Dollar Fudge

---1957---Poutine from Quebec
---1957---German's Sweet Chocolate cake
---1958---Navy bean soup & other U.S. Navy traditions
---1960's---U.S. popular food & recipes
---1960---Green Eggs & Ham, Dr. Seuss
---1962---Minced beef, Navy-Marine Corps Recipe Service

---1964---Hot Dutch Tuna Buns, NYC World's Fair
---1969---Creamed ground beef, Armed Forces Recipe Service
---1969---Magic Marshmallow Crescent Puffs
---1970's--U.S. popular food & recipes
---1970's---California rolls
---1970's--Tiramisu
---1975---Pasta primavera

---1980's--U.S. popular food & recipes
---1980's--Mud pie & Dirt cake
---1981---Watergate salad (pistachio salad)

---1990's---U.S. popular food & recipes

---2002---Jubilee chicken

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