New York Histories
Allen, Irving L. City in Slang: New York Life and Popular Speech. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993.
Anbinder, Tyler. Five Points: The 19th Century New York City Neighborhood That Invented Tap Dance, Stole Elections, and Became the World’s Most Notorious Slum. New York: Free Press, 2001.
[Beard, Frank]. The Night Side of New York: A Picture of the Great Metropolis after Nightfall. New York: J. C. Haney, 1866.
Bernard, John. Retrospections of America, 1797–1811. Edited by Laurence Hutton and Brander Matthews. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1887.
Booth, Mary L. The History of New York City. New York: W. R. C. Clark, 1860.
Browne, Junius Henri. The Great Metropolis: A Mirror of New York. Hartford, CT: American Publishing, 1869.
Burrows, Edwin G., and Mike Wallace. Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999.
Campbell, Helen. Darkness and Daylight: Lights and Shadows of New York Life. Hartford, CT: A. D. Worthington, 1891.
Cantwell, Anne-Marie E., and Diana diZerega Wall. Unearthing Gotham: The Archaeology of New York City. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2001.
Carmer, Carl. The Hudson. New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1939.
Chambers, Julius. The Book of New York: Forty Years’ Recollections of the American Metropolis. New York City: Book of New York, 1912.
Danckaerts, Jasper, and Peter Sluyter. Journal of a Voyage to New York. Brooklyn: [The Society], 1867.
Dayton, Abram C. Last Days of Knickerbocker Life in New York. New York: G. W. Harlan, 1882.
Diehl, Lorraine B. Over Here! New York City during World War II. New York: Smithsonian Books/HarperCollins, 2010.
Erenberg, Lewis A. Steppin’ Out: New York Nightlife and the Transformation of American Culture. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1981.
Ferguson, William. America by River and Rail. London: J. Nisbet, 1856.
Goodfriend, Joyce D. Before the Melting Pot: Society and Culture in Colonial New York City, 1664–1730. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1992.
Haenni, Sabine. The Immigrant Scene: Ethnic Amusements in New York, 1880–1920. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2008.
Harlow, Alvin F. Old Bowery Days: The Chronicles of a Famous Street. New York: D. Appleton, 1931.
Harris, Charles Townsend. Memories of Manhattan in the Sixties and Seventies. New York: Derrydale Press, 1928.
Hasswell, Charles H. Reminiscences of an Octogenarian of the City of New York. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1897.
Hughes, Rupert. The Real New York. New York: Smart Set, 1904.
Jacobs, Jaap. The Colony of New Netherland: A Dutch Settlement in Seventeenth-Century America. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2009.
———. “‘It Has Pleased the Lord That We Must Learn English’: Dutch New York after 1664.” In Dutch New York between East and West: The World of Margrieta van Varick, edited by Deborah L. Krohn and Peter Miller, 55–65. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2009.
Jameson, J. Franklin, ed. Narratives of New Netherland, 1609–1664. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1909.
Janowitz, Meta F., and Diane Dallal, eds. Tales of Gotham, Historical Archaeology, Ethnohistory and Microhistory of New York City. New York: Springer, 2013.
Kernan, Frank J. Reminiscences of the Old Fire Laddies and Volunteer Fire Departments of New York and Brooklyn. New York: M. Crane, 1885.
Krohn, Deborah L., and Peter Miller, eds. Dutch New York between East and West: The World of Margrieta van Varick. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2009.
Levinton, Jeffrey S., and John R. Waldman, eds. The Hudson River Estuary. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006.
Mackeever, Samuel Anderson. Glimpses of Gotham, and City Characters. New York: National Police Gazette Office, [1881].
Mayer, Grace M. Once upon a City: New York from 1890 to 1910. New York: Macmillan, 1958.
McKay, Ernest A. The Civil War and New York City. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1990.
Mensch, Barbara. South Street. New York: Columbia University Press, 2007.
