Agriculture Information Series

Circulars

Farmers’ Bulletins

The USDA Farmers' Bulletins provided advice to farmers on a wide range of agricultural topics, including on growing and preparing food. Many of them contain recipes. Bulletins could be requested from a member of Congress or from the Secretary of Agriculture, and would be sent free of charge anywhere in the United States.

Home and Garden Bulletins

Leaflets

Miscellaneous Publications

Program Aids

This series used a magazine format to present articles on how to incorporate a healthy diet into any lifestyle. Each issue included dozens of practical recipes to help implement the concepts explained in the articles.

Fishery Circulars

Issued by the Bureau of Commercial Fisheries in cooperation with the commercial fishing industry as a part of its continuing consumer education program, the Fishery Market Development Series contains popular educational publications on care, preparation, purchase, and nutrition of fishery products. These publications were made possible through private contributions.

The series began in 1966 and was discontinued during 1971. In the mid-to-late 1970s the series was reissued by NOAA's National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) within the Department of Commerce. All of these reprints are available online, along with other vintage seafood cookbooks, at the NOAA NMFS Scientific Publications Office website in their Legacy Series of historical NMFS publications.

Each region of this country has a seafood heritage as unique and indigenous to local culture as its dialect or its agriculture. The following four cookbooks, developed at the National Fishery Education Center in Chicago as a part of its continuing consumer educational program in cooperation with the commercial fishing industry, pay tribute to this heritage through the recipes that have evolved over the generations to become staples of the regional diet. Recipes are illustrated with full-color photographs of the finished dishes, and special care has been taken to assure that each recipe can be made with the frozen or canned fish now available across the country. Each cookbook features a special logo adopted by the Department of Commerce during America's Bicentennial year to symbolize the historic significance of the nation's fishing industry.

"Foods for Health" was a cooperative venture between the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute and the private company Giant Food, Inc. The initial emphasis was on cholesterol and heart disease, but the program expanded to include such issues as the possible hazards of high salt and sugar consumption. The program featured colorful posters and shelf signs listing nutritional content of foods, and free copies of the 4-page <i>Eater's Almanac</i>, a series of pamphlets that were distributed in stores to provide "facts and fiction" about the relationship between diet and disease. The content of the <i>Eaters' Almanacs<i> varied, but many issues featured recipes, charts, quizzes, and/or special heart health facts. Several issues had holiday themes or featured special topics such as how to read nutrition labels, how diet and exercise effectively, or how to deal with inflation.

A Guide to the Eaters' Almanac Titles

Issue A: Decisions! Decisions! | Test yourself with a food and health quiz—fact or fiction?

Issue B: Cholesterol and Your Heart—Why Care? | 10 tips for cutting down on fat and saving money.

Issue C: Have a Heart Healthy Thanksgiving! | How to choose the best turkey in town.

Issue D: 3 Important Fat Facts! | Hooray for margarine . . . but which kind?

Issue E: Partying to Your Heart's Delight | A special holiday gift idea.

Issue F: Heart Health for the New Year . . . Are the Odds in Your Favor? | Some New Year's resolutions you can keep!

Issue G: The Triple Bonus in Low Fat Milk Products | A handy guide to fats and calories in low fat milk products.

Issue H: Winter Fruits and Vegetables to Warm Your Heart. | Fresh, frozen or canned vegetables and fruits—low fat treats.

Issue I: A Heart-to-Heart Talk About Meat. 8 ways to say "no" to fat.

Issue J: Protein Teams for Your Heart. | How to stretch your protein dollar.

Issue K: Should You Shake the Salt Habit? | 4 ways to beat those salty snack attacks.

Issue L: Psst! Read Any Good Labels Lately? | Labels . . can they really help?

Issue M: The Myth About Starches. | What about fiber?

Issue N: Cholesterol in Shellfish and Common Foods: What's the Story? | Fish, fowl and the facts.

Issue O: How Sweet It Is! | Take the sugar facts quiz.

Issue P: Viva Variety! | Recipes from around the world and the country.

Issue Q: Shaping Up for Summer. | Heart facts about diet and exercise.

Issue R: Craving Something Cool? | Skinny dairy delights.

Issue S: BarBQing to Your Heart's Delight. | 4th of July heart pleasing recipes and buying tips.

Issue T: Irresistible Summer Fruits. | A handy guide to nature's candy.

Issue U: Test Your Shopping I.Q. | Shelf takers to help you shop.

Issue V: Make Your Food Dollar Work For You! | A harvest of tasty, low fat and low calorie summer vegetables.

Issue W: How to Cope with Diets. | Heart health tips for weight control.

Issue X: Back to School on the Heart Healthy Track. | Tempting lunchbox treats.

Issue Y: Putting It All Together. | A step-by-step meal planning guide.

Issue Z: How to Keep Going. | Rate yourself on the nutrition quiz.

Fish and Wildlife Service Circulars are popular and semitechnical publications of general and regional interest; they are intended to aid conservation and management of fish and wildlife. The Circular series was begun in 1941, superseding Fishery Circulars of the Bureau of Fisheries and Wildlife Circulars of the Bureau of Biological Survey. 

Here you will find a selection of FWS Circulars containing recipes and other information on how to purchase, store, and prepare fish and seafood.

The commercial fish industry is America's oldest food industry. These Special Marketing Bulletins were prepared by the U.S. Department of Interior's Bureau of Commercial Fisheries in cooperation with the commercial fishing industry as part of the Bureau's consumer education program, which was designed to encourage the greater use of fresh, frozen, cured, and canned fish and shellfish. The Bureau issued several special marketing releases to schools, institutions, restaurants, food trade groups, and media outlets such as newspapers, radio stations, and television stations.

All the recipes presented in these bulletins were developed and kitchen tested by the home economists in the Bureau of Commercial Fisheries and were designed to help housewives (and sometimes husbands) add variety and taste appeal to family meals and to encourage them to buy and serve more fish and shellfish.

Issued by the Bureau of Commercial Fisheries in cooperation with the commercial fishing industry as a part of its continuing consumer education program, the Fishery Market Development Series contains popular educational publications on care, preparation, purchase, and nutrition of fishery products. These publications were made possible through private contributions.

The series began in 1966 and was discontinued during 1971. In the mid-to-late 1970s the series was reissued by NOAA's National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) within the Department of Commerce. All of these reprints are available online, along with other vintage seafood cookbooks, at the NOAA NMFS Scientific Publications Office website in their Legacy Series of historical NMFS publications.

These pamphlets issued by the Bureau of Commercial Fisheries from 1948 to about 1972 feature advice on buying and cooking various types of seafood, accompanied by a plethora of recipes tested and rated by employees of the Fish and Wildlife Service in one of the Interior Department's food test kitchens.