Interesting Website Resources
I (Donna, the Founder of this National Bread Museum project) keep thinking of all the younger people who might have an interest in learning about related areas to the theme of ag/grain-milling-flour-bread/baking, and don't have enough associated background knowledge of "what's out there" to even know what to search for.
Besides my extensive background of having grown up 18 years on a dairy farm in Wisconsin,
8 years in 4-H,
65+ years of using & learning about food & baking products ~ working with recipes & mostly baking from scratch,
40+ years of accumulating kitchenalia & studying that artifact history,
living & traveling throughout Europe & beyond for almost 10 years,
touring through hundreds of museums in 48 of our states,
and the list goes on . . . . . there's much to be documented in order to give you, the reader, a "jump ahead" at a quick pace, so you don't have to put in all the time of slowly (& maybe) accumulating all of the following resources. It's also amazing to have learned of all the additional resources I've come across through the past few years of building this website, so I thought I'd begin to document an index for you.
INDEX
1) Agriculture ~ Associations, Groups, etc.
2) Baking Resources of Organizations for Home Baking; Flour Companies making products for Home Baking
3) Industry Organizations to join, & Companies making products for the Industry of Baking or "The Trade"
4) Cookbooks & Recipe Culture
5) Companies - Grain/Baking Related Products ?????
6) Museums
7) P&R = Public Relations, but in this case: Product Companies & their Recipes with their already-made products.
1) Agriculture Resources
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
2) Baking Resources - of Organizations for Home Baking
Flour Companies making products for Home Baking
HOME BAKING ORGANIZATIONS
home.bbga.org
NATIONAL FESTIVAL OF BREADS - every odd year in June in Manhattan, KS
AN EXTRA ~ Nothing to join; no interaction, but interesting information to use as a guide, or to use & compare.
FOOD WRITING & RESEARCH - CONCLUSIONS: The 13 Best Flours of 2024
https://www.thespruceeats.com/best-flours-5097366
HOME BAKING PRODUCT COMPANIES
ARROWHEAD MILLS ~ Multiple Flours
https://arrowheadmills.com/
BAKERS AUTHORITY ~ NY ~ Flours, Baking Pans & associated Products, & much more! (Home & Commercial)
https://www.bakersauthority.com/
BOB'S RED MILL ~ Flours, Cereals, Baking Mixes, Grains, more . . .
https://www.bobsredmill.com
CENTRAL MILLING FLOURS & WHOLE GRAINS ~ Utah ( mail order; Seems they have every flour under the sun!)
https://centralmilling.com/
GOLD MEDAL FLOUR ~ Multiple Flours & tons of other products, especially cereals
https://www.goldmedalflour.com/ ~~OR~~ https://www.generalmills.com/food-we-make/brands/gold-medal
KING ARTHUR FLOUR + (They have a wonderful catalog - free upon request.)
https://www.kingarthurbaking.com/
PILLSBURY FLOUR ~ Multiple Flours & a whole line of other products (main www is just pillsbury.com)
https://www.pillsburybaking.com/products/flour/ ~~OR~~ https://www.pillsburybaking.com
SWAN'S DOWN CAKE FLOUR ~ Since 1894
https://swansdown.com/
WHITE LILY FLOUR
https://www.whitelily.com/
3) Industry Organizations to join
Companies making products for the Industry of Baking of "The Trade"
American Baker's Association - A Voice of the Baking Industry
https://americanbakers.org/
American Society of Baking - For the "Trade"
https://asbe.org/
Founded in 1993, The Bread Bakers Guild of America 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
ARDENT MILLS | Flour Milling & Grain Innovations
www.ardentmills.com
ARTHUR DANIELS ? ?
BAKERS AUTHORITY ~ NY ~ Flours, Baking Pans & associated Products, & much more! (Home & Commercial)https://www.bakersauthority.com/
BUNDY BAKING SOLUTIONS ~ They make pans for the commercial baking industry.
bundybakingsolutions.com ~ MUSEUM: bundybakingsolutions.com/bundy-baking-museum
CARGILL ? ? ?
4) Cookbooks & Recipe Culture
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COOKBOOK RESOURCES of Various Areas of Interest (Study through this & you'll have the knowledge equal to a "Cookbook-ology"😄 certificate or degree! ($$ = can buy books from this source)
CAVALCADE ~ Kevin Piotrowski in Michigan does videos of his cookbook collection. Choose "Cookbook Series." His collections (vast of kitchen appliances) are not open to the public, but he has 430+ YouTube videos so far.
https://www.youtube.com/cavalcadeoffood
DOVER PUBLISHERS-$$ (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 this "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. Then thesifter.org is the database website.
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/how-to-find-historic-cookbooks
THE SIFTER ~ I have a hard time with this database website. It has no "fun" information.
WEBSITES:
reddit.com - search line: reddit old recipes
There are the University & other "Special Collections" Libraries. Usually by appointment; select from digital database - can't eyeball in person! Requested books (usually a limit) are brought out; you wear gloves, have a pencil & pad of paper. Can't have your purse, etc. with you in the room. There are lockers to store personal items.
University of Iowa has Szathmary
University of Michigan - Henry Ford or Greenfield Museum?
University of Kansas in Manhattan
The one with Lynn Oliver's collection
Library of Congress
5) Companies - Grain/Baking Related Products
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6) Museums
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The AG Museum in KS right near KC, or is it MO?
Boudin's Bakery - Bread Museum
Bundy for the trade
Johnson & Wales in RI
Pillsbury Mills Museum
Smithsonian - Julia Child's kitchen
That copper one in Arizona??
William Sonoma in CA
7) Recipes with already-made products
THERE ARE HUNDREDS OF BAKING BLOGS TODAY WHICH I HAVE NO INTENTION OF PROVIDING. Besides a "Google" or other Search Engine, you can click on "GROUPS" in FACEBOOK & type in a word & a whole list will pop up. Also, in INSTAGRAM you can search with a word & spend hours-days-weeks doing nothing but looking & reading! I don't need to tell the young crowd about these sites, but it's mostly for the "grandma - grandpa" crowd😊.
, BUT IN ORDER TO FAMILIARIZE YOU WITH FOOD-RELATED COMPANIES WHOSE PRODUCTS ARE READY TO EAT, SOME HAVE A RECIPE SECTION FOR THE VERSATILITY OF WHAT THEY MAKE.
USED IN HOME BAKING, THIS WILL NEVER BE A COMPLETE LIST, BUT IS SOME OF THE ONES WHO'VE EXISTED LONG-IN-TIME, & HAVE A RECIPE SECTION ON THEIR WEBSITE FOR THE HOME BAKER.