Cookbooks, Culinary Arts, Culinary History : Find People, Programs & Organizations

Discover campus and community resources for celebrating and examining foodways through cookbooks and other food research and writing.

Cooking Classes, Cooking Schools (Wisconsin)

Degree program (credit) and non-credit programming:

Culinary Incubator
Rental network for commercial kitchens. Select for state.
Feed Kitchens (Food Enterprise and Economic Development), Madison, Wisconsin
FEED Kitchens has five commercial kitchens, with specialized equipment for baking, produce preparation and processing, meal prep and packaged foods production.
Food Business Development, UW Division of Extension
Connects small-scale food and farm entrepreneurs with business services providers and research-based training.
Food Business Network, UW-Extension
Resource site to food processing facilities, commercial kitchens and more .
Forrager, Cottage Food Community
Information regarding state laws governing cottage food, small-scale food businesses.
Good Food Awards, Good Food Foundation

Old World Wisconsin, Eagle, Wisconsin
See Upcoming Events...including Brews and Bites, cooking and baking workshops, and more.
Pendarvis, Mineral Point, Wisconsin
See Upcoming Events..including Pub Nights.
Villa Louis, Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin
See Upcoming Events...including Breakfast in a Victorian Kitchen.
Wade House, Greenbush, Wisconsin
See Upcoming Events...including Hearthside Dinners.

American Heritage Vegetables: Growing and Cooking Pre-1900 American Garden Vegetables
Center for Digital Humanities & the Institute for Southern Studies, University of South Carolina
Jell-O: America's Most Famous Dessert: At Home Everywhere
Online exhibit curated by Dr. Nicole Tarulevicz, Senior Lecturer in Asian Studies, School of Humanities, University of Tasmania & JJ Jacobson, Curator, American Culinary History Collection, Special Collections Library, University of Michigan Libraries
Mailboxes, Mom and Pop Stands, and Markets: Local Food Then and Now
Digital exhibit from the National Agricultural Library.
How Did We Can? The Evolution of Home Canning Practices
Digital exhibit from the National Agricultural Library.
Wisconsin 101, Our History in Objects Project, Food & Cooking
Public history project created through a partnership between the UW-Madison History Department, the Wisconsin Historical Society, and WPR’s Wisconsin Life program.

Rooted. Growing Community. Together.
Community GroundWorks and Center for Resilient Cities have joined forces to become Rooted--and remain committed to enabling people to grow and thrive in healthy, equitable, and sustainable neighborhoods.
FairShare, CSA Coalition
Supporting and connecting farmers and consumers through Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) model. Find a Farm Share.
REAP Food Group
Committed to transforming communities, economies and lives through the power of good food. Farm to School, Farm to Business.

Slow Food International
Non-profit, eco-gastronomic, member-supported organization, founded in 1989, to celebrate and to 'recognize connections between plate and planet.'
Slow Food USA
"Non-profit educational organization dedicated to supporting and celebrating the food traditions of North America through programs and activities dedicated to Taste Education, Defending Biodiversity and Building Food Communities."
Slow Food UW
Established nonprofit organization on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus dedicated to providing good, clean, and fair food for all members of the community.

Culinary History Enthusiasts of Wisconsin (CHEW)
Culinary History Enthusiasts of Wisconsin (CHEW) is an informal, non profit, educational organization dedicated to the celebration of food, ethnic cuisines, and culinary customs from all parts of the world.
Traveling Library, CHEW