About the Food Heritage Press

The Food Heritage Press makes available serious books on the history and culture of food to professional and armchair cooks and historians. Our printed catalog contains over 150 titles from over 50 university presses, museums, and other quality publishers, from both the USA, Canada, England, Ireland and Turkey. To request a copy of our print catalog please send $1.00 to Food Heritage Press, P.O. Box 163, Ipswich, MA 01938-0163. For more information call 978-356-8306 or e-mail: jcarlin@foodbooks.com

The Food Heritage Press was founded by Joseph M. Carlin in 1995. Joe is a public health nutritionist by training but a culinary historian by avocation. Joe grew up in the Roxborough and Manayunk sections of Philadelphia but now lives in Ipswich, Massachusetts. His first job in the food business was as a candy maker on the Wildwood, NJ boardwalk. Joe was captured reading PSYCHO when it was first published in the 1950s. He did his undergraduate work at the Academy of Food Marketing, St. Joseph's University and his graduate work at the Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition, University of Massachusetts. Joe also holds a MA in Critical and Creative Thinking from the University of Massachusetts (Harbor Campus). Joe's love for foodbooks began when he worked as a student librarian in the Campbell Library of the Academy of Food Marketing. He is the past president of the Culinary Historians of Boston.

He is a registered dietitian (RD) and a charter fellow (FADA) of The American Dietetic Association (ADA). Joe is a charter member of the Food and Culinary Professionals Dietary Practice Group of the ADA. He is a member of the Massachusetts Dietetic Asociation and a professional member of the Institute of Food Technologists (IFT) (member since 1966) and a professional member of the International Association of Culinary Professionals (IACP).

Joe serves as technical consultant to Charles Bishop Productions which produces Foodessence, a fast-paced, in-depth and investigative series featuring entertaining insights into the history and culture of the foods we eat. Joe appears in the Ice Cream, Recipe, Fat and Vanilla segments which will air in Canada and in other locations around the world. For a complet listing go to www.lifenetwork.ca .

Joe will be the guest of Graham Kerr this Fall on one segment of his new TV series The Gathering Place. The show was taped at the Arcadian Court in the flagship store of The Bay in downtown Toronto. For information about the show and Graham Kerr's book go to his web site at http://www.grahamkerr.com Joe has agreed to be listed in the credits of the The Gathering Place as the show's Culinary Historian.

During the Summer of 2000 Joe served as a food history consultant to Greystone Communications of North Hollywood, CA in the production of a two-hour TV special called A Century of Food. The program aired on the FoodTV network during January 2001.

During the Fall of 1999 Joe taught a course called "Reminiscing About Food: We Are What We Eat in the Life Long Learning Institute sponsored by the University of Massachusetts Gerontology Institute. In the Spring he taught a course called, "Nutrition and Taste: The Secret to Successful Aging" (this program will be repeated March 2001). During the Fall semester of 2000 he taught "Before the Microwave: Eating in Cooking in America from 1620 to 1900."

Two of Joe's children have indirect connections with food history. Meaghan is freshman at University of Massachusetts and is taking a course in the Sociology of Food and is working at the The 1640 Hart House Restaurant of Ipswich, MA. Patrick serves in the US Air Force as an EMT. When not on active duty he is on the catering staff at The 1640 Hart House Restaurant. Barry is a bartender at the The 1640 Hart House and brews beer for Mercury Brewing, a quality brewer.

To maintain this web site Joe receives technical support from his daughter Maura E. Officer, who received her law degree in 2000 and works in Gloucester, MA. She is the founder of Design Graphics. Brad Knoulton, a high school student from Essex, Massachusetts, is founder of Essex Web Design and provides technical support. Eastern Computer Inc. of Essex, Massachusetts keeps the computer in good repair.