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A full account of the food habits of New England, with a particular focus on southern New England. Organized into chapters on particular food items, it primarily deals with the earliest years of the colonies, but also considers the rise of nostalgia in the 1800's.  Very little direct information about Vermont or northern New England.  Primarily useful for understanding the food that the settlers of Vermont would have been eating at the time of settlement. Also helpful for understanding the later development and glorification of the plain and simple \"Yankee\" fare.  Dispels some myths about particular food items.  Includes contested arguments about the attitudes of colonists about eating foods of Native Americans (see a review by Sandra Oliver).  This work is extensively researched, drawing on a wide array of sources, including historical research on foodways, cookbooks, memoirs and other literature.

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A beautifully written and illustrated book, published by the Mystic Seaport Museum in Connecticut.  In the first three chapters, each is organized around a particular family in a particular time period, and this focus gives great specificity & detail to the information.  Yet the author is also able to situate each family in the broader context of their time.  The author pays particular attention to the social class location of each family, drawing out comparisons to others in different social classes at the same time.  Oliver also highlights continuities and change likely between the generations of the members of that same family, highlighting changes that are to come in New England foodways.  This focus is particularly effective at giving the reader an overall sense of New England foodways and their evolution.  It is the most sensitive to social class of any food on New England food traditions.

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The reader who is interested in Vermont's traditions will have to grapple with the very important differences between rural, inland and frontier New England and the urban, coastal, earlier settlement represented here.  In addition, a number of chapters detail the lives of seafaring people and this is irrelevant for Vermont foodways.  However, the three chapters on national holidays (Thanksgiving, Christmas and the Fourth of July) are also very useful about general New England culture at this time.

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This book would be a fabulous model for any future work exploring Vermont's foodways.

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A very interesting history of New England's self-concept or identity.  Includes significant analysis of the rise of Frost's popularity; also of the evolution of Yankee Magazine.  Explores the idea that \"real\" New England moves ever north, so that true Yankee-dom becomes Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine.  Very useful for thinking critically about the rise of Vermont's image -- and its problematic undertones.  What Conforti draws attention to is the denial of New Englander status to the European immigrants who came to dominate the cities of southern New England.

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A very interesting report from the committees of the Commission on Country Life, which had unfortunate ties to the eugenics movement in Vermont.  This is a report on the status of rural Vermont, with recommendations; it is useful to read about the eugenics movement and the work of the Commission to understand some of the concerns & issues that were motivating them.  However, one chapter by leading women, including home economists at the University of Vermont, includes a section on farm & home life, which is most directly about food and diet.  This section includes references to Home Economics conventions which set goals for eating and for home gardening practices -- with specific recommendations about number of chickens, size of gardens, quarts of fruits and vegetables to be canned, etc.  There are also sections on the benefits of rural tourism and on agriculture.

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A wonderful cookbook, dated from the 1960s, but the recipes are quite traditional.  Beatrice Vaughn, who went on to write many other cookbooks, claims that this one comes from old \"rules\" and \"receipts\" in her family, and friends' families who shared old recipes.  One of the best --and most often-cited-- of the traditional Vermont recipe books.  (It is cited in Founding Food and in the LL Bean Book of New New England Cookery).

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A beautifully illustrated and detailed little book that follows the evolution of haying through time, using diaries and interviews.  Several chapters involve the same farmland in different time periods.  Some discussion of the social implications of the various forms of technology is included.  This book could be a model for a similar treatise on the evolution of the farm diet.

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A discussion of traditions of kitchen gardens, with reference to an Extension report on percentages of Vermonters keeping gardens.

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A audio series with the Folklife Center on hunting season & culture.

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Based upon interviews by author Scott Hastings conducted for the Vermont Folklife Research Project (the precursor to the Marsh-Billing Farm & Museum) from 1973-1983.  Interviews conducted in the hilltowns of the \"Yankee Highlands\" of the Connecticut River towns of Vermont and New Hampshire.  A chapter on \"Women on the Farm\" includes a bit of information on foodways.  Other chapters detail the seasons of the farm year; yet another details non-farm work.  Photos are drawn from the FSA photos of the 1930s.

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Includes information about food from Suzanne Pellerin Santamore's interview with Greg Sharrow.  Interspersed with material from interview with Martha Pellerin about preserving their musical heritage.   Seems to include just about the complete interview.  Interview available through the Vermont Folklife Center, in digital and audio format.

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Hal Barron's first book was ground-breaking in its exploration of the culture of Vermonters who did not migrate in the 1800s.  The dominant view is negative:  those who were left were discouraged, insular, unadventurous and depressed.  Barron argues that the villages became more homogenous and experienced strong cultural ties, even as they adapted to lessened economic activity and population decline.

