The Global Food Heritage Project identifies the places connected with our food heritage and spotlights the people who continue to preserve these sites today.

Food Heritage Sites:

Where Foods Began

Agricultural Technology

Farms

Ranches

Meat Industry

Seafood Industry

Orchards, Groves
& Plantations

Wineries & Breweries

Markets

Kitchens, Dining Halls & Cafeterias

Restaurants

Taverns, Pubs, Cafes & Teahouses

Processing Sites

Baking

Famous Recipe Sites

Factories

Famous Foodies

Corporate Origins

Historic Food Events

Museums & Exhibits

Remembering Food Places Past

Global Food Heritage Project:

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."

More fishing industry heritage sites to be listed here.
(This is a work in progress. We welcome input. Contact us.)