Morris, Lloyd R. Incredible New York. New York: Random House, 1951.
Peterson, Arthur Everett, and George William Edwards. New York as an Eighteenth Century Municipality. New York: Columbia University Press, 1917.
Reitano, Joanne R. The Restless City: A Short History of New York from Colonial Times to the Present. New York: Routledge, 2006.
———. The Restless City Reader: A New York City Sourcebook. New York: Routledge, 2010.
Riis, Jacob August. How the Other Half Lives: Studies among the Tenements of New York. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1890.
Sandler, Corey. Henry Hudson: Dreams and Obsession. New York: Citadel Press, 2007.
Shepp, James W., and Daniel B. Shepp. Shepp’s New York City Illustrated: Scene and Story in the Metropolis of the Western World. Chicago: Globe Bible, 1894.
Shorto, Russell. The Island at the Center of the World: The Epic Story of Dutch Manhattan and the Forgotten Colony That Shaped America. Prince Frederick, MD: Recorded Books, 2004.
Singleton, Esther. Social New York under the Georges, 1714–1776. New York: D. Appleton, 1902.
Smith, Matthew Hale. Sunshine and Shadow in New York. Hartford, CT: J. B. Burr, 1868.
Spann, Edward K. Gotham at War: New York City, 1860–1865. Wilmington, DE: Scholarly Resources, 2002.
Still, Bayrd. Mirror for Gotham: New York as Seen by Contemporaries from Dutch Days to the Present. New York: New York University Press, 1956.
Vanderbilt, Gertrude Lefferts. The Social History of Flatbush, and Manners and Customs of the Dutch Settlers of Kings County. New York: D. Appleton, 1881.
van der Donck, Adriaen. A Description of the New Netherlands. Edited by Thomas F. O’Donnell. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1968.
Van Dyke, John C. The New New York. New York: Macmillan, 1909.
Wilson, James Grant, ed. The Memorial History of the City of New York, from the First Settlement to the Year 1892. 4 vols. [New York]: New-York History, 1892–1893.
City Food Histories
Batterberry, Michael, and Ariane Batterberry. On the Town in New York: The Landmark History of Eating, Drinking, and Entertainments from the American Revolution to the Food Revolution. New York: Routledge, 1999.
Grimes, William. Appetite City: A Culinary History of New York. New York: North Point Press, 2009. Appetite City television series: http://a002-vod.nyc.gov/html/appetite_city.php?id=1221.
Lawson, Annie H., and Jon Deutsch, eds. Gastropolis: Food and New York City. New York: Columbia University Press, 2008.
Schwartz, Arthur. Arthur Schwartz’s New York City Food: An Opinionated History and More Than 100 Legendary Recipes. New York: Stewart, Tabori & Chang, 2004.
Shulman, Robin. Eat the City: A Tale of the Fishers, Trappers, Hunters, Foragers, Slaughterers, Butchers, Farmers, Poultry Minders, Sugar Refiners, Cane Cutters, Beekeepers, Winemakers, and Brewers Who Built New York. New York: Crown, 2012.
Chapter 1. The Material Resources: Land, Water, and Air
Grumet, Robert S. First Manhattans: A History of the Indians of Greater New York. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2011.
Homberger, Eric. The Historical Atlas of New York City: A Visual Celebration of 400 Years of New York City’s History. New York: Henry Holt, 1994.
Koeppel, Gerard T. Water for Gotham: A History. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2000.
Lewis, Tom. The Hudson: A History. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2005.
Otto, Paul. “Intercultural Relations between Native Americans and Europeans in New Netherland and New York.” In Four Centuries of Dutch-American Relations, edited by Hans Krabbendam, Cornelis A. van Minnen, and Giles Scott-Smith, 178–91. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2009.
Pritchard, Evan T. Native New Yorkers: The Legacy of the Algonquin People of New York. San Francisco: Council Oak Books, 2002.
