The modules on this site touch on different themes, time periods, and topics around food and drink in North Philadelphia. A majority of the primary source research was conducted in the Conwellana-Templana Collection at Temple University Library’s Special Collections Research Center, with supplementary content from The Philadelphia Free Press, The Philadelphia Inquirer, and the Philadelphia Tribune. For secondary sources and additional information for each of the modules, see below.
Temple, Taverns, and Temperance
Osborn, Matthew Warner. “A Detestable Shrine: Alcohol Abuse in Antebellum Philadelphia.” Journal of the Early Republic 29, no. 1 (2009): 101–32.
Sismondo, Christine. America Walks Into a Bar: A Spirited History of Taverns and Saloons, Speakeasies, and Grog Shops. New York: Oxford University Press, 2011.
Thompson, Peter. Rum Punch and Revolution: Tavern Going and Public Life in Eighteenth Century Philadelphia. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1999.
Women and Food Production
Carey, Jenny Rose, and Mary Anne Blair Fry. A Century of Cultivation 1911-2011: 100 Years from the Pennsylvania School of Horticulture for Women to Temple University Ambler. Langhorne, PA: Temple University by H.G. Services, Inc., 2011.
McMurry, Sally. Pennsylvania Farming : A History in Landscapes. Pittsburgh, Pa: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2017.
Stage, Sarah, and Virginia B. Vincenti. Rethinking Home Economics: Women and the History of a Profession. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1997.
Mitten Hall: Serving Students for Decades
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.
Hilty, James, and Matthew M. Hanson. Temple University: 125 Years of Service to Philadelphia, the Nation, and the World. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2009.
Building Appetites, Building Campus
Baldwin, Davarian. In the Shadow of the Ivory Tower: How Universities Are Plundering Our Cities. New York, NY: Bold Type Books, 2021.
Bauman, John F. Public Housing, Race, and Renewal: Urban Planning in Philadelphia, 1920-1974. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1987.
Countryman, Matthew J. Up South: Civil Rights and Black Power in Philadelphia. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006.
McKee, Guian. The Problem of Jobs: Liberalism, Race, and Deindustrialization in Philadelphia. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008.
Theoharis, Jeanne, and Komozi Woodard, eds. Freedom North: Black Freedom Struggles Outside the South, 1940-1980. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003.
Temple University Libraries. Civil Rights in a Northern City: Philadelphia http://northerncity.library.temple.edu
Food Trucks
Hines, Mary Ann. The Larder Invaded: Reflections on Three Centuries of Philadelphia Food and Drink. Philadelphia: Historical Society of Pennsylvania, 1987.
Kowalczyk, Andrzej, and Marta Derek, eds. Gastronomy and Urban Space: Changes and Challenges in Geographical Perspective. New York, NY: Springer Cham, 2020.
Nepa, Stephen. “The New Urban Dining Room: Sidewalk Cafes in Postindustrial Philadelphia,” Buildings and Landscapes: Journal of the Architectural Vernacular 18.2 (Fall 2011): 60-81.