FARM PROGRESS
https://www.farmprogress.com  (events; education - courses)
https://www.farmprogress.com/new-york-farm-show/take-step-back-in-time-at-witter-museum  

FARMLAND INFORMATION CENTER
https://farmlandinfo.org/ ~ Information on Farmland Protection; Stewardship; Conservation

NORTH AMERICAN MILLERS' ASSOCIATION - NAMA
https://namamillers.org/about-nama/  ~  Member companies operate 150+ mills across 30+ states, Puerto Rico, and Canada.  Check out the "Members" link to learn of 37 milling companies in the U.S. which is not a complete list of those who provide flour & grains for us, but it's a good beginning for researching & learning.  Also, we can't equate names of mills w/name brands of baking flour, as so many "corps" own various, & sometimes many, name brands.
- - the Members' Directory ~ a great visual:  https://namamillers.org/member-directory/ 
The NAMA history is rooted in THE MILLERS' NATIONAL FEDERATION OF THE U.S.A.  Read the HISTORY link:
https://namamillers.org/about-nama/our-history

NOTE:  Also see section 5) Food Journalism, Online Info Sites, & a Cookbook Publisher.

COOKBOOK RESOURCES of Various Areas of Interest (Study through this & you'll have the knowledge equal to a "Cookbook-ology"😄 certificate or degree! ($$ = can buy books from this source)

CAVALCADE ~ Kevin Piotrowski in Michigan does videos of his cookbook collection. Choose "Cookbook Series." His collections (vast of kitchen appliances) are not open to the public, but he has 430+ YouTube videos so far.  https://www.youtube.com/cavalcadeoffood 

COOKBOOK CONFIDENTIAL - Historic Cooking School
A link to Cookbooks, booklets, & baking & so much more! (Link in scroll-down index on the right)
https://historiccookingschool.com/  

DOVER PUBLISHERS - $$ (bookseller of 1,000s of reprints of out-of-print books)
doverpublications.com    

FOOD TIME LINE by LYNN OLIVER (librarian researcher & prolific, priceless writer)
https://www.foodtimeline.org/foodfaqindex.html  (the full, main index of categories, i.e. bread; then 100s of breads)
https://www.foodtimeline.org/index.html  (the actual "Time Line" of foods)

HAMILTON BOOKS - $$ (reduced-price, mail order, bookseller)
https://www.hamiltonbook.com/Cookbooks 

HISTORY OF COOKBOOK CULTURE
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cookbook 

INTERNET ARCHIVE ~ Began with 3,000, & now 12,620 digitized cookbooks, booklets, & can page all the way through to read many, page-by-page, & you can then hand write-out recipes! Have a stack of index cards😉.
https://archive.org/details/cbk?tab=collection 

PATRICIAL MITCHELL - $$ (researcher, author) ~ "FOOD HISTORY" website
https://www.foodhistory.com  (Link on "Compact Editions," then "Alphabetical" for a full list for the following site.)
https://www.foodhistory.com/inklings/books/abc.htm  (the page of the full list)

On the "atlas obscura" website, there is a story about Barbara Ketcham Wheaton & that it took her over 50 years to compile a database of around 8,000 items, mostly cookbooks. It's called THE SIFTER (thesifter.org).  I have a hard time navigating in this database website, & maybe it's just me not having the necessary computer skills!  https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/how-to-find-historic-cookbooks  --  On this "atlas obscura" website there are a LOT of additional items which are noted in other RESOURCE sections, such as Museums, etc.

The Revolution Begins in the Cookbook Store (3-11-2024)
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/cookbook-stores-archestratus 

COMMUNITY WEBSITES:  
reddit.com - search line: reddit old recipes

a chronological history of Reddit Cooking BOOKLETS posts 
https://historiccookingschool.com/used-cookbooks/ 

- - - Also, see a few other Reddit items under 3b) FLOUR (after CEREALS) 

NOTE:  On Facebook there are an endless number of "Groups" affiliated with every word of food-baking-recipes that you can think of!  

