The question I get asked more than just about any other, when I say I am a food historian, is "how do I become a food historian?!"

So, I wrote a little non-exhaustive guide that might be useful.

First things first: As with any term, labeling myself as a food historian is an imperfect science because (as fellow historian-but-technically-not-a-historian KC Hysmith notes here) my PhD isn't in the field of History.
My PhD is in Library & Information Science, and while I used historical research methodologies and studied historical topics for both my Master's thesis and my dissertation, not everyone would label me as a historian because my PhD isn't in that field. But, many people would: And I refer to my work as food history when I'm studying, well, the history of food.