Welcome to The Fork Front
We bring the past to life through food. The Fork Front offers customized services and professional food history solutions to educational institutions, private corporations, non-profit organizations, and individuals. We provide high-quality consulting, researching, writing, speaking, editing and educational assistance and support, which cover all time periods and geographical areas of knowledge pertaining to food history from farm to table. Check out our Services section to learn more.
On The Fork Front, you can also delve into the exciting world of food history in many and varied ways from reading the latest Fork Flashes blog to listening to our latest podcast, The Hungry Historians. You can also get the latest news and events from The Fork Front by signing up to receive our e-newsletter in your inbox.
Want to know more about food history and the services that we offer? Get in touch by filling out our contact form. We look forward to hearing from you!
Coming Soon- Food History Courses!
We are expanding our offerings! This autumn, The Fork Front will be begin offering courses about food history. Topics covered will enable you to explore reading, researching and writing food history in all shapes and sizes. Classes will be offered online and in-person in Washington, DC.
Check back in August for details about upcoming classes. Stay in the food loop by signing up for our e-newsletter to get the latest news and events on The Fork Front.
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State Fairs & Foodies
State fairs are one of the joys of late summer and early autumn. The first state fair was held in Syracuse, New York in 1841, and state fairs spread from there. Today, every state in the nation holds a summer fair. There are also tribal fairs, as well as local and regional fairs throughout the…
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Food and the American Road Trip
One of the great joys of summer is the great American road trip. This is the time between Memorial Day and Labor Day, when the vast majority of the U.S. population hits the road with family or friends to visit familiar sites or frequent new ones. There is often a bit of nostalgia connected to…
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Egg Supplies & Rationing
For the past several months, the United States poultry population has been hit hard by the Avian influenza. Egg producers have taken enormous losses in terms of both the size of their flocks and their income. The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) estimates that as of April 2025, the disease has resulted in the loss…
Weekly Rations
Videos exploring the varied realm of wartime food and consumption practices.
Weekly Rations – Homemade Sausage Patties
The Hungry Historians Podcast
The Hungry Historians is a bi-weekly podcast by and for food historians and anyone interested in the history of food.
Join co-hosts Kelly Spring (The Fork Front) and Matt Phillpott (Honeybee Histories) as they explore food history from antiquity until today across the globe.
*The podcast is sponsored by Bloomsbury Food Library.
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