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Calloway is a sympathetic scholar to the Abenaki, but this portrayal focuses almost exclusively on political and economic interaction; it is not helpful for the study of foodways.

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Another work on tourism, but it focuses specifically upon Vermont, rather than New England as a whole.  Harrison's lens is \"work-leisure relations\" -- a theme that at times is heavy-handed.  However, his chapter on the development of four-season tourism, and his excellent exploration of what that means for rural people is very interesting.  He begins a discussion of how summer people and tourists experience \"peaks\" that are disconnected from each other, while the year-round rural resident experiences seasonal work in a cycle.  Thought-provoking.

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This book provides a very clear, if brief, overview of Vermont's ecological and cultural history, with particular attention to landscape change. It is more synthetic than most histories; and includes a little information about likely diet and foodstuffs.  It does perpetuate the idea that Vermont agriculture declined precipitously in the mid 1800s (others disagree).  It also does not use foodnotes or endnotes so information is not easy to corroborate.

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This is a highly detailed discussion of transportation, with little synthesis.  Klyza and Trombulak's history would be a far more useful place to start.

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Written by an historian with Sturbridge Village, this now slightly outdated history is a very accessible interpretation of daily life in a time period of great change.  Very helpful for understanding many elements of daily life:  socializing, eating, sleeping arrangements, cleanliness & hygeine, drinking.  The section on food is well-informed and a lovely introduction generally.

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A wonderful compilation of the foods described in the Little House series (as well as Farmer Boy).  Organized conceptually around origins (as in \"Foods from the Barnyard\" \"Foods from the Orchard\"), this book includes significant amounts of social history, as well as interpretation of the books.  For example, Farmer Boy was written by Laura Wilder about Almanzo's childhood, and reflects -- the author argues -- Laura's fascination with the apparent abundance of food in his childhood.  So there are aspects of the portrayal that reflect her fantasies more than reality.

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I was surprised to find that most of the recipes are consistent with Vermont tradition:  Almanzo's family were Yankees from upstate New York, and the Ingalls' were also of British heritage.  Salt pork, cornmeal cakes, and switchel are just a few of the recipes which are found in Vermont, too. (DeSmet hosted a \"New England Supper\" at the church!).

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The sources of difference lie in the available transportation at the time of settlement:  Vermont was settled before the railroads, so supplies were not readily available on the frontier.  The Ingalls' were much more dependent on country stores while they homesteaded; the country stores followed the railroad.

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This book would be an excellent resource for elementary educators.  The material could easily be linked to Vermont, with comparisons & contrasts illustrating differences in settlement time, transportation and such.  The Little House series is not matched by any historic fiction for young people set in Vermont (Dorothy Canfield's Understood Betsy could be used but is not nearly as strong from a literary standpoint).  But the Little House series would offer a surprisingly strong curriculum for Vermont foodways.

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Based upon field work by author Scott Hastings conducted for the Vermont Folklife Research Project (the precursor to the Marsh-Billing Farm & Museum) from 1973-1983.  Detailed information, with figures and photos on agricultural and industrial techniques of the late 1800s and early 1900s, endemic to the hilltowns of the \"Yankee Highlands\" of the Connecticut River towns of Vermont and New Hampshire.  One chapter shows techniques for growing Indian corn.  Another chapter is an \"interview with a farm woman\" born in 1889 (interview conducted by Mary Anne O'Hara) contains information about foodways.   Last chapter, titled \"miniatures\" includes some information on foodways and women's daily activities.  See also \"Up in the Morning Early.\" Photos are from collection of Scott Hastings, the Billings, the USDA Farm Security Administration & others.  Photos are mostly from the 1930s-1970s.

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This is THE agricultural history text for northern New England.  It provides tremendous amounts of data on agricultural trends, and is superb for comparing Vermont with New Hampshire and Maine in this regard.  However, Wilson ranges widely and ends up covering many topics which emerged in the Palate Project:  tourism, the traditional diet, and others.

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He is, however, one of the chief proponents of the \"winter of Vermont\" thesis, which assumes that Vermont's agriculture began to decline directly in response to the railroads' arrival in the 1850s.  His data, according to opponents of this thesis, actually shows strong agricultural output peaking in the 1890s, and not declining significantly until after 1910 in Vermont.  If interested specifically in agricultural productivity, read along with Bell and others.

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With that caveat, and along with Albers' Hands on the Land, this would be the place to start for orientation to Vermont's agricultural & rural history.

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This overview history includes pictures, pamphlets, and selections from interviews with proprietors and customers.  While much of the information is not directly related to foodways, the book contains useful information about what kinds of goods were available at general stores.

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