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Holiday Nights in Greenfield Village Dinner Package at Eagle Tavern

December 5-7, 12-14, 18-23 and 26-27, 2014
Treat your family to a delectable holiday feast.

Holiday Nights Supper with Santa Package

December 5-7, 12-14 and 18-23, 2014
Enjoy a casual buffet-style holiday turkey dinner perfect for kids!
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The Henry Ford has a "tasty" collection of food-related artifacts that let us peer into kitchens from America's past. It is one of the best collections of its kind in the country.

1957
Electric Range
General Electric Co., Louisville, Kentucky
2004.29.1
Gift in memory of Fred & Mary Bennett
This attractive turquoise and chrome range was the perfect compliment to the up-to-date 1950s kitchen. Like June Cleaver or Harriet Nelson in popular television shows of the era, the 1950s suburban homemaker turned out standardized, four basic food groups-based meals--meat, carbohydrates, vegetables and dessert-- for her family, with recipes found in Betty Crocker or Better Homes and Gardens cookbooks.

Many of these meals would not be made entirely “from scratch.” Housewives enthusiastically embraced the convenient frozen and instant foods--like frozen vegetables, instant soups and cookie mixes--that were increasingly available in the decades following World War II.