UNIVERSITY-LIBRARY WEBSITES:

Many universities have "Special Collections" Libraries/Archives. If they allow in-person viewing, usually by appointment, from my experience, you select from the digital database - you can't eyeball the archives in person. Also, you may need to have an "approved" reason to see these items. The requested books (usually a limit) are brought out; you wear cotton gloves which they give you, along with a pencil & pad of paper. You can't have your purse, etc. with you in the room. There are lockers to store personal items. The following are some of the libraries with cookbook collections for the possibility of visiting, & you'd call to find out the requirements.

The Atlas Obscura website lists the following 4 cookbook collections in libraries at this website:
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/cookbook-libraries
1) wine at UC-Davis, CA;
2) San Antonio Mexican Cookbook Collection at the Univ. of TX; N. America's largest known Mexican Ckbk. Coll.
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/mexican-cookbook 
3) Jewish Cookbook Collection at the NY Public Library; a Fabulous Article 
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/jewish-cookbook-collection 
4) Janice Bluestein Longone Culinary Archive;  See Michigan State University Library in the list below.   https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/oldest-cookbooks ~ worldwide libraries w/OLDEST world cookbooks.

BOSTON PUBLIC LIBRARY COMMUNITY COOKBOOK COLLECTION - a BPL blog w/general info & more links https://www.bpl.org/blogs/post/community-cookbooks/

IOWA, University of - see Szathmary in the list.
https://diyhistory.lib.uiowa.edu/collections/show/7

KANSAS - University of Kansas in Manhattan - "Aug 5, 2024 · The manuscript portion of the cookery collection contains over 250 cookbooks in many languages and countries of origin, from the late 17th century to the present."
"The full collection includes over 38,000 volumes related to cookery dating from 1487 to the present and represents nearly every country or region."
https://lib.k-state.edu/research-find/archives-and-special-collections/collections/cookery/

Library of Congress
Community Cookbooks:  https://guides.loc.gov/community-cookbooks (Not a site to view items - just titles.)Food & Drink in History:  https://www.foodanddrink.amdigital.co.uk/Introduction  

Lynn Olver's 2200+ volume cookbook collection (Virginia Tech Special Collections and University Archives [SCUA])
https://www.foodtimeline.org/ 

Michigan State University Library - special collections - about 7,000 cookbooks (includes Longone's Archive)
https://www.collectorsweekly.com/articles/an-interview-with-american-cookbook-expert-and-rare-book-curator-peter-berg/ 
"Feeding America" is their Digital Repository of 76 selected cookbooks + more info, at: https://d.lib.msu.edu/fa 

South Dakota State University - Community Cookbook Collection - Can download these to read all the pages😊.
https://openprairie.sdstate.edu/sd_cookbooks/ 

Szathmary, Louis; University of Iowa has Szathmary's reported 20,000+ ephemera items. His artifacts went to Johnson & Wales Culinary School. Typing for his info in a Search Engine will provide various other links with different website views. (The following is one of the website versions for viewing covers of very old books.)
https://diyhistory.lib.uiowa.edu/collections/show/7 - (all books on one scroll down page)
Recipe Pamphlets: https://digital.lib.uiowa.edu/islandora/object/ui%3Aszathmary   

HOME BAKING ASSOCIATION - Topeka, Kansas; https://www.homebaking.org/ 

THE BREAD BAKERS GUILD OF AMERICA, founded in 1993, is a non-profit alliance of professional bakers, farmers, millers, suppliers, educators, students, home bakers, technical experts, and bakery owners and managers.  home.bbga.org

NATIONAL FESTIVAL OF BREADS - every odd year in June in Manhattan, KS, but has been online since COVID  - Don't know about future events.  https://nationalfestivalofbreads.com/

PUBLISHER:  Jumbo Jacks has now merged with Cookbook Specialists (Iowa) - Founded 1996
https://www.cookbookspecialists.com/ 

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JOURNALISM ONLINE TODAY

FOOD WRITING & RESEARCH - CONCLUSIONS: The 13 Best Flours of 2024
https://www.thespruceeats.com/best-flours-5097366  

This seems to be A GIGANTIC INFORMATION SITE - THE NEWS regarding "everything grain" worldwide.
https://www.world-grain.com/

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ONLINE INFO SITES     ---    The following doesn't even begin to include bread or many other baked goods.  The following only touches on cookies - biscuits (i.e., cookies in the U.S.) - some crackers . . . and it goes on and on.  The overwhelming array of "cookies" that we have today began to be introduced within the food culture around the 1900s.  The major influences were from England, Scotland, and The Netherlands (i.e., Holland - Dutch).  The following are a few related to England & the Dutch. 