Sanderson, Eric W. Mannahatta: A Natural History of New York City. New York: Abrams, 2009.
Chapter 2. From Colonization to the Present
Bluestone, Daniel. “‘The Pushcart Evil.’” In Landscape of Modernity, edited by David Ward and Oliver Zunz, 287–312. New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 1992.
Bradley, Elizabeth L. Knickerbocker: The Myth behind New York. New Brunswick, NJ: Rivergate Books, 2009.
Cahn, William. Out of the Cracker Barrel: The Nabisco Story, from Animal Crackers to Zuzus. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1969.
Federal Writers Project. The Italians of New York. New York: Random House, 1938.
French, Earl R. Push Cart Markets in New York City. Washington, DC: Agricultural Economic Bureau, USDA, 1925. http://naldc.nal.usda.gov/download/CAT10675911/PDF.
Kellar, Jane Carpenter, comp. and ed. On the Score of Hospitality: Selected Receipts of a Van Rensselaer Family, Albany, New York, 1785–1835; A Historic Cherry Hill Recipe Collection. Albany, NY: Historic Cherry Hill, 1986.
Loukaitou-Sideris, Anastasia, and Renia Ehrenfeucht. Sidewalks: Conflict and Negotiation over Public Space. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2009.
Ray, Krishnendu. “Exotic Restaurants and Expatriate Home Cooking: Indian Food in Manhattan.” In The Globalization of Food, edited by David Inglis and Debra Gimlin, 213–26. Oxford: Berg, 2009.
Restad, Penne L. Christmas in America: A History. New York: Oxford University Press, 1995.
Serventi, Silvano, and Françoise Sabban. Pasta: The Story of a Universal Food. Translated by Antony Shugaar. New York: Columbia University Press, 2002.
Sijs, Nicoline van der. Cookies, Coleslaw, and Stoops: The Influence of Dutch on the North American Languages. [Amsterdam]: Amsterdam University Press, 2009.
Taylor, Dennis S., et al. “Street Foods in America: A True Melting Pot.” World Review of Nutrition and Dietetics 86 (2000): 25–44.
Chapter 3. A Culinary Stew: Immigrants and Their Food
Balinska, Maria. The Bagel: The Surprising History of a Modest Bread. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008.
Bayor, Ronald H., and Timothy Meagher, eds. The New York Irish. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996.
Bercovici, Konrad. Around the World in New York. New York: Century Co., [1924].
———. “The Greatest Jewish City in the World.” Nation, September 12, 1923, 259–61.
Binder, Frederick M., and David M. Reimers. All the Nations under Heaven: An Ethnic and Racial History of New York City. New York: Columbia University Press, 1995.
Burgess, Thomas. Greeks in America. Boston: Sherman, French, 1913.
Diner, Hasia R. Hungering for America: Italian, Irish, and Jewish Foodways in the Age of Migration. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2001.
Ernst, Robert. Immigrant Life in New York City, 1825–1865. New York: Kings Crown Press, 1949.
Foner, Nancy, ed. New Immigrants in New York. New York: Columbia University Press, 2001.
Gabaccia, Donna R. We Are What We Eat: Ethnic Food and the Making of Americans. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1998.
Golden, Harry. The Greatest Jewish City in the World. New York: Doubleday, 1972.
Hendricks, Glenn L. The Dominican Diaspora: From the Dominican Republic to New York City; Villagers in Transition. New York: Teachers College Press, Columbia University, [1974].
Khandelwal, Madhulika Shankar. Becoming American, Being Indian: An Immigrant Community in New York City. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2002.
Korrol, Virginia Sánchez. From Colonia to Community: The History of Puerto Ricans in New York City. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994.
Laguerre, Michel S. American Odyssey: Haitians in New York City. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1984.
Marx, Jeff. “The Days Had Come of Curds and Cream: The Origins and Development of Cream Cheese in America, 1870–1880.” Food, Culture and Society 15 (2012): 177–95.
