@bookstodon@mutinyc It depends on the period. There’s this https://archive.org/details/cbk?tab=collection, but for earlier, or outside the English-speaking world you’d have to work a bit harder, searching for articles on material culture or looking at texts actually from the period for clues. The main thing, I think, is to check your assumptions. Seasonality before refrigeration never seems to occur to some, or storage. I’ve never seen it done better than by Nicola Griffith in Hild.