A - American "Cookies - Crackers" 

ARTICLE:  U. S. History of Cookies - How Sweet It Is!  -  -  -  The research behind this outstanding document begins in B.C. time, continuing with historic background through the past 20+ centuries, plus what's behind 17 classic cookies that we're now familiar with in the U.S.  From What's Cooking America.  The Bibliography lists 32 exceptional sources.     https://whatscookingamerica.net/history/cookiehistory.htm 

ARTICLE:  The Stories Behind 22 Well-Known Cookie Companies
https://247wallst.com/special-report/2018/10/16/the-stories-behind-americas-favorite-cookie-brands/

Keebler
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keebler_Companytrong>  

Nabisco
https://americanbusinesshistory.org/uneeda-business-history-the-nabisco-story/

Continue to do your own search for other companies in your search engine or on wikipedia.

A - B -- American & British "biscuits" . . . or when is it a Cookie? . . . or a Baking Powder Biscuit?
An assortment of articles, each interesting with various tidbits of info to add to the recipe of baking knowledge!

ARTICLE:  The Great British Biscuit - Historic UK  (There are 6 additional "History of . . ." at the bottom of the page.)
https://www.historic-uk.com/CultureUK/British-Biscuit/ 

ARTICLE: The History of Biscuits - A Crumbly Journey (from Corn Bakery in California; Note: Biscuits = Cookies)
https://cornbakerycalifornia.com/the-history-of-biscuits/

ARTICLE:  The rise:  a history of the American biscuit (a blog post)
https://www.kingarthurbaking.com/blog/2023/01/30/history-of-american-biscuits

ARTICLE:  Biscuit Chronology from 1750 - 1890, from The Victorian Web (England)
https://victorianweb.org/technology/food/biscuit.html 

ARTICLE: Rich Tea Biscuits - Nibble My Biscuit
https://nibblemybiscuit.com/biscuits/rich-tea-biscuits/

D -- Dutch connections began with koekje which then became our cookie.

ARTICLE:  Where Did Cookies Originate? Exploring the Sweet Origins and Cultural Significancehttps://outrageouscookiedough.com/where-did-cookies-originate/ 

ARTICLE:  The History of Cookies in America (a blog post) from The Nibble:  Cookie History
https://www.thenibble.com/REVIEWS/MAIN/cookies/cookies2/cookie-history2.asp  

ARTICLE:  A Dutch cookie company, history, WWII, 1886 & continuing . . .
https://www.europeana.eu/en/stories/one-tough-cookie-the-business-and-branding-of-the-verkade-biscuit-company 

ARTICLE:  Reflecting on history is not always comfortable, but it shouldn't be covered up or destroyed because to not know history and its consequences might allow events to happen again, in the future, or to even continue as this article tells, but possibly change "could" come about given a change in societal mores!  Therefore, an article on the history of some cookie-candy items discloses "names" given at their time in the past, which are racial slurs and culturally offensive today.  Through my almost 80 years so far (thank the Lord), I have been in 100s of museums throughout 48 states and a few dozen countries and seen and read what's said to be "the good, the bad, and the ugly," and sometimes truly even worse as in horrific and unspeakable.  Thus, when you're confronted with history of what you don't like that's been done to others, it helps to instill compassion to help yourself be a loving and considerate person.  So with that introduction, take caution with this food history.
https://www.untold-stories.net/?p=Dutch-Sweets   (A Taste of Dutch Colonialism)

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 AIB – American Institute of Baking International - Manhattan, Kansas -- This baking school is thriving, but online in articles you will read that the AIB has a museum, but IT NO LONGER EXISTS!  AIB began in 1919 in Chicago (a history point I remember from being there).  An article online today said the museum began in 2012, but I was there 10 years before & was in the one-room museum for around half-a-day.    