Min, Pyong Gap. Caught in the Middle: Korean Communities in New York and Los Angeles. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996.
Pozzetta, George E. “The Italians of New York City, 1890–1914.” PhD diss., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1971.
Rischin, Moses. The Promised City: New York’s Jews, 1870–1914. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1962.
Sánchez Korrol, Virginia. From Colonia to Community: The History of Puerto Ricans in New York City. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994.
Wang, Xinyang. Surviving the City: The Chinese Immigrant Experience in New York City, 1890–1970. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2001.
Ziegelman, Jane. 97 Orchard: An Edible History of Five Immigrant Families in One New York Tenement. New York: Smithsonian Books/HarperCollins, 2010.
Chapter 4. From Garden to Grocery: A Tour of Markets, Vendors, and Other Food Sellers
Benepe, Barry, and John L. Hess. Greenmarket: The Rebirth of Farmers Markets in New York City. New York City: Council on the Environment of New York City, [1978].
Caldwell, Alison. “Will Tweet for Food: The Impact of Twitter and New York City Food Trucks, Online, Offline, and Inline.” Appetite 56, no. 2 (April 2011): 522.
The Cries of New-York. New-York: Printed and sold by S. Wood, Juvenile Book-store, 1808.
DeVoe, Thomas F. The Market Assistant. New York: Hurd and Houghton, 1867.
———. The Market Book Containing a Historical Account of the Public Markets. Vol. 1. New York: Printed for the author, 1862.
Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company. Colonel Goodbody’s Red Setter Menus. Montvale, NJ: Author, n.d.
———. Grocery Catalogue 1912. Glen Cove, NY: Author, 1912.
Hutcheson, John C. “The Markets of New York.” Harper’s, July 1867, 229–36.
Levinson, Marc. The Great A&P and the Struggle for Small Business in America. New York: Hill and Wang, 2011.
Mendelson, Anne. “To Market, to Market: A Profile of Thomas F. De Voe.” NYFoodstory 1 (Fall 2012): 3, 14–16, 18.
Seiger, Karen E. Markets of New York City: A Guide to the Best Artisan, Farmer, Food, and Flea Markets. New York: Little Bookroom, 2010.
Slantez, Priscilla Jennings. “A History of the Fulton Fish Market.” Log of the Mystic Seaport 36 (Spring 1986): 14–25.
Tangires, Helen. Public Markets. New York: W. W. Norton, Library of Congress, 2008.
———. Public Markets and Civic Culture in Nineteenth-Century America. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003.
Walsh, William I. The Rise and Decline of the Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company. Secaucus, NJ: Lyle Stuart, 1986.
Wasserman, Suzanne. “Hawkers and Gawkers: Peddling and Markets in New York City.” In Gastropolis: Food and New York City, 153–73. New York: Columbia University Press, 2009.
White, Charles Henry. “The Fulton Street Market.” Harper’s, September 1905, 616–23.
Chapter 5: Drinking in the City
Anderson, Will. The Breweries of Brooklyn: An Informal History of a Great Industry in a Great City. Croton Falls, NY: Anderson, 1976.
Bryson, Lew. New York Breweries. Mechanicsburg, PA: Stackpole Books, 2003.
Byles, W. Harrison. Old Taverns of New York. New York: Frank Allaben Genealogical Company, 1915.
DeGennaro, Jeremiah J. “From Civic to Social: New York’s Taverns, Inside and Outside the Political Life of the United States after the Revolution.” Master’s thesis, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, 2008.
Mitchell, Joseph. McSorley’s Wonderful Saloon. New York: Pantheon, 1992.
“Old New York Coffee-Houses.” Harper’s, March 1882, 481–99.
Smith, Andrew F. Drinking History: Fifteen Turning Points in the Making of American Drink. New York: Columbia University Press, 2012.
Chapter 6: Eateries
Beriss, David, and David Sutton, eds. The Restaurants Book: Ethnographies of Where We Eat. Oxford: Berg, 2007.
