Primary Source Sets

Over time, popular cuisines change, new cooking methods eb and flow, and new (whether to a community, or to the world as a whole) foods come to the fore. Sometimes these changes are due to economic forces that make an ingredient more or less affordable to the public, sometimes they are the result of a chef’s bold ideas, and sometimes they are due to larger sociopolitical forces like wartime rationing. Yet staples remain and trusty methods endure over time. This primary source set explores food—its changes and its continuities—as it existed and morphed over time in Portland and at Reed.

Created by Ashlee Fox