Arizona Copper Art Museum - Clarkdale, Arizona - an astonishing collection of copper kitchenware!
https://www.arizonacopperartmuseum.com/  

Boudin's Bakery - Family Baking History of Sourdough in their store-attached Bread Museum in San Francisco
https://boudinbakery.com/boudin-at-the-wharf/  -  (They no longer have the museum with their own webpage.)
Some photos of what they used to have:  https://californiathroughmylens.com/boudin-san-francisco/ 

Bundy Baking Solutions in - Ohio; This museum is only open to the Trade (company reps/sales people who go there).  It is a vast 40-year collection of signage & items/artifacts of the commercial baking industry.  Today there is a very interesting "touring" video by Russell T. Bundy (deceased, 4-25-2024).
https://www.bundybakingsolutions.com/bundy-baking-museum/     

List of some of the world's FOOD & BEVERAGE Museums 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_food_and_beverage_museums

Grannie's Cookie Jars & Ice Cream Parlor
https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/grannies-cookie-jars-ice-cream-parlor

(website) Historic Cooking School - A long list of museums in the U.S. which, pre-COVID, had historic cooking classes.  In the "About" link it says, "We're an archive with thousands of vintage recipe booklets." 
https://historiccookingschool.com/historic-cooking-classes/   

Johnson & Wales in RI  -  Your best bet to see online items is to click on " Culinary Arts Museum Online Catalog" & then on "objects." There are 12,896 items & you just need to go page-by-page, can't jump around, etc.  It's a process.
https://www.jwu.edu/culinarymuseum/ 

Julia Child's kitchen in the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History, Washington, D.C.
https://www.americanhistory.si.edu/press/fact-sheets/julia-childs-kitchen  

Lunch Box Museums:
https://www.columbuscollectivemuseums.com/the-lunchbox-museum/  - Columbus, Georgia

Clarkes Collectibles & Lunchbox Museum, Nice, California - -
https://www.retrodeb.com/

Mississippi Agricultural & Forestry Museum - Jackson, Mississippi
https://www.msagm

National Agricultural Center and Hall of Fame, Bonner Springs, Kansas
www.aghalloffame.com 

National Museum of American History - overall, this is a difficult website to navigate for something specific, but beginning at the following web address, there are 103 pages of kitchenalia-related items.  Since, at the bottom of the page there's a forward/backward movement of a controlled number of pages, if you see an item you might want to go back to, write down the page # (it's at the end of the URL - web address), & in order to return to it, just change the # in the URL address.
https://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/search?edan_q=kitchen%20items&edan_fq%5B0%5D=online_visual_material%3Atrue

National Cookie Cutter Historical Museum
https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/national-cookie-cutter-historical-museum 

Open Air - Living History Museums - The following list is not complete, but it's the best for now.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_open-air_and_living_history_museums_in_the_United_States 
Besides the more focused collections at the museums & university archives, there are also small-to-large acreages of "open air museums" throughout the U.S. (& other countries) which have sections of artifacts or entire buildings devoted to the historical preservation of the house (baking) and farm buildings (ag-related equipment) & the other related historical artifacts.  

Pillsbury Mills Museum - Minneapolis, Minnesota (More websites - Search Words:  Pillsbury Mills Museum)
https://www.mnhs.org/millcity 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mill_City_Museum 

Shelburne Museum - Vermont  (a living history museum) -  On their website they mention a collection of "food molds."  I believe they are referring to their carved wooden cookie molds used for springerle (if they're the small ones in the 2" - 3" range, sq., rect., round); for spekulatius or speculaas (if they're in the 4"x7" range); & if there are larger ones, for whatever are called molded ginger cakes. I have not seen the collection - don't know how many or the quantity they'd put out for viewing if they do have an exhibit, etc. But just to know for further inquiry for a visit. Their website slideshow in the Dutton House has a photo of a cooking fireplace & a kitchen.
https://shelburnemuseum.org/collection/dutton-house/ 

SPOOM - Society for the Preservation of Old Mills
https://www.spoom.org/ 
Milling History - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gristmill 
Pond Lily Mill Restorations - https://www.angelfire.com/journal/pondlilymill/index.html  - The resources on this website seem endless!  There are some museum links included, along with enough info for a masters or doctorate in milling👍.