Berry, Rynn, and Chris Abreu-Suzuki, with Barry Litsky. The Vegan Guide to New York City. 17th ed. New York: Ethical Living, 2010.
Bradley, Jimmy, Andrew Friedman, and David Sawyer. The Red Cat Cookbook: 125 Recipes from New York City’s Favorite Neighborhood Restaurant. New York: Clarkson Potter, 2006.
Brody, Iles. The Colony. New York: Greenberg, 1945.
Bromell, Nicolas. “The Automat: Preparing the Way for Fast Food.” New York History 81, no. 3 (July 2000): 300–312.
Chappell, George Shepard. The Restaurants of New York. New York: Greenberg, 1925.
Dearing, Albin Pasteur. The Elegant Inn: The Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, 1893–1929. Secaucus, NJ: Lyle Stuart, 1986.
Diehl, Lorraine B., and Marrianne Hardart. Automat: The History, Recipes, and Allure of Horn & Hardart’ s Masterpiece. New York: Clarkson Potter, 2002.
Erenberg, Lewis A. Steppin’ Out: New York Nightlife and the Transformation of American Culture, 1890–1930. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1981.
Evans, Meryle R. “Knickerbocker Hotels and Restaurants 1800–1850.” New-York Historical Society Quarterly 36 (1952): 377–410.
Fairchild, Henry Pratt. Greek Immigration to the United States. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1911.
Federman, Mark Russ. Russ & Daughters: Reflections and Recipes from the House That Herring Built. New York: Schocken, 2013.
Freeland, David. Automats, Taxi Dances, and Vaudeville: Excavating Manhattan’s Lost Places of Leisure. New York: New York University Press, 2009.
Gamber, Wendy. The Boardinghouse in Nineteenth-Century America. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007.
Garrett, Thomas Myers. “A History of Pleasure Gardens in New York City, 1700–1865.” PhD diss., New York University, 1978.
Haley, Andrew P. Turning the Tables: Restaurants and the Rise of the American Middle Class, 1880–1920. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2011.
James, Rian. Dining in New York. New York: John Day, 1930.
Lebewohl, Sharon. The Second Avenue Deli Cookbook: Recipes and Memories from Abe Lebewohl’s Legendary Kitchen. New York: Villard, 1999.
Maccioni, Sirio, and Peter Elliot. Sirio: The Story of My Life and Le Cirque. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley, 2004.
Manzo, Joseph T. “From Pushcart to Modular Restaurant.” Journal of American Culture 13, no. 3 (Fall 1990): 13–21.
Mariani, John, with Alex Von Bidder. The Four Seasons: A History of America’s Premier Restaurant. New York: Crown, 1994.
Meyer, Danny, and Michael Romano. The Union Square Café Cookbook: 160 Favorite Recipes from New York’s Acclaimed Restaurant. New York: HarperCollins, 1994.
Rimmer, Leopold. A History of Old New York Life and the House of the Delmonicos. New York, 1898.
Sardi, Vincent, and Richard Gehman. Sardi’s: The Story of a Famous Restaurant. New York: Henry Holt, [1953].
Schriftgiesser, Karl. Oscar of the Waldorf. New York: E. P. Dutton, 1943.
Segrave, Kerry. Vending Machines: An American Social History. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2002.
Shuldiner, Alec Tristin. “Trapped behind the Automat: Technological Systems and the American Restaurant, l902–l99l.” PhD diss., Cornell University, 200l.
Slomanson, Joan Kanel. When Everybody Ate at Schrafft’s: Memories, Pictures, and Recipes from a Very Special Restaurant Empire. Fort Lee, NJ: Barricade Books, 2006.
Thomas, Lately [pseudonym for Robert V. P. Steele?]. Delmonico’s: A Century of Splendor. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1967.
Wechsberg, Joseph. Dining at the Pavillon. Boston: Little, Brown, 1962.
