An Archive of TasteA groundbreaking synthesis of food studies, archival theory, and early American literature There is no eating in the archive. This is not only a practical admonition to any would be researcher but also a methodological challenge, in that there is no eatingor, at least, no foodpreserved among the printed records of the early United States. Synthesizing a range of textual artifacts with accounts (both real and imagined) of foods harvested, dishes