CULINARY TRAVEL - STATE INDEX

A State Index of links to interesting places to visit in the U.S. relating to brand name food and other food-theme points of interest is given below.

Visit factories, museums, gourmet specialty stores, historical sites, cooking classes and much, much more.  Food is fun!

Browse our Culinary Travel Articles if you need a little inspiration.

In some cases the links below will take you directly to the official website.  If Brand Name Cooking has written a travelogue or article for the destination, the link will go to the Travelogue page, with the official website link (if there is one) located on that page.

ALABAMA

• Alpine - Kymulga Grist Mill
• Birmingham - Golden Flake Snack Foods

ALASKA

• Juneau - Alaska Seafood Company
• Haines - Tsirku Canning Co.

ARIZONA

• Yuma - The Peanut Patch

ARKANSAS

CALIFORNIA

• Altadena - International Banana Club Museum
• Fairfield - Jelly Belly
• Fairfield - Budweiser
• Ontario - Graber Olive House
• San Francisco - Boudin Sourdough Museum

COLORADO

• Boulder - Celestial Seasonings Tea
• Denver - Hammond's Candies
• Fort Collins - Budweiser

CONNECTICUT

• Mystic - Mystic Seaport

DELAWARE

• Wilmington - Greenbank Mill

WASHINGTON D.C.

FLORIDA

• Homestead - The Fruit and Spice Park

GEORGIA

• Atlanta - World of Coca-Cola
• Braselton - Mayfield Dairy Farms
• Helen - Nora Mill Granary
• Hickory Flat (Atlanta) - Cagle's Dairy Farm
• Tifton - Georgia Museum of Agriculture and Historic Village
• Vidalia - Vidalia Onion Museum

HAWAII

• Kula - Surfing Goat Dairy
• Pu'unene - Alexander & Baldwin Sugar Museum
• Wahiawa - Dole Plantation

IDAHO

• Blackfoot - Idaho Potato Museum

ILLINOIS

• Buffalo Grove - Long Grove Confectionery Company
• Chicago - Eli's Cheesecake
• Darien (Chicago area) - Wilton School of Cake Decorating

INDIANA

• St. Joe - Sechler's Pickles

IOWA

• Cedar Falls - Ice House Museum
• Le Mars - Blue Bunny Ice Cream Parlor and Museum

KANSAS

• Hutchinson - Kansas Underground Salt Museum
• Manhattan - Harold M. Freund American Museum of Baking
   

KENTUCKY

• Bowling Green - Kentucky Museum - Duncan Hines
• Frankfort - Buffalo Trace Distillery
• Franklin - Rebecca-Ruth Candies
• Lawrenceburg - Wild Turkey Bourbon Distillery
• Loretto - Maker's Mark Distillery
• Winchester - Ale-8-One

LOUISIANA

• Avery Island - Tabasco Sauce
• Crowley - Crystal Rice Plantation
• Jeanerette - Jeanerette Bicentennial Park and Museum
• Monroe - The Biedenharn Museum & Gardens
• New Iberia - Konriko
• New Orleans - Southern Food & Beverage Museum
• Reserve - The Godchaux-Reserve Plantation Home

MAINE

MARYLAND

• Boyds - King Dairy Mooseum
• St. Michaels - Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum

MASSACHUSETTS

• Carver - Flax Pond Farms
• Newton - Finagle a Bagel
• Plymouth - Jenney Grist Mill
• Hyannis - Cape Cod Potato Chips

MICHIGAN

• Chelsea - Chelsea Milling

MINNESOTA

• Austin - Spam Museum
• Minneapolis - Mill City Museum
• New Ulm - Schell's Brewery Tour
• St. Paul - Summit Brewing Co.
• Winona - Pickwick Mill

MISSISSIPPI

• Vicksburg - Biedenharn Coca-Cola Museum

MISSOURI

• St. Louis - Anheuser-Busch

MONTANA

NEBRASKA

NEVADA

NEW HAMPSHIRE

• Londonderry - Stonyfield Farm
• Merrimack - Anheuser-Busch

NEW JERSEY

NEW MEXICO

• Albuquerque - Jane Butel Cooking School

NEW YORK

• Buffalo - Grain Elevators Driving Tour
• Cooperstown - The Farmers Museum
• Croghan - American Maple Museum
• Cuba - Cuba Cheese Museum
• LeRoy - Jell-O Museum
• New York - Natural Gourmet Institute for Food & Health
• Sackets Harbor - Old MacDonald's Farm

NORTH CAROLINA

NORTH DAKOTA

OHIO

• Akron - Hower House
• Akron - Quaker Square
• Berlin - Schrock's Amish Farm & Village
• Holland - J.H. Fentress Antique Popcorn Museum
• Marion - Wyandot Popcorn Museum
• North Canton - Harry London Candies
• Utica - Velvet Ice Cream

OKLAHOMA

OREGON

• Portland - Franz Bakery
• Tillamook - Tillamook Cheese Factory

PENNSYLVANIA

• Biglerville - National Apple Museum
• Chester Springs - The Mill at Anselma
• Hanover - UTZ Quality Foods
• Hershey - Hershey's Chocolate World
• Hershey - Hershey Museum
• Lititz - Sturgis Pretzel House
• Nottingham - Herr's Snack Factory Tour
• Pottsville - Yuengling
• York - Wolfgang Candy Museum

RHODE ISLAND

• Providence - Culinary Archives & Museum at Johnson & Wales University

SOUTH CAROLINA

• Georgetown - Rice Museum

SOUTH DAKOTA

• Roslyn - International Vinegar Museum
• Spearfish - D. C. Booth Historic National Fish Hatchery

TENNESSEE

• Athens - Mayfield Dairy Farms
• Dunlap - Johnson Family Farm
• Lynchburg - Jack Daniel's Distillery

TEXAS

• Brenham - Blue Bell Creameries
• Dublin - Soda Bottling Plant
• Fort Worth - Mrs. Baird's Bread
• Fort Worth - Cattle Raisers Museum
• Houston - Mrs. Baird's Bread
• Houston - Saint Arnold Brewing Company
• Lubbock - Mrs. Baird's Bread
• Sulphur Springs - Southwest Dairy Museum

UTAH

VERMONT

• Cabot - Cabot Creamery
• Healdville - Crowley Cheese
  Johnsbury - Maple Grove Farms
• Rutland - New England Maple Museum
• Waterbury - Ben & Jerry's Factory Tour
• Woodstock - Sugarbush Farm

VIRGINIA

WASHINGTON

• Cashmere - Liberty Orchards
• Long Beach - Pacific Coast Cranberry Museum

WEST VIRGINIA

WISCONSIN

• Ashippum - Honey Acres
• Augusta - Dells Mill Museum
• Cambridge - Hinchley's Dairy Farm
• Fort Adkinson - National Dairy Shrine
• Middleton - National Mustard Museum
• Milwaukee - Miller Brewing
• Monroe - National Historic Cheesemaking Center
• Plain - Cedar Grove Cheese
• Pleasant Prairie - Jelly Belly
• Warrens - Wisconsin Discovery Cranberry Center

WYOMING

ONLINE & VIRTUAL MUSEUMS

The Potato Museum

The Food Museum Online

Washington Banana Museum