Food history resources

 

On the National Library website

Sources in the National Library of Scotland's Archives and Manuscript Collections:

• Food history
• Culinary recipe books
• Household accounts
• Past exhibition, 'Lifting the lid: 400 years of food and drink in Scotland', which ran from June to Novebmer 2015
• Year of Food and Drink 2015

Sources in the Rare Books Collections:

• The Moir Rare Book Collection on beekeeping

See the description of the the Macadam Collection for information about 19th and the early 20th century works on baking and confectionery collected by Joseph Hancock Macadam.

On other sites

• The Wellcome Collection of Recipe Books
• The Brotherton Library Collection of Cookery Books
• Scottish Brewing Archive

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