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Ashley Rose Young, PhD

Ashley Rose Young, PhD

Ashley Rose Young is the historian of the American Food History Project at the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History. She is currently working on a book about the history of street food in New Orleans and the U.S.

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The Smithsonian's American Food History Project seeks to understand the history of the U.S. through the multi-faceted lens of food.

How Food Brought Success to a Chef, a Cookbook Author and a Restaurateur

Historian Ashley Rose Young shares research from the Smithsonian’s 23-year-long ‘American Food History Project’