Blurb:

Over the past century, food-related special collections have gained mass appeal. However, what accounts for this phenomenon is more than just the fashion cycle churning among scholars and special collections librarians. The multitude of special food collections is symptomatic of information systems that have misclassified their contents from the beginning. In this paper, I contrast food information history with important moments in the history of information science and their correlative intellectual advancements. With this knowledge, we can better understand the intrinsic rules that govern food information and learn how to navigate them in pursuing food history.