Food Heritage Sites page 2

The Global Food Heritage Project's
mission is to identify and help preserve the following entities:

Page One:
Where Foods Began | Agricultural Technology | Farms | Ranches | Orchards, Groves & Plantations | Wineries & Breweries | Kitchens, Dining Halls & Cafeterias | Meat Industry |

This page:
Seafood Industry | Markets | Restaurants | Taverns, Pubs, Cafes & Teahouses |
Processing Sites | Baking | Famous Recipe Sites | Factories |

Page three:
Famous Foodies | Corporate Origins | Historic Food Events | Museums | Remembering Food Places Past |

Seafood Industry
Places associated with the history of fishing, historic fishing communities and fish resources

Cortez, Florida

"Cortez, on Sarasota Bay in Manatee County, is the last remaining fishing village on Florida's Suncoast. Cortez, originally known as Hunter's Point, probably wouldn't exist today if not for fishing and for mullet especially. Native Americans fished the area long before the U.S. Fish Commission in 1879 declared the "Hunter's Point Fishery" to be one of the most important suppliers of seafood on the west coast of Florida. Before 1857, due to lack of refrigeration, most of the mullet caught from the area was salted and shipped to Cuba."

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Meat Industry
Hunting, herding, stockyards and processing

Top to bottom: Clovis prehistoric hunt heritage site;
Navajo sheep herding corrals;
daily cattle drive through Fort Worth historic stockyards district;;
Historic Burns Butcher Shop, Port Moody, Canada

More about meat industry heritage sites here.

Rules, London's Oldest Restaurant

"Rules was established by Thomas Rule in 1798 making it the oldest restaurant in London. It serves traditional British food, specialising in classic game cookery, oysters, pies and puddings. Rules is fortunate to own the Lartington Estate, in the High Pennines, where we learn how to source the highest quality game birds, roe deer and Belted Galloway beef. Rules is renowned for its game dishes and as such, the Game Season dates play an important part in shaping our menus."

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Taverns & Cafes

"The City Tavern is an historic building located at 138 South 2nd Street, at the intersection of Second and Walnut Streets of Philadelphia. Called the "most genteel tavern in America" by John Adams, it was the favorite meetingplace of many of the Founding Fathers and was the unnoficial site of the First Continental Congress. The City Tavern was built in 1773 and was partially destroyed by fire on March 22, 1834. Today, it is an authentic reconstruction of life in the late 18th century with authentic food and decorations. "

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Processing Sites

Turtle Soup Factory recalled at Key West, Florida's
Turtle Kraals Museum & Sea Turtle Conservation Center

"Learn all about the care and feeding of turtles at this museum in the Historic Seaport district. In the museum are photographs and historical documents detailing the island's turtle industry. Other exhibits teach you about sea turtles and the perils they face, and show you how their shells work. In residence here is a young loggerhead named Eddie, but the museum hopes to add to their turtle population with injured turtles who cannot live on their own. "

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Baking

Sturgis Pretzel Factory Lititz, Pennsylvania, USA

"The Sturgis Pretzel House of Lititz, Pennsylvania is the oldest commercial pretzel bakery in the US. As well as still remaining active in producing pretzels for commercial sale, it has come to be a tourist attraction. In 1784, Peter Kreiter built a gracious stone home at 219 East Main Street, Lititz, Pennsylvania. The stones were actually dug from the streets in the town. The sturdy house was a fortress, warding off Native American attacks, and muskets were fired from its cellar windows. The house was as beautiful as it was practical. Carved wooden panels lined the staircase, and the heavy wooden doors swung on iron strap hinges. Fireplaces were scattered throughout the house and towered above the random plank pegged floors. In 1861, Julius Sturgis began baking pretzels at this very location. " ( Read more here.)

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Famous Recipe Sites

Tarte Tatin, classic apple dessert
Hotel Tatin, Lamotte-Beuvron, France

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Factories

The Fallot Mustard Mill
Beaune, France
The only manufacturer to still use traditional stone milled know-how

"The Fallot Mustard Mill, the last independent Burgundy ‘Moutarderie (mustard mill) has opened its doors in February 2003, opening up a traditional know-how that dates back over 160 years to the World. Fallot has been an independent Burgundian family business since 1840, and is the only one still housed on its original premises, a few steps away from the Hospice of Beaune. Marc Désarménien, the grandson of the man who took over the company, is currently in control of the business, while his father still plays an active role in the company.
The Fallot Mustard Mill continues to prepare its mustard using recipes that have been jealously guarded over several generations, milling the mustard seed with stone grinders, thus conserving all the gustatory qualities of the grain in the paste."

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