Tennessee Agricultural Museum - near Nashville
https://www.tn.gov/agmuseum.html 

Chuck Williams Culinary Arts Museum - CIA at Copia, Napa, CA - - 4,000 culinary artifacts of devices, gadgets & cookware 
www.ciaatcopia.com  

***Throughout the country, most counties have a Historical Society Museum.  Some of them will have a few items, to a full kitchen or a cupboard/pantry area of shelves on which are displayed "kitchenalia" - kitchen artifacts.  But there's usually no story/history given about them & most guides have no knowledge of names & how used!  Also, there are State Historical Societies.  Check yours to see if they do exhibits regarding home baking/food/grains, etc.

PODCASTS:

Podcast: Gold Medal Flour ~ The speaker begins at 8:40.  (Prior to that he talks about going into the abandoned bldg. & painting graffiti all over inside!  But at 8:40 he begins about the part of the mill being converted into the Mill City Museum, which has a lot about Pillsbury besides General Mills' products.)
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/podcast-gold-medal-flour

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MUSEUMS with TINS

Belgian Lady, Yvette Dardenne, with 60,000+ tins: 
https://en.terres-de-meuse.be/discover/once-upon-a-time/the-worlds-largest-collection-of-tin-cans/  
On this following website, you can click on each individual tin to enlarge it & use the right arrow to keep going through all on the page.
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Museum_of_Lithographed_Tin_Cans  

Cooper Hewitt Museum, New York City, has one tin, said to be "Not Your Average Biscuit Tin."  One tin from England of Egyptian design.  Produced by Huntley & Palmers, Ltd. (Reading, England)  
https://www.cooperhewitt.org/2018/10/10/not-your-average-biscuit-tin/

Huntley & Palmer, Reading, England - - - A bit of history of the company:  
https://collections.readingmuseum.org.uk/index.asp?page=topic&mwsquery=%7Bcollection%7D=%7Btopic%7D&filename=REDMG&hitsStart=25
A Timeline of the company:  https://www.readingmuseum.org.uk/online-exhibitions/huntley-palmers-history/huntley-palmers-timeline
Intro to the Gallery with the tins:  https://www.readingmuseum.org.uk/your-visit/what-see/huntley-and-palmers-gallery 
FINALLY!!  The page that has the photo index to the sections of tins.  Click away on the photo sections or the index on the right hand side of the page:
https://www.readingmuseum.org.uk/online-exhibitions/history-huntley-palmers

National Museum of American History  --  sort of hard to navigate in this in order to find what I was looking for.  When I got to one page someplace in "Collections," I typed in "cookie tins" & got here, which has some items of interest:
https://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/search?edan_q=cookie%20tins

Olive Oil in Italy    
https://museocollezioneguatelli.it/en/  -  an intro.  Then click on each MENU tab because you'll see different photos on each one . . . extremely interesting!

Victoria & Albert Museum, London, England -   
https://www.vam.ac.uk/articles/biscuit-tins-a-bite-sized-history/#slideshow=562394146&slide=0
In the MENU link is "Collections."  That page has a Search Bar in which I typed "tins."  It went to:   
https://collections.vam.ac.uk/search/?page=1&page_size=15&q=tins
At the bottom of the above page, you can click on "50" so you have 50 tins show up on each page.  In that way, you'll have tins up through page 29.  You can change the pages in the URL where it says "1&page ..."  You'll be able to see almost 1,500 tins!

