The Food Site of the Day, a web site dedicated to things culinary, featured a site on a University of Delaware Library Special Collections exhibition on Tuesday, Feb. 5.

The site was created for the exhibition, “An American Feast,” which was on view in the Morris Library through the summer in 1994. It was chosen as a site of the day because it includes “fascinating information” on food, dining and entertaining in the U.S.

Marty Martindale, a freelance writer in Largo, Fla., with a love of food, maintains the Food Site of the Day. It can be found at www.FoodSiteoftheDay.com.

To reach the UD exhibition information through that site, click on the link Previous Sites and look for “An American Feast.”

The exhibition “An American Feast: Food, Dining, and Entertaining in the United States from Simmons to Rombauer” focused on American culture and attitudes toward food and dining from the 1796 publication of the first American cookbook to the 1931 publication of Irma Rombauer's kitchen icon, The Joy of Cooking.

The exhibition examined the changing patterns of American food preparation and service, the impact of technology, the origins and influence of the home economics movement, the evolution and democratization of the dining room, American attitudes toward drink, the etiquette of dining and the popularity of commercial dining establishments.

Feb. 6, 2002