Where and How to Dine in New York: The Principal Hotels, Restaurants and Cafés of Various Kinds and Nationalities Which Have Added to the Gastronomic Fame of New York and Its Suburbs. New York: Lewis, Scribner, 1903.
Williams, Ellen, and Steve Radlauer. The Historic Shops and Restaurants of New York. New York: Little Bookroom, 2002.
Zagat Survey. New York City Restaurants 2009. New York: Author, 2008.
Chapter 7: Historic Cookbooks, Dishes, and Recipes
[Alsop, Richard.] The Universal Receipt Book or Complete Family Directory by a Society of Gentlemen in New York. New York: I. Riley, 1814.
Appel, Jennifer, and Allysa Torey. The Magnolia Bakery Cookbook: Old-fashioned Recipes from New York’s Sweetest Bakery. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1999.
Astor, Mrs. Jane. The New York Cook-Book. New York: G. W. Carleton, 1880.
Bastianich, Lidia. Lidia’s Italian Table. New York: William Morrow, 1998.
Blot, Pierre. What to Eat, and How to Cook It. New York: D. Appleton, 1863.
Bradley, Jimmy, Andrew Friedman, and David Sawyer. The Red Cat Cookbook: 125 Recipes from New York City’s Favorite Neighborhood Restaurant. New York: Clarkson Potter, 2006.
[Centaur]. New York Receipt Book. New York: Centaur, 1881.
Claiborne, Craig. The New York Times Cook Book. New York: Harper & Row, 1961.
Clark, Annie. The New Waldorf Cook Book. New York: F. Tennyson Neely, 1899.
Corson, Juliet. Miss Corson’s Practical American Cookery. New York: Dodd, Mead, 1886.
Filippini, Alessandro. One Hundred Ways of Cooking Eggs. New York: Charles L. Webster, 1892.
———. One Hundred Ways of Cooking Fish. New York: Charles L. Webster, 1892.
———. The International Cook Book. New York: Doubleday, Page, 1906.
———. The Table: How to Buy Food, How to Cook it, and How to Serve It. New York: Charles L. Webster, 1889.
Greenbaum, Florence Kreisler. The International Jewish Cook Book: A Modern “Kosher” Cook Book. New York: Bloch, 1918.
Hesser, Amanda. The Essential New York Times Cook Book: Classic Recipes for a New Century. New York: W. W. Norton, 2010.
Lahman, DeDe, Neil Kleinberg, and Michael Harlan Turkell. Clinton St. Baking Company Cookbook: Breakfast, Brunch and Beyond from New York’s Favorite Neighborhood Restaurant. New York: Little, Brown, 2010.
Lewis, Edna. The Taste of Country Cooking. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1976.
Lewis, Edna, and Evangeline Peterson. The Edna Lewis Cookbook. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1972.
May, Anna. Die kleine New Yorker köchin [The little New York cook). New York: Verlag von Steiger, 1859.
Mayor Mitchel’s Food Supply Committee. Hints to Housewives. New York: Author, 1917.
O’Neill, Molly. New York Cookbook. New York: Workman, 1992.
Pépin, Jacques. The Apprentice: My Life in the Kitchen. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2003.
Ranhofer, Charles. The Epicurean. New York: R. Ranhofer, 1894.
Rose, Peter G., trans. and ed. The Sensible Cook: Dutch Foodways in the Old and the New World. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1989.
[Sauer Company]. Fifty Recipes on Flavoring by a Famous New York Chef. Richmond, VA: C. F. Sauer, [1920s].
Schwartz, Arthur. Arthur Schwartz’s New York City Food: An Opinionated History and More than 100 Legendary Recipes. New York: Stewart, Tabori & Chang, 2004.
Sigel, Miss. “Pretzels.” Table Talk 27 (February 1912): 102.
Tschirky, Oscar. The Cook Book by “Oscar” of the Waldorf. Chicago: Werner, 1896.