7a) - PROFESSIONAL - DEGREES - Throughout the U.S. there are dozens of Pastry & Baking schools within Culinary Institutes. Use a Search Engine to scan through what you might be looking for.  Also, type in Culinary Institute Pastry & Baking schools in (enter a state).  Also, Culinary Arts or Baking & Pastry Arts.

A baking school of particular note is the AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF BAKING - INTERNATIONAL (AIB).  It began in Chicago in 1919, & in 1977, moved to Manhattan, KS.  In 2018-19, the school realigned it's focus to change with the changing times of the baking industry & what people wanted to learn.
The AIB is where the Baking Hall of Fame began in 2006, & today the framed photos of those who've been honored through the years are at Bundy Baking Solutions's Corporate Headquarters in Ohio.  (P.S.  No matter what you read online, there is NO AIB museum today!  All the artifacts went to Bundy's.)
https://www.aibinternational.com/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AIB_International
https://www.world-grain.com/articles/12503-aib-international-discontinuing-certain-services  (2018-2019)

7b) SPECIFIC BAKING SUBJECTS

This couple's special interest is in heritage techniques and heirloom grains - - all dough things.  (England)
https://theartisanbakeryschool.com/ --- https://theartisanbakeryschool.com/online-baking-courses/ 

- Type: German Academy for Professional Bakers --into a Search Bar & scroll through the various programs offered regarding German Bread Baking.  Also, do a search for Culinary, Bakery, Pastry Schools or Courses or Short-term Courses in (insert the name of a country).

- Type:  baking classes in Europe or pastry baking classes in Europe --into a Search Bar & you should find a variety of baking-pastry-bread options.  Diploma courses & short-term traveler classes came up for Paris, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Sweden, chocolate in Switzerland😉💝 besides a pastry school, & more.  

7c) HOME BAKING COURSES/CLASSES - Today there is such a huge selection online, & one different word typed into a Search Bar can provide an entirely different set of websites!  The following give classes online, so they  literally are stay-at-Home Baking Courses/schools (not to mention the "probably hundreds" of blogs with step-by-step photos & instructions -- which I'm not including).  (NOTE: I have not attended any of these, nor spoken to anyone about them.  They came up in searches for the subject of "Home Baking Courses."  So I am only providing them to you in order to give you an idea of where to begin to learn who is "out there.")  . . . alphabetically:

https://bakefromscratch.com/better-baking-academy/ --- Behind these online baking classes & baking retreats both in the U.S. & in various cities/countries in Europe is the magazine, bake from SCRATCH.
https://www.iapcollege.com/program/cake-decorator-course/   --  Cake Decorating Course 
https://www.ice.edu/online-baking-pastry-arts
https://www.kingarthurbaking.com/baking-school - company is located in Vermont.
https://www.masterclass.com --- https://www.masterclass.com/sessions
https://www.surlatable.com/cooking-classes/

7d) The Agricultural Side of Baking

An interesting note if you missed it elsewhere, there were 22,000+ grain mills in the U.S. by 1870. (Stella Standard's Our Daily Bread  book, © 1970, pg. xii.)

Nebraska had about 300 (Nebraska State Historical Society info).

Other topics/areas of study for COLLEGE DEGREES to search for are --Food Science, --Grain Science, --Cereal Science, --Agriculture, --milling, --food chemistry, & more.
For example:
Grain Science and Industry (technical training for baking & animal food):  www.grains.k-state.edu
Cereal & Food Sciences (CFS) , ND State University:  catalog.ndsu.edu > course-catalog > descriptions

For Mills, Milling, & everything you've always wanted to know about this subject, do not miss this website:

https://www.angelfire.com/journal/pondlilymill/index.html - Home Page
https://www.angelfire.com/journal/pondlilymill/menu.html - Beyond a Doctorate Degree of  https://www.angelfire.com/journal/pondlilymill/bookshelf.html - The Miller's Bookshelf https://www.angelfire.com/journal/pondlilymill/elton.html - Evolution of the Flour Mill & Foreign Connections

Please SCROLL up to the 3-line MENU in the upper right and choose your next page or section.